Leonardo DiCaprio

"Titanic 3D": CGI Spectacle Doesn't Age Gracefully

"J. Edgar": Rich Script, Masterful Acting Weave Dense Historical Tale

Arthouse Movie Listings July 13-19

Phil Bronstein, Chron Editor, Was "Duped" by Illegal Immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas

Bronstein's debate: Am I a dupe, felon, or friend? ​Phil Bronstein has many names for Jose Antonio Vargas, the former Chronicle editorial assistant who came out as an illegal immigrant yesterday in the New York Times. Among them are "lawbreaker," "hustler," and finally "friend." The Chron's editor ... More >>

Giants World Series DVDs -- Guess Who Wins?

A happy ending all right...​With a hot dog and Coors-festooned launch party at AT&T Park last night, the World Champion San Francisco Giants officially screened their two 2010 season DVDs. And, like Titanic, you knew how they were gonna end. Regarding Titanic, incidentally, all of the men frog ... More >>

Film Showtimes for the week of October 6-12, 2010

A happy ending all right...​With a hot dog and Coors-festooned launch party at AT&T Park last night, the World Champion San Francisco Giants officially screened their two 2010 season DVDs. And, like Titanic, you knew how they were gonna end. Regarding Titanic, incidentally, all of the men frog ... More >>

Christopher Nolan interview: Can "Inception" director save the summer?

A happy ending all right...​With a hot dog and Coors-festooned launch party at AT&T Park last night, the World Champion San Francisco Giants officially screened their two 2010 season DVDs. And, like Titanic, you knew how they were gonna end. Regarding Titanic, incidentally, all of the men frog ... More >>

"Inception," an Important Picture, tries to get inside our heads

A happy ending all right...​With a hot dog and Coors-festooned launch party at AT&T Park last night, the World Champion San Francisco Giants officially screened their two 2010 season DVDs. And, like Titanic, you knew how they were gonna end. Regarding Titanic, incidentally, all of the men frog ... More >>

Tuesday's Pick: T Cooper at City Lights Books

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

Winter's Tale

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

(100) Days of Summer Movies

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for April 28-May 4, 2010

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

Scorsese's head-trip Shutter Island is the good kind of insane

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

SFuture Shock: Bold predictions for the coming year

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

Francis Ford Coppola talks film, critics, and marriage

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for April 8-14, 2009

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

Parent Trap

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

The Haunting

Winslet and DiCaprio awake to the nightmare on Revolutionary Road.

Chazz Palminteri revives A Bronx Tale in San Francisco

Winslet and DiCaprio awake to the nightmare on Revolutionary Road.

Lies We Can Believe In

Ridley Scott's latest is the post-9/11, tech-savvy terror thriller we deserve.

The Terrible Infant Speaks

Harmony Korine talks about his new movie Mister Lonely and coming home.

Chinatown Power Players Behind Ed Jew Smokescreen, Source Says

Harmony Korine talks about his new movie Mister Lonely and coming home.

Eve of Destruction

Harmony Korine talks about his new movie Mister Lonely and coming home.

Save Darfur?

War, slaughter, genocide — and you feel like seeing a movie?

Damn You, Environment!

The ice caps are melting, the ozone vanishing, and Leo's charisma? An endangered species.

We Aren't the World

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Diamonds in the Rough

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Hold Your Horses

How the Americans fared at Cannes.

Say It With Diamonds?

Not exactly. Circling the diamond industry, Zwick flick tackles nada.

Bait and Switch

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Who's the Man?

A hero of the Hong Kong new wave returns the compliment

Maverick or Madman?

The intensely weird world of sculptor Stanislav Szukalski

Reps Etc.

The intensely weird world of sculptor Stanislav Szukalski

Run, Dick, Run

Sean Penn blames his problems on the president -- so what else is new?

From Major to Minor

Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

Decodings

A movie historian resurrects a long-dead experimental filmmaker, and a long-departed era of San Francisco

Reps List

Film Reps List for 1-9-2002

Reps Etc.

Film Reps List for 12-19-2001

Vincent Gallo

When (Warp)

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

Reel World

Ghost World; Castro Theater; Breaking into Hollywood

Pop Philosophy

What Bush's choices for inauguration music say about the next four years

Saving Grace

What Bush's choices for inauguration music say about the next four years

American Psycho

The Beach

Reel World

The Beach

The Camera Loves Them

The Beach

Dog Bites

The Beach

Kooky Proles and Gucci Buddhism

A neo-noir, an Ur-neo-noir, and a black political satire color a pallid year of retreads, bogus events, and charity cases.

Mad Poets Society

Rimbaud and Verlaine have a psychotic affair to remember in Total Eclipse