• August 18, 2011
  
  

  ‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord

  Dennis Harvey
  Aug 16, 2011

  Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.

  
• Home
  
  

  ‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord

  Dennis Harvey
  Aug 16, 2011

  Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  ‘The Arbor’s’ ‘Verbatim Theatre’ Approach Strikes Chord

  Dennis Harvey
  Aug 16, 2011

  Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Looking for Comedy in Ken Loach's 'Eric'

  Dennis Harvey
  May 28, 2010

  It s not a laugh-out-loud film, but Looking for Eric can be considered a comedy…in comparison to just about any other Ken Loach movie you could name.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Merchant-Ivory: A Look Back

  Dennis Harvey
  May 27, 2010

  A literary adaptation filled with first-class actors in sumptuous settings, City doesn't fall too far from the familiar Merchant-Ivory tree.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Mostly British and Very Entertaining

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 4, 2010

  Tragically underrepresented in the Bay Area's densely packed world of globally oriented film festivals is the land(s) of our erstwhile colonial rulers!

  
• Reviews
  
  

  'Fish Tank's Essex truth

  Dennis Harvey
  Jan 28, 2010

  Writer-director Andrea Arnold created a stir with her first feature Red Road, but her new film is arguably an even stronger work.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Clough's Rough Time in 'Damned United'

  Adam Hartzell
  Oct 22, 2009

  There's an advantage to being an insulated American while watching Tom Hooper's dramatization of an important part of the life of football coach Brian Clough.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Whip-smart, Witty 'In the Loop'

  Dennis Harvey
  Jul 23, 2009

  Director Armando Iannucci's razor-sharp satire is about how the politics of spin can determine critical decisions on both sides of the Atlantic.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Frameline33: Icons and Unsung Heroes

  Matt Sussman
  Jun 25, 2009

  A festival full of drama finds no more emotional screening than the homophobia-in-sports double bill of Training Rules and Claiming the Title: Gay Olympics on Trial.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  SFIFF52: Planet Armstrong

  Lynn Rapoport
  May 6, 2009

  Franny Armstrong's The Age of Stupid is a documentary encased like a time capsule inside a fictive but science-based, frighteningly possible future

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Terence Davies' 'Of Time and the City' is Poetic, Personal

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 10, 2009

  Davies' latest film recalls his earlier autobiographical narratives, but is also unlike anything he has done before, being nonfiction.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Mike Leigh's Topsy-Turvy World

  Dennis Harvey
  Apr 29, 2008

  SF Film Society’s Founder’s Directing Award winner Mike Leigh's work has created a distinctive insider’s portrait of working-to-middle class English life.

  
• Q & A
  
  

  Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart"

  SF360.org
  Jun 18, 2007

  The prolific British director, known for a large and eclectic body of work, has done something very unusual in the past half decade.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Reviews: 'Comedy of Power'

  Robert Avila
  Apr 17, 2007

  in Claude Chabrol's latest film, Isabelle Huppert plays a judge plunging headlong into a dangerous investigation of french corruption and gender dynamics.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Loach's Palme d'Or Winner

  Robert Avila
  Apr 5, 2007

  A Western occupying power faces opposition from the locals and responds with brutal military suppression, spurring a countrywide resistance movement reaching down to the grassroots.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Reviews: "Family Law"; "Amazing Grace"

  Michael Fox
  Feb 20, 2007

  Daniel Burman's smartest play was casting Daniel Hendler as his onscreen alter ego. Michael Apted's worthy Grace, reminds that period pieces make effective message movies.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  A War Movie Lost to Time

  Dennis Harvey
  Oct 4, 2006

  Though it won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1975, Overlord is one of those movies that mostly slipped through the cracks.