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1 Embarcadero Center (at Davis) San Francisco, CA 94111

415-267-4893

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Best Corporate Movie Theater
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Polisse

Daily from May 25 until May 31

An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris's Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an entire season of Law & Or...

2006 | Best Corporate Movie Theater

It has five screens and is part of Landmark Theatres (which is owned by the Samuel Goldwyn Co.), but the Embarcadero Center Cinema is anything but a sterile multiplex. First, there's the location: the top level of an outdoor mall, an open-air skyway far removed from the downtown bustle of the street. If you go on a weekend, you'll be practically alone, and being alone at a mall is one of the pleasures of the modern age, when a whole area devoted to buying and selling is doing neither. Then... More »

"Polisse": A Lively "Law and Order: SVU" in Paris

By Karina Longworth | Wed, May 23, 2012

An episodic ensemble piece based on cases handled by Paris's Child Protection Unit, Polisse is a mutant beast: Imagine an entire season of Law & Order: SVU condensed to feature length and then spliced with DNA culled from the deadpan faux-doc inst... More »
"Bernie": Black Excels in Weird, Affecting True-Crime Story

By Nick Pinkerton | Wed, May 16, 2012

The script for Bernie was in part dictated from the stand: In a 1997 murder trial in Carthage, Texas, Bernhardt "Bernie" Tiede, a closeted ex-mortician, confessed to the shooting of his benefactress, 81-year-old millionaire widow Marjorie Nugent, ... More »
"First Position": "Spellbound" for the "Swan Lake" Set

By Nick Schager | Wed, May 09, 2012

The nonfiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in First Position, a glossy documentary about a multicultural collection of young ballet dancers striving to secure awards, scholarships, and job contracts at the p... More »
"Darling Companion": At Least the Dog Is Charming

By Melissa Anderson | Wed, May 09, 2012

"Animals are such agreeable friends—they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms," George Eliot once wrote. That's certainly the appeal of Freeway, a stray mutt rescued by Beth Winter (Diane Keaton), unhappily married to overweening, distant sur... More »
"Damsels in Distress": Dancing Divas Can't Save Plot

By Eric Hynes | Wed, April 11, 2012

Back with his first film in 14 years, Whit Stillman still operates in a world of his own. With Damsels in Distress, Stillman's urban-haute-bourgeoisie-as-endangered-species sympathies are more refined than ever. On her first day at Seven Oaks Coll... More »
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Embarcadero Center Cinema

1 Embarcadero Center (at Davis) San Francisco, CA 94111

415-267-4893

Description

Daily from May 25 until May 31

2006 | Best Corporate Movie Theater

By Karina Longworth | Wed, May 23, 2012

By Nick Pinkerton | Wed, May 16, 2012

By Nick Schager | Wed, May 09, 2012

By Melissa Anderson | Wed, May 09, 2012

By Eric Hynes | Wed, April 11, 2012