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Berkeley museum goes deep on the New German Cinema
To a dedicated admirer of European movies, going to “Fassbinder and the New German Cinema,” a 20-title retrospective series now under way at the...
Love Power: Wong Kar Wai retrospective lights up BAMPFA
When the name Wong Kar Wai first lit up stateside screens in the early 1990s, it was as if a bolt of lightning had...
‘Nuremberg’ reviewed: Evil on trial
James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg is a grand, complex, thought-provoking, intelligent piece of work, a combination war movie/courtroom drama/political beacon, on a subject that most of...
Linklater pays tribute to Godard in ‘Nouvelle Vague’
TORN FROM A REVIEWER’S NOTE PAD: Walking out of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, we couldn’t get a certain crazy retro-pop ditty out of our...
He quit Hitler
Truth & Treason arrives in local theaters on the heels of Raoul Peck’s smashing documentary, Orwell: 2+2=5. That’s two anti-authoritarian films in a row...
‘1984’? Now!
When someone spies the name “Orwell” in a movie title they’re pretty sure what to expect: George Orwell, author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, a.k.a. 1984;...
Blood-and-guts Darwinism reigns in Ron Howard’s ‘Eden’
Ron Howard’s 53rd directorial effort, Eden, is based on the true story of a group of European idealists who moved to a remote, uninhabited...
The Beat gets beat
The world has had 68 years to chew on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road. But if the new documentary Kerouac’s Road: The Beat of...
