Blue Valentine Where: Sundance
Kabuki Cinemas, 1881 Post St., 415-929-4650 When: All Week Why: The best of intentions can't rescue a flatlining relationship, a lesson learned through tears, small explosions and passionless embraces by Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy (Michelle Williams), a still - young married couple watching the embers of their romance turn cold in Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine.
Also screening on the last night of the festival across town at Sundance
Kabuki Cinemas was Kelly Reichardt's latest, Night Moves.
Irons will also be honored at An Evening with Jeremy Irons at Sundance
Kabuki Cinemas, Wednesday April 30, 7:30 pm.
Comfortably sitting in the Sundance
Kabuki Cinemas in Japantown in San Francisco, I was watching The Theory of Everything with an audience of hundreds.
Not exact matches
Tracing the lineage of Japanese
cinema can either lead from the traditional stage (Noh and
Kabuki (as in Ozu, perhaps, or, more recently, Hayao Miyazaki)-RRB-, or it can lead from the American westerns of John Ford, as in Akira Kurosawa's work and, via a more circuitous route, the modern gangster
cinema of Takashi Miike and Takeshi Kitano.
Dramatic situations like the heroic mutt Shiro putting his life on the line against a billion giant bear mecha... funny sketches like the one during which
Kabuki and his rival inexplicably turn themselves into various beasts, weapons, and structures in a hilarious game of one - up... tragic events like allies taking arrows in the back or crumbling buildings to the head in order to save your party... we don't need
cinemas for such material to make a significant impact...