SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST 1997

SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST 1997

Part one of our coverage of the 40th SF International Film Festival, with emphasis on the "International". French movies are the principal...

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COMMANDMENTS

The prospect of a vendetta between man and his creator provides the fertile basis for a dark drama or a bawdy farce, but here the filmmakers try to...

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THE VAN

You'd think living in Ireland would be fabulous what with delicious beer, out of control youths and closed DeLorean factories ... you know, the things that...

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MURDER AT 1600

Not even Hollywood can keep up with Clinton's scandal du jour, but "Murder at 1600" comes close as a cloud of sex, greed and corruption blows through the...

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LOVE! VALOUR! COMPASSION!

There's nothing like a roomful of hardened, cynical film critics all crying like a bunch of schoolgirls. Terrence McNally translates his hit on and off...

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TWIN TOWN

Let me get this out of the way right now. This movie is billed as a cross between "Trainspotting" and "Beavis and Butthead". There's some credence...

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MOTHER NIGHT

Buried in its holiday release, you no longer have an excuse to miss this great movie. Mother Night is director Keith "A Midnight Clear" Gordon's entry...

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GODZILLA VS. DESTROYER

It is truly unfortunate that most American audiences have predominantly been exposed to the worst entries in Toho Studio's long running Godzilla series....

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THE UNDERGROUND COMEDY MOVIE

Take a blender and drop in "The Kentucky Fried Movie", Garth from "Wayne's World", John Waters, Monty Python, the hit-and-miss anarchy of Mel Brooks,...

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ROMY AND MICHELE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION

Here's the second of the ten year high school reunion triumvirate, after "Grosse Pointe Blank" and before "Til' There Was You" or whatever it's called now,...