Article Archive for July 2010
by Richard von Busack
The beauty of I Am Love is perplexing; it’s as bewildering as the beauty of its star, the lean Scottish redhead Tilda Swinton. Like Julianne Moore, Swinton is a congenitally brave actress …
by Richard von Busack
It’s clear, from the sad procession of obituaries that closes the hasty but fascinating Behind the Burly Q (showing at San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center, Jul 22-25) that director Leslie Zemeckis didn’t …
Insults, not the most mature side of our personality, but it is better than biting the ears off of people we don’t like.
While Insults are not generally considered part of the pantheon of great literary works, in the cinema a great insult is…great! Allow us to prevent 100 of our favorite.
LISBETH Salander is back. That fact may be more important than the sometimes eyebrow-raising plot of The Girl Who Played With Fire. At a certain point, Hitchcock’s Excuse (“Nobody calls the police, because it wouldn’t …
by Richard von Busack
The basic idea of Christopher Nolan’s Inception is simple—it has to be for that kind of budget. People expecting a viewing experience as loaded with zeitgeist as The Dark Knight are going …
Steven Spielberg has completed principal casting for his next movie, War Horse. The staring role of Albert will showcase British actor Jeremy Irvine, best known for his work on a tv show called “Life …
By Richard von Busack
Since The Kids Are Alright is getting a reputation as “the lesbian Brokeback Mountain” (so said Kathy Wolfe in a piece for B.A.R.; Wolfe is the Santa Clara Valley’s local hero and …
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We love documentaries as a genre at movie times because they provide the audience with ability to truly see one side of an issue in depth, compared with the 30 second mcnugget sized …
Keeping up with the rumors swirling around the pre-production of Batman 3 is almost as hard as keeping up with the Kardashians. I wouldn’t be surprised if the next news clip announced that Christopher Nolan …
by Richard von Busack
THE HISTORY of a seriously odd mallard, Wild Grass is Alain Resnais’ leisurely, cryptic satire on the extremes of male pride. Based on Christian Gailly’s novel The Incident, it concerns characters who …
