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Article: San Jose Mercury News, Calif., Bruce Newman column: S.F. film festival's golden anniversary.(Column)
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
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- April 22, 2007
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Byline: Bruce Newman
Apr. 22--On opening night of the first San Francisco International Film Festival in 1957, there had never been such an event anywhere in the Americas -- North or South. The whole idea of a film festival in this country was an almost laughably precarious one. The big movies playing across town, after all, were "I Was a Teenage Frankenstein," "Tammy and the Bachelor" and "Love Slaves of the Amazon." Even in San Francisco, the only audience likely to turn up for subtitled films was the Beat poets, many of them with Jack Kerouac's just-published novel, "On the Road," under their arms. Hanging in the air that night 50 years ago, along ...
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