edited by Jonathan Doyle

Mafioso (The Criterion Collection, 3.18.2008) Nino Badalamenti is a supervisor in a car manufacturing plant who hasn't taken a vacation in over two years. On his way out the door to visit his beloved childhood hometown of Sicily -- with his blonde wife and daughters -- Nino is handed a package by his boss and asked to deliver it to a powerful and influential Sicilian gangster named Don Vincenzo. Once in Sicily, Nino has a hoot seeing friends and family, but his wife has trouble fitting in and is unfairly dismissed as a snob by Nino's family. Even more worrisome, Nino finds himself entangled in an intricate web of secret mafioso dealings and is eventually sent on an unexpectedly... elaborate errand. (continued)

Upcoming

July 2

Hancock

July 3

The Whackness

July 4

Diminished Capacity

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Hunter S. Thompson

Holding Trevor

Kabluey

We are Together

July 9

Full Battle Rattle

July 11

A Man Named Pearl

August

Eight Miles High

Garden Party

Harold

Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Meet Dave

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

The Stone Angel

July 18

A Very British Gangster

Before I Forget

The Dark Knight

The Doorman

Felon

Lou Reed's Berlin

Transsiberian

July 22

Two Tickets to Paradise

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Boy A

Chronicle cutbacks

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Another big-city newspaper forced to cut staffers, another much-loved editor packing his bags....and not once in this story does the word "internet" appear.

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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on May 31, 2007 at 06:43 AM

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Joel says ...

... except for where it says the paper is losing ad revenue to the Web. Which is another word for "internet," dontchaknow.

Posted by Joel at May 31, 2007 06:49 AM

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jeffmcm says ...

Bad news.

Posted by jeffmcm at May 31, 2007 11:21 AM

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Joshua Mooney says ...

It's just a rumour, but I DID hear, from those who should know, that the estate of Stanley Kubrick has bought up a majority interest in the S.F. Chronicle and will begin to serialize Stanley's final screenplay for "AI" in its pages, along with S.K.'s "lost" screenplay for Thackeray's "Vanity Fair," just as soon as the final "i's" are dotted and "t's" are crossed. Again, just a rumour. But Herb Caen's granddaughter assures me it's gold.

"You know what, yag? I believe you."

Posted by Joshua Mooney at June 1, 2007 11:42 PM