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1998 Stories by Gregg Rickman

• Second Time Around

  published December 30, 1998

  Badlands At once as preciously mannered and gawkily sincere as Sissy Spacek's faux-naif narration, Terrence Malick's debut feature of 1973... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published December 23, 1998

  Pee-wee's Big Adventure Most of the screen's memorable comics achieved their success in part by parodying traditional male social roles --... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published December 16, 1998

  Christina's World Two of 1998's better American films, screening together at the UC Theater this Saturday, feature sullen Christina Ricci... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published December 9, 1998

  Free Tibet Sarah Pirozek's rockumentary record of a 1996 benefit concert in Golden Gate Park is half musical event, half argument against... More >>

• The Ascetic Aesthetics of Robert Bresson

  published November 25, 1998

  The complete works of French cineaste Robert Bresson win an airing in a series commencing this weekend at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. A... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published November 18, 1998

  The Sources of Pi Darren Aronofsky's clever film won immediate cult support when it opened earlier this year, and as Pi (or 3.14, to use... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published November 11, 1998

  Sleeper Woody Allen's 1973 work of slapstick science fiction may be the best of the "early, funny ones" that established his reputation.... More >>

• Be-Siege'd

  published November 4, 1998

  The Siege Directed by Edward Zwick. Starring Denzel Washington, Annette Bening, Bruce Willis, and Tony Shalhoub. Opens Friday, Nov. 6, at... More >>

• Shouting for Attention

  published October 28, 1998

  American History X Directed by Tony Kaye. Written by David McKenna. Starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Avery Brooks, Stacy Keach, and... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published October 28, 1998

  These Are the Damned Pale children, cold to the touch, are the deadly center of this mysterious science-fiction film of 1962. Radioactive... More >>

• Un-Happiness

  published October 21, 1998

  Happiness Written and directed by Todd Solondz. Starring Jon Lovitz, Lara Flynn Boyle, and Dylan Baker. Opens Friday, Oct. 23, at the... More >>

• By the Book

  published October 14, 1998

  Beloved Based on the novel by Toni Morrison. Directed by Jonathan Demme. Starring Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, and Kimberly... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published October 7, 1998

  Frankenstein and His Bride A marvelous tracking shot of a town in full carnival joy gives way to a similarly filmed shot of a monster... More >>

• Last Picture Shows

  published October 7, 1998

  The second week of the Mill Valley Film Festival, running through Sunday at various venues in that town and also at Larkspur's Lark Theater,... More >>

• Festival Harvest

  published September 30, 1998

  Every autumn Mill Valley is transformed into a movie festival town that, while perhaps not on par with Cannes or Telluride, has at least some of... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published September 23, 1998

  The Architecture of the Future Nimble film viewers this week have a chance to re-see two of cinema's finest speculations on the urban... More >>

• Full Motion

  published September 16, 1998

  Six-String Samurai Written by Jeffrey Falcon and Lance Mungia. Directed by Mungia. Starring Falcon and Justin McGuire. Opens Friday, Sept.... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published September 16, 1998

  The Young Girls of Rochefort "Charm" is an overused word, but it can fairly be applied to this beautiful wide-screen musical by the late... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published September 9, 1998

  Les Carabiniers This dry, dark, witty anti-war film by Jean-Luc Godard outraged French critics in 1963 by not incorporating the humanist... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published September 2, 1998

  The Ladykillers In this justly celebrated 1955 British comedy, five criminals take up lodging in a sweet little old lady's cottage. And... More >>

• Zoom Lens

  published August 26, 1998

  Genealogies of a Crime The luck of an attorney famous for losing every case changes -- and not for the better -- when she takes on the... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published August 12, 1998

  Bedazzled Grease-spattered and lovelorn fry cook Dudley Moore sells his soul to suave devil Peter Cook for the devotion of elusive waitress... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published August 12, 1998

  The Bugs Bunny Film Festival The first part of this two-part program of Warners animation is a 15-cartoon assemblage that can be... More >>

• Second Time Around

  published August 5, 1998

  Equinox Flower This 1958 Japanese film was Yasujiro Ozu's first in color, a form he had rejected a dozen years earlier as "all right once... More >>

• Zoom Lens

  published July 29, 1998

  "Short 'n' Bittersweet" There's little that could be more suggestive of the elemental appeal of cinema than movies being shown outdoors on... More >>