John Krokidas loves The Smiths, and though not an note of Mos was used to make his period drama Kill Your Darlings, the scent of that band is all over…
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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Bay Area film critic, trade journal editor and film studies teacher Sara Vizcarrondo brings her inimitable style and insider knowledge of the film industry to "Look of the Week," a half-hour show featuring discussions of current theatrical releases, film festivals, retrospectives, the Criterion Collection, Netflix Instant, VHS oddities and stray tidbits about "the biz." Come for the infotainment, stay for the theme song! ("I'm an accordion," Sara insists.)
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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Lousy with comically ambiguous situations, Computer Chess watches a convention of software geniuses compete to prove their programs are capable of besting a human at chess. Writer/director Andrew Bujalski loves…
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Josh Peck has been doing press for four years. More, it seems, than any of the other cast members from the upcoming remake of Red Dawn. If he wanted to,…
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Our Q&A with the director of this year’s Wuthering Heights adaptation
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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The director discusses the recent restoration of his 1970 effort, Wake in Fright.
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Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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An interview with two of the fiendish minds behind fall’s most hotly anticipated horror film.
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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Flamboyant filmmaker Alejandro Adams invokes Lawrence Durrell, James Agee and Jean Renoir while dismissing Terrence Malick’s highly anticipated Palme d’Or winner THE TREE OF LIFE; Walter von Tagen proposes a…
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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Sara reveals how she’s managed to kill multiple celebrities and shows Walter the alternate version of Look of the Week she’s been ordered to make for her employers (is this…
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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The patented naturalism and awkwardness of Look of the Week extend to Sara’s uncut junket visit with with Joe Wright and Saoirse Ronan (HANNA). Meanwhile, back in the studio, our…
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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Sara describes the pragmatic overtones of this episode as “more denim than taffeta,” which is only natural as the Letter to an Unknown Director recipient is tough guy Nicholas Ray.
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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Stanford University’s David Giovacchini and Veronika Ferdman of Slant Magazine join host Sara Vizcarrondo in the studio for a highly informed, personal, self-swallowing discussion of CERTIFIED COPY, while Walter von…
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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In this half-hour episode of Look of the Week, Bay Area film critic, trade journal editor and film studies teacher Sara Vizcarrondo talks with Brian Darr, who joins Sara in…
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
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In her new half-hour web series Look of the Week, Bay Area film critic, trade journal editor and film studies teacher Sara Vizcarrondo talks with guests about films old, new,…
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