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	Topic by: NeilCresswell Posted: January 7, 2003 - 1:31 PM PST Last Reply: May 2, 2003 - 3:11 PM PDT

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NeilCresswell	post #21  on April 7, 2003 - 7:09 PM PDT   I've just found the following on another list and think it might be of interest to fellow square-eyed sweet potatoes... FREE MORNING SCREENING: The Bread, My Sweet to be held at Camera 3 Cinema in San Jose on Thursday, April 10 at 10:00 AM Please, feel free to pass this free movie invite along to your friends, family and those that may have their mornings open to go to a free movie in San Jose this Thursday morning! Thank you. You are invited to attend a press screening of the Panorama Entertainment film, THE BREAD, MY SWEET. PLACE: Camera 3 ADDRESS: 288 S. 2nd Street TIME: 10:00 AM RSVP: No RSVP's neccessary, just print out this Posting and show up at the screening with the print out. It will serve as a free ticket for you and a guest. Nobody will be admitted after the film starts at 10:00 AM, so please, for the best seats arrive early. This will be the only South Bay screening prior to the films opening on Friday, April 18. SYNOPSIS: What kind of guy would, in the same day, abandon a ridiculously successful career and propose to a woman hes only met onceand what role does food play in his decision making process? What kind of woman agrees to marry the guy who gave up the job, even though she knows its all a sham? Who is the sweet, little, Italian woman behind it all? Why cant she eat Pinos pies anymore& And most important of all, what is she making for dinner? The Bread, My Sweet combines elements of the touching tales of Big Night, My Big Fat Greek Weeding with a sprinkle of Like Water For Chocolate, where food is glorified with love, work and passion. In Italian, a good man is a piece of bread plain, simple, and always welcome. Dom Pyzola is a second generation Italian-American corporate raider who has a post graduate degree, a hot car, and an inkling that hes not a nice guy. And hes living parallel lives! In the corporate world he is the designated asshole; in the Biscotti Company which he owns, he is a piece of bread: he takes care of his older mentally handicapped brother, and keeps a day job waiting for his brother, Eddie, an actor. He is a surrogate son to Bella, an Italian immigrant who lives above the bakery and who has been saving, dollar by dollar, for her daughters American wedding since the day she gave birth. Set in the Italian section of Pittsburghs Strip District, The Bread, My Sweet is a love story about what happens when Dominics worlds collide. When he, alone, discovers that Bella has six months to live, he quits his corporate job, finds Lucca (Bellas daughter), and tries to convince her to marry him and to stay married only for as long as her mother lives. The Bread, My Sweet is about love of family and culture  its about sacrifice. Its a journey to a place where work is hard, wine is made in the basement, the future is stored dollar by dollar in coffee cans, and where people may believe that doing the outrageous thing is better than doing nothing at all. Cast: Scott Baio (Charles In Charge, Happy Days), Kristen Minter (ER), Rosemary Prinz (As The World Turns) Director: Melissa Martin, Producer: Adrienne Wehr, Screenplay: Melissa Martin Opens Bay Area: Friday, April 18, 2003 Century Cinema 16-Mountainview Camera 3 Theatre-San Jose Regal Galaxy Theatre-San Francisco Oaks Theater-Berkeley Cinearts at Marin-Sausalito U/A Stonestown Theater
SRhodes	post #22  on April 12, 2003 - 12:49 PM PDT   Thanks for posting that (there is a topic for free screenings. There is a listof hold films which are expected to get theatrical distribution. Since that was compiled, Hukkle has been picked up. A number of filmmakers for films on that list are scheduled to be there including the director of Hukkle and Catherine Breillat who is on the Skyy jury. A bunch of the documentaries will be shown on tv, but again a lot of the filmmakers will be there. And some like Robert Capa which will be on American Masters on PBS May 28th should be seen in a theater (and Anne Makepeace who directed it will be at the fest). Kenneth Turan wrote in the LA Times: It would also be sad if this taste for sensation made it harder than it already is for some of the best documentaries, both traditional and non, to get theatrical bookings and Oscar recognition. Though Anne Makepeace's excellent "Robert Capa: In Love and War" was commissioned by PBS, its fine use of Capa's photographs is inescapably more moving on a large screen.
SRhodes	post #23  on April 13, 2003 - 1:30 PM PDT   Here is a list of confirmed guests.
SRhodes	post #24  on April 14, 2003 - 3:25 PM PDT   A number of films are already sold out. Unfortunately, I don't see any place they are listed on the website. There are posters at the box offices at the Kabuki and PFA with red dots next to all sold out shows. There are also always at least some rush tickets available for all shows. There have been some screenings added including for two films not in the program. Oasis, an incredible South Korean film which is showing at the Kabuki on the 23rd at 6 and the 30th at 4. John Malkovich's film The Dancer Upstairs has been added on the 22nd at the Kabuki at 9:30.
SRhodes	post #25  on April 14, 2003 - 3:36 PM PDT   You can see which films are rush status by clicking on films at the bottom of the online ordering system (the best way is to sort by date).
dpowers	post #26  on April 24, 2003 - 8:12 AM PDT   okay i jumped in yesterday and bought my tickets. i can't believe how many good flicks are showing this year, or that the russian community in san francisco is so well organized and bought up all the tickets for the cuckoo. why-i-oughta. here are the movies i'm seeing, anybody going to these shows look me up i'm usually sitting in the very back row at the kabuki, wearing a baseball cap to hide from tabloid reporters. thursday/24, KABUKI 4:00 my voice 6:45 la turbulence des fluides 9:30 monday morning friday/25, KABUKI 4:15 gabriel orozco 7:30 the cuckoo (if i can get a ticket) 9:30 the man of the year saturday/26, KABUKI 12:00 trilogy i: on the run 2:30 trilogy ii: an amazing couple 4:45 trilogy iii: after life sunday/27, P F A (this is a great set of flicks!) 1:00 the same river twice 3:15 woman of water 6:00 bus 174 8:45 a peck on the cheek (maybe) monday/28, KABUKI 1:00 girlhood 3:45 extraño 7:15 women's prison tuesday/29, KABUKI 10:15 power trip 12:45 the last train 4:00 sex is comedy 9:45 mango yellow wednesday/30, KABUKI 1:00 drowned out 6:45 the best of times 10:00 nada + thursday/1, C A S T R O 12:00 virgin of lust 3:30 hukkle (missed it at berlin and beyond) KABUKI 8:00 friday night (maybe) what do people think about the focus on france this year. is it an effective statement of independence for the festival? is speaking french in public cool?
giantrobot	post #27  on April 24, 2003 - 11:16 AM PDT   Is it just me, or does the film festival seem to be sparsely attended this year? None of the three films that I've seen have been sold out; in fact I've had the seats on either side of me and in front of me empty for two showings. Signs of the downturn?
dpowers	post #28  on April 24, 2003 - 11:55 AM PDT   saw my first movie last night, the devils (france), and the house was sold out. missed ten (iran) before that because the rush line was already 20 feet long when i arrived. other than that can't compare. however last year when the downturn had nailed people pretty good, there were crowds at the kabuki and tickets were hard to get. what movies did you see? maybe it was a fluke? i noticed from reading the papers that this year's reviews were much more favorable for a wider range of films, which might be spreading the load around better...? damn there are so many of these i want to see. i'm still deciding between la turbulence des fluids and waiting for happiness. okay if the director is going to be there for turbulence and i've already got a ticket i guess that settles it, i'll see the other one. ^_^
underdog	post #29  on April 24, 2003 - 12:54 PM PDT   I'll be at that Wednesday afternoon screening of DROWNED OUT, too, with a few of my colleagues from an environmental history doc I've been helping with. Sounds depressing but enlightening and arresting. Maybe seeya there! C
dpowers	post #30  on April 24, 2003 - 1:36 PM PDT   > On April 12, 2003 - 12:49 PM PST SRhodes wrote: > --------------------------------- > There is a list of hold films which are expected to get theatrical distribution. < > --------------------------------- oh if i'd seen this posting it would have saved me a little aggravation while i was working out my schedule! thanks. right in there with my experience, most of the movies that are sold out already have distributors, including the cuckoo, which is great because it frees up some time, but not a lot. the SFIFF audiences are really fun to be part of. i wish drowned out was one of the "schools at the festival" shows. the questions from the high school kids are consistently better and more topical than the lame "was it hard to make the movie" questions that adults can't keep from asking. craig, i guess weather underground is screening now to a kid audience; can you find out for me how your friend fared in the Q&A?
dpowers	post #31  on April 24, 2003 - 3:12 PM PDT   and may i suggest a little light reading while you're waiting between movies? lone wolf and cub, a delightfully pocketable and winningly gruesome samurai comic from the early 70s, is available at the kinokuniya bookstore, second floor of the mall right next to the theater. $10 a volume, each volume has 8 or 9 stories. it looks as though each of the stories was itself a source for one of the lone wolf and cub series of movies. yes, these are the stories where the samurai has the bulletproof baby stroller'o'death. so... why not sit down and see a tough ronin decapitate a horse while you're waiting for your favorite french sex comedy to start unreeling. you won't be disappointed!
underdog	post #32  on April 25, 2003 - 11:57 AM PDT   > On April 24, 2003 - 1:36 PM PST dpowers wrote: > --------------------------------- > craig, i guess weather underground is screening now to a kid audience; can you find out for me how your friend fared in the Q&A? > --------------------------------- I wish I could -- he's not a friend as much as someone I've met once or twice and Mark Kitchell hardly knows him much better than that... Well, hmmm, I can try to track down his email address and write to him over this next week, see what happens! Will post something if I get a report from him... CGP
SRhodes	post #33  on April 26, 2003 - 10:35 PM PDT   I was at the showing of gabriel orozco, but hadn't had time to check here the last few days. Catch the last on Wednesday night at the Kabuki if you haven't had a chance to see it. I'll have to look over my schedule to see if there is any more overlap. If you can get a ticket either screening of Olive Harvest Monday, definately try to. Waiting for Happiness is scheduled to be at the Roxie May 16-22. And Warrior of Light which is there through Thursday makes a good companion to Bus 174 (it focuses on Bezerra de Mello who is interviewed in it and runs a programfor street kids in Rio). I'll be interviewing the director and producer of the MC5 doc and they went to the schools screening of Weather Underground (which I'm seeing Sunday), so I can ask them how the questions were (I agree the questions from students are usually better).
SRhodes	post #34  on April 26, 2003 - 10:40 PM PDT   And you should see Peck though that will be a very long day - even longer than my going to the FCC hearing and then Love & Diane and Same River today where perhaps 10 people from the 1978 raft trip were in the audience (Rob Moss told me that there are a few companies interested in putting it out on DVD).
NeilCresswell	post #35  on April 27, 2003 - 8:08 AM PDT   > giantrobot wrote: > Is it just me, or does the film festival seem to be sparsely attended this year? My wife and I noticed the same thing when we hit the am showing of The Sea Watches (a mindblowingly excellent movie btw.) It looked to us that the theater was 2/3rds empty. Now ok it was a morning showing but still, we were suprised.
dpowers	post #36  on April 27, 2003 - 10:46 AM PDT   the sea watches hasn't received much local attention, so i'd add that to the day-showing explanation. so far so good as far as i'm concerned. haven't seen an uninteresting flick yet (great for me), and there have been rush lines for every show i've had tickets for so far (great for the festival). > thursday/24, KABUKI > 4:00 my voice > 6:45 la turbulence des fluides > 9:30 monday morning just having come back from paris, the story and reconsideration of post-colonial relationships (africa/europe) of my voice were very timely and well-presented, and i love musicals, so, i thought this was a hoot. turbulence strikes me as well-made, beautiful, and obviously french-canadian. because i don't find "sensuality" itself to be enough of a reason to make a movie, i liked this less than some of the others. nonetheless it has a lot to offer and it got me thinking. monday morning was very funny, in a thoughtful way, and also surprised me by setting up a situation straight from a tati movie and then going to some lengths to liberate its subjects from that framework. nice job. > friday/25, KABUKI > 4:15 gabriel orozco at the orozco screening, i asked the question about whether the film was meant to reintroduce orozco's work to mexico. i think sometimes i remember q&a sessions better than i remember movies. > saturday/26, KABUKI > 12:00 trilogy i: on the run > 2:30 trilogy ii: an amazing couple > 4:45 trilogy iii: after life anybody who hasn't read about this "trilogy," it's actually one huge story with thriller, comedy and drama elements separated into three sets of characters. each film follows one of the sets of characters through the same time period during which an escaped convict causes an uproar in a small city in france. the focus of the pair at the center of the film determines whether the genre of the film, but the invasion of the other genre characters causes confusion along the way. it's very interesting. seeing them back to back was a lot of work but it brought out elements that would vanish i think if you waited a month between parts. i didn't get to seen the man of the year... sold my ticket, bought another for tuesday, making tuesday a 14-hour day at the festival - i'm pretty sure i can do it! these movies are really getting my blood moving. SR, thanks for the notice on the roxie showing, i'll head over there in a couple weeks.
SRhodes	post #37  on April 27, 2003 - 11:48 AM PDT   I liked Turbulence a lot and look forward to seeing her first film 2 Seconds when I finally get a chance to watch DVDs again. I heard your question, but don't think I actually saw you since I was sitting towards the front. Most of the screenings I've been to have been sold out. Some of the weekday screenings during the day haven't been though I was surprised that some of them were so full and a 10 am showing of Winged Migration on Monday sold out which I think was in the largest theater. At the end of the fest, I'll get a press release where they'll list total tickets sold and the number of sell outs. There is also a poster in the Kabuki with red dots next to all the sold out shows (though some may sell out at the time of the screenings) and there are a lot of dots.
dpowers	post #38  on April 28, 2003 - 12:46 AM PDT   i liked gabriel orozco a lot. it was fascinating to compare the urban, familiar approach of that bio with the cautious distance of rivers and tides, considering that orozco and goldsworthy have so much in common. i mean there's a sequence in each where the artist is setting up a temporary work in their element (city street, country field) in order to photograph it before it gets knocked apart. and from those moments the documentaries drew what seemed almost opposite conclusions: orozco is making new meaning, goldsworthy is demonstrating existing cycles. anyway to get both of those in the last couple of years, suddenly the world of conceptual art is open to me as it has never been before, very cool what movies can do.
dpowers	post #39  on April 28, 2003 - 9:03 AM PDT   a few more words about the trilogy i saw on saturday. to achieve maximum circularity, things come to nothing, from nothing, in alarming ways, but not nihilistically, such that i wonder if the experiment was pointed toward people who depend on genre to get them in the mood, or to develop styles of interaction, or pointed toward artsy people to whom genre is already a toy. it's up in the air, maybe. > sunday/27, P F A (this is a great set of flicks!) > 1:00 the same river twice > 3:15 woman of water > 6:00 bus 174 > 8:45 a peck on the cheek i did the whole thing and it was a great day at the movies. same river twice, as info: very good. as movie: apart from the nagging question that came out during the q&a about "there's some seriously privileged decision-making going on here and you didn't deal with it," was a deft study of parallels and contrasts and time passing in a life, and i think it will make many baby boomers happy, and unify many hippy-yuppy mental splits. woman of water struck me as a full-length voyage through landscape dioramas and modernly mirrored méliès's scene design, but letting the characters relate to the location in the most apparent way. rain is wet, dark places are mysterious. this emotional elementalism is common in japanese pop movies and it's a little slack here, but the designs are really the point of this one. bus 174 as info: unclear. as movie: it took a terrible and absurd incident and tried to reframe the incident from the point of view of the bus hijacker and the hostages. did it work... i thought it provided too little social background in too long a work, but i think this is because i don't live in rio and i don't know what living in rio is like for the people who know everything about the city except for the invisible world the hijacker lived in. the shape of the drama of the hijacking was a long, tense, angry wait followed by a flash series of clumsy steps taken by both sides, into the deadly finish. the film did not have to follow the exact structure of the event in unrolling its own material. there is so much power in the moment of confrontation and it was handled with the closing titles when i thought that moment had enough power and said so much about hierarchies in brazil, it could have been the whole movie. but i can see that, since the hijacker is basically untouchable, giving him all kinds of credit, reasons, background, was an important function for contextualizing what everybody saw on television and what they heard and read about it afterward. a peck on the cheek delivers some serious shocks. the reality in sri lanka is shattering daily and the movie recreates that experiences thoroughly, frighteningly, and the cloying detail of family love at the start sets us up well. now that i've been introduced more thoroughly to the world of indian movies and their very large story space, i think at 2 hours 16 this movie was a little short, and could have used a little more time studying the choices that the biological mother faced. i think that would have pulled this powerful film away from similar movies. as is as a study of such a fight, and its results, the philippino film new moon covered this ground more thoroughly. on the other hand each particular similar fight needs to be pointed out and the effects on kids are definitely one of our times' most prominent dimensions. this is why i felt that shyama needed more time on camera, so that the main family melodrama didn't sap her line about not putting her one peace kid's desires ahead of her mission to train hundreds of war kids.
dpowers	post #40  on April 28, 2003 - 9:06 AM PDT   let's just say i typed "filipino" back there and leave it at that! i'm getting very confused about name tags!!!

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