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The winners of the signed Michael Moore CAPITALISM posters will be notified this weekend. ONLY AT THE BALBOA. No purchase necessary.
We also are opening a special double bill of two current hits, THE INVENTION OF LYING with BRIGHT STAR. That means two movies for the price of one.
Enjoy
Hosted by Will the Thrill and Monica Tiki Goddess
Two Movies plus Special musical guests THE DEADLIES and live tassle tossin' by LADY MONSTER
Lots of prizes.Party after the show with Will and Monica at Hockey Haven across the street. No Host bar and special Martinis.
Advance tickets available HERE.
Tantalizing torsos, lascivious limbs, sexy slashers and prickly prostitutes splatter the screen in Fred Olen Ray's outrageous cult masterpiece,
HOLLYWOOD CHAINSAW HOOKERS(1988)!
clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_36QoP_E-0
Plus!
Larry Buchanan's unbelievable remake of Roger Corman's "It Conquered the World" starring John Agar as a scientist harboring a "special relationship" with a goofy alien invader, ZONTAR, THE THING FROM VENUS (1966)! trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsCX4wprXHw
Both films courtesy of RETROMEDIA ENTERTAINMENT
Hilary Swank and Richard Gere star in director Mira Nair's biopic tracing the extraordinary life of adventure, celebrity and continuing mystery in AMELIA, a vast, thrilling account of legendary aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart (two time Academy Award® winner Hilary Swank).
After becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia was thrust into a new role as America's sweetheart - the legendary "goddess of light," known for her bold, larger-than-life charisma. Yet, even with her global fame solidified, her belief in flirting with danger and standing up as her own, outspoken woman never changed. She was an inspiration to people everywhere, from First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (Cherry Jones) to the men closest to her heart: her husband, promoter and publishing magnate George P. Putnam (Golden Globe® winner Richard Gere), and her long time friend and lover, pilot Gene Vidal (Ewan McGregor). In the summer of 1937, Amelia set off on her most daunting mission yet: a solo flight around the world that she and George both anxiously foresaw as destined, whatever the outcome, to become one of the most talked-about journeys in history.
Rated PG for some sensuality, language, thematic elements and smoking. – 111 minutes.
“Most of all, Earhart wanted to be able to fly free as a bird above the clouds, and director Nair and star Swank make her quest not only understandable but truly impressive.”
- Ray Bennett, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/amelia-film-review-1004023274.story
“Amelia" is a beautifully crafted and very traditional epic drama that's aimed at an older, more discerning audience. That's the kind of crowd that's slow to show up at the multiplex, but if they do, they will be treated to the kind of fine adult biographical story movie studios generally just don't seem to be making anymore.”
-Pete Hammond, Los Angeles Times
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/season/2009/10/the-truth-about-amelia-by-pete-hammond.html
“Hilary Swank uncannily embodies my ideas about Earhart in Mira Nair's "Amelia." She looks like her, smiles like here, evokes her. Swank is an actress who doesn't fit in many roles, but when she's right, she's right…..It confirmed for me Earhart's courage -- not only in flying, but in insisting on living her life outside the conventions of her time for well-behaved females. The next generation of American women grew up in her slipstream.”
-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091021/REVIEWS/910219989/1023
Official Amelia Earhart Website
WATCH Interview with star Hilary Swank
WATCH Interview with director Mira Nair
Director Mira Nair on "All Things Considered"
Earhart’s Mystique Takes Wing Again New York Times
Listen here to "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight," a country song with a slide show.
A San Francisco KCBS newsman, Fred Goerner wrote “The Search for Amelia Earhart” in the mid sixties. It was the first true investigative work about the disappearance of Earhart and can be found used online.
Read about it and Goerner:
http://www.trivia-library.com/b/history-of-the-search-for-amelia-earhart-part-3.htm
http://www.ameliaearhartbook.com/new_page_9.htm
The screenplay by Ronald Bass and Anna Hamilton Phelan is based on two books about Earhart -- Susan Butler's "East to the Dawn"
and Elgin Long's "Amelia Earhart: The Mystery Solved"
Last Footage of Amelia Earhart on YouTube
Visit the Balboa website for more!
London 1818: a secret love affair begins between 23 year old English poet, John Keats, and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, an outspoken student of fashion. This unlikely pair started at odds; he thinking her a stylish minx, she unimpressed by literature in general.
It was the illness of Keats’s younger brother that drew them together. Keats was touched by Fanny’s efforts to help and agreed to teach her poetry.
By the time Fanny’s alarmed mother and Keats’s best friend Brown realized their attachment, the relationship had an unstoppable momentum. Intensely and helplessly absorbed in each other, the young lovers were swept into powerful new sensations, “I have the feeling as if I were dissolving”, Keats wrote to her. Together they rode a wave of romantic obsession that deepened as their troubles mounted. Only Keats’s illness proved insurmountable.
PG for thematic elements, some sensuality, brief language and incidental smoking – 119 minutes.
“Bright Star satisfies a hunger we may not have known we had, a hunger for an exquisitely done, emotional love story that marries heartbreaking passion to formidable filmmaking restraint.”
--Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
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“Every frame of this exquisite period romance features an attention to detail, a passion for literature and an intense, fully clothed, pre-Victorian sexiness that suggest a director in something close to rapture"
--Amy Biancolli, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Read More
“The rare film about the life of an artist that is itself a work of art.”
--Dana Stevens, SLATE Read More
“Campion–who also wrote the screenplay, inspired by British poet Andrew Motion's biography of Keats–tells the story of Keats and Fanny in delicate, painterly colors, layered in such a way that they're vividly vital.”
--Stephanie Zacharek, SALON.COM Read More
Watch interview with director Jane Campion on PBS Charlie Rose Sep 16, 2009.
Watch interviews with Jane Campion, Ben Whishaw, and Abbie Cornish.
Read interview with actor Ben Whishaw.
From Ricky Gervais, the award-winning creator and star of the original BBC series "The Office" and HBO's "Extras," comes the new romantic comedy "The Invention of Lying."
"The Invention of Lying" takes place in an alternate reality in which lying--even the concept of a lie--does not exist. Everyone--from politicians to advertisers to the man and woman on the street--speaks the truth and nothing but the truth with no thought of the consequences. But when a down-on-his-luck loser named Mark (Gervais) suddenly develops the ability to lie, he finds that dishonesty has its rewards. In a world where every word is assumed to be the absolute truth, Mark easily lies his way to fame and fortune. But lies have a way of spreading, and Mark begins to realize that things are getting a little out of control when some of his tallest tales are being taken as, well, gospel. With the entire world now hanging on his every word, there is only one thing Mark has not been able to lie his way into: the heart of the woman he loves.
"The Invention of Lying" stars Ricky Gervais, Jennifer Garner ("Juno"), Jonah Hill ("Superbad"), comedian Louis C.K., Jeffrey Tambor (TV's "Arrested Development") and Fionnula Flanagan ("Yes Man"), with Rob Lowe (TV's "Brothers and Sisters") and Tina Fey ("Baby Mama," TV's "30 Rock").
The comedy is written and directed by Ricky Gervais & Matthew Robinson. The film is produced by Lynda Obst ("How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days," "Sleepless in Seattle"), Oly Obst, Gervais and Dan Lin ("Terminator Salvation," "Shorts"), Sue Baden-Powell, Ted Field, Paris Kasidokostas Latsis and Terry Dougas serving as executive producers.
The behind-the-scenes creative team includes director of photography Tim Suhrstedt ("17 Again"); editor Chris Gill ("28 Weeks Later"); production designer Alexander Hammond ("Flightplan"); costume designer Susie DeSanto ("13 Going on 30"); and composer Tim Atack ("Among Giants").
The Invention of Lying, in addition to being very funny and inventive, is an attempt at a genuine statement about life, social discourse and morality.”
- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle Read More
One of the fall's funniest films -- honest.” - Michael Rechtshhaffen, Hollywood Reporter Read More
“Gervais, who co-directed and co-wrote with Matthew Robinson, walks a delicate tightrope above hazardous chasms.”
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times Read More
Sublimely funny, slyly satirical and deliberately designed to upset Aunt Prissy, The Invention of Lying weaves quite a wicked web.”
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune Read More
The movie is something rare, a boisterous American comedy with the power to trigger philosophical disputes -- even, if taken really seriously, fisticuffs. One can hope!”
- David Edelstein, New York Magazine Read More
Ricky Gervais BLOG
Interview with Jonah Hill Video
Ricky Gervais on “The Jimmy Kimmel Show” Video
An authentic American original, Garrison Keillor is a disarming, witty, and always-entertaining writer, humorist, and celebrity speaker, best known for his immensely popular A Prairie Home Companion (heard by more than 2 million listeners on 450 NPR stations weekly). Here in Berkeley, Keillor will share delightful anecdotes about growing up in the American Midwest, "late-life fatherhood," and the people of his beloved Lake Wobegon, where "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." With a wonderful, dry sense of humor, this modern-day Mark Twain captivates audiences and delivers with class, charisma, and wisdom.
For more information about the show, videos, and buying tickets: http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/season/2009/speaking/gk.php
HOW TO WIN TICKETS
We are giving away tickets for Wednesday October 28 at 8pm. To qualify, send an email with your name and email address in the body of the email and GARRISON KEILLOR in the subject line. To qualify all entries must be received no later than Monday, Oct. 24 at noon. Please be certain that you can attend, as the tickets are not transferable. One entry per person. Multiple entries will disqualify all of them. Please send your entry to balboafans (at) yahoo.com . (Change (at) to @. We are trying to avoid spam.) Good luck.
Other upcoming Cal Performances events include An Evening with Garrison Keillor on Oct. 28. Check back next week for more details and another chance to win tickets.
Our friends at the Vogue Theatre, on Sacramento St., are opening MOTHERHOOD starring Uma Thurman.
Daily Show Times at 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:05
Baby Matinee Tuesday, October 27 at 11AM
Coming in the Opera series SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18th
Cosi Fan Tutte
For info: http://www.peerlessentertainment.com/VTWeb_World_Stage.htm
Next Friday, October 30, at The Paramount Theatre in Oakland, they will be showing ABBOTT & COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN from 1948.
The legendary comedy duo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello tread the fine line between horror and humor and come up with their finest movie. They don't just meet Frankenstein, but Count Dracula and the Wolfman, too! And not just any Dracula, but Dracula played by Bela Lugosi! (This was the only other time Lugosi played the Count on film since the original Dracula seventeen years earlier in 1931.) From the truly creepy opening scene in the wax museum to a final "cameo appearance" in the last scene, the film charges full-steam ahead and never lets up. One of the funniest and goofiest scare comedies ever!
Admission is only $5. There are prizes, shorts and an organ concert so don’t miss it. Bring your family and friends and you’ll have a great time.
For more info and how to buy tickets click HERE
And BART goes right to the theater’s front door.
We will be giving away free tickets at select weekend shows at the Balboa for the following week’s classics at the Paramount.
Quang-Tuan Luong celebrates the splendor and variety of the natural and human heritage with his photography. He has been privileged to travel through an immense geographic range, from the top of the coldest mountain on earth to under tropical seas.
His photographs have been published in many books, and have appeared in several publications from National Geographic, Time, Life, Outside, Scientific American, GEO, and many others in dozens of countries around the world. However, he reached his largest audience through www.terragalleria.com, one of the most extensive and most visited of all individual photographers websites.
In the course of researching locations for their new documentary "The National Parks: America's Best Idea" (to be aired on PBS this coming September), Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan saw the images on that website, and used them to help plan their production. Impressed by their wealth and quality, they used some of his images to fill missing sequences in their cinematography. Intrigued by the story of Luong's life and project, they featured him as one of the few living characters in the film, a newcomer who was deeply moved by America's natural beauty, who has dedicated his efforts to raise awareness and respect for our national treasures.
All photographs are available as limited edition prints. To view them, or contact Quang-Tuan Luong, please visit www.terragalleria.com
To learn more about Ken Burns’ THE NATIONAL PARKS: http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/about/ken-burns/
Local showings on KQED: http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/nationalparks/
With Balboa ticket stub 10% off food at Kim Son. Our staff and customers think this Vietnamese restaurant in one of the best places to eat in the neighborhood. Want to eat there before the show? Buy your ticket at the box office first and then show it at dinner. Make sure you keep it to get into the theater. This is an ongoing discount so you can also use it on your next visit to the neighborhood. Kim Son is just a few doors away from the Balboa at 3614 Balboa St
Thanks for all of you who voted for the Balboa and other independent theaters on the SF Gate's BayList. We are proud of your comments and to be in the Top 5:
http://baylist.sfgate.com/balboa-theater/biz/13806
Anticlimactic Rescue Journey
If a horror movie periodically cuts to a lesser character slowly making his way to the scene of the crime with the hope that he alone can save the day, he will instead get killed abruptly upon arrival. (See "The Shining," "Friday the 13th," "Misery," etc.)
—David VanCouvering, Davis, CA
For more: www.RogerEbert.com
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@yahoo.com
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 NEW RESTAURANT LIST.
3630 Balboa Street (37th Ave)
San Francisco 94121
(415) 221-8184
www.BalboaMovies.com
Bike Rack in front of the Balboa
Muni Bus #31 or #38 Ocean Beach
Also #5 Fulton and all Geary Street buses stop two
(long) blocks from Balboa.
Relatively easy Parking
San Francisco's Favorite Neighborhood Theatre
Voted by the Bay Guardian, SF Weekly, SF Gate's A List
and San Francisco Magazine
General Admission: $9.00
Seniors and Children $6.50
Bargain Matinees: All Seats $6.50 for shows
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SCHOOL NIGHT - Mondays are School Days and Nights. With proof of being a student, faculty or staff member, your admission is only $6.50 on Mondays.
The Balboa is Wheelchair and Handicapped Accessible
On Your Birthday, You Are Our Guest.
Great Snack Bar selection at reasonable prices. Your favorite candies including Lindt, Toberlerone, and Ghirardelli chocolates.
We serve Caffe Trieste Coffees, fine Tazo teas, chai, hot chocolate, Hebrew National Kosher hot dogs, Aidells' poultry Sausages, Veggie Dogs, IT'S-IT ice cream sandwiches, Ben and Jerry's Ice Creams, and Delicious Cookies.
We are proud of making a great fresh popcorn with real butter.
No More Naked Popcorn.
Have you tried our complimentary popcorn seasonings?
We have a wide assortment from Kernel Seasonings.
Try White Cheddar, Caramel, Parmesan, Garlic and more...
We also have Nutritional Yeast that has proven to be one of our most popular toppings. And now hot sauce!