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Departures
A marvelous Japanese feature follows the fortunes of an undertaker
My Life in Ruins
Nia Vardalos plays a love-struck tour guide in traveloque romantic comedy
Drag Me to Hell
Sam Raimi puts the fun back into fright
Terminator Salvation
Christian Bale wants to save humanity from the robots
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
The family-oriented sequel improves on the first film
Angels & Demons
Tom Hanks tries to save the Vatican from the Illuminati
Rudo Y Cursi
Surrealists get down and dirty in new biopic
Little Ashes
Two brothers find fame but no luck as soccer stars
Star Trek
J.J. Abrams keeps the faith with the fabled franchise
Tyson
The champ gets a chance to redeem his rep in new documentary
Anvil! The Story of Anvil'
A pitch-perfect documentary about a real-life Spinal Tap
Is Anybody There?
Michael Caine's aging musician salvages a depressing tale of impending death
The Soloist
A reporter rescues a homeless musician, and both their lives are forever changed
Lymelife
An awkward boy tries to grow up in an astute comedy
Earth
Disney returns to the nature documentary with sharpened claws
Goodbye Solo
A cabbie makes an unlikely alliance in a much-acclaimed indie drama
State of Play
The ink-stained wretch makes a comeback in new thriller
All About Dad
SJSU director Mark Tran makes an impressive debut with family comedy/drama
Observe and Report
Comedy or sadomasochistic satire—you decide
Sin Nombre
The trauma of a border crossing is powerfully realized in a new film
Gigantic
A single man wants to adopt in a quirky comedy
Paris 36
A musical about bygone Paris is pretty to look at but lacks drama
Sugar
Just in time for baseball season comes a great movie about a pitcher trying to crack the bigs
The Betrayal
A Laotian refugee examines the hard route to a new land
Letters to Zerky
Art-house pioneer Bill Raney chronicles the trip of a lifetime
Adventureland
New slacker comedy does for the '80s what 'American Graffiti' did for the '50s
Monsters vs. Aliens
The sci-fi fun of the '50s lives again in animated comedy
American Madness/The Devil and Daniel Webster (1932/1941) Walter Huston plays a bank president who nearly goes down with the company after an ex-con he appointed apparently mulcts some money. An early Frank Capra comedy, bursting with populism. BILLED WITH The Devil and Daniel Webster a.k.a All That Money Can Buy. William Dieterle's terrific Yankee-Expressionist version of Faust concerns a farmer who almost loses his soul to Mr. Scratch (Huston); the hearty Edward Arnold shines as Sen. Webster, and Simone Simon is the devil's tasty girlfriend. As good a patriotic film as has ever been made in the United States; it's clear-eyed about our history, about the paths and wiles of great flawed men and the legacy of cutthroats. Bernard Herrmann's score is a standout; the four-handed version of "Pop Goes the Weasel" (we all know Satan loves the violin) is reputed to be one of the first overdubbed recordings ever made. (Plays Jun 17-18 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)
Bringing Up Baby/Holiday (Both 1938) The greatest painkiller this side of a martini. With a wildcat as her familiar, Katharine Hepburn's crazed heiress Susan stalks a beautiful fool of a paleontologist (Cary Grant) who prefers to play with the intercostal clavicle of a brontosaurus when he could be hunting leopards in Connecticut with a croquet mallet and a fishing net. Stanley Cavell, a Shakespeare-loving film critic, calls Howard Hawks' comedy "the extended allegory on the question of sharing the loss of chastity." On the one hand, that's a line as funny as the one Susan rattles: "The love impulse of the man frequently reveals itself in terms of conflict." On the other hand, if lust is a panther, seeking what it may devour, Bringing Up Baby gives us the reverse view: Hepburn purring like a pussycat, even as Grant flees, moaning, "I don't like leopards!" BILLED WITH Holiday. Grant and Hepburn (as an heiress striving to breathe free) strike a blow for nonconformity. (Plays Jun 19-22 in Palo Alto at the Stanford Theatre.)
