SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend
Another great weekend for movies here in the Bay Area! For example:
SFist Rita went to see 2046 at a sneak preview last night (thanks, Larsen!), which was packed to the gills with Asians, fans of Asian art movies, or both. It's a beautifully-shot film, filled with gorgeously sad women and starring a morose-yet-suave Tony Leung Chiu-Wai. It's kind of a Nick Hornby High Fidelity of 1960s Hong Kong, as Leung reminisces about all the women he's loved and lost: Maggie Cheung, Gong Li, Carina Lau, Ziyi Zhang, and Faye Wong. (Nice list!)SFist Rita can't say that she really did anything as quotidien as "understand" the plot of the movie or anything, but did manage to figure out that the film centers around miscommunication (almost everyone speaks to each other in a different Chinese dialect) and failed attempts to connect in love. (Wow, you can't slip anything by her.) The images in the movie were crazy beautiful and heart-renderingly poignant -- though don't ask her to explain exactly why. Check it out, it'll be a great double feature with the 40 Year Old Virgin!
You can catch 2046 at the Embarcadero.
While 2046 sounds great, if we make it out of the house this weekend it will be to see Red Eye. Starring Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy (who is so perfectly baby faced it seems "bad guy" is the way Hollywood can see him, those subversive scamps), and directed by the great Wes Craven, we're open to the possibility that this movie will not be Craven's best work, but we're genre freaks to the core and are able to find value in even the crappiest of Craven's works. We suspect that we're not alone in those sentiments. Go see Red Eye at one of those big theaters we complain about.
We also have great Festival action this weekend, with the last of the Asian Film Festival at the 4 Star and the continuation of the Louis Malle Festival at the Balboa. In addition, Miss Peaches Christ brings us the San Francisco Underground Film Festival this Saturday at midnight at the Bridge.
With all these great offerings, you have no reason to sit at home watching the damn TiVo again (and we're addressing ourselves as much as our readers when we say this). What are you going to go see this weekend? Inspire us all, in the comments!