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Richard von Busack

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Biography:

Born in Los Angeles, von Busack attended school at UC Santa Cruz and went on to be the lead film critic at Metro Newspapers, the Silicon Valley-based chain of weeklies.

Favorites:

This year it was: Late Marriage, Spider-Man, World Traveller, Y Tu Mama Tambien...

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Location:

East of the San Francisco Bay

Reviews

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The Flash (2023) 63% “Are multiverses just an excuse for not picking a tone or choosing a story? Our cinema’s flavor of the last few years may just be the child of channel-surfing... The Flash makes you feel simultaneously overserved and underserved.” – Good Times Santa Cruz Sep 29, 2023 Full Review Out of the Loop (2023) 100% “Out of the Loop is one of those documentaries that seem like a podcast carried out by other means, with talking heads interspersed with glorious looking drone footage of Chicago. But there’s a wealth of cultural history here, intelligently collected” – SF Weekly May 1, 2023 Full Review The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933) 86% “[General Yen] is a breakthrough film. Not just a breakthrough for its director Frank Capra, who rightly understood it as one of his best films... But the real breakthrough in this compelling, dreamy romance are the racial taboos it shatters.” – MetroActive Apr 24, 2023 Full Review Marlowe (2022) 26% two stars “Neesom unfortunately even says “I’m getting too old for this” after a fight. There’s a line that should be banned from cinema. The young people in the audience aren’t convinced by the apology…and it just depresses the old people in the back row.” – SF Weekly Mar 10, 2023 Full Review Mondo Hollywoodland (2021) 88% 3/5 “ Among Ambrose’s gifts are an ebullient and energetic feel for the lightness of LA, for the Robert Altman-style people-collage of exasperated women and child-like men.” – SF Weekly Dec 6, 2022 Full Review Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022) 91% 4/5 “Rowdier, richer, and sometimes a little more ungainly than its predecessor, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is more evidence that Rian Johnson is the most democratic director since Jonathan Demme. ” – SF Weekly Nov 21, 2022 Full Review Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1964) 93% “[Paradjanov's] extraordinary sensuality combines the dreaminess of Vigo with the feeling for the natural world of Herzog.” – MetroActive Feb 28, 2022 Full Review Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 (2021) 100% “If there was any especially brave comedy moment during the first quivering month after the attack, that moment starred japemeister Gilbert Gottfried.” – SF Weekly Oct 7, 2021 Full Review The Big Scary "S" Word (2020) 87% “A rousing, well-edited study about the possibilities of democratic socialism.” – SF Weekly Aug 18, 2021 Full Review Settlers (2021) 57% “It's a film without villains, only deluded or deceptive men, and it ends in a ferocious stalemate that counters the Biblical view of a man's duty to settle and dominate a bleak land.” – SF Weekly Aug 13, 2021 Full Review The Dark Hobby (2021) 100% “Paula Fouce' documentary exposes a savage problem lurking underneath one of the seemingly most benign of pastimes.” – SF Weekly May 24, 2021 Full Review Tiny Tim: King for a Day (2020) 85% “While this is a knowledgeable film and a genuine labor of love, the problem is right there in the title. He was king for more than a day - Tiny Tim was a remarkable talent who is overdue for a revival.” – SF Weekly May 10, 2021 Full Review The Truffle Hunters (2020) 97% “Think of The Truffle Hunters, then, as a COVID-break, leisurely paced, and soothing; a walk in the woods to cure trauma, as per Hemingway's Big Two-Hearted River.” – SF Weekly Apr 16, 2021 Full Review The Courier (2020) 85% “Starring and executive produced by Benedict Cumberbatch, The Courier has echoes of The Russia House's ingenuity.” – SF Weekly Mar 26, 2021 Full Review Nomadland (2020) 93% “The film vibrates with moral seriousness, but it misses all the best qualities of the book, where one learned about the ingenuity of the houseless as much as their plight.” – SF Weekly Feb 12, 2021 Full Review Some Kind of Heaven (2020) 93% “The absolutely remarkable documentary Some Kind of Heaven was produced by (among others) Darren Aronofsky and the actress Lindsay Crouse. There may not be anything quite like it since Errol Morris started out.” – SF Weekly Jan 22, 2021 Full Review The Midnight Sky (2020) 50% “The problem with this film is that it is terminally serious.” – SF Weekly Jan 15, 2021 Full Review Soul (2020) 95% “This is one of Pixar's deepest and most melancholy animated comedies.” – SF Weekly Dec 29, 2020 Full Review Kingdom of Silence (2020) 88% “Khashoggi was a sometimes slippery man. Yet he was inarguably brave: "You are in a war, you cannot give up, you cannot disappear." His steadfastness shames our government tactics to go along and get along.” – SF Weekly Dec 10, 2020 Full Review Collective (2019) 99% “Collective reflects the muckraking qualities of the much-missed Romanian new wave; it picks up where 2005's The Death of Mr. Lazarsecu ended, that fictional story of a dying old man shifted from one overbooked and uncaring Bucharest hospital to another.” – SF Weekly Dec 4, 2020 Full Review Vanguard (2020) 29% “The old master shares the screen with young talent - but something is missing.” – SF Weekly Nov 20, 2020 Full Review Greyhound (2020) 78% “The depth Hanks brings to this almost eclipses the adventure, but mostly, Greyhound is a ripping yarn.” – SF Weekly Oct 19, 2020 Full Review You Don't Nomi (2019) 89% “Jeffrey McHale's entertaining documentary You Don't Nomi shows that the now 25 year old Showgirls is guilty of all charges.” – SF Weekly Oct 19, 2020 Full Review You Never Had It: An Evening With Bukowski (2016) 100% “Bukowski was a figure made for cinema.” – SF Weekly Oct 19, 2020 Full Review Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) 83% “While this isn't as smooth or as funny a 90-minute romp as the last one, it has a bit more depth.” – SF Weekly Oct 19, 2020 Full Review
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