AltWeeklies Wire
The Withdrawn Narration of 'Liverpool' Moves With the Stealth Purpose of a Folk Talenew
Liverpool may belong to the slow club of cinema -- long takes, downcast eyes, and monumental landscapes -- but the friction between its patient formalism and wild terrain is anything but staid.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
09-16-2009 |
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Tags: Lisandro Alonso, Liverpool
'Secrecy' Investigates Executive Power and the Need-to-Knownew
Even as Secrecy's former operatives acknowledge the massive intelligence failures leading to 9/11, they're ready to make the case for the increased need for government subterfuge in the War on Terror: what secrecy begets, only secrecy will solve, and every time the gloves come off, the blinders will go on.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
10-23-2008 |
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Gus Van Sant's Beautiful Losersnew
Soliloquizing the life of a skateboarder in Paranoid Park.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
03-12-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Gus Van Sant, Paranoid Park
'The Violin': Angels With Dirty Facesnew
Folksy lyricism makes Francisco Vargas's film a quiet beauty.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
01-09-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Francisco Vargas, The Violin
Seattle's Finestnew
On the scene with Police Beat.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
04-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Robinson Devor, Police beat
Taking Sidesnew
As Nov. 2 slopes away and Americans dig in for four more years, one wonders what to make of the innumerable hours documentary filmmakers spent parked at editing stations, determined to dethrone George W. Bush.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
12-29-2004 |
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