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A Tale of Two Movies After decades in development hell, how Gus Van Sant finally got Milk.
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear: 1992, to be exact. Gus Van Sant, the filmmaker who had just thrilled the world with his... More>>
Published: December 03, 2008
Spinning Blues Into Lies Cadillac Records can't handle the truth.
First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil... More>>
Published: December 03, 2008
Unfortunate Son Feel-good filmmaker Randall Miller goes bad ... very bad.
Nobody in the film industry wants to be pigeonholed. Personal assistants long to be studio heads, gaffers want to direct, and name actors... More>>
Published: December 03, 2008
Capturing the Castle Punisher: War Zone kicks ass. And then it kicks some more ass.
It really shouldn't have been so hard to make a decent Punisher movie.The Marvel Comics character, who shot to prominence in the late '80s after... More>>
Published: December 03, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for December 3-9
Artists' Television Access. "Video Quilt": Screening of short work by San Francisco State University students. Sun., Dec. 7, 7 p.m. $6.... More>>
Published: December 03, 2008
Proposition Hate Gus Van Sant's Milk recaptures Californian intolerance at exactly the right time.
Gus Van Sant has never been what you'd call a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a Ming... More>>
Published: November 26, 2008
Belle de 50 Ans Catherine Deneuve on her new film, A Christmas Tale, and her long, glorious noncareer.
Siren. Icon. Muse. You can apply any or all of those labels to Catherine Deneuve but trying to make any one of them stick is trickier than... More>>
Published: November 26, 2008
Somewhere Over the Date Line Welcome to Baz Luhrmann's not-quite-marvelous land of Oz.
You don't have to have been raised on colonial Brit lit, classic melodramas, Westerns, war movies, or Gone with the Wind to figure out the likely... More>>
Published: November 26, 2008
Noël Hell Witherspoon and Vaughn's yuletide carol is Four Christmases too many.
To brand, then dismiss, Four Christmases as a disappointment would be giving it too much credit — never, for a second, did this New Line... More>>
Published: November 26, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for November 26-December 2
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Castro Theatre. Milk: See Opening listings.... More>>
Published: November 26, 2008
Leashed Lightning Disney's latest toon is a starry dog story.
With his blazing white coat and pig-pink ears, to say nothing of the zigzag of lightning cut into his flank, the eponymous canine lead of... More>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Holiday Feast, Extra Stuffing Desplechin's A Christmas Tale is the gift this season needs.
Arnaud Desplechin is a cinema maximalist: A Christmas Tale feels like all 12 days of seasonal merriment and then some. This comic, ultimately... More>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Were the World Mine
Tom Gustafson's queer-centric take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream teeters between banal conceptualizing and inspired execution. When... More>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for November 19-25
Artists' Television Access. Poison: Todd Haynes film. Presentation of the Revival House Queer Cinema. Wed., Nov. 19, 8 p.m. $6. Open Screening:... More>>
Published: November 19, 2008
Neither Shaken Nor Stirred Marc Forster has a license to confuse and bore in Quantum of Solace.
Those of us who adored Casino Royale, the 2006 reboot of the haggard, self-parodic James Bond franchise, had some trouble trying to decide where... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
Game-Show Masala Bollywood meets Hollywood in Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire.
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? Well, who wouldn't in this economy, even if the currency in question is rupees and winning the loot means being... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
JCVD
JCVD wastes little time working itself into a pretzel. The action begins under the credits with Jean-Claude Van Damme working his way through a... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for November 12-18
Artists' Television Access. La Osa Mayor Menos Dos: Documentary by David Reznak about a Spanish mental hospital. Thu., Nov. 13, 8 p.m. free.... More>>
Published: November 12, 2008
The World Is a Stage Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York.
If you traveled the length of John Malkovich's medulla oblongata, hung a sharp left at the desk where Beckett's Krapp recorded his last tape, and... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Gene Slicing A Saw director gets musical.
Movie cults are born, not made. A youthful audience discovered Donnie Darko on its own, even as another demographic transformed The Sound of... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Big Daddies Role Models is smarter and bawdier than your average boys-to-men movie.
Paul Rudd wears the constant look of glazed-eye amusement; everything seems to tickle him, even that which annoys or frustrates or disappoints... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Blues Brothers Soul Men pays fitting tribute to the late Bernie Mac.
If the dream of every comic is to have his humor live on long after he's left the stage, then the late Bernie Mac has exited this world on a high... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Loins of Punjab Presents
The zany incomprehensibility of the title should serve as fair warning of the quirkfest to come in neophyte filmmaker Manish Acharya's Loins of... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for November 5-11
Castro Theatre. The Nanny and Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?: Part of the Bette Davis Centennial. Wed., Nov. 5, 2:30 p.m. The Leopard: Luchino... More>>
Published: November 05, 2008
Strictly Softcore Kevin Smith blows his wad with Zack and Miri Make a Porno.
Ostensibly, Zack and Miri Make a Porno should be money-shot Kevin Smith: Pals make porn to pay the bills and, in the process of gettin' it on for... More>>
Published: October 29, 2008
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