Remaining screening: March 8, 5:15 PM (Cam 12) When Douglas and Graham Walker founded the World Rock Paper Scissors Society, they had no idea of the heights it would grow to. What started out as simply a tribute to their love of the game (RPS, for short) has turned into an international organization whose World […]
Read more →Screenings: February 27, 9:30 PM (Rep); March 1, 1:30 PM (Rep); March 4, 5:00 PM (Cam 12) Nick is a struggling musician in Los Angeles who spends most of his time gaming online with a large group of folks, many of whom are his close friends. When he meets Kei, a struggling actress who knows […]
Read more →Screenings: February 27, 11:30 PM (Cam 12); March 2, 9:30 PM (Rep) Everyone knows that the standard samurai movie tropes and the standard Western movie tropes mesh well together — look at Kurosawa’s samurai classics and Clint Eastwood’s early “spaghetti” Westerns. But what do you get when you mesh them with a little less subtlety? […]
Read more →Screenings: February 26, 7:00 PM (Cal); February 27, 4:30 PM (Rep); March 1, 9:30 PM (Cam 12) Things are tough in New York since 9/11. Your photo ID has to match what you actually look like. Fences are picky about what stolen stuff they’ll fence. A forged green card is expensive. Nobody is paying up […]
Read more →Every year, filmmakers and appreciators of independent cinema from around the world converge on San Jose for Cinequest, the annual celebration of maverick filmmaking. Last year, Cinequest had over 80,000 attendees and over 500 of them filmmakers for the two-week event. This year’s festival runs from February 25 through March 8, 2009, and will be […]
Read more →Whatever your angle, if you’re interested in independent film Cinequest is well worth checking out. Below are brief guides for some of the many sorts of folks who might enjoy attending. Be sure to check the Films and Events listings at www.cinequest.org to confirm times, check out new additions, and buy tickets.
Read more →Screenings: February 28, 2:30 PM (Cam 12); March 2, 7:15 PM (Cam 12); March 3, 12:30 PM (Cam 12). Renaldo Kuhler is a scientific illustrator with a lifelong project: his own nation, Roccaterania. With the same detail he uses to record the scale patterns of snakes or the curves of microscopic bones, he has designed […]
Read more →Opening Night: February 25, 7:00 PM (Cal) Carys (Bijou Phillips, “Choke”) is an unusual gal who attends the funerals of strangers looking for something ineffable. She meets Tyler (Ian Somerhalderl, “Pulse”), the fiance of the dead individual at one of the funerals she crashes. She manages to accidentally steal the dead girl’s wedding ring, but […]
Read more →Screenings: March 1, 7:00 PM (Cal) Jimmy Stevens (Frank Langella) has blown the whistle on his company’s corrupt practices. He knows he will be killed for it, so he anonymously hires private eye Frank Turlotte (Elliott Gould) to follow him. As the time draws near for Jimmy’s execution, we learn more about his past and […]
Read more →Screenings: March 7, 7:00 PM (Cal); March 8, 1:30 PM (Cam 12). One of the things I love about Cinequest films is that even when they’re covering a tired old trope, it has a fresh feel to it. This is a story we’ve seen before: a hitman on the cusp of retirement (or already in […]
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