Event Reviews
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SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The amazing 4K restoration of a beloved 1984 classic for its 40th Anniversary, Shanghai Blues tells the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers who, determined to meet up after the war with the Japanese is over, endure all sorts of misadventures trying to find each-other some ten years later! When our soon-to-be-departed soldier and his pretty lady met under the bridge during a raid, they didn’t exchange names. They did, however, manage to save each-other and make a...
Previous featured Events
San Diego Film Week presents ‘A Life Lived’: For Love or Money?
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Riley Wood Studio: Not A Camel Productions Review Rating: 8 out of 10 The journey of a single dollar bill and the lives it affects, inadvertently and directly, along the way. We as collective humans have more in common with...
SDIFF 2016 presents ‘Pushing Dead’: It’s only funny if it’s NOT you
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Tom E. Brown Studio: Bugsby Pictures Review Rating: 7 out of 10 When an HIV-positive man makes a tiny banking error that abruptly closes off his financial aid, suddenly he is forced to deal with a snail-like bureaucracy or somehow...
San Diego International Film Festival presents Opening Night Film ‘Other People’: Never a Straight Line
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Director: Chris Kelly Studio: Park Pictures Review Rating: 7 out of 10 A flailing comedy writer with troubles of his own, returns home to his estranged family, to care for his mother who is dying of cancer. Told over the course of a year, the...