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The food is delish and the movies fabulous at the Foreign Cinema…

Here’s one of their many outstanding reviews

San Francisco Magazine
The 50 Very Best Restaurants: Where We Really Love to Eat Now
August 2005
Foreign Cinema
“Why: This is where Chez Panisse holds its annual holiday party. If it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for you.
What: A chaning list of seasonally inspired fare and one of the best brunch menus around.
When: You want to eat in Berkeley but don’t feel like getting on the bridge.
Where: Outside on the patio on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Inside by the fireplace for a romantic dinner.
Who: Weekends, it’s packed with a crowd that loves a good scene as much as it loves good food. Weeknights, you’ll find restaurant industry insiders on thier night off.
Wow: A kid’s menu…..makes this one of the few family-friendly restaurants where parents are thrilled to dine.”

Here’s the spring/summer schedule of movies — don’t you want to see them all?

Mar 27 – Apr 23
The Motorcycle Diaries
Based on the life of celebrated revolutionary Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries is a rich road movie and vibrant window into the spirit of South America. By using a number of amateur actors and a nearly documentary-style format, director Walter Salles Jr. makes Guevara’s interactions with peasants as realistic as possible. Gael García Bernal is an ideal choice to play Guevara, ranging effortlessly from delight to gravitas according to the vicissitudes of the character’s experience. Nominated for 2 Academy Awards.

Directed by Walter Salles Jr
South America, 2003, 128 minutes, Rated R
Movie starts at Dusk

Apr 24 – May 28
La Dolce Vita
Foreign Cinema’s first movie shown at our opening in August, 1999, La Dolce Vita is a visually flamboyant, Dante-esque odyssey through contemporary Roman decadence juxtaposing ancient Rome with modernity and surface beauty with spiritual desolation. Winner of the 1960 Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, La Dolce Vita became a worldwide critical and financial success, turning Fellini first-timer Marcello Mastroianni into an international star and earning Fellini an Oscar nomination as Best Director.

Directed by Federico Fellini
1961, Italy
174 minutes, Not Rated

May 29 – June 25
The Thomas Crown Affair
Norman Jewison’s stylish romantic caper, featuring Steve McQueen in a rare cerebral role, is an enjoyably compendium of ’60s film technique. More romance than heist, the film capitalizes on the powerful chemistry between McQueen and Faye Dunaway, who were never photographed as stunningly as they are here by the legendary Haskell Wexler. In a celebrated six-minute set piece, a wordless chess game between the two develops into an increasingly intense pas de deux of visual foreplay; near its climax, a rapt McQueen gazes on while Dunaway contemplatively fondles the head of a bishop.

Directed by Norman Jewison
USA, 1968
102 minutes, Not Rated

June 26 – Jul 30
Shall We Dance
Phenomenally successful both at home and abroad, Shall We Dance boasts expert direction and an engaging, often hilarious script. In a role that established him as one of Japan’s most popular leading men, Koji Yakusho is flawless, portraying Shohei with a subtle mix of self-consciousness and squashed dignity. Shohei is torn between the wife he loves and the fluid perfection of dance represented by the icy beauty of Mai. Suo’s deft touch fashions a narrative that could have been manipulative and maudlin into an elegant work that fuses humor with wistful melancholy.

Directed by Masayuki Suo
Japan, 1995
135 minutes, Rated PG

July 31 – August 27
The Year of Living Dangerously
Director Peter Weir portrays the Indonesia of 1965 as a place where Western blandishments ring especially hollow against the poverty, misery, and oddly spiritual life. Mel Gibson and Sigourney Weaver both solidify their place as international stars. Weir uses an unearthly Vangelis score and bright, contrasting colors in the glittery, sterile palaces of the Sukarno regime to contrast with the dirt and darkness of Indonesia’s poverty. And in Linda Hunt’s Academy Award-winning performance as photographer Billy Kwan, Weir has a great voice for the despair the poverty engenders.

Directed by Peter Weir
Australia, 1982
114 minutes, Rated PG

And Here’s the Menu

Features
Northern halibut, white corn, summer squash, chanterelles, roasted figs & fig vinaigrette 22
Seared sea scallops, heirloom tomatoes, haricot vert, bacon, aioli, basil sauce, breadcrumbs 23
Fried Madras curry spiced chicken, gypsy peppers & crazy carrots, gremolata 18
Trofie Pasta: broccoli rabe, lemon zest, chili, garlic, ricotta salata 16
MIXED GRILL: Moroccan duck breast, quail & chicken sausage, roasted grapes, canellinni, liver toast 23
Pork tenderloin, shell bean, lobster mushrooms & arugola salad, tart cherries, olive sauce 22
Grilled natural rib-eye steak*, grilled potatoes, romano & yellow wax beans, Argentine salsa 30

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Website: Foreign Cinema

Foreign Cinema Restaurant

2534 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 648-7600

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