Asian Film Festival opens this weekend
Three to see
Scott Marks 11 a.m., Nov. 8
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Movie Reviews
Last Letter: Iwai delivers
A romantic drama void of romance
Lovers of unrequited love, rejoice. There is enough handwritten romantic communication exchanged in Shunji Iwai’s deceptively uncomplicated romance Last Letter to fill a small post office branch. And no junk mail! Given that he has ...
Asian Film Festival opens this weekend
Three to see
At age 19, the Asian Film Festival shows no sign of slowing down. If anything, this could be the strongest lineup artistic director Brian Hu has assembled in many a year. What follows are a ...
Bogdanovich boosts Buster
“I decided to show the work for which he was being celebrated. Always leave them laughing!”
Is it me, or has Landmark’s Ken Cinema become San Diego’s big screen answer to the A&E Biography channel? Truth be told, my adulation over Pick of the Litter was guided more by a love ...
Film Events
Youth Media & Tech CampDigital Gym CinemaMonday, November 19, 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. |
The Hand That FeedsGreen StoreThursday, November 15, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. |
Link in Bio: A Collection of Short FilmsTeros GallerySunday, November 18, 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. |
Film Discussion Class: SpellboundTemple Emanu-ElMonday, November 19, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. |
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Oktoberfilmfest
Honestly, a television screen is not the ideal portal of introduction for this film
Streaming service Kanopy has teamed with the Goethe Institute to sponsor 48 films for the Wunderbar: A Celebration of German Films project. Visit kanopy.com/goethe throughout the month of October to watch any of the films ...
Movie Archives
Windows
Elizabeth Ashley is a ravenous lesbian whose seduction technique entails the hiring of a drooling rapist to sour her prey on the entire male gender. Talia Shire is the unappetizing prey, an embarrassingly self-conscious stutterer and less self-conscious but equally ...
Heartburn
It has something of the air of an informal dinner party dominated by a garrulous, sophisticated, bright, and somewhat smarty-pantsy woman who feels she has a lot to get off her chest. The woman in question is Nora Ephron, who ...
