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- Movie | January 15, 2014
The Square
The Square captures the chaotic energy of the Egyptian mass protests of 2011 and 2013, a rush of sights and sounds shot at street level that blitzes the senses as it quickens the heart. It’s not as informative a documentary...
- News | January 14, 2014
Sam Berns, Subject of ‘Life According to Sam’, Dies at 17
Life According to Sam subject Sam Berns, 17, died on Friday in Boston, Massachusetts, reports The New York Times. Sam’s death came as a result of complications of the rare disease progeria, which he had lived with his entire...
- News | January 13, 2014
Armond White Goes Too Far, Voted Out of NYFCC
After years of prodding, he’s finally woken the sleeping giant…and it’s pissed. Several witnesses have accused Armond White, contrarian film critic and now former member of the New York Film Critics Circle, of vicious heckling directed at 12 Years a...
- Film Festival | January 13, 2014
Linklater’s ‘Boyhood’ Added to Sundance 2014 Lineup
A special preview screening of Richard Linklater’s ambitious new project, Boyhood, has been added to the Sundance 2014 lineup. The film, also known as the “12 Year Project”, is an unprecedented undertaking: for the past 12 years, Linklater has made...
- Features | January 10, 2014
Weekend Streaming Recommendations: Drinking Buddies, The Apartment, American Psycho, & More
With the slew of movies Netflix cut at the close of 2013 (Brick, Requiem For a Dream, Being John Malkovich especially hurt to see go, though there were many others), and an influx of equally awesome films rushing in to fill in...
- Interview | January 10, 2014
Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer Rally at ‘The Square’
Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim’s rousing documentary The Square was born of a revolution. In January 2011, Noujaim traveled to Cairo when she heard rumblings of an uprising forming at Tahrir Square in opposition of longtime President Hosni Mubarak and his...
- News | January 9, 2014
Charlie Chaplin’s “Tramp” Celebrates Centennial in SF
This Saturday, January 11th at San Francisco’s Castro Theater, there’s going to be an all-day, 100-Year Anniversary celebration of one of the most essential, irreplaceable, and beloved characters in the history of film, Charlie Chaplin’s “The Tramp”. The bumbling, infectiously...
- Movie | January 9, 2014
The Invisible Woman
The Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes sophomore directorial effort (following up 2011’s Coriolanus), tells the true story of the love affair Charles Dickens (played by Fiennes) had with a much younger woman, actress Nelly Ternan (Felicity Jones), with a touch so...
- Movie | January 8, 2014
Liv & Ingmar
For those familiar with the films of Ingmar Bergman, Liv & Ingmar‘s greatest gift is that it adds a new layer of richness to the Swedish auteur’s legendary oeuvre. The documentary examines the extraordinary 42-year-long relationship with he and his...
- Movie | January 7, 2014
August: Osage County
Broad and brutal, August: Osage County doesn’t offer much in the way of subtlety, but there’s something satisfying about indulging in the bigness of it all. The all-star cast, headed up by a bitch-mode Meryl Streep and a seething Julia Roberts,...
- Movie | January 3, 2014
Caught in the Web
When Lanqiu (Gao Yuanyuan), a young Chinese executive with a promising future learns during a routine physical that she’s fatally ill, she becomes dreadfully upset and, in a lapse of judgement, refuses to offer her seat to an old...
- Movie | December 27, 2013
Reaching For the Moon
An examination of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Elizabeth Bishop’s pivotal years spent in Brazil in the 1950’s and ’60s, Reaching For the Moon is an ironically literal, trite, unpoetic biopic that likely wouldn’t have been met with approval by its...
- Movie | December 24, 2013
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom falls into several of the common pitfalls hindering biopics of the same ilk–most notably an artistically inhibiting obedience to biographical milestones–and while director Justin Chadwick comes up short, Idris Elba turns in a thoughtful, commanding...
- Film Festival | December 19, 2013
Another Hole in the Head Capsule Reviews 2
San Francisco’s Another Hole in the Head genre film festival comes to a close tonight at New People Cinema, with the world premieres of The G-String Horror Demon Cut, a horror film by Charles Webb set in the streets of...
- Movie | December 18, 2013
Go For Sisters
A consistently intriguing figure in the independent film community, John Sayles is a sometimes brilliant, usually “meh”, filmmaker whose recent work leans more toward the “meh” side of the fence. With that being said, there’s no one quite like...