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Tourist trappers
Murder takes a holiday: Hit the road with killer British comedy 'Sightseers'Wanna get away? Tina (Alice Lowe) and pooch share a bummer moment in Sightseers.PHOTO BY BEN WHEATLEYcheryl@sfbg.comFILM From...
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The conversations
Ever-evolving characters Jesse and Celine return in 'Before Midnight'arts@sfbg.comFILM Half a lifetime ago that is to say, sometime in the mid-'90s on a train rolling through Austria, a young...
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Flagging
Action fluff 'White House Down' is red, white, and redundantYippee ki-yay, Mr. President: White House Down's Jamie Foxx and Channing TatumPHOTO BY REINER BAJOcheryl@sfbg.comFILM Ah, the mid-1990s: a...
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Live to tell
A new doc unearths long-lost Detroit band DeathBand of brothers: Death's sole single is now highly-prized by record collectors.arts@sfbg.comFILM The most popular feel-good documentary last year was...
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Hi-yo, stinker
The Lone Ranger: WTF happened to Johnny Depp's career?Put a bird on it: Tonto (Johnny Depp) confers with the Lone Ranger's horse, Silver.FILM Pop-culture historians who study 2005's top movies will...
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Hysterical blindness
A false accusation devastates a man and his community in 'The Hunt'Great Dane: The versatile Mads Mikkelson stars in The Hunt.PHOTO BY CHARLOTTE BRUUS-CHRISTENSENarts@sfbg.comFILM Mads Mikkelsen has...
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The death aquatic
'Blackfish' investigates the many tragedies of SeaWorldBeast of burden: Tilikum at SeaWorldPHOTO BY GABRIELA COWPERTHWAITEcheryl@sfbg.comFILM The 911 call placed from SeaWorld Orlando on February 24,...
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Downwardly mobile
Woody Allen's highly anticipated 'Blue Jasmine' has less San Francisco in it than expected — but it's still his best film in yearsAll that glitters: Blue Jasmine's Cate BlanchettPHOTO BY JESSICA...
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The killer inside me
'The Act of Killing' examines the psychological effects of mass murderMurder fantasies: The Act of KillingPHOTO COURTESY OF DRAFTHOUSE FILMScheryl@sfbg.comFILM What does Anwar Congo — a man who has...
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Catch a falling star
Paul Schrader talks celebrity, post-theatrical cinema, and 'The Canyons'Fame puts you there where things are hollow: Lohan in The CanyonsPHOTO COURTESY OF IFC FILMSarts@sfbg.comFILM Now that "train...
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Midsummer mayhem
Four beyond-the-mainstream treats for genre fansLouis Koo breaks bad in 'Drug War'PHOTO COURTESY OF VARIANCE FILMScheryl@sfbg.comFILM It's been a zzz summer at the multiplex. The number one movie of...
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Scenes from a marriage
'Cutie and the Boxer' showcases one artistic couple's functional dysfunctionOddness is in our favor: Cutie (Noriko Shinohara) and the Boxer (Ushio Shinohara)PHOTO COURTESY OF RADIUS-TWCFILM At least...
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Lone stars
Old-fashioned 'Ain't Them Bodies Saints' claims a new genre: neo-neo-Western noirBleak in the heart of Texas: Rooney Mara in SaintsPHOTO COURTESY OF IFC FILMSFILM "This was in Texas," reads the...
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Blah lust
Brian De Palma's tame, lame 'Passion'Noomi Rapace and Rachel McAdams in "Passion"PHOTO COURTESY OF ENTERTAINMENT ONE FILMSarts@sfbg.comFILM Despite its intensely collaborative, top-heavy,...
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Life's work
Desperation breeds determination in 'Dallas Buyers Club'AIDS patients Rayon (Jared Leto) and Ron (Matthew McConaughey) become business partners in 'Dallas Buyers Club.'PHOTO BY ANNE MARIE...
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Keep it reel
Docs from India highlight the SF International South Asian Film FestFight club: women protest injustice in Gulabi Gang.cheryl@sfbg.comFILM Central India's Gulabi Gang, composed of rural women fighting...
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The great pretender
A legend crashes and burns in 'The Armstrong Lie'cheryl@sfbg.comIf something appears too good to be true, the saying goes, it probably is. Take Lance Armstrong, who beat cancer to become a cycling...
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Eternal spring
Chris Marker's 'Le Joli Mai' remains relevant 50 years laterA Parisian child in 'Le Joli Mai'PHOTO COURTESY OF ICARUS FILMSarts@sfbg.comChris Marker did not seem to see a hard distinction between...
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Out of the fog
Cinema By the Bay showcases films with local tiesStreet SmartsPHOTO COURTESY OF SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETYcheryl@sfbg.comFILM In movies, maybe more than in life, trouble awaits outsiders who poke into...
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Born to lose
Alexander Payne's small-scale, deeply satisfying 'Nebraska'You can't go home again: Will Forte and Bruce Dern in "Nebraska"PHOTO BY MERIE WALLACEBy Dennis Harveyarts@sfbg.comFILM Alexander Payne may be...
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