San Francisco Weekly August 8, 2012 : Page 19

Film Showtimes Arthouse listings compiled by Anna Pulley. To submit a listing (at least 10 days before issue date), e-mail film@sfweekly.com. “ Artists’ Television Access. Chromavi-sion: A live music and video event. Fri., Aug. 10, 7 p.m. $7. 992 Valencia (at 21st St.), 824-3890, www.atasite.org. Balboa Theater. The Devil’s Carnival: A musical theater/film performance collabora-tion. Sat., Aug. 11. $21. 3630 Balboa (at 38th Ave.), 221-2184, www.balboamovies.com. The Castro Theatre. Double features: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Key Largo : Wed., Aug. 8. $8.50-$11. Strangers on a Train and The Crying Game : Thu., Aug. 9. $8.50-$11. Ed Wood and Mulholland Drive : Fri., Aug. 10. $8.50-$11. San Francisco and Earthquake : Sat., Aug. 11. $8.50-$11. The PoseiDon evenT-ure: Part of Castro The-atre’s 90th Year Celebration. Sat., Aug. 11, 8 p.m. $10-$19.72. Sunrise and Freaks : A silent film about temptation, and life in a carnival sideshow. Sun., Aug. 12. $8.50-$11. The Tree of Life : A son tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Tue., Aug. 14. $8.50-$11. 429 Castro (at Market), 621-6120, www.castrotheatre.com. Dark Room Theater. The PrinCess BriDe: live!: The Princess Bride performed live for the 25th anniversary of the movie. Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m. Through Aug. 25. $20. Angel Heart : Part of the Mickey Rourke Bad Movie Night. Sun., Aug. 12, 8 p.m. $6.99. 2263 Mission (at 18th St.), 401-7987, www.darkroomsf.com. de Young Museum. Jean Paul GaulTier, or how To suBverT hauTe CouTure: Spans Gaultier’s 30-year career, and includes inter-an intimate, Emmett Jay long intense Confirmation #: night of the soul .” -Mike Harvkey, NYLON MAGAZINE IN TR IG UI NG electrifying . 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ISZ for a se BE con FO N d.” ST ER AE: (circle one:) Angela Maria Josh Tim McCool Steve Philip Deadline: SAN FRANCISCO Landmark ’ s Embarcadero Center Cinema (415) 267 -4893 BERKELEY Landmark ’ s Shattuck (510) 464 -5980 WWW.MA GPICTURES .COM/360 satiric black humor she deployed in American Psycho , writer/director Mary Harron has her characters verbalize their every emotion and hang-up — the central one being Rebecca and Ernessa’s shared experiences with suicidal fathers — while assigning Davies to telegraph the plot’s trajectory via his observation that vampire tales all feature sex, blood, and death. Lesbian desires, fears of mortality, and adolescent jealousies are all handled as bluntly as the unintentionally corny black-and-white flashbacks and gauzy dream sequences. With a round face marked by eyes set unusually far apart, Cole makes a haunting vision of sensual female malevolence, but not even her creepy lullaby that culminates with a bloody shower can counteract this story’s mildness. (N.S.) S Nuit #1 Reviewed on page 17. Unforgivable André Téchiné’s epic neo-family drama depicts offenses — attempted murder, mid-funeral beat downs, sex videos for Daddy — that no relation should have to countenance. Alain Resnais mainstay André Dussollier plays Francis, a bestselling mystery writer who travels to Venice for a retreat that becomes permanent when he swiftly seduces and marries Judith (onetime Bond girl Carole Bouquet), a real estate agent who’s still model perfect in her fifties. When Francis’s grown daughter vanishes with a preppie pusher (“He’s not a criminal,”Judith insists. “He’s a ru-ined aristocrat doing shady deals”), he hires a washed-up P.I. (Adriana Asti) to find her. Barely writing and increasingly paranoid, he recruits the P.I.’s emotionally unstable ex-con son (Mauro Conte) to trail his own wife, a sloppy overstep that either backfires or succeeds bril-liantly, depending on Francis’s true intentions. Téchiné piles a staggering amount of incident into 111 minutes, ever pushing the narrative forward and never letting scenes dawdle. The narrative is powered on pure momentum, gallows humor, and slyly ambiguous misan-thropy. It’s some kind of monster of romanti-cized antiromanticism, filleting and exalting its characters, cheating and rewarding its breath-less audience. The closest the film gets to a thesis is this shoulder-shrug: “People do things like that without knowing why.” (E.H.) views conducted by former models Farida Khelfa and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. Fri., Aug. 10. Free. 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden (inside Golden Gate Park), 750-3600, deyoung.famsf.org. San Francisco Film Society | New Peo-ple Cinema. The Moth Diaries : Reviewed on page 18. Aug. 10-16. $10-$11. Battle Royale : Reviewed on page 13. Aug. 10-16. $9-$11. James and the Giant Peach : Produced by Tim Burton. Adapted from Roald Dahl’s classic book. Sat., Aug. 11, 11 a.m. $8. 1746 Post (at Webster), 525-8630, www.sffs.org. Oddball Films. sweeT Dreams, Dark nonsensical, and uncanny nature of dreams. Thu., Aug. 9, 8 p.m. $10. Them’s FiGhTin’ worDs: An evening of films exploring anger, aggression, belligerence, and battle. Fri., Aug. 10, 8 p.m. $10. RSVP to programming@odd-ballfilm.com. 275 Capp (at 18th St.), 558-8112, www.oddballfilms.com. Roxie Theater. Bill W. : the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous. Through Aug. 9. $6.50-$10. Klown : Two friends run amok through the Danish countryside. Through Aug. 9. $6.50-$10. Passive house CaliFornia Film FesTival: Two documentaries chronicling the rise of the Passive House movement in the U.S. Thu., Aug. 9. $15. PurPle rain ParTy: A Prince sing-along and membership drive. Fri., Aug. 10, 7 p.m. $15. The 4Th annual niGhTmares, anD haunTinG halluCina-Tions: An exploration of the surreal, inspiring, Pulitzer prize-winner The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today . Aug. 11-13. sfatheistfilmfestival. org. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World : A second anniversary screening. Sat., Aug. 11, 11 p.m. $6.50-$10. inCreDiBly sTranGe Televi-sion: Presented by Johnny Legend. Includes: The Life of Riley, Love That Bob, In the Beginning..., and The Modern Age. . Aug. 13-14. $11. 3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com. San Francisco Film Society Screen. The Devil, ProBaBly: Directed by Robert Bresson (1977). Through Aug. 9. $9-$11. 1746 Post (at Webster), 561-5000, www.sffs.org. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Wanda : An alcoholic finds herself a man’s partner in crime. Thu., Aug. 9, 7 p.m. $5. 151 Third St. (at Minna), 357-4000, sfmoma.org. Top of the Mark. Sunset Boulevard : See details on page 14. The Vortex Room. The Touchables and Deadly Sweet : A late ’60s double feature. Part of Five Weeks of Cinematic Pop. Thu., Aug. 9, 9 p.m. $7. 1082 Howard (at Seventh St.), myspace.com/thevortexroom. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. The Naked Island : A family of poor farmers strug-gling for existence in southwest Japan. Part of the Kaneto Shindo Remembered series. Through Aug. 12. $15. 701 Mission (at Third St.), 978-2787, www.ybca.org. aTheisT Film FesTival: Lineup includes OF THE BEST MOVIES OF THE YEAR! ” “ ONE “ ONE sfweekly.com HELL OF A MOVIE! ” ROGER EBERT RICHARD ROEPER “ONE OF THE MOST SATISFYING MOVIES OF THE YEAR!” MICK LASALLE, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE HHHH ! ROLLING STONE EMILE JUNO | Contents | “ MATTHEW McCONAUGHEY MESMERIZES! ” Letters McCONAUGHEY HIRSCH TEMPLE MATTHEW | suCka GERSHON AND CHURCH GINA THOMAS HADEN Free FROM ACADEMY AWARD WINNING DIRECTOR WILLIAM FRIEDKIN AND PULITZER PRIZE WINNING WRITER TRACY LETTS ® City ALL COUPLES ATTENDING nuit # 1 ON THEIR FIRST DATE ADMITTED FOR HALF PRICE FRI AND SAT AUGUST 10 & 11 AT THE ELMWOOD ONLY . 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