(Disney/Pixar)
The annual Christmas Day escape to the multiplex may not be an option, but that doesn’t mean you’re condemned to a Groundhog Day marathon of
It’s a Wonderful Life,
Elf and
A Christmas Story. My pick for an all-day loop is the Alameda-set
Waltz of the Snowflakes, a bravura collaboration between choreographer and Post:ballet artistic director Robert Dekkers, cinematographer Ben Tarquin and Post:ballet and Berkeley Ballet Theater Studio Company dance artists.
Another Hole in the Head Film Festival offers a weirder Dec. 25 diversion, with San Francisco Art Institute alumnus Christopher Coppola introducing his 1986 short film
Solaris tells the story of a planet that reads minds, and obliges its visitors by devising and providing people they have lost, and miss. The Catch-22 is that the planet knows no more than its visitors know about these absent people. As the film opens, two astronauts have died in a space station circling the planet, and the survivors have sent back alarming messages. A psychiatrist named Chris Kelvin (George Clooney) is sent to the station, and when he awakens after his first night on board, his wife, Rheya (Natascha McElhone), is in bed with him. Some time earlier on earth, she had committed suicide.
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