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Welcome to the Dollhousenew
Strung out on poppets, puppets, and Seed of Chucky. It's the perfect double-bill match for the equally unholy Team America: World Police.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
11-24-2004 |
Reviews
Charlie and the True-Crime Factorynew
Fifteen years in the making, Jim Van Bebber's The Manson Family gives new meaning to the phrase cult film.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
10-27-2004 |
Reviews
Masters of Puppetsnew
The South Park guys score big with Team America: World Police.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
10-13-2004 |
Reviews
Repersonalizationnew
This week we get to watch the unveiling of the next found artist, bringing on the next "future of filmmaking." That previously unknown artist is Jonathan Caouette, who is going to be ushering iMovie Nation into a theater near you.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Susan Gerhard |
10-13-2004 |
Movies
I, Movienew
Jonathan Caouette's Tarnation -- known as the $218.32 movie at the last Sundance -- is a manic peak in the year of the documentary. It's the sometimes visionary story of a gay boy who was shuttled through foster homes before being returned to the home of the grandparents who institutionalized his mother.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
10-13-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Che-Che-Che-Changesnew
This exercise in feel-good historical romanticism cannily exploits Che Guevara as icon by finding a quite legitimate context in which to ignore all the problematic aspects of his later life.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
09-29-2004 |
Reviews
Dirty Soapnew
After examining the pilot script for Six Feet Under and the music video treatment for Avril Lavigne's Sk8er Boi, the writers of Wet Palms, an online gay porn soap opera, are whipping up a new genre of dirty drama.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
09-22-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Election infectionnew
Power, politics, and puppets converge in Bush's Brain and Silver City.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Cheryl Eddy |
09-15-2004 |
Reviews
Give Donnie Darko One More Chancenew
With the release of the director's cut, two Bay Guardian critics give bizarre cult film Donnie Darko another chance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Susan Gerhard |
09-01-2004 |
Reviews
Donnie Darko's Paradise is Lostnew
With the release of the director's cut, two Bay Guardian critics give bizarre cult film Donnie Darko another chance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Andrew Repasky McElhinney |
09-01-2004 |
Reviews
Unmitigated Gallonew
Six angles on The Brown Bunny's vanishing points
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Edward E. Crouse, Susan Gerhard, Chuck Stephens, Cheryl Eddy, Johnny Ray Huston and M.P. Klier |
09-01-2004 |
Reviews
Highlights and Lowlightsnew
Here are 20 more reasons to race to -- or from -- the multiplexes and art houses this fall.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Huston and Cheryl Eddy |
08-25-2004 |
Reviews
Urban Portrait Transcends Space and Timenew
The loveliest film of this young century is also one of the loneliest, a present-day urban portrait steeped in images of near ancient architecture and eternal nature.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
Bukowski Film is "Write On"new
The new Bukowski film isn't just another slumming poet pic.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
08-07-2004 |
Reviews
"Troy" Suffers From Achilles' Heelnew
The heavy machinery of spectacle and actual plot move their impressive bulk around without too many gears squeaking. Three hours pass like two.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
08-07-2004 |
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