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Review: ‘Wicked’ is the best movie musical in years | Datebook
Nov 19, 2024 · You’ll notice “Wicked” does not rely on the quick cuts and digitally enhanced or downplayed vocals of those other movies. “Wicked” shows big groups of people, including the lead actors, dancing in unison while being shot from multiple angles.
Review: Familial dysfunction soars in ‘Cult of Love’ - Datebook
Feb 2, 2024 · Review: Familial dysfunction soars in ‘Cult of Love’ Most families dread the holiday season. The Dahls in Berkeley Repertory’s latest drama, written by “Russian Doll” co-creator Leslye Headland, are no different.
Review: A surprising and riveting fourth novel closes out Southern ...
Oct 18, 2024 · The Southern Reach Trilogy was a huge success for VanderMeer. But it also, and purposefully so, left many questions unanswered. That is where “Absolution” comes in: It acts first and foremost as a stand-alone, but also as a new way to enter the trilogy.
Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen keeps S.F. Symphony on course in
Oct 5, 2024 · With his signature flair for the theatrical, Shostakovich ups the ante in the concerto’s linked third and fourth movements. As Salonen and the Symphony laid the groundwork for the Passacaglia’s variations, Shoji offered a nostalgic glance, both melodically and temperamentally, back toward the Nocturne.
Review: ‘The Wild Robot’ may be DreamWorks’ finest ... - Datebook
Sep 25, 2024 · As Roz learns feelings, her look evolves through dings, moss and carbon-based replacement parts into that of a more organic being. Still, this contraption remains a whiz-bang wonder of swirling, detachable appendages and vibrant lights that go into action with such lithe speed, Transformers look like clanking rust buckets by comparison. And it’s not just Roz; every frame is saturated in ...
Cary Grant’s daughter to bring ‘Archie’ to San Francisco
Jan 11, 2024 · Jennifer Grant, an actress herself, has become the keeper of her father’s legacy, and is scheduled to appear at the Vogue Theatre in San Francisco on Tuesday, Jan. 16, to present the first two episodes of “Archie,” which stars Jason Isaacs as Cary Grant and Laura Aikman as Cannon, and chat onstage afterward.
Review: Aurora Theatre’s ‘Fallen Angels’ falls… flat
Oct 25, 2024 · If you’re not already familiar with Coward’s 1925 comedy of manners, which opened Oct. 24, you — along with Julia (Kina Kantor) and Jane (Emily Newsome) — might be certain that Maurice simply has to turn up any minute.
Impressionist Mary Cassatt’s modernity takes center stage
Oct 12, 2024 · And about those famous images of maternity and children: They are the ones that really make my senses activate. The painting “Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child” (1880) showing a woman with a blond toddler on her lap, and the pastel “A Goodnight Hug,” seemingly depicting the same woman and child embracing (1880), practically vibrate with the graphic zigzag of the walls behind them.
Why Tamara de Lempicka is suddenly all the rage a century after …
Sep 26, 2024 · Rubio, the president of Women in Film San Francisco Bay Area and founder of East Meets West Productions (2014’s “East Side Sushi”), got some invaluable celebrity help of her own in making her de Lempicka film.Noted collector Barbra Streisand provided Rubio with high-resolution images of the artist’s work, and the legendary singer and filmmaker OK’d the sections featuring her ...