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Jay Edgar on November 3, 2021
CineQuest, San Jose’s premier film festival, may have ended in May, but that doesn’t mean cinephiles have to wait a whole year for more filmic gems. CineQuest’s new all-virtual younger sibling, CineJoy, is bringing features and shorts from around the world straight to the home with an all-new streaming platform built just…
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Nick Veronin on February 27, 2019
Cinequest returns with an opening night screening of Manto, a new biopic about controversial and acclaimed Indian writer Saadat Hasan Manto. Directed by Nandita Das, the film is set in an India just breaking free from British rule. While optimism fills the air, violence, unrest and fear are also rampant as the…
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Richard von Busack on March 6, 2018
Haunted by a vision of a vanished girlfriend, Jamie (Sam Keeley) searches the remote foothills of the Himalayas for her, lured by various clues to a guru with a glorious wooden palace in the pines.
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Stephen Perez on March 5, 2018
Luba is a poorly paced dramatic thriller that aims to remind us that parents are humans too.
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Jaleny Reyes on March 5, 2018
Set in the woods during a cold, Michigan winter, Frank Olsen (Marshall Cook) has started a new life, eschewing society in favor of a solitary existence. But that all comes crashing down while he is out hunting one day and sees a mysterious man dumping a body in the forest. It turns…
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Stephen Perez on March 2, 2018
Bikini Moon is a provocative, multilayered mockumentary that highlights the worst parts of millennial liberalism.
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Salvatore Maxwell on March 1, 2018
Director and writer Owen Long takes his audience on an uncomfortably gripping journey in Seeds, a story about the monstrous manifestation of inner demons. Marcus Milton is a drug-addicted man, infatuated with his much-younger niece. After a serious bender, which leaves one body in its wake, Marcus seeks refuge in his old…
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Richard von Busack on March 6, 2017
Cinequest wraps up this weekend with personal appearances by director Walter Hill, actress Jane Lynch, Garbo on the big screen at the 90 year old California Theater, and a just-announced appearance by Fred Armisen.
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Downtown San Jose has done a lot of growing up in the past two years. Since 2013, the city has enjoyed a growing craft-cocktail scene—with the combined opening of 55 South, SP2 and Paper Plane. Great beer is everywhere: just head to the recently transformed Good Karma, ISO Beers, or the newly…
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