Role Models
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Jim Taugher|Staff Writer
“Role Models” is a film about two slacker guys, Danny (Paul Rudd) and Wheeler (Seann William Scott), whose jobs are to go from school to school selling an energy drink called Minotaur, which is funny in itself. Danny is sick of his job and his girlfriend is sick of him. One day everything [...]
Tags: critique, movie, Review, Role Models, Scene
San Francisco’s got MILK
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This past Tuesday I made my way down to the Castro for the premier of “Milk”, hoping to spy a celebrity or two and ended up seeing quite a few more.
A relatively low key event (low key for a movie premier that is) the crowd on the street was only a couple hundred strong which [...]
Tags: Castro, Film, Harvey Milk, premiere, San Francisco, Scene
“SYNECDOCHE [Sih-NECK_doh_kee], NEW YORK”
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By Sky Madden | Foghorn Staff
Acclaimed screenwriter Charlie Kaufman makes his directorial debut with “Synecdoche, New York”. It opens in San Francisco tomorrow Friday, Nov. 7th. Kaufman’s previous works “Being John Malkovich” (1999), “Adapation” (2002) and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” (2004) have asked audiences to let the hand of existentialism come out of [...]
Tags: Charlie Kaufman, interview, podcast, Scene, sky madden, synecdoche
A Beautiful Fall
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When some think of a neglected arthouse film, the image that comes to mind is a modern, avant-garde affair that looks into the abyss of the human condition and returns with stylishly esoteric profundity–all on a shoe-string budget, backyard sets, and a cast of newly-graduated drama majors. By this logic, though privately financed, minimally distributed, [...]
Tags: blog, Film, Mimi Honeycutt, Review, San Francisco Foghorn Scene, The Fall
Save Me
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Staff Writer: Laurel Bentley
Director Robert Grey’s film “Save Me” provides an intimate look at the church driven phenomenon of “reassigning” the sexual preference of homosexuals. Although the idea of converting gays to the “straight-and-narrow” through prayer and religious conditioning is nothing new, it has become increasingly prevalent in recent years as gay rights continue to move [...]
Tags: Film, Laurel Bentley, save me
Beverly Hills Chihuahua — putting the wuuuh? in Chihuahua
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Staff Writer: Brita Thompson
If you’ve seen the previews to this film, wherein thousands upon thousands of dancing and singing CGI Chihuahuas swarm over an Aztec pyramid, you’re probably looking forward to this film being an immensely expensive mess. To its credit, Beverly Hills Chihuahua had its moments that were surprisingly funny in a self-deprecating way. Part [...]
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