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'Downloading Nancy' Interrogates Sacrifice in the Hyperdigital Zeitgeist

By Erik Morse

San Francisco Bay Guardian | July 8, 2009

Swedish music video director Johan Renck's first feature is largely a meditation on metaphysical atmospheres -- the suffocating air of tract homes, the cold showers of sexual dysfunction, the liquid plasma of the sickly blue computer screen -- and one woman's compulsion for escape.

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Tags: Downloading Nancy, Johan Renck, Swedish film

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Fear(s) of the Dark Offers an Animated Omnibus of Juvenile Dreadnew

Structured as a frame story of sorts, the film begins with a pack of four voracious hounds, tethered to a sadist, who set out across the countryside in search of blood. Positioned along the backdrop of this chase are four vignettes of horror that center on popular phobias.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Erik Morse | 10-30-2008 | Reviews

Tags: Various, Fear(s) of the Dark

'High Life' Surfs Waves of Bloody 'Gorno'new

A reprint edition of High Life is belatedly securing Matthew Stokoe's rank as either a literary assassin or putrid gore hound.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Erik Morse | 09-11-2008 | Fiction

Tags: Fiction Reviews, Akashic Books, High Life, Matthew Stokoe, torture porn

'Wanted and Desired' Takes Aim at Roman Polanski and the Culture of Celebritynew

Some critics will probably deride Wanted and Desired as pure hagiography, or worse yet, a legitimization of Polanski's crimes and subsequent fugitive status. But Zenovich's intentions circumnavigate any idol worship, as her refusal to err toward his guilt or exoneration makes clear.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Erik Morse | 07-23-2008 | Reviews

Tags: pedophilia, documentary, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, Marina Zenovich

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Joyous Bluesnew

New doc spotlights the musical wanderings of Arhoolie Records founder Chris Strachwitz.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Nicole Gluckstern | 09-22-2014 | Profiles & Interviews

Bee True: the documentaries of Berlin and Beyondnew

Three German-language documentaries (More Than Honey, Miles and War, and Redemption Impossible) stand out in San Francisco's annual Berlin and Beyond film festival.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Nicole Gluckstern | 01-17-2014 | Movies

Tags: Austrian film, Berlin and Beyond, German film, German-language film, Marcus Imhoof, Anna Thoma, Christian Rost, Claus Strigel, More Than Honey, Miles and War, Redeption Impossible, Swiss film

This Ain't a Wrapnew

This Ain't California, an unexpectedly controversial film about East German skaters, challenges the establishment in more ways than one.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Nicole Gluckstern | 12-28-2012 | Movies

Killer-Nature Flick 'The Canyon' Inadvertently Advocates Staycationsnew

A first feature for director Richard Harrah and writer Steve Allrich, The Canyon falls firmly within that vacation-from-hell subgenre recently capped by the very clever, funny, and fairly freaky A Perfect Getaway. (None of which adjectives apply here, alas.)

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Dennis Harvey | 10-28-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Richard Harrah, The Canyon

The Notorious Subject of 'Bronson' Inspires a Star-Making Performancenew

Bronson is utterly revved up in a way that's showy but not at all dumbed-down. Tom Hardy's prankster-rageaholic portrayal emerges amid several flavors: ironic Pulchinella à la contemporary music-theater sensation Anthony Newley; Tom of Finland bad-muscle-daddy fantasy; and adrenaline exercise of mainstreamed, po-mo directorial testosterone.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Dennis Harvey | 10-21-2009 | Reviews

Tags: Bronson, Michael Gordon Peterson, Nicolas Winding Refn, Tom Hardy

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