All the deets from your Sundance Kabuki Cinemas at Post and Fillmore in Japantown:
“Starts Friday: A GLIMPSE INSIDE THE MIND OF CHARLES SWAN lll is a playful comedy of lost love, friendship and revenge starring Charlie Sheen as a successful LA graphic designer whose money and charm have provided him with a seemingly perfect life. His true love dumps him, and it all falls apart. With Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray and Patricia Arquette. Join us in welcoming Director Roman Coppola for Q+A’s after the 7.15pm shows Friday and Saturday nights.”
Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is opening soon but you can see it before anybody else on Thursday night at 7:30 PM in San Francisco’s Financial District if you email me after I make a Tweet around noontime today, Tuesday, March 6th, 2012.
That’s today’s game, let’s see if you can figure out how to win. But what I told you is what you need to know.
This looks like an excellent movie to me, that’s why I’m doing this promotion.
Check the Twitter starting at noon. The first five winners win a pair of ticks.
“1 Screen. Built in 1939. Operated by Landmark since 1991. Only one mile west of Japan Town and one mile south of the Presidio, the Bridge Theatre is conveniently and centrally located in the Inner Richmond District. Named after the Golden Gate bridge which was built two years before, it is one of San Francisco’s most beloved single-screen movie palaces, featuring independent films and foreign language cinema since the 1950s.”
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 19
DAY 1 (ONLY $12 FOR 1 OR ALL 4 FILMS!): Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 12noon
Directed by Chris Columbus | 2001 | 152 min | DCP ‘Scope Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets 2:50
Directed by Chris Columbus | 2002 | 161 min | DCP ‘Scope - 30 MINUTE INTERMISSION - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 6:00
Directed by Alfonso Cuarón | 2004 | 142 min | DCP ‘Scope Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire 8:35
Directed by Mike Newell | 2005 | 157 min | DCP ‘Scope
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 20
DAY 2 (ONLY $12 FOR 1 OR ALL 4 FILMS!): Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix 12noon
Directed by David Yates | 2007 | 138 min | DCP ‘Scope Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2:30
Directed by David Yates | 2009 | 153 min | DCP ‘Scope - 30 MINUTE INTERMISSION - Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 5:30
Directed by David Yates | 2010 | 146 min | DCP ‘Scope Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 in 3D 8:10
Directed by David Yates | 2011 | 130 min | DCP ‘Scope
“The British Consul General, Ms Priya Guha, requests the pleasure of your company at a reception prior to a screening of “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy” November 16, 6:00-7:15pm”
O.K. then. And that’s not at all a typical kind of thing for San Francisco’s consular community, really, but our BritishConsulate-General is out there in the Bay Area promoting the heck out of Britain. (Cool Britanniathey used to call it.) And actually that’s not a hard job when you have Kate Middleton’s Royal Wedding this year (and her recent California visit, dropping by just to say “hi”) and the upcoming 2012 Summer Olympics and whathaveyou.
“Based on the classic novel of the same name, the international thriller is set at the height of the Cold War years of the mid-20th Century. George Smiley (Gary Oldman), a disgraced British spy, is rehired in secret by his government – which fears that the British Secret Intelligence Service, a.k.a. MI-6, has been compromised by a double agent working for the Soviets.”
So last night, San Francisco’s first female British Consul General, Ms. Priya Guha, introduced this film at the Century 9 in Westfield’s San Francisco Centre. She pointed out that Britain is quite big in the movie biz, having over 100 film studios and 2500 post-production companies.
And then it was on with the show.
And then, who popped up as the curtain dropped but Gary Oldman and Director Tomas Alfredson. (Or so I’m told.) This very same crew was up in San Rafael two days ago and who knows where they’ll be tonight:
INSERT PHOTO OF MSSRS. OLDMAN AND ALFREDSON WITH CONSUL GENERAL HERE
But I do have shots from last night of people who may or may not have wanted their photos taken, so I’ll leave them caption-free. (I’ll note that CBS Channel 5 was def. in the house with famous Liam Mayclem and Beth Spotswood (she’s earned a page on Wiki now? Wow) on hand.)
