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Arthouse Movie Listings July 27-August 2

Arthouse movie listings for the week of April 7-13, 2010

Time Bomb

Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed an S.F. cop in the name of revolution.

A guide to the best of this year's S.F. International Film Festival

Weather Underground leaders claimed their bombings were devised to avoid bloodshed. But FBI agents suspect the radical '70s group killed an S.F. cop in the name of revolution.

Stealth Bloggers

Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

Autechre Crafts, Then Shreds, IDM Clichés

Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.

The Daly Show

Even in a summer of discontent for San Francisco progressives, bad-boy supervisor Chris Daly remains unbowed

The Chron Behind Bars

A judge has ordered two Chronicle reporters to serve time unless they divulge their source on Bonds' steroid use. Do you think they should be made to spill the beans?

Fun With Flesh Wounds

The epic poem Beowulf gets the Monty Python treatment

A Bridge Too Far

The Chronicle's series of stories on Golden Gate suicides goes "radioactive."

Pacifists for War

How the fractured counterrecruitment movement includes those hoping to bring the draft back

Reps Etc.

How the fractured counterrecruitment movement includes those hoping to bring the draft back

Home Fires Burning

A soldier returns a changed man in the gripping Danish drama Brothers

Asymmetric Warfare: The Game

Advances in ultrarealistic simulation let soldiers experience the war in Iraq -- before they go

Making Kerry Kerry On

What will it take to make John Kerry mad enough to speak the plain truths that will win the election?

Film Capsule Reviews

What will it take to make John Kerry mad enough to speak the plain truths that will win the election?

A Question of Risk

Plans for a biodefense "hot lab" at Lawrence Livermore have ecologists, disarmament advocates, and mainstream scientists up in arms

Surprise!

If you think S.F. is ready for a terrorist attack – even two years-plus after 9/11 – think again

Capital Rap

From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

From revolutionary rapper to stockbroker to rapper again -- the long, strange trip of Paris, aka Oscar Jackson Jr.

Letters to the Editor

Week of June 25, 2003

Letters to the Editor

Week of June 11, 2003

Big Doctor Is Watching

As of April 14, the national security police can monitor your medical records without your knowledge. So can the local police.

Letters to the Editor

Week of December 18, 2002

The International Poindextering of Poindexter

Is it good or bad if 124 Web sites around the world post the home phone number of the architect of Total Information Awareness?

Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

700 Years of 9/11

Never heard of the Battle of Malplaquet? Then you don't know your Sept. 11 history.

Rich Conspiracy

Unless there's been a Newsom/Getty/bin Laden/Bush plot of some kind, how could voters support Care Not Cash?

Peace Wars

The bitter battle over piloting a campus peace movement that hasn't even left the ground

Emmy or Not to Emmy?

That's been the long, hard decision for TV academy chairman Bryce Zabel

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles.

Arabian Knight

Jack Shaheen crusades against cinema's depiction of Reel Bad Arabs

The Brave and the Bold

On Sept. 11, the world needed superheroes. They found them not in comic books, but in real life.

Law & Disorder

As one of TV's best and best-loved series launches a new spin-off, its creator grapples with the aftershocks of terror

Crushing a Contrarian

The "patriotic" squelching of Bill Maher is a scary sign of an emerging groupthink

The Tangled Path to a Response

As we prepare to retaliate for last week's atrocities, let's take time to be sure of our targets

The Dilemma of Sara Jane Olson

With an October trial in the offing, prosecutors had every intention of proving that Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson was a domestic terrorist who helped plant bombs under police cars 26 years ago.

Yellow-Bellied Journalism

Hearst executives' behavior in the Examiner sale was nothing less than cowardly

Agent Provocative

In the 1960s Anthony Poshepny was a CIA operative whose macabre Southeast Asian exploits drew comparisons with Col. Kurtz, the megalomaniacal anti-hero of Apocalypse Now

M

As they explore M-theory, will Bay Area physicists earn the eternal glory sure to reward the inventors of the Theory of Everything?

American Nowhere

Hal Hartley on realism, surrealism, and Henry Fool

Unlocking the Secrets of Fusion

Hal Hartley on realism, surrealism, and Henry Fool

Splendor in the Court

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.

Anchors Awry

Up Close and Personal sinks lower than the intellectual wasteland of the TV news it depicts

Paper Trails

Up Close and Personal sinks lower than the intellectual wasteland of the TV news it depicts