* = SF Bay Area only BUMPED 1) It Follows 2) American Sniper *3) Wild Tales *4) ’71 5) Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine 6) What We Do in the Shadows *7) The Wrecking Crew 8) Merchants of Doubt *9) White God MIXED-POSITIVE *10) Man from […]
White God (2015; Dir.: Kornel Mundruczo) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens today at the Embarcadero Center Cinemas in San Francisco. A striking film from its opening shots of wild dogs stampeding through the streets of an abandoned city, Hungarian director Kornel Mundruczo’s White God is one of […]
#barnesyardbumps: *If the naughty-boy, early-1990s oeuvres of Pedro Almodovar and Quentin Tarantino were somehow able to copulate, then Wild Tales would be their grossly beautiful sextuplet offspring. *Kirby Dick’s The Hunting Ground examines the extreme prevalence of sexual assault on college campuses, and the disgusting ways that school […]
#barnesyardbumps: *After a 2014 dominated by revenge narratives, Argentinean director Damian Szifron’s Oscar-nominated Wild Tales is the revenge film to end all revenge films, a glorious and bonkers blast of visual creativity and storytelling energy, and one of the most purely entertaining films of the year. *The San […]
$ = new this week * = SF Bay Area only BUMPED 1) American Sniper *2) Two Days, One Night *3) Timbuktu *4) A Most Violent Year $*5) Wild Tales (pictured) *6) Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem *7) Citizenfour *8) Maps to the Stars *9) Whiplash *10) […]
Wednesday, December 3 Unbroken (Dir.: Angelina Jolie; GRADE: C) Reviewed for the SN&R on 12/25/14. The Congress (Dir.: Ari Folman; GRADE: B+) Expansive philosophical head-trip from Waltz with Bashir director Folman deals with issues of performance and perception, and the impermanence of artistic identity in a disposable culture. The […]
