This week’s openings personify the movies’ appeal as armchair travel, encompassing cinematic detours to Ireland, Israel, Poland, China (twice), American backroads and various African...
The big event this week is Friday’s return of Noir City, whose latest annual edition at the Castro we’ve previewed separately here.
Among commercial openings...
The holiday season tends to induce nostalgia, and while Hollywood is always very interested in directing your leisure dollars towards big new commercial movies,...
SCREEN GRABSÂ The San Francisco Cinematheque has been doing all too many posthumous tribute programs of late, as major figures of experimental film and video...
SCREEN GRABSÂ Considered by some one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers of a brilliant period (the Fifties and Sixties), the late Masaki Kobayashi nevertheless never...