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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...