Al Pacino

Letters

Requiem for a Heavyweight

An open letter to would-be Twitticians

Arthouse movie listings for February 4-10, 2009

Countdown to ... Murder!

Ridiculous Al Pacino stars in ridiculous running-down-the-clock thriller 88 Minutes.

Maybe too Hard

Ridiculous Al Pacino stars in ridiculous running-down-the-clock thriller 88 Minutes.

The House Always Wins

Ocean's Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

Good Clean Smut

Ocean's Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

Good Clean Smut

Ocean's Thirteen is a washed-up threequel. How much you wanna bet Hollywood makes a bundle?

Coke Dreams

In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game.

The Great Cash-In

In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game.

Repertory Film Listings

In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game.

Swindled Art

In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game.

Repertory Film Listings

In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

In Scarface, slinging yayo is the name of the game.

Goy Gevalt

In Her Shoes is pretty but useless, a Prada with a broken heel

Searching for Shylock

Pacino plays Shakespeare's most contentious character in a stirring Merchant of Venice

Reps Etc.

Pacino plays Shakespeare's most contentious character in a stirring Merchant of Venice

Reps Etc.

Pacino plays Shakespeare's most contentious character in a stirring Merchant of Venice

Good Times

Reliving the decade we never had

Reps Etc.

Commentary by Gregg Rickman

House of Tudor

Callow talent Peter Cincotti, the art of Cruising, and 21st-century "DADA."

Reps Etc.

Callow talent Peter Cincotti, the art of Cruising, and 21st-century "DADA."

Fun with Pipe

How Robin Stein, a journalistic neophyte, put excitement in her life -- and a dangerous Texas pipe manufacturer on the front page of the New York Times

Payday

Rivers and Tides lucrative run has helped save the endangered Roxie Cinema

Memental

A sleep-deprived Al Pacino tangles with a psycho Robin Williams in Christopher Nolan's Insomnia

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

House Of Tudor

Compulsive Numbers, retro-refracted Flaming Stars, and filmmaker Peter Sempel

For $5.60, We'll Cab It

The high price of buying a Muni pass online

Tongues Untied

An East Bay filmmaker documents the life of Invisible Man author Ralph Ellison

Highlands and Lowlands

It may feel set in a different era, but ACT's Glengarry Glen Ross still resonates, with fortunes that rise and fall like stock prices

Super Sunday

Any Given Sunday

The Men Who Did Too Little

Any Given Sunday

Blue in the Face

Any Given Sunday

Zoom Lens

Any Given Sunday

Savage Love

Any Given Sunday

Riff Raff

Any Given Sunday

Killer's Choice

Any Given Sunday

The Fan and the Movie Camera

Any Given Sunday

Author! Author!

Any Given Sunday

Dog Bites

Any Given Sunday

Loose Knot

City Hall unravels in the attempt to sort out its story of money and murder

Shortchanged

Two Bits swindles with syrupy sentimentality; The Convent turns out stone cold

Death and Transfiguration

Dead Man Walking airs both sides in the moral dilemma of capital punishment

Psycho Thriller

Cruising looks back at the doomed ecstasy of the gay playgrounds in late-1970s Manhattan

The Last Action Hero

Cruising looks back at the doomed ecstasy of the gay playgrounds in late-1970s Manhattan

Kevin Smith's Cop Out: So crazy, it just might work

Cruising looks back at the doomed ecstasy of the gay playgrounds in late-1970s Manhattan

Quel Brute!

Cruising looks back at the doomed ecstasy of the gay playgrounds in late-1970s Manhattan

The Top 10 Closeted Conservatives of All Time

Ken Mehlman has had plenty of dancing partners at the hypocrisy party​When Ken Mehlman crawled out of the closet last week he dragged a legion of filthy dust bunnies along  with him. For years, Mehlman was the mouthpiece -- and brain trust -- of the political party that built its reputation a ... More >>

Early Summer Movie Guide: What to See, When to See It

Ken Mehlman has had plenty of dancing partners at the hypocrisy party​When Ken Mehlman crawled out of the closet last week he dragged a legion of filthy dust bunnies along  with him. For years, Mehlman was the mouthpiece -- and brain trust -- of the political party that built its reputation a ... More >>