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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 ...
The other side of Peter Bogdanovich
"I would like to see the complete Magnificent Ambersons."
Here's more of my talk with Peter Bogdanovich. From Buster Keaton the subject shifts to what chance, if any, we have of ever seeing Jerry Lewis' notorious concentration camp clown picture, his thoughts on The ...
Uncaged
There’s not another actor at work who could pull off this type of blood-spattered chicanery
We celebrate the blu-ray release of Mandy and look back on a pair of game-changing middle-period Nicolas Cage pictures guaranteed to give your eyeballs a workout. Mandy (2018) Lumberjack boy (Cage) meets artistically-inclined girl (Andrea ...
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 ...
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 ...
Beautiful Boy: Oh, boy
Who is this movie’s target audience?
Daddy Dave (Steve Carell) spends the first quarter of the picture scratching his head while even accidental moviegoers — those who stumble across Beautiful Boy as a fluke, without the benefit of having seen the ...
The shteegan on Fred Saxon
The ringer was still in movie theatre mode when I awoke last Friday to find four messages. To paraphrase comedian Richard Lewis, that many calls so early in the day means one thing: death in ...
A Star is Born, again, for the fifth time
The origins of Lady Gaga's remake
For her big screen debut, au courant warbler/performance artist Lady Gaga offers up a fifth remake of A Star is Born. Here’s a chance to literally see where she’s coming from, give or take a ...
A sampling of the masterful Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Breakdown, Lamb to the Slaughter and Bang! You’re Dead!
A sampling of the masterful Alfred Hitchcock Presents
