Article Archive for February 2012
By Richard von Busack
Pottersville:
a place full of bewildered people who don’t understand they’re all in the wrong movie. The razz of saxophones blare underneath the too-bright neon, and every dark alley has a lurker in …
by Matt Sills
The very deserving “Man or Muppet” won Best Original Song last night at the Oscars. Of course, it didn’t have that much competition. In fact, it only had one competition. You also may …
by Richard von Busack
Elliott Gould once described his method as an actor: “I live what I do, but I was a tap dancer”. Gould, who appears at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose Mar …
By Richard von Busack
Happily, the brave and patriotic Navy SEALS who portray brave and patriotic Navy SEALS in Act of Valor aren’t the worst thing about a rotten movie. The way their roles are shaped, …
(Above: Kate Winslet and Philip Kaufman on the set of Quills.)
By Richard von Busack
San Francisco-based film director Philip Kaufman goes to the Silicon Valley film festival Cinequest this March 9 to discuss his life and …
by Richard von Busack
(Plays Feb 21-23 in Palo Alto, California at the Stanford Theatre.)
Hamlet is famous for a scene of a conversation between a man and a skull. (The skull says nothing but it has …
by Richard von Busack
Filmed on the streets of Teheran, in defiance of “The Committee,” Iran’s morals police, Hossein Keshavarz’ unauthorized film Dog Sweat has been playing the world film festival circuit playing this Thursday in …
By Richard von Busack
HAYAO MIYAZAKI is in his 70s now. He supervised and co-wrote The Secret World of Arrietty, a Japanese animated version of the children’s tale The Borrowers. Hiromasa Yonebayashi is credited as the …
by Matt Sills
My bedroom is a cluttered mess, filled with memories from 38 years of life. I’ve got binders of baseball cards, cereal boxes adorned with Mark McGwire mid-swing, autographed balls and bats. There’s an …
by Richard von Busack
THE MOLDINESS of the 1950s musical plot of Chico & Rita is mitigated a little by stirring, even lavish, animated recreations of mid-20th-century Havana and New York City, as seen from convertible …
