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Mar 11, 2025
The cinema of Todd Haynes defies expectations
The retrospective film series “Todd Haynes: Far from Safe,” currently up and running at the Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, is now more or less into its discovery phase, screening some of filmmaker Haynes’ lesser known...
Mar 4, 2025
‘Finding Edna Lewis’ pays homage to Southern chef
Julia Child needs no introduction to foodies and food historians. The co-author of Mastering the Art of French Cooking created an enduring mythology as the star of her own PBS show, The French Chef. She waved a...
Feb 18, 2025
Choose your own adventure in February films
February has been a mellow month for movies so far, with studios frontloading theaters with the midsize movies they don’t have a ton of faith will gain box office momentum. This is pretty normal, as the studios...
Feb 11, 2025
Romance cinema curated by relationship type
When writing about movies to watch with one’s spouse, partner, significant other or all by one’s own damn self for Valentine’s Day, I found myself focusing on the futility of such an endeavor. Every single relationship is...
Feb 4, 2025
‘I’m Still Here’ paints portrait of courage
In the opening frames of Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here, we’re introduced to the Paiva family of Rio de Janeiro, through a montage of scenes of ordinary life in that fabled tropical city. Kids playing futebol and...
Jan 28, 2025
David Lynch Forever
We lost artist David Lynch on Jan. 15, just five days before his 79th birthday. As a writer, director, painter and designer, he spent his entire career finding ways to map the human subconscious, making movies that...
Dec 25, 2024
Film Review: ‘Nosferatu’ remakes the forever fright
Vampire pics are perennial. Tales of undead bloodsuckers are probably the sturdiest horror film subgenre—outranking Frankenstein’s monster or, say, zombies—largely because of their morbid sexual component. Typically, vampires sneak into their victims’ bedrooms late at night while...