The two daily newspapers are riddled with the same four or five attitudes. Montgomery Street lawyers. Sixth Street winos. Petite shop girls. And then there is the San Francisco International Film Festival.
Some movies stink.
When the emotions grow overpowering, Honigman shifts to the interviewee listening to music that meant something to them during their tour of duty. Life, love and class struggles are lovingly sent up in several interwoven stories in contemporary Paris. Again, something that should be dull and disastrous, yet instead if exuberant and filled with a keen, alert sense of the possibilities of filmmaking. Even more baroque is the latest from young Japanese madman Kyoshi Kurosawa. In this film, Sabzian talks about cinema like a philosopher.