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Jun 3, 2025
Explore the heart of noir-ness in BAMPFA film series
So you think you know everything there is to know about film noir? You’ve admired the lazy swagger of Robert Mitchum. Been seduced by...
May 20, 2025
Senior assassin wields steel in South Korean hit
The lead character in Min Kyu-dong’s gratuitously violent Pagwa (The Old Woman with the Knife) doesn’t operate the same way as most other action...
May 6, 2025
Nicolas Cage battles locals in ‘The Surfer’
Nicolas Cage’s character in The Surfer, known only as The Surfer, is visiting a scenic Western Australia spot called Luna Bay with his teenage...
Apr 25, 2025
Review of ‘The Shrouds’: Keep digging
Writer-director David Cronenberg, the veteran specialist in “body horror” tales, sicker-than-thou science fiction and disturbing investigations into the latest trends in psychological torment, has...
Mar 25, 2025
Review of ‘Locked’ reveals writers’ block
As Locked opens, Eddie (played by Bill Skarsgård) has already joined the tough-shit-out-of-luck club. He’s stone broke, his car is in the shop for...
Mar 18, 2025
Spy games and brand names collide in ‘Black Bag’
Let’s talk about brands, branding and being branded. Brand-name shopping, too. It’s hard to think about Steven Soderbergh’s new drama Black Bag without exploring...
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...
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...