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Christopher Bernard's Blog
September 5, 2009
- The Man Who Talked to the Sea He stands by the hour on the edge of the beach, staring at the sea. He stands near the water’s edge, in the roar of the breaking waves, his eyes scanning the horizon or focused on a single point, or gazing at a cloud. He sometimes paces up and down the little patch of beach, his eyes still ...
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June 6, 2009
- Tulpan, directed by Sergey Dvortsevoy, is a peculiar and delightful thing: a romantic comedy set in the steppes of Central Asia. Bound by a semi-arid plain of scrub nubbed with yurts like sleeping beetles on a vast desolate counterpane, the story follows the hopeless courting of a young Kazakh just discharged from the Russian navy. Asa is in need of a wife before he will be given a flock of ...
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May 16, 2009
- Traumraum Written and directed by Ahmed El-Gasseir Performed at the Mission Cultural Center, May 15-17, in San Francisco Traumraum (German for “dream room”) is a philosophical entertainment – and I only hope there’ll be many more from Theatre Anomaly, the spirited company that produced it and states that its goal is to make “new dance theatre works inspired by great essays on ...
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May 16, 2009
- Chaturanga (Four Chapters), based on a novella by the early 20th century Bengali writer Rabindrinath Tagore, often translated under the title “Quartet,” tells the story of a series of spiritual crises of a young Bengali Hindu, beginning with his rejection of the religious traditions of his family in favor of an Enlightenment rationalism promoted by his Westernized uncle. A deeply inspiring, ...
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May 16, 2009
- My Suicide is a dark, no-holds-barred comedy (or “dramedy,” to use the fashionable, and apposite, term) that explores contemporary teen angst with considerable insight into the labyrinthine hell of modern youth indentured to a high-tech world, both freed and imprisoned by it. The film screened recently at the SFIFF as part of its Cinema by the Bay. Brilliantly directed and ...
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May 7, 2009
- The new film by French director Claire Denis (best known in this country for such films as Chocolat, I Can’t Sleep and Beau Travail) is a work of that casual skill attained by only the most accomplished, in the service of a candid and probing and clear-eyed love, of the director for her characters and (sometimes less clear-eyed) of her characters for each other. It screened recently at the ...
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May 7, 2009
- Never has the phrase “the little monsters” to describe the sweet little kids playing in the next room been taken more literally. The South Korean director Yim Phil-Sung’s updating of the Grimm brothers’ fairytale, this time reversing the roles of children and witch, was screened at the current SFIFF as part of its “Late Show” series of playful horror films, shown near midnight ...
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May 7, 2009
- Adoration, the challenging, teasing, smart new film by Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan, received its American premiere on April 25 at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film is a cunningly made construct of Egoyan’s trademark non-chronological style, shattered pieces of time reflected, refracted, recollected and reorganized into ever-shifting shapes and deepening ambiguities of ...
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February 22, 2009
February 22, 2009
- It will pass, and so it should.
The flame requires so much wood
to burn and warm and brighten here –
where you eat and laugh and sleep,
the fire glistens in your eyes,
illumines your lips, and then it dies.
If only I could flame for longer
than it takes to burn this wood:
a life, a body, time, heart, mind.
But only if I pass along
the flame to your eyes, your mind,
and kindle in your ...
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February 22, 2009
- It risesfrom the mouth of the night,a clenchof ripped feathers, lambentvelvet thick with black,eyesdark conquering; a clawhangs from its belly.It hunts.The soundless hum of its beatingis a stareharder than a beak.You will notescape the hour you cling to.Tryto forget its imageagainst the moon.
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October 31, 2008
- I have decided my own computer has a borderline personality, with tendencies both narcissistic and histrionic - it has random bouts of crazy hostility with generally irrational behavior, acting out, bizarre reactions to simple requests, unpredictable moping, etc. Just like one of my old girl friends, actually. For example, this morning, it refused to put any icons on the desktop. And it's ...
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October 28, 2008
- The distress call from "Philip Hackett" was apparently a hoax based on identity theft.Please ignore the request for aid and do not contact the email address given.Thanks! (Apologies for the confusion - but I was one of the one first to be deceived.)
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October 17, 2008
- Philip Hackett, the San Francisco poet, has an emergency and needs help from the writing community. Please read below for details:<< I made an emergency trip to England and am having a serious problem. I need a total of $2,000.00 to enable me conclude my program here. Please assist me with whatever amount you feel you can afford: I will pay you back as soon as I return home to San ...
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September 22, 2008
- It opens with a blare of Chinese instruments that sound like a cross between an oboe and a trumpet rehearsing for the Last Judgment, and the answering racket of a corps of percussion that sound like the rattling of the bones of the dead in hell – instruments that will score and rend, charge and magnify, and frequently levitate the following two and a half hours into a heaven unknown until ...
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