189 days ago- Eddie Muller, prime mover of Noir City 6, his annual mid-winter saturnalia of film noir, says, “I’m astounded at what people applaud and enjoy.” But the San Francisco-native novelist-film historian-showman is probably just being coy. He’s got a better idea than just about anyone what noir fans crave.
204 days ago- “There Will Be Blood” is a capital-“A” art film concerned with weighty subjects and front-loaded with a big performance by Daniel Day-Lewis as fictitious oil man Daniel Plainview, who scratches out a fortune in early 20th-century Southern California by digging holes in the ground, striking it rich, and bullying anyone who gets in his way.
211 days ago- “The Orphanage” is executive-produced by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, creator of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” so right from the beginning we expect something fantastic — as in fanciful, unreal and perhaps genuinely, deeply disturbing.
211 days ago- “The Orphanage” is executive-produced by filmmaker Guillermo del Toro, creator of “Pan’s Labyrinth,” so right from the beginning we expect something fantastic — as in fanciful, unreal and perhaps genuinely, deeply disturbing.
225 days ago- Francis Ford Coppola, il padrone of Bay Area filmmakers and creator of some of the most memorable movie moments of the last 35 years, has been in something of a slump.