Gardens of Stone: A Film
For some, Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979) is the best film made about the Vietnam War: for some it …
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The Road — Taken
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, translated into film, opened in scattered theaters this week. In the Bay Area only two houses …
Army of Shadows: A Film
Army of Shadows — a French film noir about resistance to the Nazi occupation —The Resistance. What could be better? …
Katyn: A Film
I was just on the cusp of realizing that “foreign” films existed and were a real alternative to what 1950s …
Inglourious Basterds: A Film
You either love Quentin Tarantino’s movies or you think they are disgusting. I fall into the second camp. To lift …
Nanking: 1937
In the macabre history of human horrors the Japanese Army’s Rape of Nanking, China, December 1937, stands in the first …
Sin Nombre: A Film
The corners and sidewalks at truck rental places, hardware stores, building supply stores in Marin County are filled with small, …
The Edge of Heaven: A Film
The Edge of Heaven is a fine, too little seen, film from Turkey and Germany, a tale of sorrow and …
The Reader: A Film, and Questions Unanswered
The Reader, a film by Stephen Daldry, screenplay by David Hare, Produced by Anthony Minghella and Sydney Pollack So Kate …
The Wrestler
There is probably no more appropriate theater in San Francisco to see The Wrestler, a film about a decrepit, down …
Charlie Wilson’s War
Charlie Wilson’s War, the new Mike Nichols film based on George Crile’s book of the same name opened last week …
The Devil Knows
We wound up at “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead,” Sidney Lumet‘s new film, last night because we couldn’t get …