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Sofia Coppola's Journey To "Somewhere"new
With her long caramel hair and red pout, waify body in hip-hugger skirts and kitschy baby-tees, Sofia Coppola was a poster girl for '90s cool.
SF Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
01-03-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sofia Coppola, Somewhere
The YouTube-ification of Public-Access TV in San Francisco is About to Beginnew
California has joined some 20 states in largely letting cable companies off the hook for funding public-access TV. Dozens of cities have lost their stations altogether, and in San Francisco, the operating budget has been hacked to a fifth of its former level. And the old cast of kooky cable programmers doesn't like it one bit.
Norwegian Death Metal Doc 'Until the Light Takes Us' Aims High(brow)new
Norwegian death metal is a fascinatingly dark corner of the musician-as-fanatic landscape. Until the Light Takes Us is an attempt to create the definitive film on the subject, but directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell instead offer a passive, jumpy synopsis that's more artsy than insightful.
New Doc Reveals Many of Scott Walker's Mysteriesnew
In a new documentary, Stephen Kijak takes us through Scott Walker's history, methodology, and cultural relevance by collecting interviews with the underground legend and the musicians he's influenced, as well as vintage performance and modern studio footage.
Wayne Coyne Loses the Plot, Keeps the Magic for 'Christmas'new
The Flaming Lips frontman is hitting the big screen as a true alien -- a man in green with deely-bopper horns on his head and shoulders -- in the movie he cooked up, co-directed, and co-stars in, Christmas on Mars.
'Girls Rock!' Hits Nerves of the Teen Psyche Varietynew
By focusing on the raw sentiments ("spillage") of campers, Girls Rock! is an intelligent -- and, more importantly, entertaining -- look at how girls fight self-imposed stereotypes in very different ways than boys do.
Osama Hunter Greg Shade Captured on IndieFest Docnew
The New York Post called Shade a "daring Yank." But Shade -- a wealthy real-estate investor who in 2001 traveled to Afghanistan to hunt down Osama bin Laden -- is, um, different from how he's been portrayed, says San Francisco filmmaker Daniel Gorman.
Tags: American Hero, Daniel Gorman
Vincent Gallo Won't Do Interviews Unless He's the Cover Boynew
Vincent, our journalistic standards are too high to let a celeb -- even one we love as much as you -- tell us what to do. Who do you think we are -- Chloe Sevigny?
Striking the Same Old Chordsnew
The bane of the punk documentary.
Tags: Punk's Not Dead, Susan Dynner
Suicide Clubnew
Ethically questionable documentary spent a year on the Golden Gate.
Tags: Eric Steel, The Bridge
Inside the Linesnew
Clowes and Zwigoff upend the college comedy, then wreck it.
Unamerican Dreamnew
Goal! follows an immigrant's pursuit of a European fantasy.
Take This Womannew
Piper Perabo plays a boring bride with an untimely lesbian streak in this new film.
Tags: Imagine Me & You, Ol Parker
A Silver-Lined Screen?new
What happens when an artsy film guy who has gone way into debt hooks up with a school that doesn't know how to run a nonprofit theater?
Asia Minornew
Given that this movie is aimed at the art-house crowd, would it not have been possible to make it in Japanese? You never think you'll miss subtitles until a movie like this comes along.
