Ajami: A Film: Open Your Eyes

3/27/2010

Depending on your movie and story sense, Ajami, co-directed by Yaron Shani, an Israeli Jew and Scandar Copti an Israeli …

Crazy Heart: A Film

2/27/2010

Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhal turn in very nice performances in Crazy Heart, another of so many movies/stories of American …

2/1/2010

I was glad to read after seeing Michael Haneke’s new film, White Ribbon, that the crowd at the Cannes’ premier, …

1/18/2010

Avatar, the technically amazing, richly conceived and executed movie, will not be to everyone’s taste. It is tasty enough, however, …

1/9/2010

In The Secret Life of Words, one of the best films you’ve never heard of, Spanish director Isabel Coixet, guides …

12/22/2009

For some, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) is the best film made about the Vietnam War: for some it …

12/2/2009

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, translated into film, opened in scattered theaters this week. In the Bay Area only two houses …