I feel like very few filmmakers over the last decade have had quite as strong an influence on the comedy genre as Judd Apatow. With his producing effort on Anchorman in 2004, followed by his hugely successful directing debut of The 40-Year-Old Virgin, it seems as though he cast a universal net over comedy films…
The first Richard Linklater film I ever saw was Waking Life in 2001. I like to call 2001 the year when I finally broke away from looking forward to standard Hollywood fare, and gravitated more towards what the critics liked. And Waking Life was as beautiful of a film as I saw that year. The…
Actually, it was on Friday night. My evening’s experience at the San Francisco International Film Festival included not one but two different features where former SNL cast members successfully make a transition to something significantly different from what we generally know them as. This is of course further proof that comedy is an art form…
Ten years ago saw the release of Spider-Man 2, Sam Raimi’s follow up to his record breaking film adaptation of the popular Marvel character. Back then, superhero movies were nowhere near as common as they are today. You would only see one or two a year, rather than one or two a month. Spider-Man is…
Every now and then a piece of art grabs you by the heart and compels you to blog, rave and speak out to every friend you have about its brilliance. Robert Kondo and Dice Tsutsumi’s short film The Dam Keeper, included on the SFIFF’s Shorts 6: Family Films Program is such a piece of art.…
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