Weekend Watch: Epic Stylings

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Closing night of the SFIFF is tonight. The Castro will show the Argentine-directed, London-set Unmade Beds, followed by a little tit-for-tat with director/writer Alexis Dos Santos and lead actors Déborah François and Fernando Tielve. Then there's a party afterward at Mezzanine. I'll be at both things so say hi. Here's some other stuff going on:

Star Trek

This new movie from director J.J. Abrams shoots photon torpedoes into the exclusive world of retro hair cuts. Chris Pine is beside himself when he's given the opportunity of a lifetime: to manage his own space salon! His signature moves are The Vulcan Bowl Cut, The G.I. Joe, The White Castle Where Are You Now?, The Simon I Got You Pegged, and The Black Hair Is Hard. Praised by everyone in the fashion industry, this epic saga is full of thrills, frills and classic style. Opens Thursday May 7 at the Metreon and basically everywhere in the universe.

Z - The Castro

The opening caption of this movie reads: "Any resemblance to real events, to persons living or dead, is not accidental. It is DELIBERATE." Yeah! Fuck 'em. Allan Hough says it's "epically flawed but epically awesome." If you like your epic drenched in awesome, check out the new 35MM print of this classic 1969 political thriller. Plays Friday, May 8 to Thursday May 14 at The Castro. Info.

The Limits Of Control

Oh here we go again. I've read a few reviews of this and they say it's so smothered in style that it becomes kind of shitty. What do you say, San Francisco? You like style, right? Christopher Doyle, possibly the prettiest cinematographer on the planet is the man with the paint brush for an eye. Jim Jarmusch's newest stars the ice cream man from Ghost Dog and features cameos from Gael Garcia Bernal (why not?), Tilda Swinton, and Broken Flowers favorite Bill Murray. Info.