Bates furthers his postmodern push to enhance conventional orchestral scoring with the electric energy of rock music. 
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300: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
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2007 Top 10
The Year's Best Films 1. Away from Her 2. Brand Upon the Brain! 3. 3:10 to Yuma 4. Forever 5. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly 6. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 7. No Country for Old Men 8. Ratatouille 9. Persepolis 10. Syndromes and a Century
Runners-up: Into the Wild, Before the Devil Knows You're Dead, I'm Not There, The Savage... -
WonderCon 2008 preview
For the complete skinny on countless hours of "fanboy" programming, head on over to www.comic-con.org.
This year's Wonder-Con—to be held at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center Feb. 22-24, 2008—brings Hollywood back to SF once more. Among the many Special Guests are Steve Carell & Anne Hathaway (Get Smart); James McAvoy (Wante... -
Top 10 Lists
On this page, you'll find my picks for the "Top 10 Best Films" of each year at the movies. For my eligibility guideline, I use the American Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences criteria of films which had premiere U.S. theatrical runs (of at least one week) between January 1 and December 31 of each year, including, of course, foreign films w... -
The 46th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 18-May 1, 2003)
The 46th San Francisco International Film Festival played at the AMC Kabuki and Castro Theatres in SF, the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, and--for the first time--at Palo Alto's CineArts Theatre.
Of the festival's films, I screened John Malkovich's accomplished The Dancer Upstairs (Click for review.), the dazzling Winged Migration (Click fo... -
Cinequest 13 (Feb. 27-Mar. 9, 2003)
THIS YEAR'S PROGRAM:
The 2003 festival (lucky 13) runs from Thursday, Feb. 27-Sunday, Mar. 9.
The festival will screen over 60 feature films in 11 days. The complete
program guide is available online at the Cinequest web site. The
Maverick tributees this year are actors James Woods (Mar. 1), Lupe
Ontiveros (Mar. 5), William H. Macy (Mar. 7),... -
The 45th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 18 — May 2, 2002)
As in recent years, the "home" of the festival is the AMC Kabuki 8, though other venues include the glorious Castro Theatre and, stretching into other corners of the Bay Area, the
invaluable Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley and Landmark's Park Theatre in
Menlo Park.
With the 45th fest looming, naysayers whispered about the festival's new... -
Cinequest 12 (Feb. 21- Mar. 3, 2002)
The 2002 festival (the twelfth one) ran from Feb. 21-Mar. 3. The festival screened over 60 feature films in 12 days. Of those, I saw 35 films in 11 days. Excepting Dirty Harry, the film presentations were fine, though the festival occasionally had trouble sticking to its schedule. The crop of films was a solid one, and the tribute events impressive...