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  • 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.

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    ‘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.


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