I was recently on my annual vacation with my mother. We ended up in western Wyoming, floating down the Snake River with an American…
The U.S. immigration department disappointed Bay Area performing arts lovers last year when visa issues forced San Francisco’s Brava Theater Center to cancel the…
Drawn from Superbad director Greg Mottola’s own experiences working at a ramshackle suburban amusement park in the 1980s, Adventureland feels at once personal and…
Iran is ground zero for poetry. Sure, Italy has a good poetic reputation, world-historically speaking, but how you gonna beat the cradle of civilization?…
Gay film slipped palatably out of Israel’s closet with the films of Eytan Fox, who, with his partner Gal Uchovsky, made Yossi & Jagger,…
Cheryl Meeker's show about the effects of nuclear dust requires more than passive viewing.
Oliver Stone’s W., which is as much edited as it is directed, working from a script by Stone buddy Stanley Weiser, has a patchwork…
Feature films and television series can't stop sucking on the “CIA operative” teat; it was probably that way with cave paintings, so great is…
Kaurismaki, Kusturica, Kiarostami: These are directors to live by at the moment. The last of the three is profiled at the Iranian Film Festival…
They came carrying signs and babies. Eighty-year-olds in sweat suits and 28-year-olds in business suits, staging die-ins and blowing tubas and, sometimes, weeping. On…
