12 important things I learned from Rod Serling's Twilight Zone
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Jay Allen Sanford 1 p.m., May 4
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American Woman: Life, not Lifetime
Take a walk through Deb’s hellish, decades-long search for her daughter’s whereabouts
When the Lord said, “Judge not, that ye be not judged,” He wasn’t referring to American Woman’s Deb Callahan (Sienna Miller). Deb can’t remove the butt from between her lips long enough to cuddle with ...
Simon Kinberg’s Dark Phoenix: Fiery redhead
Plays like a small-scale, humanly significant trauma drama
It didn’t have to end this way — in such thoroughly standard smash ‘em up fashion, with minor heroes dutifully duking it out with faceless hordes for punchy-power bolt minute after punchy-power-bolt minute until the ...
Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage: Not just a gigolo?
Sometimes, the only way to overcome the boredom of decadence is with a little old-fashioned brutality
What’s the old saw about war? That it’s long periods of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror? Tweaked a little, the line serves pretty well as a description of writer-director Camille Vidal-Naquet’s Sauvage, the ...
Film Events
The Golden Age of Hollywood: Imitation of Life (1959)Angelika Film Center & CaféMonday, June 17, 2019, 7 p.m. |
Right to Die Film: PaddletonMission Valley LibrarySunday, June 16, 2019, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. |
Cult Classics: Friday the 13th (1980)Reading Cinemas Town SquareWednesday, June 19, 7 p.m. |
Film & Discussion: Citizen Kane (1941)Liberty Hall Theater at Paradise VillageWednesday, June 19, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
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Telly Savalas trio of terror
A splashy ‘70s subgenre of Italian horror released during the rise of Kojak
Who scares you, baby? Give a lick about this Telly Savalas trio of terror. Lisa and the Devil (1973) Giallo: a splashy ‘70s subgenre of Italian horror with soft, overlit nightscapes filmed in garish Eastman ...
Movie Archives
Yes, Giorgio
Life never has to be "lifesized" -- at least not when you're the size of, and can hold a high note as long as, the American Express Card representative and opera evangelist, Luciano Pavarotti. He, willing to play the buffoon ...
Too Late to Die Young
Writer and director Dominga Sotomayor Castollo’s near plotless autobiographical dream piece lays bare her memories of underdevelopment and the blush of first love during the downfall of dictator Augusto Pinochet. It’s 1990, and 16-year-old Sofia (Demian Hernández) joins her father, ...
Antonio Lopez 1970: Sex Fashion & Disco
With more than a tinge of regret besprinkling their voices, friends of the late Antonio Lopez reminisce in close-up about the promiscuous pre-AIDS 70s and how the influential fashion designer figured into the good old days before indiscriminate sex came ...
