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Saving Grace Brenda Blethyn carries on in the best tradition of British movie humor in the pot-centric Saving Grace
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August 02, 2000
Irish charm and British eccentricity are hot properties on this side of the pond -- especially among U.S. moviegoers. Witness the phenomenal... More>>
Space Cowboys Clint Eastwood directs a crew of veterans in his most engaging film in years
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August 02, 2000
t's a pleasure to say that Clint Eastwood reverses his recent downward slide --A Perfect World (1993), The Bridges of Madison County (1995),... More>>
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All the President's Men; The Grateful Dead Movie
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August 02, 2000
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 Five Senses Jeremy Podeswa's new film seeks sensation in the humdrum
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July 26, 2000
Honestly now, have you, of late, found yourself enthralled by pleasing stimuli? Please, no nauseating responses like "Aromatherapy shifts my... More>>
The Eyes of Tammy Faye The Eyes of Tammy Faye teaches us that garish televangelists have feelings too
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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>>
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The Potted Psalm; Devil's Doorway
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July 26, 2000
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>>
What Lies Beneath Michelle Pfeiffer stars in What Lies Beneath
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July 19, 2000
Rather than asking if this senseless and expensive new film from wunderkind entertainer Robert Zemeckis is devoid of merit (it is), or "worth... More>>
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Animal House; I Can't Sleep
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July 19, 2000
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>>
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Not Politics as Usual: The Jewish Film Festival
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July 19, 2000
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>>
X-Men Patrick Stewart stars in X-Men
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July 12, 2000
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>>
Chuck & Buck Mike White stars in Chuck & Buck
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July 12, 2000
The bewildering penchant of recent American movies for glorifying the lovable naif, the perpetual adolescent, and the village idiot takes a... More>>
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Something Wild
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July 12, 2000
Something Wild"What interests me is the idea of self-repair," Chuck & Buck director Miguel Arteta confides during a San Francisco stopover. "I... More>>
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Science Is Fiction
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July 12, 2000
Science Is FictionThe plangent wah-wah of vintage Duke Ellington accompanies the gyrations of seahorses in the opening images of Jean... More>>
Disney's The Kid Bruce Willis stars in Disney's The Kid
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July 05, 2000
Why is this film called Disney's The Kid? Is it really possible the studio was so concerned that someone might actually mistake the film for an... More>>
Trixie Emily Watson stars in Trixie
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July 05, 2000
Murphy and Pryor. Skywalker and Kenobi. Amos and Zeppelin. Regardless of the creative universe, the maverick apprentice tends to stride off into... More>>
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Sidewalk Stories; High Art
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July 05, 2000
Sidewalk StoriesEverybody's favorite dreadhead, Brien Burroughs, is prepping to shoot a follow-up to Suckerfish, the droll stroll through S.F.... More>>
The Perfect Storm George Clooney stars in The Perfect Storm
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June 28, 2000
The press kit for The Perfect Storm contains the damnedest thing I've ever read -- a "special request" that reads, in full: "Warner Bros.... More>>
The Patriot Mel Gibson stars in The Patriot
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June 28, 2000
Despite what many believe, it doesn't come down to explosions, star power, or millions of greenbacks thrown at the producers. The true indicator... More>>
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Cold Heaven; The American Friend
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June 28, 2000
Cold HeavenOnce you got away from the ticket windows and into the theaters, the recent San Francisco International Film Festival was an unabashed... More>>
Me, Myself & Irene Jim Carrey stars in Me, Myself & Irene
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June 21, 2000
In the new Jim Carrey farce, Me, Myself & Irene, the rubber-faced comedian plays a meek Rhode Island state trooper named Charlie, whose... More>>
Chicken Run Chicken Run is finger lickin' good
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June 21, 2000
About nine years ago, in a humble Redondo Beach nightclub, urbane British folk singer Billy Bragg reappraised 20th-century politics -- as is... More>>
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Our Man Flint; In Like Flint; The Ipcress File
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June 21, 2000
Our Man Flint
A recent throwaway line in this space referring to "phantom" S.F. Film Commission Executive Director P.J. Johnston prompted... More>>
Shaft Samuel L. Jackson is Shaft
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June 14, 2000
The title of the 1971 Gordon Parks detective movie Shaft worked as a double entendre -- when it presented Richard Roundtree's "black private... More>>
Titan A.E. Don Bluth's Titan A.E.
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June 14, 2000
It's the year 3028, and man ... is an endangered species!(Haven't we heard that somewhere before, like last month?) But this time around, the... More>>
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Show Me Love; Like Water for Chocolate; Lust for Life
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June 14, 2000
Show Me LoveWriter/director Mary Guzman had a "Eureka!" moment in the shower. Since beginning the street-wise Latina lesbian romantic fable... More>>
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