Spa Night (2016; Andrew Ahn) GRADE: B- Danny Says (2016; Brendan Toller) GRADE: B- Cameraperson (2016; Kirsten Johnson) GRADE: A- By Daniel Barnes *All three films open in the Bay Area on Friday, September 30. Spa Night and Danny Says play at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco; Cameraperson plays at […]
White Girl (2016; Elizabeth Wood) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, September 16, at the AMC Van Ness 14 in San Francisco. The 1990s nostalgia trend in pop culture continues with this energetic throwback to Larry Clark’s Kids, Gregg Araki’s early work, and other benchmarks of casually […]
Elevator to the Gallows (1958; Louis Malle) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes This punchy debut feature from French New Wave satellite Louis Malle recently received a 2K digital restoration and a restored soundtrack. All the better to admire the documentary-style depiction of Paris nightlife and the electrifying jazz […]
Mia Madre (2016; Nanni Moretti) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes The 39th annual Mill Valley Film Festival kicks off in about a month, and I plan to cover it here in a fashion similar to my 2014 and 2015 coverage. A full schedule comes out in a couple […]
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016; Werner Herzog) GRADE: C+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday in San Francisco, Berkeley, Monterey, San Jose and San Rafael. From the “repulsive” corridors at UCLA where scientists invented the Internet to the gleaming surfaces of Elon Musk’s rocket lab, […]
Little Men (2016; Ira Sachs) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes With this melancholy number and 2014’s autumnal Love is Strange, the films of Ira Sachs are becoming the cinematic equivalent of rustling leaves. I’m sure that I don’t mean that as a compliment. While Little Men is a […]
