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    Code 2600

    by  • February 26, 2012 • Documentary

    Computers are ubiquitous in today’s culture — we use them to get our news, buy everything from books to groceries to clothes, keep in touch with friends, do our banking, and countless other tasks. Because every interaction with a computer is essentially data that can be stored, hackers have an unprecedented trove of data to mine. “Code 2600” looks at the history of hacking, starting with phone phreaking and following it to the kinds of international hacking going on today.

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    Cinequest Wraps

    by  • March 10, 2011 • Articles, Cinequest 21

    Cinequest, San Jose’s maverick film festival, may be wrapping up this weekend but it’s not coasting to the finish line. There are films showing on multiple screens downtown up to the last minutes of the fest, and there are several events packed into these last few days. Friday brings us the Day of the Writer […]

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    Small Town Murder Songs

    by  • March 7, 2011 • Cinequest 21, Drama

    3/11, 2:45 PM Camera 12 Peter Stormare (“Fargo”) is almost unrecognizable in this character-driven film. He plays Walter, a once-violent, now born-again police chief in a small Mennonite town in Ontario. When a woman’s body is found, his new life is at risk — the prime suspect is the new squeeze of his ex-girlfriend, an […]

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    Madly in Love

    by  • March 7, 2011 • Cinequest 21, Comedy, Romance

    3/11, 9:30 PM Camera 12 This is the kind of film that makes me love Cinequest. Set in a Swiss town with a large Tamil population, this cross-cultural Bollywood-style romance is incredibly endearing. Devan escaped the violence in his homeland when he came to Switzerland as a teenager, but much of the culture remains the […]

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    New York Decalogue

    by  • March 7, 2011 • Cinequest 21, Drama

    3/11, 12:30 PM Camera 12 Some Cinequest movies are likely to provoke either love or hate, and “New York Decalogue” is one of those. This is a quiet film, mostly without dialog, which paints brief but revealing portraits of several very different New Yorkers whose lives are more interconnected than is obvious at first. I […]

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    Nosferatu, A Symphony Of Horror

    by  • March 7, 2011 • Cinequest 21, Horror

    3/11, 7:00PM California Theater “Nosferatu” made history when it was released in 1922 and still influences horror movies today (perhaps most notably the excellent 2000 film “Shadow of the Vampire”). Based loosely on Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula,” it features a vampire of an entirely different breed than the ones of modern entertainment. Count Orlock is […]

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    Cinequest is Underway

    by  • March 3, 2011 • Articles, Cinequest 21

    Buying Tickets and Passes Buy Tickets or Passes at www.cinequest.org, by calling 408-295-FEST (295-3378), or at the box office of any Cinequest venue. All box offices open 45 minutes before the first screening of the day. Cinequest Venues: * Camera 12 Cinemas – 201 S. Second Street, San Jose 95113 * San Jose Repertory Theatre […]

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    Mystico Fantastico!

    by  • February 28, 2011 • Cinequest 21, Comedy

    3/3 7:00 PM, Camera 12 3/5 4:30 PM, Camera 12 3/8 4:30 PM, San Jose Repertory Theatre This dreamlike film is both sweet and funny, and brings the genre of magical realism to the screen with a deft touch. Louise washes ashore in a sleepy Mexican town with only a doll and a small basket […]

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    A Kiss and A Promise

    by  • February 28, 2011 • Cinequest 21, Drama, Horror

    3/3/2011 7:15 PM, Camera 12 3/6/2011 1:15 PM, Camera 12 3/7/2011 2:00 PM, Camera 12 Even setting aside the tired “ooooh, a bisexual serial killer!” cliche it revolves around, “A Kiss and a Promise” is a disappointing film. It follows the escapades of the outwardly meek but sociopoathic David, his fiery and masochistic wife Samantha, […]

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