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Sep 26, 2023
What Color Is Fashion?
The fashion industry suffers from its general depiction in film as something frivolous or at least inconsequential, a subject generally fit for gossipy dramatizations—as...
Sep 19, 2023
Khmer Graffiti
Ask any American film fan, even the most adventurous arthouse enthusiast, what the name “Cambodia” brings to mind and they’ll probably blurt out The...
Sep 12, 2023
Bonfire Lighter
Nobody cares very much about essayists these days, let alone newspaper and magazine feature writers, no matter how outrageous they try to be or...
Sep 2, 2023
Call Him Melville
The Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, one of the world’s fortresses of cinematic culture, is renowned for, among other things, its wide-ranging collection...
Aug 30, 2023
14 Angry People
Satirical Czech film pokes fun at neighborly disagreeability
Jiří Havelka’s entertaining ensemble comedy, The Owners (Czech title: Vlastníci), is set in a condominium building in...
Aug 10, 2023
Undead Again
Thrilling new horror pic dives deeply into the Dracula mystique
The Last Voyage of the Demeter doesn’t look, sound or feel like most of today’s...
Aug 9, 2023
Look Familiar?
Rom-com deluxe ‘Shortcomings’ has more than tribal identity on its mind
Shortcomings began life as a graphic novel by popular cartoonist Adrian Tomine (Killing and...
Aug 2, 2023
Odd Man Out
Vacation goes from bad to worse in Afire
A summer vacation by the seashore doesn’t seem to be working out for the two men in...