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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>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 26, 2008
Belle de 50 Ans 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>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: November 26, 2008
Somewhere Over the Date Line 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>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 26, 2008
Noël Hell 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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 26, 2008
Arthouse movie listings for November 26-December 2
Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Castro Theatre. Milk: See Opening listings.... More>>
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: November 26, 2008
Leashed Lightning 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>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: November 19, 2008
Holiday Feast, Extra Stuffing 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>>
By J. Hoberman
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>>
By Ernest Hardy
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>>
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: November 19, 2008
Neither Shaken Nor Stirred 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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 12, 2008
Game-Show Masala 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>>
By Scott Foundas
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>>
By J. Hoberman
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>>
Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: November 12, 2008
The World Is a Stage 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>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: November 05, 2008
Gene Slicing 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>>
By J. Hoberman
Published: November 05, 2008
Big Daddies 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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: November 05, 2008
Blues Brothers 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>>
By Chuck Wilson
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>>
By Kristi Mitsuda
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>>
Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton
Published: November 05, 2008
Strictly Softcore 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>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 29, 2008
Monster Mom Monster Mom
Kristin Scott Thomas shines as a child killer in middlebrow French melodrama.
Kristin Scott Thomas has gotten so locked into playing tragic victims or frigid grandes dames that few remember the actress got her big break as... More>>
By Ella Taylor
Published: October 29, 2008
Fear(s) of the Dark
While some may snicker at "graphic novel" as a term for comic books that take themselves too seriously, the French analogue — bande... More>>
By Aaron Hillis
Published: October 29, 2008
Tru Loved
Writer-director Stewart Wade's Tru Loved is a kitschier incarnation of an after-school special: hokey and simplistic, but also gawkily... More>>
By Kristi Mitsuda
Published: October 29, 2008
We Rent the Night We Rent the Night
New York cop drama holds the audience hostage.
Pride and Glory doesn't make any effort to disguise precisely what it is: a barely-held-together string of vignettes lifted from every cop movie... More>>
By Robert Wilonsky
Published: October 22, 2008
The Son Also Rises
Oliver Stone on W. and the president who would be John Wayne.
Sitting in the back of the restaurant at New York's überchic Royalton Hotel in an orange polo shirt and khakis, Oliver Stone looks out of... More>>
By Scott Foundas
Published: October 22, 2008
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