John Woo

Action Movies Don't Have to Suck: A Lament for Lost Carnage

Red Cliff: John Woo's killer instincts are back in action

Red Cliff

Red Cliff

UC Theater to Become Live Music Venue?

The UC Theater in 1917​ Berkeley's venerable UC Theater may be reopening for business, not as a movie house, but as an entertainment venue. According to Leah Matanky of Slim's/the Great American Music Hall, her company has a proposal to renovate the storied building into a "lovely, world class l ... More >>

Pacific Film Archive: Back Tonight!

Thinning Crowds

It's always dead at The Club.

January Movies To Watch - 'Cassandra’s Dream' and What the TIFF Told Me

The Good, the Bad, and the Set Pieces

Johnnie To, gunslinger, pays stylish homage to the good old days

John Woo, Robert Palmer, and Jake Gyllenhaal: SF Weekly DVD Reviews

Chow Time Again

Message Bored

Hollywood ho-hum horror keeps ripping off the best, turning out the worst

Don't Believe the Hype

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Typhoon in a Teacup

Asian action movies don't get much less significant than this one

Exit the Matrix

The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky.

Senior Moment

Jan Decleir shines as a senile hit man in The Memory of a Killer

Ghost in the Machinist

Christian Bale chases phantoms and loses sleep in Brad Anderson's latest

Shell Shock

The sequel to Ghost in the Shell is a feast for the eyes, but a disappointment for the brain

Sacrificing Isaac

I, Robot owes little to Asimov and much to prior sci-fi cinema

Crouching Forward, Hidden Goalie

Stephen Chow's kung fu soccer spoof is fun, sort of

The Pain Train

Two years later, a digital-video short film became an overnight ad sensation

Griftin' on the Dock of the Bay

How waterfront developer Carl Ernst fished for political influence to help his struggling Pier 38 project

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

Just Say "Super-Size It!"

Summer 2002 sees the little guys getting up to a lot of big things

United Nations

Putting the world back together at the 45th annual S.F. International Film Festival

Mayhem All the Way

In Time and Tide, Tsui Hark delivers a plotless wonder

The Trouble With Women

Hong Kong's art house and Hollywood's studio system don't mesh too well -- yet

House Of Tudor

Devil-Ettes fund-raiser; Love Psychedelico; "Sound Effects: The Magic of Foley"

Emotion in Motion

With Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Ang Lee reinvents the martial arts movie for the art house crowd

Fight Club

Wesley Snipes kicks his way through the flashy, feisty Art of War

M:I-2 Gets the Job Done

Mission: Impossible 2

Cinema Paradiso

The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival

Jet Set

Handsome Dan

Dan "The Automator" Nakamura loves hip hop -- but he loves music more

Zoom Lens

Chow Down

Films for a Tired and Cynical Age

One of Us Stinks

Identity Crisis

American movies once enthralled the world with their exuberance and clarity. What happened in the 1990s?

'Faced

From Hong Kong to Hollywood

A conversation with John Woo

Chinatown Ghost Story

A history of grand movie theaters haunts a commercialized neighborhood

Night+Day

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