Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
Susan Gerhard talks copy, critics and the 'there' we have here.
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
When news of San Francisco Executive Director Graham Leggat’s passing hit the web, responses were heartfelt and immediate. SF360 collects a few of those thoughts.
Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.
Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.
Clio Barnard's ‘The Arbor’ takes a fascinating and unconventional look at Andrea Dunbar's brief, brilliant career.
The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
The filmmaker talks about time, life, storytelling and her new film, ‘The Future.’
Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
Critics from the Bay Area and beyond weigh in on the weekend's openings.
Recently rescued from obscurity via a new digital master, Fassbinder's high concept/high reward 1973 science-fiction epic 'World On A Wire' made a big impression on critics and viewers when it screened at SFIFF this past year. Roxie screens this wildly prescient, highly satisfying three-and-a-half-hour masterpiece beginning Friday. More info at roxie.com.
Directors Paul Mariano and Kurt Norton inspect the treasures held in the Library of Congress' revered National Film Registry and consider their lasting impact on the American experience. The locally made doc features insightful interviews with prominent celebrities and critics. Both filmmakers will be present for Q&A after screening at Smith Rafael Film Center. More at cafilm.org.
The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.
The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.
The best advice for creating the perfect Act III? Surprise yourself.
Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
Filmmakers, critics and fans celebrate their mothers’ unique, eccentric, foundational contributions to their movie-loving lives.
Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.
Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.
Mystery Science Theater returns to the Castro in the form of ‘Cinematic Titanic.’ Fans rejoice.
Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
Cash prizes, recognition showered on the winning filmmakers of 2011 San Francisco International. The San Francisco International Film Festival presented its 2011 Golden Gate Awards to filmmakers Wednesday night at Temple Nightclub/Prana Restaurant. Kelly Duane de la Vega and Katie Galloway's Better This World won both Documentary Feature and Bay Area Documentary awards. Yoav Potash's Crime After Crime received the Investigative Documentary prize. Park Jung-bum's The Journals of Musan won the New Directors award. A complete list...
Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
Matthew Barney talks art, sports and spectacle at the Sundance Kabuki.
In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
In a quarter century of filmmaking feats, persistence and vision are defining qualities for Matthew Barney.
Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
Social-justice filmmaking gets discussed in a Bill Nichols'-moderated salon during SFIFF.
Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'
Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'
Richard Press and Philip Gefter pay tribute to a worker's devotion in making 'Bill Cunningham New York.'
A collection of Dave Kehr's analytical, entertaining pieces from 30-plus years ago offers critical enlightenment for a short-form era.
A collection of Dave Kehr's analytical, entertaining pieces from 30-plus years ago offers critical enlightenment for a short-form era.
A collection of Dave Kehr's analytical, entertaining pieces from 30-plus years ago offers critical enlightenment for a short-form era.
SFMOMA's Eadweard Muybridge exhibit is essential viewing for Bay Area film lovers. More than 150 years after Eadweard Muybridge set up shop on Montgomery Street, San Francisco Museum Modern Art is featuring a splendid retrospective of the photographer’s work just a few blocks away. A tireless self-promoter with chutzpah enough to adapt “Helios” as a nom de plume early in his career (this after already having left “Muggeridge” behind in England), Muybridge would surely have been pleased by this showcase. From A Trip Down Market Street
SFMOMA's Eadweard Muybridge exhibit is essential viewing for Bay Area film lovers. More than 150 years after Eadweard Muybridge set up shop on Montgomery Street, San Francisco Museum Modern Art is featuring a splendid retrospective of the photographer’s work just a few blocks away. A tireless self-promoter with chutzpah enough to adapt “Helios” as a nom de plume early in his career (this after already having left “Muggeridge” behind in England), Muybridge would surely have been pleased by this showcase. From A Trip Down Market Street
Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
Filmmaker/photographer Laurel Nakadate talks about acting, power and identity.
A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.
A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.
A filmmaker delves deep into the process of embodying 'madness' in movie form.
Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
Film professor and farmer Melinda Stone tours San Francisco community centers with film and food for thought.
Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
Ten days of audience voting and jury contemplation lead to a barrel of awards for directors, writers.
Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
Geoff Alexander opens a window into the 20th century with a book about films for/from the classroom.
An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
An Asian cinema talk-radio show broadcasts from San Mateo to the world.
The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
The Bay Area film community sounds off on the best/worst trends, times, docs and Bay Area-made films of 2010.
Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
Film fans and makers agree to disagree on the best films of 2010 in SF360.org's annual Year in Film poll.
San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
San Francisco Film Critics Circle winners for 2010 included 'Social Network,' 'Black Swan,' 'The Tillman Story' and Elliot Lavine.
The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
The year closes with six weeks of strong foreign and arthouse awards-seekers as well as solid franchise holiday entertainments.
This event marks the debut of an exciting new filmmaker-in-person series presented by BAM/PFA. Regarded as one of the most significant voices in contemporary American indie cinema, director Kelly Reichardt presents and discusses her work with professor, author (and SF360.org contributor) B. Ruby Rich at the Pacific Film Archive. Feature films include ‘Ode,’ ‘Old Joy,’ ‘River of Grass’ and ‘Wendy and Lucy,’ as well as two shorts, ‘Then a Year,’ and ‘Travis.’ More at bampfa.berkeley.edu.
Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
Rick Prelinger’s efforts at preserving ephemeral films have made him indispensable to the cinema of San Francisco—and the world.
Two critics offer opposing views on an audience-dividing arthouse buzz-magnet, Gaspar Noé's 'Enter the Void.'
Two critics offer opposing views on an audience-dividing arthouse buzz-magnet, Gaspar Noé's 'Enter the Void.'
Maren Ade’s second feature is striking for what it doesn't do as it follows ordinary lives through a failing relationship.
Maren Ade’s second feature is striking for what it doesn't do as it follows ordinary lives through a failing relationship.
Critical consensus on Frameline34 marks it a good year. The audience wanted something different, and the festival has largely obliged.
Critical consensus on Frameline34 marks it a good year. The audience wanted something different, and the festival has largely obliged.
Almost $300,000 was given out Wednesday night for awards and grants honoring documentary winners.
Cash prizes totaling nearly $300,000 for filmmakers highlighted the San Francisco International Film Festival s Golden Gate Awards Wednesday night.
Few would argue that a good movie often starts with a good story. Yet it has been the screenwriter s lot to be underappreciated.
San Francisco itself took a lead role at Film Society Awards Night, the dinner and awards program benefiting the Film Society s year-round Youth Education initiative.
You know someone is well liked when they re used as the standard by which you fall short.
Live & Onstage thought globally and drafted locally with Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf s live Utopia in Four Movements, which never takes the exact same form.
I found Sam Green deep in preparation, but he found time to walk me through the greatest dreams and worst nightmares of the 20th century.
Bay Area-made and Mission-inspired, Peter Bratt's La Mission joins Jennifer Kroot's wild and woolly It Came from Kuchar in Bay Area theaters this week.
If you imagine the S.F. International Film Festival as an circus tent, with Opening and Closing nights the main supports, the other tent poles are interactive live experiences.
Director of Programming Rachel Rosen and programmers Rod Armstrong, Audrey Chang and Sean Uyehara shared thoughts on 177 films from 46 countries.
Last month's nominations announcement was anticipated with unusual interest, largely because the Academy reverted to ten Best Picture nominees, a practice abandoned in 1943.
Last month's nominations announcement was anticipated with unusual interest, largely because the Academy reverted to ten Best Picture nominees, a practice abandoned in 1943.
The film historian looks back at Frank Stauffacher's seminal mid-century series, which hatched a Bay Area avant-garde.
The harsh glare of the spotlight that brought Howl mixed reviews from critics on opening night of Sundance had melted into a warm glow by Saturday.
Horror movies were once dismissed by most grownups (and nearly all critics) as juvenile, silly, even offensive. Val Lewton seriously challenged that thinking,
Riding the crest of the Tati tsunami hitting our shores is The Magnificent Tati by Michael House, who lived in S.F. for 12 years before moving to Paris.
The silver lining to a decade that saw traditional critics in conventional media dwindle? The explosion of socially networked citizen critics.
The silver lining to a decade that saw traditional critics in conventional media dwindle? The explosion of socially networked citizen critics.
While the U.S. moved from rebuilding decimated skyscrapers to the rebuilding of an entire economy, film moved from the multiplex to the mailbox to the mobile.
Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.
Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.
It was a big year for 3D, but Bay Area critics and film-industry folk found many other dimensions in the cinema of 2009.
It was a big year for 3D, but Bay Area critics and film-industry folk found many other dimensions in the cinema of 2009.
On Sept. 13, 2001, I stood in a Toronto park and spoke to Canadian television: Movies wouldn't be the same. I was wrong.
David Thomson's new book commemorates the golden anniversary of Hitchcock's "Psycho."
Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.
Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary's film tours the rise, fall and reorientation of film criticism in the United States.
Boston Phoenix film critic Gerald Peary's film tours the rise, fall and reorientation of film criticism in the United States.
Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is being revived as part of San Francisco Film Society’s second annual French Cinema Now festival, which runs the week of October 29 through November 4 at the city’s Clay Theatre.
Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows is being revived as part of San Francisco Film Society’s second annual French Cinema Now festival, which runs the week of October 29 through November 4 at the city’s Clay Theatre.
After ripping it up at various genre fests, the Bay Area indie horror flick settles in for a theatrical run at the Red Vic.
Chick Strand, a crucial pioneer of West Coast experimental cinema, died July 11 at 78.
Fans of the San Francisco festival, now in its eighth year, have developed a well-honed appreciation for the eccentric.
The program offers a surprisingly potent mainstream industry presence, with tributes to A-list types more frequently seen at the multiplex than at the art house.
First Person: How can people respond in diametric and, at times, vitriolic opposition to the same film? Mine.
First Person: How can people respond in diametric and, at times, vitriolic opposition to the same film? Mine.
A year after Jonathan Marlow took the helm as executive director, the organization is showing fresh signs of life.
Tangier has created an identity as a great fount of stories and light, complete with an independent cinema that opened in 2007.
A study in contrasts, Everyman and intellectual, Roy Andersson speaks about his career and new film, You, the Living.
The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.
The Toronto International Film Festival has always allowed a generosity of pursuits to co-exist, rewarding the adventurous and satiating the lazy, all without judgment.
A mini-retrospective of the work of Kim Longinotto plays during the Women Make Movies Film Festival at the Roxie.
Bay Area favorite Bob Goldthwait, whose pop culture moment seemed to expire in the mid '80s, returns with comedic vengeance via World's Greatest Dad.
Lucrecia Martel's films, including La Ciénaga and The Headless Woman feature what have come to be known as her primary concerns: classism, decay and femininity.
In this year's Frameline Fest, as so often in life, it's all about the one(s) that got away.
Katyn is a sizable period saga about a tragic, still-controversial chapter in Poland's 20th-century history, one with particular resonance for Andrzej Wadja.
A dose of self-affirmation arrives with Frameline33 (or, if you prefer, the multiple-breath-intake-requiring San Francisco International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Film Festival.)
Wild man of Italian cinema, Marco Ferreri left many films in need of rediscovery (or simply discovery) since his death in 1997.
Oshima's output grazed on familiar genres, such as the youth-gone-wild and domestic drama, while freely incorporating elements from avant-garde and documentary filmmaking.
Despite a few flaws in story and continuity, Drag Me to Hell offers the pleasures of a first-class entertainer thoroughly enjoying himself.
SF360.org interviews film critics about the changing landscape of film criticism. A panel discussion and screening of For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism will take place on Sunday, May 3, at 6 p.m.
SF360.org interviews film critics about the changing landscape of film criticism. A panel discussion and screening of For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism will take place on Sunday, May 3, at 6 p.m.
Once Upon a Time in the West is grand, cynical, lavish and above all huge, Sergio Leone's penchant for the iconically gargantuan (perhaps at the willing expense of relatable human detail) expressed in ultimate form.
If it grows darker than one might expect, Observe still hesitates at becoming a true black comedy; it's more medium-gray, earning stripes for breaking from current comedy norms on a moment-to-moment basis without quite arriving at an original, fully-developed whole. But Hill has a good eye, ear (the soundtrack choices are notably sharp), sense of off-kilter pacing, and, most importantly, a firm grasp on character.
The two weeks of programs offers 151 films from 55 countries, awards and prices, and a wide array of San Francisco talent, from legendary names to the fledgling artists.
Carlos Reygadas' third film is an unmistakably serious work, emblematic of the kind of brooding, large-canvas filmmaking which has become a rarity.
In Strand: A Natural History of Cinema, Christian Bruno pays homage to the pivotal and shifting role of movie theaters in San Francisco's cultural life.
The forthcoming film Speaking in Tongues follows four diverse local public-school students enrolled in language-immersion programs.
Certain questions in 2008 endlessly plagued the film world, leading to outlandish predictions, flame-war mayhem and an outbreak of opinionated public speaking.
Instead of breaking it down strictly category-by-category, Dennis Harvey meanders through some principal heat-seeking prestige films and their various chances.
Matt Sussman draws conclusions about women and Hollywood from three big women-oriented films of 2008.
Bay Area filmmakers, critics and industry pros list their favorite unreleased films of 2008.
Bay Area filmmakers, critics and industry pros list their favorite unreleased films of 2008.
Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master and Glenn Lovell's Escape Artist: The Life and Films of John Sturges are splendid biographies by critics with local ties.
Former San Francisco Examiner film critic Michael Sragow talks about his newly released book Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master.
Epstein and Friedman bring a poem to the screen, while a South Bay director goes Russian.
The Pacific Film Archive screens a survey of Goodis-related works from both the big and small screen, spanning nearly five decades.
Programmers for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, Peter Stein and Nancy Fishman, speak about never taking the path of least resistance.
A Listener's Tale is a lovely if unclassifiable mixture of ethnography and poetic reverie which screened at last winter's Rotterdam Film Festival.
French author and director Catherine Breillat speaks about the fierce passion play of her latest, The Last Mistress.
Eric Rohmer's latest "moral tale," The Romance of Astrea and Cèladon, filled with evanescent beauty, plays as part of SFFS Screen.
You know a festival is working its way into your brain when, in a landscape of intersecting ideas, you begin to witness the collisions.
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.
Boarding Gate is raw, silly, bloody, funny, carnal, intricate, coarse and self-conscious. It all suggests Olivier Assayas has a lot more surprises in him yet.
Bodies of work have emerged from the intersections of performance, film and electronic art. Cinematograph 7ÑLive Cinema: A Contemporary Reader, edited by Thomas Beard's provides thoughtful writing on the subject.
Filipino Director Brillante Mendoza discusses his aesthetic: a basic approach that resists facade and pretense and desires to depict to things as they really are.
Longtime San Francisco Chronicle film critic Judy Stone offers her top ten picks from the 2008 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
"A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich" is a major coup for Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, after all these years later, he's ready for a retrospective of his own.
"A Genuine Tribute to Peter Bogdanovich" is a major coup for Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, after all these years later, he's ready for a retrospective of his own.
Michael Fox reviews the release of a Sergei Paradjanov DVD boxed set and the arrival of a Jean-Luc Godard box spotlighting his underrated mid-'80s work.
The Goethe-Institut's festival offers a pointed reminder that Germany, Austria and Switzerland aren't just in the center of Europe, but in the middle of international cinema.
If they don't get the chance to beguile the world in theaters, maybe, at the very least, they'll find their way to audiences via digital download.
If they don't get the chance to beguile the world in theaters, maybe, at the very least, they'll find their way to audiences via digital download.
U.S.-Cambodian co-production Holly might easily have gone straight to DVD, which would be a pity because it's well worth rushing to the theatre for.
SF360.org sits down with a criminally little-known director of stage and screen who is arguably the most imaginative, talented multi-hyphenate of his generation.
Sometimes even presumably good intentions can warp into artistic misdeeds most foul.
As Bruno Dumont's Flanders navigates festival waters, it's been leaving behind a noticeable wake.
A look at critics' responses to Antonioni through the ages shows there is, and always was, plenty to say about his work.
A look at critics' responses to Antonioni through the ages shows there is, and always was, plenty to say about his work.
One film shows how an inspirational movie can actually inspire; the other that a con sometimes looks better on paper.
One film shows how an inspirational movie can actually inspire; the other that a con sometimes looks better on paper.
The 1959 reworking of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a bossa nova adventure through Brazilian Carnival, with actor Breno Mello as the black Orpheus.
The language of film may be universal, as the Landmark trailer reminds us, but the critics in major U.S. cities speak their own dialects.
The language of film may be universal, as the Landmark trailer reminds us, but the critics in major U.S. cities speak their own dialects.
The group chose ;Little Children as its Best Picture of 2006 and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth the Best Foreign Language Film.
The group chose ;Little Children as its Best Picture of 2006 and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth the Best Foreign Language Film.
Song and Solitude, is a twilight sojourn to a secret world much like our own, rendered with profound patience and a hint of wistfulness.
Joseph McBride's What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?: A Portrait of An Independent Career catalogs the director's amazingly prolific final 15 years.
Why do updates of Jerry Lewis flicks get more slack from critics than Zailian's "All the King's Men" and Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate?"
Why do updates of Jerry Lewis flicks get more slack from critics than Zailian's "All the King's Men" and Demme's "The Manchurian Candidate?"
Distributors of independent films reveal their strategies and assessment of the market heading into the all-important fall season.
Distributors of independent films reveal their strategies and assessment of the market heading into the all-important fall season.
The renowned local critic and historian talks about his book about the iconic Hollywood beauty.
SF360 checks in with a few Bay Area festival insiders to see what they're excited about at upcoming festivals.
Ryan Fleck talks about his new film Half Nelson, his filmmaking career, and his creative inspirations and tastes.
Ozon's Time to Leave demonstrates how central he's become to European cinema, and reminds us that he's among gay world cinema's most accomplished writer/directors.
A California Film Institute-procured class of 13somethings needed no help deciding their top ten list of surprise movie endings.
The revolution will not be televised, but it may be digitized, run through Final Cut Pro, and projected on the screen near you.
With American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, N.Y. essayist Phillip Lopate compiles nearly a century of groundbreaking and entertaining criticism.
With American Movie Critics: An Anthology From the Silents Until Now, N.Y. essayist Phillip Lopate compiles nearly a century of groundbreaking and entertaining criticism.
The List: B. Ruby Rich picks her favorites for the 2006 San Francisco International Film Festival.
Chuck Stephens shares his thoughts, existential and otherwise, on the Bangkok set of Citizen Dog.
A conversation with David Kipen about his book, The Schreiber Theory, which reclaims the contribution of screenwriters to motion pictures.
A quick guide to measuring a city's taste in films by its critics' organizations.
A quick guide to measuring a city's taste in films by its critics' organizations.