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General Admission: $9.00, Senior (60+) or Child (11-): $6.50 WHAT’S IN THE NEWS: Showtimes, Dear Friends, Inception, I Am Love, The Secret in Their Eyes, Photos in the Lobby: 100 Hours in the Dark, Theater Information. | |||||||||
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THEATRE #1 |
THEATRE #2 |
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INCEPTION (PG-13) |
DOUBLE FEATURE THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (R) WITH I AM LOVE (R) |
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COMING SOONOpens Friday, August 6 for One Week Only: Opens Friday, August 13: Opens Friday, August 13 - A Balboa Exclusive: |
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UPCOMING EVENTSSaturday, September 11 @ Noon: |
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Once again INCEPTION is the number one film at the box office (including ours). There is much being discussed in the media about the movie and audiences are definitely returning to dig deeper into this highly entertaining puzzle.
This week’s cover story in Entertainment Weekly discusses some of the secrets. Cleverly they aren’t putting the article online so you have to buy the magazine, but there are some fun items available from your computer here and here.
And this essay at CHUD is a good read ONLY if you’ve seen INCEPTION. Stay away from it until after you do.
And you’ll want to read Roger Ebert’s review too:
"It's said that Christopher Nolan spent ten years writing his screenplay for "Inception." That must have involved prodigious concentration, like playing blindfold chess while walking a tight-wire. The film's hero tests a young architect by challenging her to create a maze, and Nolan tests us with his own dazzling maze. We have to trust him that he can lead us through, because much of the time we're lost and disoriented. Nolan must have rewritten this story time and again, finding that every change had a ripple effect down through the whole fabric."
We've still got some INCEPTION giveaways, too. Cups, mini-posters, and temporary tattoos!
We are pleased at your response to our current art house double feature of this year’s Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film, THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES and the surprise summer hit, I AM LOVE starring Tilda Swinton. They will continue for one final week through August 5.
Next week we’ll have JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK.
"This convulsively funny movie takes an up-close and sometimes queasy-personal approach to its motormouth subject, who, when she’s not making you howl with laughter (or freeze up in horror), brandishes her deeply held hurts, fears, prejudices, poor judgment and bad taste as if they were stigmata," writes Manohla Dargis of the New York Times.
And the experts in all things funny, The Onion, says "A Piece Of Work is funny, heartbreaking, and casually profound about the insatiable need for validation and approval that fuels so much stand-up comedy."
We’ll see you there.
Gary
#1 ON BAYLIST
Thanks for your many kind words about the Balboa winning #1 Indie Theater on BayList.
We love all the comments on the list too.
AND SAN FRANCISCO MAGAZINE
The readers of San Francisco Magazine also love us. We came in number 2 and can’t complain about the company.
In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea within one's mind can be the most dangerous weapon or... In a world where technology exists to enter the human mind through dream invasion, a single idea within one's mind can be the most dangerous weapon or the most valuable asset. "As much as I want to describe in meticulous detail the ways upon ways that I loved Christopher Nolan's INCEPTION, there's a part of me that almost wants you to not read this until you've seen the film itself. Not unlike Warner Brothers' marketing campaign has suggested, it's a film that benefits from knowing as little as possible about it before seeing it, because its individual twists and turns are almost as exciting to discover as their cumulative visceral, intellectual and emotional impact. Inception is a stunning achievement and the most completely entertaining film I've seen in years." "In this wildly ingenious chess game, grandmaster Nolan plants ideas in our heads that disturb and dazzle. The result is a knockout." "A fiendishly enjoyable sci-fi voyage across a dreamscape that is thoroughly compelling." "One of the year's best films, one that will surely get even better upon repeated viewings." "If movies are shared dreams, then Christopher Nolan is surely one of Hollywood's most inventive dreamers, given the evidence of his commandingly clever Inception." "The movie of the SUMMER. The movie of the YEAR." "Pure cinema at its best feels like dreaming with your eyes wide open." |
I AM LOVE tells the story of the wealthy Recchi family, whose lives are undergoing sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti), the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to the reins of his massive industrial company, surprising everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi (Pippo Delbono), and grandson Edo (Flavio Parenti). But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a handsome and talented chef. At the heart of the family is Tancredi’s wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Edo’s friend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever. "In every sense, I AM LOVE is a stunning achievement." "An amazing film. It is deep, rich, human. It is not about rich and poor, but about old and new. It is about the ancient war between tradition and feeling." "The movie that we do have is cogent, lavish, and formidable enough, with a Recchi-like power to frighten and seduce." "When Guadagnino focuses solely on the primal, the effect is spellbinding. Only the words get in the way." Watch video interviews with star Tilda Swinton: Watch video interview with director Luca Guadagnino: Read interviews: |
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 2010; winner of two Goya Awards for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film and Best New Actress. Recently retired criminal court investigator Benjamin, decides to write a novel based on a twenty-five year old unresolved rape and murder case, which still haunts him. Sharing his plans with Irene, the beautiful judge and former colleague he has secretly been in love with for years, Benjamin’s initial involvement with the case is shown through flashbacks, as he sets out to identify the murderer. But Benjamin’s search for the truth will put him at the center of a judicial nightmare, as the mystery of the heinous crime continues to unfold in the present, testing the limits of a man seeking justice and personal fulfillment at last. "It’s powerfully and richly imagined: a genre-busting movie that successfully combines the utmost in romanticism with the utmost in realism." "Juan Jose Campanella is the writer-director, and here is a man who creates a complete, engrossing, lovingly crafted film. He is filled with his stories. THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES is a rebuke to formula screenplays. We grow to know the characters, and the story pays due respect to their complexities and needs." "A beautifully calibrated movie in the most traditional sense of the word--the ideal marriage of topic, talent and tone." "A deeply rewarding throwback to the unself-conscious days when cinema still strove to be magical, THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES is simply mesmerizing." Watch video interviews with director Juan Jose Campanella: Listen to interview with director Juan Jose Campanella: Read interviews with director Juan Jose Campanella: |
The images from the portfolio "100 Hours in the Dark" were shot off the screen while vintage movies were shown at the Telegraph Repertory Movie Theater shortly before it closed. The show is now up at the Balboa. For more information on the artist, please visit her website. |
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The Balboa is Wheelchair and Handicapped Accessible.
One of the strengths of the Balboa is our neighborhood. Other than the bank, all the businesses are family owned and operated. The restaurants are especially wonderful. On the outer Balboa strip there are 24 eating establishments by my count. You can eat Chinese, Japanese, Egyptian, Italian, American, Mexican, Seafood and Vietnamese cuisines. The foods are fresh, distinctive and all reasonably priced. The media food critics have only discovered a few of them but the locals know a good thing. We encourage you to enjoy a meal at one of these fine eateries while visiting the Balboa. All are within easy walking distance. And please send us reviews and recommendations we can share with our other guests. Send reviews to balboafans (at) yahoo.com . (Change (at) to @. We are trying to avoid spam.)
We love it when you send us a review of a neighborhood restaurant you've enjoyed. We encourage you all to write about your culinary adventures in the Outer Richmond. Check out the Menu Book in our lobby and our COMPLETE RESTAURANT LIST.
Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence and action throughout. 2 hours 28 minutes.
Rated R for sexuality and nudity. 2 hours. In Italian, Russian, and English.
Rated R for a rape scene, violent images, some graphic nudity and language. 2 hours, 9 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Kate Kline May is a Bay Area photographer and filmmaker whose photographs have been included in a major group show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, a solo show in Tokyo at Zeit Foto Gallery and a solo show at Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco.