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Arthouse Movie Listings January 23-29, 2013

"The Law in These Parts": Democratically Sanctioned Oppression

Arthouse Movie Listings January 16-22, 2013

Jello Biafra's 'Ultimate Third Rail': Why the Outspoken SF Punk Rocker Abandoned Plans to Play in Israel

Last summer, SF punk rocker, notorious political rabble-rouser, and former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra was booked to perform in Israel, along with his band, the Guantanamo School of Medicine, in support of their new Enhanced Methods of Questioning EP. But their plans raised quite a controver ... More >>

Long-Distance Father

Arthouse Movie Listings for April 6-12, 2011

"The Time That Remains": A pointillist portrait of Israeli Arabs

The Mad Quest of Mr. Wu

How a wannabe banking magnate from S.F. built an empire on deception.

Last Night: Banksy's 'Exit Through the Gift Shop' Screening

After seeing Exit Through the Gift Shop at a sneak preview screening last night, I immediately Googled the name Thierry Guetta when I got home. What I thought was going to be a documentary about the street art movement, particularly about Brit icon Banksy, inadvertently turned into some sort of moc ... More >>

"Exit Through the Gift Shop" brings you Banksy, kind of

Amer'cuh

Amreeka

Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World

Leaving no gimmick unturned, that Super Size Me guy goes searching for Public Enemy No. 1.

Before the Bomb

Goodbye West San Francisco, Hello East Jerusalem

Jimmy Carter Man from Plains Just Plain Boring

Disturbing the Peace

The local conversation between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian activists is getting less civil every day. And Lee Kaplan's tactics aren't helping.

Border Crossings

Last Laugh

Paradise Now finds humor in the mission of suicide bombers

Zoom Lens

The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival continues its "can't we all get along" ethos

Guns, God, and Land

Art From War

Mark Brecke photographs the worst of the world's conflicts in his own way, and for his own reasons

Letters to the Editor

Week of October 29, 2003

Time Out

Ditching filmmaking, dumping Hollywood, and discarding the Catholic Church

Reps Etc.

A Smuggler's Tale

A Berkeley woman's efforts to deliver banned medicines and other goods to Iraq arouses federal ire

My Dinner With Lunatique Fantastique

Carrot-stick legs and perky lemon boobs -- yep, it's those crazy puppeteers

Reps Etc.

Letters to the Editor

Week of June 19, 2002

Internal Despair

In The Believer, a Jewish student explores his inner Nazi

The Rabbi Who Would Save the World

Michael Lerner has won many followers with his ideas for world peace. But if all he is preaching is the Golden Rule, why is he so controversial?

Reel World

Independent View promo; Store Wars

Reel World

Living in Oblivion, Wedding in Galilee, Lightning Over Water