• Reviews
  
  

  As Oscars Approach, Winners Still Up in the Air

  Dennis Harvey
  Feb 16, 2010

  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.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Thoughts On the Aughts: Best/Worst Trends

  Susan Gerard
  Dec 31, 2009

  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.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Top 10s of the 2000s

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 30, 2009

  Not surprisingly, Bay Area critics, fans, exhibitors and filmmakers did not arrive at a consensus on the best films of the decade.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Top 10s of 2009: Insiders and Fans

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 29, 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.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  After Sept. 11, 2001, A Decade Found Its Way

  B. Ruby Rich
  Dec 23, 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.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  Feast Your Eyes: A Holiday Film Preview

  Dennis Harvey
  Nov 25, 2009

  Dennis Harvey weighs in on the upcoming films of the holiday season.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  The Year in Film 2008: Oscar Odds

  Dennis Harvey
  Jan 2, 2009

  Instead of breaking it down strictly category-by-category, Dennis Harvey meanders through some principal heat-seeking prestige films and their various chances.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  The Year in Film, 2008: Top Unreleased Films

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 30, 2008

  Bay Area filmmakers, critics and industry pros list their favorite unreleased films of 2008.

  
• Festivals
  
  

  Nights on the Towne: Film Society Awards Night

  Susan Gerhard
  May 4, 2008

  You know a festival is working its way into your brain when, in a landscape of intersecting ideas, you begin to witness the collisions.

  
• Reviews
  
  

  The Best Undistributed Films of 2007

  Chris Wisniewski
  Jan 2, 2008

  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.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  The Cities' Critics Speak

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 15, 2006

  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.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  SF Film Critics Circle Announces Awards

  Susan Gerhard
  Dec 12, 2006

  The group chose ;Little Children as its Best Picture of 2006 and Guillermo del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth the Best Foreign Language Film.

  
• News & Blogs
  
  

  Measuring Cities By Their Taste in Film

  Susan Gerhard
  Mar 3, 2006

  A quick guide to measuring a city's taste in films by its critics' organizations.