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Apr 8, 2025

‘La cocina’ depicts kitchen chaos

The American dream dissolves into thin air during a rare moment of silence in Alonso Ruizpalacios’ operatic film, La cocina (The Kitchen). On a break from their gruelling jobs in a Times Square restaurant, a small group of employees smoke cigarettes together in a dead-end alley. Prompted by Pedro...
The cinema of Todd Haynes defies expectations
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...
‘Finding Edna Lewis’ pays homage to Southern chef
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...
Choose your own adventure in February films
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...
Romance cinema curated by relationship type
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...
‘I’m Still Here’ paints portrait of courage
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...
David Lynch Forever
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...
Film Review: 'Nosferatu' remakes the forever fright
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...
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