Mary and the Witch’s Flower (2018; Hiromasa Yonebayashi) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, January 19, and at the Palladio 16 Cinemas in Folsom and the AMC Van Ness in San Francisco. Studio Ghibli veteran Hiromasa Yonebayashi adapts Mary Stewart’s 1971 children’s novel The Little Broomstick into this charming, […]
The Sacrifice (1986; Andrei Tarkovsky) GRADE: B+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Thursday, January 11, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco and at the PFA in Berkeley. Full disclosure: although the perfectly washed-out colors of Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice have been given a faithful 4K restoration, my viewing experience was […]
` Tale of Tales (2016; Matteo Garrone) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, May 13 at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. Tale of Tales is a gory, bizarre but oddly restrained fantasy from Gomorrah director Garrone, one inspired by the fairy tales of Giambattista Basile. Salma […]
