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Valentine's Day: So many stars, so many story lines

In Pretty Woman, director Garry Marshall's personal cinematic high score, the opening credits close (and the closing credits open) with the voice... More>>

By Karina Longworth

Published: February 10, 2010

Arthouse movie listings for February 10-16, 2010

To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. The Black Rock: Kevin Epps' documentary on the African-American... More>>

Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: February 10, 2010

From Paris with Love, John Travolta's cowboy diplomacy

As personal assistant to the U.S. Ambassador to France, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) can keep himself in well-tailored suits and keep his... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: February 03, 2010

Arthouse movie listings for February 3-9, 2010

Compiled by Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser. To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. "Return from Gaza... More>>

Compiled By Hiya Swanhuyser and Michael Leaverton

Published: February 03, 2010

Edge of Darkness: Mel Gibson gets some kind of revenge

"Did you shoot my daughtah?" is the question posed, in flat-voweled Bostonian, in the trailer for Edge of Darkness. And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: January 27, 2010

Fish Tank: Fifteen and pissed

Katie Jarvis, who makes her acting debut as a rabid teenager in writer-director Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, was discovered on an English railway... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: January 27, 2010

Arthouse movie listings for January 27-February 2, 2010

To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. The Invisible Forest: Film by Antero Alli. Fri., Jan. 29, 8 p.m. $6.... More>>

Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: January 27, 2010

Creation casts light on Darwin the scientist, and Darwin the man

Already a blogosphere punching bag for right-wing Christians, Creation — about Charles Darwin's writing of On the Origin of Species —... More>>

By Ernest Hardy

Published: January 20, 2010

Extraordinary Measures: Harrison Ford is nothing if not useful

Extraordinary Measures is a race-against-time thriller in which a desperate dad (Brendan Fraser) sacrifices everything to cure a rare disease... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: January 20, 2010

Arthouse movie listings for January 20-26, 2010

To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. OpenScreening: Open-mike-style screening of film and video work.... More>>

Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: January 20, 2010

History repeats: Certainty at the end of The White Ribbon's unsolved mystery — and a sure hand behind it

The White Ribbon is Michael Haneke's first German-language film since the original Funny Games (1997) and, addressing what used to be called "the... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: January 13, 2010

Watching the detective in Police, Adjective

Detective stories imply that mysteries can be solved, or at least rationally explained. Even the most debased example is a secular article of... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: January 13, 2010

Kicking ass for Jesus: The Book of Eli is a little warped

Directors Allen and Albert Hughes were raised by an Armenian mother and African-American father. With such a... More>>

By Nick Pinkerton

Published: January 13, 2010

Thanks to the magic of 3-D CGI, Peter Jackson makes a one-dimensional Lovely Bones

A one-film cabinet of curiosities, The Lovely Bones turns the most successful CGI director of the '00s loose on one of the decade's prime... More>>

By J. Hoberman

Published: January 13, 2010

Arthouse movie listings for January 13-19, 2010

To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Deep Leap Microcinema: Sacred Geometries: Program of short... More>>

Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: January 13, 2010

Leap Year: No luck among the Irish

Is this a commercial for the National Tourism Council of Ireland or for the conditioner Amy Adams uses in her hair? Either way, both look... More>>

By Brian Miller

Published: January 06, 2010

Revolting Youth

A cult novel must continue its search for a worthy film adaptation.

For years, Hollywood has wrestled with adapting C.D. Payne's 1993 novel, Youth in Revolt — which was actually three novels collected under... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: January 06, 2010

Arthouse movie listings for January 6-12, 2010

To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Artists' Television Access. Guerreros del Arcoiris: This apparently directorless documentary... More>>

Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: January 06, 2010

Crazy Heart's Jeff Bridges shines as a country music has-been

Enticing Jeff Bridges to voice a washed-up surfer dude in the 2007 children's movie Surf's Up, the filmmakers sent the actor a video of an... More>>

By Ella Taylor

Published: December 30, 2009

Arthouse movie listings for December 30, 2009-January 5, 2010

To submit a listing, e-mail film@sfweekly.com. Castro Theatre. Nine: Rob Marshall's Fellini-inspired musical. Through Jan. 20, 2010, 1, 4, 7 &... More>>

Compiled By Michael Leaverton and Hiya Swanhuyser

Published: December 30, 2009

The Inglourious Year in Film

J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky, and Scott Foundas put their minds together and come up with their favorite films of the year. Let's hear it for teamwork.

1/ The Hurt Locker The decade's strongest Iraq movie is also the year's finest action flick, not to mention director Kathryn Bigelow's personal... More>>

By J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky and Scott Foundas

Published: December 23, 2009

Best Films of the Decade

Looking back on a decade dominated by the movie franchise — Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Star Wars, and Spider-Man to name just a few... More>>

By J. Hoberman, Robert Wilonsky and Scott Foundas

Published: December 23, 2009

Going Places

Jason Reitman is the director to watch in the next decade.

Unlike the zigzagging protagonist of his latest film, Up in the Air, Jason Reitman tends to stay close to home. "If we were in a small town,... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: December 23, 2009

Rent a Wreck

For a former video store giant, not such a blockbuster decade.

In a Dallas strip mall, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a bright and fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold Thursday... More>>

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: December 23, 2009

Eastwood on the Pitch

79 at the turn of a very prolific decade, Clint tackles Mandela and the Hereafter.

On a late March morning, the sun sits high in the Cape Town sky, illuminating the trapezoidal monolith of Table Mountain in the distance, while... More>>

By Scott Foundas

Published: December 23, 2009