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Zoom Lens All Night Long: John Cassavetes
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March 08, 2000
>John Cassavetes' films, as fine as they often are, play like endurance contests, endless acting exercises premised on the notion that if one... More>>
What Planet Are You From?
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March 01, 2000
Garry Shandling does not have a face for the big screen. He has a mug that seems to spread to the edges of the theater; it's like an approaching... More>>
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
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March 01, 2000
Now in its 18th year, the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival has finally reached critical mass. In particular, this year... More>>
Stranger With a Camera and Ghost World
Medium Cool, High Hopes
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March 01, 2000
Medium CoolIn the hard-luck, hard-life coal country of eastern Kentucky on a sunny day in 1967, local curmudgeon Hobart Ison shot Canadian... More>>
Reindeer Games
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February 23, 2000
Director John Frankenheimer has been putting bad guys on the street since Luca Brazzi slept with a teddy bear, and he shows no sign of letting up... More>>
Wonder Boys
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February 23, 2000
Step right up, youth of the world, and receive the boomer inoculation that is Wonder Boys, the first feature from director Curtis Hanson since... More>>
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Clockwatchers, Hope and Glory, In & Out
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February 23, 2000
ClockwatchersThere may at long last be light at the end of Haiku Tunnel, Josh Kornbluth's late-'80s autobiographical monologue about a male temp... More>>
Hanging Up
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February 16, 2000
Even at just 92 minutes, this film feels endless. Intended as a humorous, heartwarming take on dysfunctional family relationships, Hanging Up... More>>
Boiler Room
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February 16, 2000
Twenty-seven-year-old Ben Younger delivers the message of his first feature, Boiler Room, with all the subtlety of a car bomb. To wit: Greed is... More>>
Pitch Black
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February 16, 2000
Moviegoers rejoice! The first fun movie of the year has arrived. Oh, Leo's little seaside adventure was pretty to look at, but the attempts at... More>>
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Jesus Christ Superstar and The Producers
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February 16, 2000
Jesus Christ Superstar"When I was a little boy, I was scared to death of Jesus Christ." So begins King of the Jews, Jay Rosenblatt's latest... More>>
The Beach The Beach
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February 09, 2000
Ewan McGregor. You can't toss a caber in Scotland these days without toppling a gaggle of blokes who closely resemble him. Yet some magical... More>>
Mr. Death Mr. Death
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February 09, 2000
Calling the subject matter of Errol Morris' latest documentary, Mr. Death, "unpleasant" is like referring to the lavatory on a tuna boat as... More>>
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Nude Housekeeping, Tell the Truth and Run
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February 09, 2000
Nude HousekeepingHollywood is desperate for a villain for the next Lethal Weapon-style explosionfest, now that Nazis, Russians, white South... More>>
Rear Window Rear Window
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February 02, 2000
It's not a startling breach of conventional wisdom to apply the term "masterpiece" to Alfred Hitchcock's 1954 Rear Window, which is being... More>>
Simpatico Simpatico
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February 02, 2000
Sharon Stone doesn't appear on-screen until halfway through this tale of three lives unraveling, but when she does, she makes quite an impression... More>>
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Tin Cup and Taking Off
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February 02, 2000
Tin CupGolf is a rich man's game, primarily because to create playing courses, land that's ideally suited for farming, housing, or public parks... More>>
A Map of the World A Map of the World
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January 26, 2000
It's hard to imagine a more relentlessly lugubrious basis for a movie than Jane Hamilton's 1994 novel A Map of the World. The story is about... More>>
Titus Titus
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January 26, 2000
Titus, Julie Taymor's gorgeous film version of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, with Anthony Hopkins as the doomed title character, may be the... More>>
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Living in Oblivion, Wedding in Galilee, Lightning Over Water
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January 26, 2000
Living in OblivionConsider the typical filmmaker's confusion: The only way to get a movie made is through unwavering persistence, and a... More>>
Angela's Ashes Angela's Ashes
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January 19, 2000
Boohoo! Frank McCourt had a miserable childhood! Honestly, who can say his childhood wasn't impoverished in some way ... or in many ways? That... More>>
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Ace in the Hole and On the Town
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January 19, 2000
Ace in the HoleThe Chronicle's long-standing -- though selectively observed -- policy is to review every film that opens for a week or... More>>
Girl, Interrupted Girl, Interrupted
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January 12, 2000
Some people really are crazy, but then, "crazy" is a relative term. Does it apply to someone who feels he might spin off into outer space and... More>>
42 Up 42 Up
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January 12, 2000
It is a mark of the skill behind director Michael Apted's series of Up documentaries that these movies excite my interest to find out about the... More>>
Fantasia/2000 Compared to the original, the new Fantasia is funnier, with fewer scary patches.
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January 12, 2000
Sixty years after Walt Disney's plans to expand on the original Fantasia, Disney has finally gotten around to making new musical segments for a... More>>
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