The Smith Brothers chat with Serbian filmmaker Srdjan Sarenac in today’s episode of “Today at Cinequest,” and Richard von Busack talks about some hot documentaries that will be screened at various theaters around San Jose today, including ‘The World According to Ion B.” and ‘Dying to do Letterman.”
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From the late 1990s to the mid-00s, a silent crime wave sucked billions out of banks, compromised personal privacy on a wholesale scale and exposed weaknesses in the information technology bedrock of the United States’ national security. Now there’s a window into an underworld where PIN numbers, CCV codes, passwords, Social Security numbers and answers to security questions (“Where was your mother born?”) are auctioned off like lawn dwarves on eBay.
Day three features the Chilean drama “La Vida de las Pescas,” a re-cut of local favorite “Superhero Party Clown,” and a lot more. Plus the Smith Brothers with filmmaker Phillip Guzman.
Natalie Portman may have won an Oscar for playing a wacko ballerina in “Black Swan,” but that movie will fade with time—unlike the real “Swan Lake,” which has lasted more than 130 years already and just received a marvelous production by Ballet San Jose.
WHAT PROFIT it a man … ? Jesus’ question was on comedy director Tom Shadyac’s mind. There were already elements of spirituality in his Bruce Almighty and Evan Almighty. The director was in the process of giving away his money when he got to the point described in his confessional new Cinequest entry, I Am.
The Big E makes good empanadas and serves excellent coffee. It’s just the kind of the kind of friendly, locally owned cafe you’d want to have in your neighborhood.
We are lucky to live in such a bountiful state. Where else can you get a taste of Italian cooking without leaving the area, taste the wares of local farmers, drink delicious wine and tour a vineyard all in one week? Some might say we’re spoiled, but for us it’s just another South Bay week. Mar. 2-9.
It’s tough to bring topics like child molestation, breast cancer and dementia to the stage. Tabia does a great job of tackling these and many other serious issues, capturing both the serious consequences of keeping family secrets without losing the good-natured humor that imbues real life.
Today, March 1, San Jose temporarily turns into one of the nation’s movie capitals as Cinequest arrives. In the first edition of Today at Cinequest, Richard von Busack, film critic for Metro Silicon Valley, previews the festival.
A new edition of Disney on Ice entranced audiences of all ages over the weekend at HP Pavilion in San Jose.
