3/4, 9:30 PM San Jose Repertory Theatre 3/6, 6:45 PM Camera 12 3/11, 12:30 PM Camera 12 Jacob’s life is simple. He works nights as a security guard and spends days inside his lightproofed apartment painting the sun he can never see because of his skin disorder. As he nears his twenty-fifth birthday, though, things […]
Read more →3/4, 9:15 PM Camera 12 3/6, 5:30 PM Camera 12 3/8, 12:15 PM Camera 12 A mother tries to recover from the traumatic death of her father while struggling to build a relationship with her teenage son in this intense but ultimately unsatisfying psychological drama. “Marrow” borders on horror at times because its cinematography and […]
Read more →3/9, 7:00 PM, California Theatre This wonderful French comedy has only one screening so do not miss it! Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu star in this story of a trophy housewife (a “potiche”) who becomes fed up with her lot and takes on the barriers presented by her class and her sex. Suzanne Pujole is […]
Read more →3/3, 9:30 PM, San Jose Repertory Theatre 3/6, 9:30 PM, California Theatre This film appeared as a work-in-progress at last year’s Cinequest, and took the festival by storm. The final version is here this year, with all new effects, and it’s a blast. Eugene works for a party clown company, going to kids’ birthday parties […]
Read more →The Boneman is a pressing German drama where in a swirling mass of blatant intrigue, we wonder who’s the good guy/bad guy. Josef Hader plays an ex-cop (Brenner) who reposesses lease cars. His last assignment has him wandering around a country inn looking for a driver of a repo so he can serve papers and […]
Read more →The Animated Shorts is the best set of titles I’ve seen in 8 years. Simply a delight. The group covers hope and sadness, the surreal and sublime, the joy of entertainment, and the fun of silliness. Animated Shorts plays again March 5, Friday.
Read more →Applause is a film of angst and despair. From start to end, the film places you on scene as voyeur, watching the dysfunctional world of Thea (Paprika Steen) crumble. That’s the plot. That’s it. Nothing else. What makes this film watchable is Steen. She embraces and breathes energy and life into her desperation. Steen overcomes […]
Read more →This documentary lives at two levels. The first are the stories, a telling and touching group where the culinary envirnoments are engaged and, whether in triumph and tragedy, we learn of our humanity and history through food. The central theme is simple. We need to eat. In war, in peace, in crisis, survival begins with […]
Read more →Remaining Screenings: 3/5, 1:30 PM (Cam 12) How hard can it be to host an orgy? Harder than you’d think, especially if the people involved are half a dozen neurotic thirtysomethings. “Cummings Farm” is ostensibly a comedy, but most of its humor derives from awkwardness. If situations in which the tension would be resolved if […]
Read more →Remaining Screenings: 3/2 9:00 PM (Cam 12) Documentary director Cullen Hoback returns to Cinequest (past offerings included the fantastic “Monster Camp”) with a film that blurs the lines between truth and fiction so completely that it’s hard to tell what really happened and what didn’t. “Friction” is ostensibly a documentary about Hoback’s attempt to shoot […]
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