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Yeah, it’s great to watch a great movie, one with incredible storytelling, great acting, and wonderful technical skill.  There’s also something to be said for watching an absolutely …

by Richard von Busack
As the poem has it, why should not old men be mad? Jack Rebney, star of Ben Steinbauer’s wrath-of-a-salesman documentary Winnebago Man, (playing at San Francisco’s Roxie Theater Aug 27-Sep 2) became …

by Richard von Busack
There was a time when vampires didn’t suck: once they were frightening figures instead of big haired, emo-drunk metaphors for teen angst. “Dark in August,” this weekend at the Yerba Buena Center …

by Richard von Busack
It’s obvious that much of what one sees in Lebanon comes from personal experience. Israeli director Samuel Maoz was wounded in the 1982 Israeli excursion into Lebanon (a piece of history recently …

Jacki Weaver (left) and Joel Edgerton in Animal Kingdom
by Richard von Busack
Supposedly, an Old West mountain man is listening to a civilian describing the Apaches: “They don’t know the difference between right and wrong!” He …

By Richard von Busack
An animator who helped shrink Julia Roberts to Tinkerbelle size for Hook told me “Even six inches of her is too much.” This seemed too mean a comment to repeat until …

by Richard von Busack
Even without the explanatory title at the end of the film, it’s clear that the Banco Chinchorro—site of the film Alamar—is one of the rarest places on Earth.
Already a marine sanctuary, this …

by Richard von Busack
The worst creeps are the most self-righteous ones, and the creepy Middle Men specializes in justifications. In the ee cummings phrase, it stinks of excuse. As he rigorously emulates the Goodfellas flash …

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 …