Light, camera, action! Or as Halfdan Hussey wrote in an email today, "Turn on the Spotlights." Cinequest film festival, the pride and joy of San Jose, opens tomorrow night. You may also want to use another favorite Hollywood expression: roll out the red carpet. Or perhaps a not-so-Hollywood: bring...

A Fight Club for voyeurs, Peepers takes us into the secret world of roof-top hopping "peepers," where we join alongside a rag-tag group armed with binoculars and walkie-talkies looking for excitement in other people's windows. Fraternizing in the shadows at night, but with office jobs by day, we learn...

Thea (Paprika Steen) can only seem to find acceptance and respect on the stage. Off it, her life is unraveling. She's a recovering alcoholic out of rehab, her husband left with the two boys, and she has no friends; except for the lonely drunk at the corner tavern. Buying...

The 20th anniversary of the Cinequest Film Festival kicks off next week in San Jose. Co-founder Halfdan Hussey said, despite the challenging economy, the festival should draw in excess of 80,000 fans, filmmakers, actors, and industry trade to downtown San Jose. Some estimates have indicated the impact could well...

What if you lived your entire life in one day? And you'd have, but one time, to enjoy each moment: the first kiss, going to school, growing up,  making love. In Marc de Cloe's Life in One Day, Benny and Gini fall head over heels for each other in...

Take a deep breath, get out your favorite walking shoes, grab your Netbook. Cinequest Film Festival 20 is only 5 days away, opening on February 23 with The Good Heart. A good calendar or organizer might not be a bad idea either. The amount of films, events, sessions, and...

https://vimeo.com/9533778 "We're doing a Zombie film about Zombies created from pollution," pitches Brianna Pereira from Boynton High School. And with that, week 1 of the Adobe Youth Voices program in partnership with Cinequest 2010 film camp kicked off last Saturday at Adobe HQ downtown San Jose. 31 next generation film-makers arrived...

You know you're in trouble when a relentless drug addiction and a discovered stash of dirty money are the least of your problems. Oh, yes, what to do with the body? In Kill the Habit that becomes the question of the day for three women (Lili Mirojnick, Katerina Moutsatsou, Maria-Elena...

What is it about great European indies that make them so endlessly fascinating and watchable? The Bone Man is another example, and I think it'll be a festival favorite at Cinequest. It's two hours of terrific entertainment. It kept me guessing throughout and I appreciated the exquisite quality of everything...

What if you were scripted to behave badly? Breaking down the fourth wall—the unseen barrier between actor and viewer—has become somewhat of an interesting trend in film (see Funny Games starring Naomi Watts). We've seen it for years on stage in the theater; an actor will maintain a personal...