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The soundtrack to the new Coen Brother’s film, “Inside Llewyn Davis” captures heavy-hearted melancholy in the way only folk music can. While the film will be released in theaters Dec. 6, its soundtrack is currently available on iTunes. Although it may seem odd that it is about a month before
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On Nov. 4 and 5, the prolific French film director Agnes Varda visited Berkeley to introduce the series “Afterimage: Agnes Varda on Filmmaking,” which is running at the Pacific Film Archives. Often referred to as “the grandmother of the French New Wave,” Varda may fairly be considered one of the
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The Berkeley Video and Film Festival program’s weekend of 67 student films opened Friday in a night of excellent curatorial choices, pristine film innovation and a tragically empty theater. The five-and-a-half hour program opened with three films submitted by students from unspecified schools and the remaining twelve films were created
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Halloween will be a spine-tingling night for the Berkeley film scene: from the new remake of the Stephen King novel “Carrie,” now playing at most local cinemas, to the United Artist’s flashback screening of “Shaun of the Dead” or even the Pacific Film Archive’s chilling Pasolini film, “Salo, or the
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The intimate selections of poetry read by Alice Notley and Simona Schneider at UC Berkeley’s Holloway Reading Series on Thursday made for a night of contradictions; the poets’ performances were lovely yet severe, and their content felt personal yet universal, both descriptive and emotive. Before the event’s slightly delayed start,
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After following its splash at Sundance Film Festival and Ebertfest (Roger Ebert’s Film Festival) this spring, I eagerly await the public release of the film “Escape From Tomorrow,” this Friday, October 11th. Its trailer is both enticing and riveting; while little information on the plot of the film is enclosed,
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It would be difficult to watch such a performance without applying such strong feelings of pride, comfort, loss and guilt to one’s own life and relationships. Berkeley’s Aurora Theatre presents Amy Herzog’s “After the Revolution” as a piece of intimacy and availability, history and relevance — a two-hour investigation of the vulnerability and strength of familial relationships.
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From Oct. 5-13, Litquake 2012 shook San Francisco with literary events. “Two Guys from Chicago: Daniel Clowes, Dave Eggers” Despite the formal feel of two red velvet chairs spotlighted on stage, “Two Guys from Chicago: An Evening with Daniel Clowes and Dave Eggers” began casually. The two compiled a humorous
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How could one little man cause such universal grief and anguish? More importantly, why would he?” These stimulating questions blossomed into the 1990 musical “Assassins,” a spectacle that lures its audience into a world suspended in time and space, alternating between fiction and history to create a “dreamlike vaudeville” in
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Yesterday, for me, was a day of self-reflection. After getting the WarnMe alert from the chancellor about a threat on campus, I found myself — like many others I presume — in a state of quick panic as I fought the urge to bolt out the door in the middle of my
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