Night and the City; Nightfall; The Night of the Shooting Stars
By Michael Fox,
August 23, 2000
Night and the City
The San Francisco Film Society's "Boxing in the Movies" series doesn't hit the Castro until November, but a TKO has already... More>>
The Cell dives into the brain of a killer, but it's a shallow pool
By Robert Wilonsky,
August 16, 2000
Make no mistake: The Cell is, easily, the most unforgettable film of a pedestrian, forgettable summer. You walk out of the theater grateful for... More>>
2001: A Space Odyssey; Up the Down Staircase; The Blackboard Jungle
By Michael Fox,
August 16, 2000
2001: A Space Odyssey
Blame it on a lack of imagination, but your correspondent has never been particularly over the moon about outer space (as... More>>
All the President's Men
In those dismal years when Tina Brown was converting The New Yorker into an upscale version of People, and every other... More>>
The Eyes of Tammy Faye teaches us that garish televangelists have feelings too
By Luke Y. Thompson,
July 26, 2000
In a perfect world, any documentary about televangelists narrated by RuPaul and a couple of sock puppets would be hailed as the unquestionable... More>>
The Potted Psalm
I hung up the phone and tipped my Panama in amazement to Jeff Ross, the founder of S.F. Indiefest. As if spearheading a weeklong... More>>
Rather than asking if this senseless and expensive new film from wunderkind entertainer Robert Zemeckis is devoid of merit (it is), or "worth... More>>
Animal HouseJane Tollini's bawdy San Francisco Zoo tours, as the cognoscenti know, have been a sold-out Valentine's Day tradition for 11 years... More>>
The Bay Area's most political film fest marks its 20th anniversary at a peculiarly untethered moment in the Jewish saga: The Holocaust is fading... More>>
In Bryan Singer's last movie, 1998's Apt Pupil, Ian McKellen portrayed a Nazi war criminal hiding out in the suburbs, passing himself off as an... More>>