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Richard Linklater’s “Bernie” is a film about a peculiar man in way over his head. This man is Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), an honest member of the community whose desire to please everyone in the East Texas town of Carthage is his fatal flaw. A mortician whose interests also include
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French actress Juliette Binoche (“Certified Copy”) plays Anne, a Parisian journalist writing an article about female student prostitutes. For the assignment, Anne interviews 2 students: Charlotte (Anaïs Demoustier), who uses the pseudonym ‘Lola’ with her male clients, and Alicja (Joanna Kulig), a Polish immigrant attempting to find a better life
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In “Dark Shadows,” Barnabas Collins does not rise from his slumber majestically, cape whipping behind him, on a stormy night in Transylvania. Nor does he have rippling adolescent pecs a la “Twilight.” This vampire, played by Johnny Depp, instead springs out of the coffin after being freed by digging construction
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For the past 15 years or so, Kathleen Turner’s acting career seems to have taken that dismal route toward that dark abyss where almost every single actress’ career in Hollywood goes after they hit 40. (Studios seem to think that Meryl Streep is the only veteran actress with talent and
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When Marvel and Disney asked to screen questions before interviewing Joss Whedon, my first impression was to assume that the plot of “The Avengers” symbolized something much larger than just a comic tale. Perhaps the movie would allude to a contemporary global threat or feature a hidden psychological dimension —
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Our lead writers bring you the latest and greatest in Bay Area arts and culture this week Film This week the Pacific Film Archive hosts four films by Michael Glawogger, an Austrian filmmaker who focuses on the plight of the working class amid an increasingly alienating global economy. Glawogger’s experimental
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As the cinema screen lights up, you can just make out through the heavy white mist, punctuated by thick smears of film grain, an imposing mountain range covered in trees. We move into a close-up of foliage, while rainwater finds its way from leaf to leaf before falling to the
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Borrowing heavily from the Dogme 95 movement and films like Lars von Trier’s “The Five Obstructions,” “The Fourth Dimension” challenged its three directors — Harmony Korine, Aleksei Fedorchenko and Jan Kwiecinski — to explore new levels of filmmaking by restricting them with a series of nonsensical, arbitrary rules (for example,
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Take gooey chick-flick sentiment and hackneyed relationship issues, cool the comedic content to PG-13 and you will have the listless film “Think Like a Man.” Pat Benatar’s song “Love is a Battlefield” reverberates throughout the plot, as a tight-knit group of 30 to 40-something men and their sexy girlfriends both
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Our lead critics bring you the latest and greatest in Bay Area arts and culture this week. Film Wednesday afternoon, Pacific Film Archive hosts the last of its Film 50 series, a course taught by Marilyn Fabe which surveys a variety of films from different eras and sensibilities. This year’s
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