• Documentary

    Closing Night: The Nature of Existence

    by  • March 1, 2009 • Cinequest 19, Documentary

    Screening: Closing night March 8, 7:30 PM (Cal). Followed by a party. See www.cinequest.org for details. Why do we exist? What is truth? How can we be happy? These are questions humans have asked ourselves for centuries. Director Roger Nygard (“Trekkies”) found himself asking these age old questions, and set out to find the answers. […]

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    Raging Grannies

    by  • February 28, 2009 • Cinequest 19, Documentary

    Screenings: March 7, 2:00 PM (Cam 12); March 8 12:00 PM (Cam 12) Just because you’re in the AARP doesn’t mean you have to hang up your protesting hat and go quietly into retirement. Raging Grannies is a large organization, with “gaggles,” or local groups all over the country (including locally in San Jose). These […]

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    Rock, Paper, Scissors: A Geek Tragedy

    by  • February 28, 2009 • Cinequest 19, Documentary

    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 […]

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    Rocaterrania

    by  • February 21, 2009 • Cinequest 19, Documentary

    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 […]

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    Autism: The Musical

    by  • March 3, 2008 • Cinequest 18, Documentary

    Remaining screenings: March 8, 6:30pm (Cam 12); March 8, 5:15pm (Rep) The title alone is an attention-grabber. The content is even more arresting: a group of autistic kids working together under the guidance of parents and teachers to put on a musical play. There are bumps and snags along the way, but the kids and […]

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    D-Tour: A Tenacious Documentary

    by  • February 24, 2008 • Cinequest 18, Documentary

    Screenings: March 1, 10:15pm (Rep); March 2, 7pm (Cal). Plenty of folks know Jack Black is an actor, but his musical career as half of the acoustic heavy metal satire duo Tenacious D was known only to the band’s cult following — until their film, “Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny” reached a somewhat […]

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    Mardik: From Baghdad to Hollywood

    by  • February 18, 2008 • Cinequest 18, Documentary

    Screenings: March 2, 4:30pm (Cam 12); March 4, 9pm (Cam 12); March 7, 4:30pm (Rep) Mardik Martin wrote or co-wrote some of the seminal films of the 70s and (early) 80s: “Mean Streets” was one of his early screenplays, and “Raging Bull” was his last. Since then he has taught other screenwriters his craft. With […]

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