San Francisco Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/san-francisco/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:31:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png San Francisco Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/san-francisco/ 32 32 SURROGATE VALENTINE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/surrogate-valentine-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/surrogate-valentine-film-review/#comments Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:00:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=8856

Surrogate Valentine is an Asian American love story that's first and foremost a love story—by turns, a sweet, funny, and melancholy one, in which most of the important things are left unsaid, but are very definitely felt.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/surrogate-valentine-film-review/feed/ 4 DVD RELEASES 2010/5/4 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-may-4-2010/ Tue, 04 May 2010 15:02:19 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=3538 Today brings another new slate of DVD releases that doubles nicely as a revue of what the the film festival circuit looked had to offer in 2008 and 2009. If your life keeps you from taking advantage of your local […]

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]]> MOVIES ON BIG SCREENS – December 4, 2009 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/movies-on-big-screens-december-4-2009/ Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:30:26 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1126 NEW YORK CITY: Even if no new films were opening at the IFC Center this weekend, it would still be the talk of the town, as Mr. Vanco, Mr. Dew, Mr. Wells, and the rest of the crew are finally […]

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]]> ASIAN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (7/23-7/26/2009) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/asian-american-international-film-festival-723-7262009/ Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:46:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=260 The 2009 edition of the Asian American International Film Festival is here, brought to us by the efforts of the venerable media arts nonprofit Asian CineVision. This year, AAIFF is holding screenings in three locations: Clearview Cinemas and the SVA […]

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Sorry, Thanks has just enough plot to keep it interesting, while still allowing the shapelessness of real life to inform it’s forward(ish) motion.

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]]> MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/medicine-for-melancholy-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/medicine-for-melancholy-film-review/#comments Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:38:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2182

(Medicine for Melancholy has been picked up for distribution by IFC Films, who are finally releasing it on Friday, January 30th in New York City. Visit the film’s official website, or its page at IFC.com, to watch a trailer.) Barry […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/medicine-for-melancholy-film-review/feed/ 1 OPTION 3 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/option-3-film-review/ Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:43:07 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2068 Mid-20th-century literary critics used to decry the dangers of the “intentional fallacy”—the tendency to read and interpret a work of art through extra-textual lenses: what we know of the author’s life, the author’s intention as stated in an interview or […]

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]]> CHAN IS MISSING https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/chan-is-missing-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/chan-is-missing-film-review/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:02:29 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2100

(Buy Chan is Missing at Amazon, and visit the official website of the Asian American International Film Festival for screening details.) By the time he made Chan is Missing, Hong Kong native Wayne Wang had graduated from the California College […]

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