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Twisted misters

From Australian serial killers to flighty Spanish ghosts, IndieFest 2012 explores the darker side of life (and the lighter side of the afterlife)

02.07.12 - 7:00 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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FILM This year's San Francisco Independent Film Festival kicks off with a film that knows exactly what time it is: 4:44 Last Day on Earth.Read more »

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02.07.12 - 6:24 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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Schedules are for Wed/8-Tues/14 except where noted. Director and year are given when available. Double and triple features are marked with a •. All times p.m. unless otherwise specified.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia, SF; www.atasite.org. $6-10. Dirty Looks presents: City of Lost Souls, Fri, 8. "Mindscapes," short films, Sat, 8.Read more »

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01.31.12 - 7:46 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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Schedules are for Wed/8-Tues/14 except where noted. Director and year are given when available. Double and triple features are marked with a •. All times p.m. unless otherwise specified.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia, SF; www.atasite.org. $6-10. Dirty Looks presents: City of Lost Souls, Fri, 8. "Mindscapes," short films, Sat, 8.Read more »

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01.24.12 - 5:33 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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Schedules are for Wed/25-Tues/31 except where noted. Director and year are given when available. Double and triple features are marked with a •. All times p.m. unless otherwise specified.

ART DECO MOVIE THEATER 2700 Saratoga, Alameda; www.baicff.com. $10-20. "Bay Area International Children's Film Festival," family films from around the world, Sat-Sun, 10am-5:30pm. Read more »

Ding dong, you're dead

Horrors await all who enter Lucio Fulci's The House By the Cemetery

01.24.12 - 5:21 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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TRASH It takes a certain kind of sicko to fall in love with Italian horror, what with all the oozing maggots, spurting jugulars, WTF plot twists, weird zooms, jarring musical cues, and supporting characters who do completely bizarre things that are never explained.Read more »

Dim the lights: sad news for local film fans

01.23.12 - 12:09 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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It's been a sad few weeks for the local film community. First came the news that film critic Rossiter Drake — who wrote for the SF Examiner and 7x7 among other publications, and was a fellow member of the San Francisco Film Critics Circle — passed away in his Alameda home. He was only 34. Read more »

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01.17.12 - 6:49 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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Schedules are for Wed/18-Tues/24 except where noted. Director and year are given when available. Double and triple features are marked with a •. All times p.m. unless otherwise specified.

ALA COSTA CENTER 1300 Rose, Berk; missreplacosta.eventbrite.com. $15. Miss Representation (Siebel Newsom, 2011), Fri, 7. Benefits Ala Costa's Adult Transition Program for young adults with developmental disabilities.Read more »

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01.03.12 - 6:27 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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Schedules are for Wed/4-Tues/10 except where noted. Director and year are given when available. Double and triple features are marked with a •. All times p.m. unless otherwise specified.Read more »

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12.27.11 - 6:52 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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Documentary Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians plays Fri/30-Sat/31 at the Roxie.

Schedules are for Wed/28-Tues/3 except where noted. Director and year are given when available. Double and triple features are marked with a •. All times p.m. unless otherwise specified.Read more »

Doom lens

YEAR IN FILM: Cheryl Eddy assesses 2011's cinematic contributions and wonders if the apocalypse isn't already upon us

12.27.11 - 6:02 pm | Cheryl Eddy |
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YEAR IN FILM As everyone and John Cusack knows, 2012 is it. And not in a "billboard-buying Alameda radio preacher Harold Camping's bungled Rapture predictions" kind of way. This is an all-in situation. The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, a complicated and ancient system most enthusiastically explained by conspiracy theorists, winds up its 13th 144,000 day cycle on December 21, 2012. TL; DR: we're toast.Read more »