It’s every guy’s dream — write and direct a movie about sex featuring Scarlett Johansson. And then cast yourself alongside her as the leading man. Hollywood’s favorite charmer Joseph Gordon-Levitt has done just that. Gordon-Levitt wrote and stars in “Don Jon,” his directorial debut about two lovers coping with very Read More…
As the saying goes, all bad things must come to an end. Join Ian Birnam, Michael Rosen, Sean Wagner-McGough and Youssef Shokry for the series finale of “Breaking Bad” as we send off Walt, Jesse and the rest in a finale full of Nazis, ricin, machine guns and a bearded Read More…
Watching a William Friedkin film is like lighting a candle in a pitch-black cave. Suddenly, the shield of darkness is lifted, releasing sinister shadows and giving form to what was previously an unknowable space. In director Friedkin’s work, that unknowable space is the human soul, and it only becomes more Read More…
In November 2011, when Occupy Cal was at its peak, professor Robert Reich spoke to a crowd of thousands gathered on Sproul Plaza. Tensions ran high, and passions flared. Speakers took the stage, offering insight and hope, echoing the protesters’ anger. Standing on Mario Savio Steps, Reich urged the crowd Read More…
To give these more daring, avant-garde exercises of animation exposure to a larger audience, the Pacific Film Archive screened “Lost and Found: Recent Experimental Animation” Wednesday night as the second installment in its “Alternative Visions” series.
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When it comes to Burning Man, the week-long orgy of radical self-emancipation in the middle of the Nevada desert, there has been a lot of wasted ink. In 2012, the festival’s organizers developed a lottery system to accommodate the tens of thousands of people looking to get tickets to Burning Read More…
Despite the protests of director Morgan Spurlock, maker of award-winning and critically acclaimed documentaries like “Super Size Me” and “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold,” his newest feature “One Direction: This Is Us” is a movie designed only to make money. And if you know anything about One Direction, the most Read More…
The 1960s put Berkeley on the map as a center of political activism in the United States. Counterculture and radicalism emerged on the steps of Sproul Hall as students took part in a political awakening that would shake the nation and define the spirit of UC Berkeley. In a scene Read More…
One of the hardest parts of watching a movie about a person who was a notoriously awful human being is that you have to suffer through their on-screen misdeeds. The 1970 classic “Patton” portrays a half-psychotic general who slapped around war-traumatized soldiers coming back from the front, pairing his military Read More…
Nick Frost has come a long way from making $3.00 an hour as the the “world’s wittiest waiter,” and so too has Simon Pegg from the days when they shared a flat together. The duo, — along with director Edgar Wright — have come a long way, too, from the Read More…