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Night&Day
My Father, My Lord
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 2, 2008
Like Amos Gitai’s 1999 Kadosh, Israeli writer-director David Volach’s first feature has scores to settle with Ultra-Orthodox Judaism, especially as dominated by...
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Night&Day
Tell No One
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 2, 2008
François Cluzet, who looks like Daniel Auteuil and runs like Dustin Hoffman, simmers beautifully as a Paris pediatrician who, eight years after the brutal murder of his...
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Night&Day
Water Lilies
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 2, 2008
The camaraderie of the undesired: Invisible to everyone else, pinched, late-blooming Marie (Pauline Acquart) pairs with Anne (Louise Blachère), a heavy girl with a pasty...
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Night&Day
The Wackness
By Nick Pinkerton
Published: July 2, 2008
The Wackness is a mix tape of clichés, with writer-director Jonathan Levine taking cuts from a dozen or more “life-affirming” coming-of-age melodramas and...
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Night&Day
Even Better Than the Movie
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: July 2, 2008
She was punk before punk, feminist before the Third Wave, and a proud mestiza before the word Chicana had even been invented. She is genderfluid, Christlike, and forever...
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Night&Day
The Pursuit of Happiness
By Hiya Swanhuyser
Published: July 2, 2008
Writer, director, and lead actor Mimmo Calopresti auteurs the hell out of contemporary Italian cinema in Happiness Costs Nothing (La felicità non costa niente), which...
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Stage
Lucia and the She-Bitch have a lot in common
By Chloe Veltman
Published: July 2, 2008
When used in the same sentence, the words "sublime" and "ridiculous" usually imply a one-way journey from a feeling of ecstatic uplift to one of depraved farce. Only very...
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Matt Smith
Stealth Bloggers
Posing as journalists, bloggers got paid to write positively about Mark Leno.
By Matt Smith
Published: July 2, 2008
What with viral videos such as will.i.am's "Yes We Can" spot on Barack Obama and online jabberwocky about a supposed salt-of-the-earth-intelligentsia called Netroots, Internet...
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Fresh Eats
New Restaurants
Published: July 2, 2008
A weekly listing of new restaurants around town. To recommend a spot, e-mail fresheats. Amber Indian: 25 Yerba Buena (at Mission), 777-0500,...
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Film
Beyond Gonzo
Call hell-raiser Hunter S. Thompson's style what you will — a new doc succeeds when saluting his substance.
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 2, 2008
"In a nation of frightened dullards, there is always a sorry shortage of outlaws, and those few who make the grade are always welcome." So wrote Hunter S. Thompson of the Hells...
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Sucka Free City
Arbitron brings its Portable People Meters to Bay Area
By Brad Kava
Published: July 2, 2008
Pretty soon you may be hearing a lot more rock music on the radio, less hip-hop, and fewer plugs for the station you're listening to. Those are some of the theories thrown out...
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Music
Tilly and the Wall tap into a new beat
By Michael Alan Goldberg
Published: July 2, 2008
One Wednesday night last March, the basement of the First Unitarian Church — Philadelphia's decidedly no-frills "venue" — was packed to the hilt with a couple...
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Let's Get Killed
Soundwave's AudioBus series offers road trips with local composers
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: July 2, 2008
When you live in a city as populous as San Francisco, obnoxious white noise is a given. The 5 a.m. recycling crew talking trash at top volume, the midday taxi horn blare, the...
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Film
As American as Overpriced Dolls
In Kit Kittredge, all it takes to cure the Depression is a little Miss Sunshine.
By Ella Taylor
Published: July 2, 2008
To my 10-year-old daughter, the term "American Girl" means "that store my meanie of a mom — unlike all the other, higher-quality moms — won't let me go near." While...
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Stagecap
The gay take on Cinderella
By Molly Rhodes
Published: July 2, 2008
This is a fun-loving and high-spirited take on the well-worn Cinderella story. There are still the fairy godmother and the evil stepmother and stepsisters, and a prince, who's...
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Letters
SF Weekly Letters
Published: July 2, 2008
Carter Chimes in On Indie Fest Unrest The best things in life are free: SF Weekly ran a story about last year's Bay Area Indie Music Festival in Martinez ["Indebted to the...
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FilmCap
Constantine's Sword
By Gregg Rickman
Published: July 2, 2008
Oren Jacoby's documentary is three movies in one, at least two of which would benefit from more development than is possible in a 96-minute feature. Film A, the most...
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Stagecap
Work Eats Home shorts set in the office
By Christopher Jensen
Published: July 2, 2008
Watching a series of one-act plays about life in corporate America might seem like a crappy way to wind down after a long week in, well, corporate America. But the folks at...
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Sucka Free City
Caltrain allows drinks - see seat stains for proof
By Gordon Young and Will Harper
Published: July 2, 2008
Over the past couple of months, BART bureaucrats and board members have debated whether to relax the ban on drinking on trains by allowing commuters to use spill-proof coffee...
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Reviewed
Totimoshi
Milagrosa (Volcom Entertainment)
By Dave Pehling
Published: July 2, 2008
With more than a decade of bashing out sludgy, Melvins-inspired heaviness, Oakland power trio Totimoshi takes a step into new territory with a considerably more dynamic sound...
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