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Around and About

In between films at the San Diego Latino Film Festival, I can spare but passing glances at the world outside. And with the NCAA basketball tournament added this Thursday to the ongoing festival, we can’t expect me next week ... More Comment (1)

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Little Wonder

Well, you wouldn’t expect Tim Burton to do a remake of Pollyanna, would you? Or Little Women or Anne of Green Gables or anything that might push back against the enveloping voguish “darkness,” anything that might ... More Comments (3)

Crime Time

In contention for the foreign-film Oscar, in contention to be exact for two more days after its debut on Friday at the Landmark Hillcrest, A Prophet is a sort of Prisoner’s Progress, a brutal and brutally ... More Post a comment

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The Warriors, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, El Callejón de Los Milagros

Lisa Franek

Program Associate, Media Arts Center San Diego

Since we’re showing Carlos Saura’s latest film Io, Don Giovanni, at the SDLFF, I was inspired to revisit one of his earlier films, Goya in Bordeaux. With all ...

The Animatrix, Titanic, Castle in the Sky

Alethia Espinal

10th grader, Waldorf School of San Diego

The Animatrix is a movie with several short animations, each by a different artist. The animations are based on The Matrix universe from a “back story” point of ...

Peep Show, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Seven Days in May

Leland Batson,

Cinephile

Seldom have gender stereotypes been explored in such an inventive and playful fashion as in director Charlie Call’s terrific short film, Peep Show. A young woman treats herself to a verbal peepshow in which ...

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