Reviews
Life 2.0
USA, 100 minutes 3 p.m. April 30, 1 p.m. May 2 and 9:15 p.m. May 5 at the Kabuki. Jason Spingarn-Koff is an experienced New York reporter, putting together memorable segments for reputable television news programs, including "Nova" and "Frontline." He took...
Marwencol
USA, 82 minutes 4:10 p.m. May 1 at the Pacific Film Archive; 6:45 p.m. May 2 and 4:15 p.m. May 4 at the Kabuki. Mark Hogancamp was beaten so badly by five teens at a bar that he was in a coma for nine days, and had to learn to walk and eat again. When his...
Morning
United States, 92 minutes 6:15 p.m. April 26, 1:45 p.m. April 28 and 3:45 p.m. May 5 at the Kabuki. Leland Orser makes a powerful directing debut, which features the veteran character actor and his real-life wife, Jeanne Tripplehorn, as a couple...
Yellow Sheep River
Taiwan, 94 minutes 12:30 April 28, 3:45 p.m. April 29, 3:15 p.m. May 2 at the Kabuki. Liu Soung's "Yellow Sheep River" is the type of movie that the documentary pioneer Robert Flaherty ("Nanook of the North") would make if he were around. It's a...
Invention of Dr. Nakamats
Denmark, 57 minutes. 9:30 p.m. April 30, 1:30 p.m. May 3 and 6:30 p.m. May 5 at the Kabuki. An inventor, entrepreneur and celebrity in his native Japan, Yoshiro Nakamatsu - known as Dr. Nakamats - holds 3,357 patents, more than triple the number credited...
Senso
Italy, 118 minutes 6:30 p.m. April 29 at the Pacific Film Archive; 12:30 p.m. May 2 at the Castro For too long this 1954 film has been unavailable. There was a VHS release, now out of print, but who wants to see this lush Visconti film on VHS? It was on...
Bodyguards and Assassins
Hong Kong/China, 138 minutes 6:45 p.m. May 2 at the Castro This sprawling, big-budget action epic about anti-imperialist Chinese rebels in Hong Kong who make it their business to counter the assassins sent to kill the exiled Sun Yat-sen in 1906 won Best...
The Music Room
India, 100 minutes. 2:30 p.m. May 1 at the Castro; 6:15 p.m. May 2 at the Pacific Film Archive. When he made this film in 1958, the great Satyajit Ray had already established himself with the first two movies in his celebrated Apu trilogy. "The Music Room...
Akira Kurosawa: Peter Cowie: Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema
The work of Akira Kurosawa is like a separate universe with many individual worlds. Peter Cowie serves as a guide and an illuminator of those worlds in "Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema" (Rizzoli; 301 pages; $75), a book of value both to Kurosawa novices...
Summer Hours
Something very curious is happening to the film "Summer Hours." Over the past year, this 2008 film has started to become ... a classic. It happens that way sometimes. People see a movie, say, "Yes, absolutely, that was a good one." And then a week goes by...
New Flicks
"Shrek Forever After" with Mike Meyers; romance, tragedy, heartbreak in "The City of Your Final Destination"; and more.
- Vincere - 8.5
- The Square - 7.8
- Casino Jack and the United States of Money - 7.7
- The Secret in Their Eyes - 7.6
- Exit Through the Gift Shop - 7.5
- The Ghost Writer - 7.5
- In Search of Memory - 7.5
- Mid-August Lunch - 7.4
- October Country - 7.4
- Home - 7.3
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