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......

Finally, our holiday film season begins. There are so many great movies opening this weekend that we don't know where to begin. On the bigger-budgeted side of things, we are embarassed by the twin riches of The House of Flying Daggers, a Tang-dynasty-set police drama with all the breathtaking martial arts we've come to expect from any movie starring the lovely Ziyi Zhang, and the film version of San Francisco novelist Daniel Handler's A Series......