Cannes Film Festival

Year in Film: "Margaret" Is the Best Forgotten Cursed Film of 2011

San Francisco International Film Festival: What to See

Ten films to watch for in 2011

"Spring Fever": Gay love story needs more fire

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.

Lars von Trier's Antichrist puts characters, and audience, through the wringer

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.

Che, Cannes, and High-Def Video

Steven Soderbergh, 20 years after his Sundance indie hit.

One-Ton Guerrilla

Soderbergh's two Che Guevara films in one four-hour sitting.

Hikin' With Che

By John Geluardi Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to see a special screening of Stephen Soderbergh’s epic movie, Che. Usually my stunted attention span makes it tough to sit through Pee Wee Herman clips on YouTube, but this film was so engaging I was riveted to the screen for the entire ... More >>

Punk Family Values

Meet the Rosenthals: two generations of art stars in one six-story warehouse.

He'll Be Your Mirror

Don't blame Funny Games Michael Haneke if you don't like what you see.

Grand Design

Homayoun Ershadi, from architect to actor

Hit List

The top movies of 2007

Eye of the Beholder

Julian Schnabel sees only treacle in the story that inspired his Diving Bell

Saying Goodbye To Two Giants of Cinema

Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007); Michelangelo Antonioni (1913-2007)

The Popcorn King

Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Suffocation

Everyone suffers in Jindabyne, a Raymond Carver adaptation and study in unresolved tension

Fighting Irish

Year-in-the-life of the IRA speaks volumes about our current fog of war

Repertory Film Listings

Year-in-the-life of the IRA speaks volumes about our current fog of war

Film Orgy

An abundance of the best international cinema at the 2006 Telluride and Toronto film festivals

The Art of Dying

A Romanian ode to mortality is one of the year's best movies

Going for Broken

Jim Jarmusch's latest road movie is filled with fetching existential ambiguities

Reps Etc.

Jim Jarmusch's latest road movie is filled with fetching existential ambiguities

The Kids Aren't Alright

Nobody Knows painstakingly reveals the horror of child neglect

Anatomy of a Sumbitch

Overnight, a would-be auteur destroyed his future

Reps Etc.

Overnight, a would-be auteur destroyed his future

Reps Etc.

Overnight, a would-be auteur destroyed his future

Title Any Day Now

Overnight, a would-be auteur destroyed his future

Fear Strikes Out

A diagnosed schizophrenic chronicles his illness -- and his meltdowns -- on camera

A Sainted Devil

Happy 108th birthday to the late Rudolph Valentino, screen lover extraordinaire

Victor Victorious

Raising Victor Vargas draws remarkable performances from an untrained cast

The Searchers

Feeling dubious about Reese Witherspoon, and other insights from film historian David Thomson

In & Out

HBO bails out on a gay-themed documentary by two local filmmakers

Manhattan

On Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending, Téa Leoni's ass, and The Hulk's S.F. schedule

Porn to Lose

The Piano Teacher plays in the key of kink

Good Grief

In The Son's Room, a family falls apart and pulls together

Dickens Doubled

From Iran, a heartbreaker about a child and his family

Reel World

Tight Spot and The Big Clock

The Ascetic Aesthetics of Robert Bresson

Tight Spot and The Big Clock

Last Picture Shows

Week 2 of the Mill Valley Film Festival

Past Forward

For its 40th year, the San Francisco International Film Festival boldly goes where it has gone before

Full Disclosure

No secrets, no lies from Mike Leigh on his latest sensation

Night+Day

No secrets, no lies from Mike Leigh on his latest sensation

Reel World

No secrets, no lies from Mike Leigh on his latest sensation

Night+Day

No secrets, no lies from Mike Leigh on his latest sensation