Generation Z comes of age: ‘Beast Beast’ is as indie, cathartic as it gets
Finlay Pogue/Courtesy
The handheld camera and cinematography feel raw and real, following the three leads earnestly to capture their most vulnerable moments.
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An ode to indulgent artists
Reading “difficult” novels trained me to exist in the moment, devoting every ounce of my attention to understanding the words in front of me. I no longer find my eyes flitting to dialogue, skimming past action lines to get to the end of the book.
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February ‘Lockdown Comedy’ is refined, chuckle-worthy online classic for the Zoom Age
Lockdown Comedy finds its strength in the infectious energy shared between the audience and the performers. Sure, it may have momentary lapses of technical confusion or delay, or the sound of raucous laughter may envelope the comic’s monologue, but it turns its faults into strengths.
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Bay Area comedy producer Lisa Geduldig talks Zoom shows, performing comedy alongside her mother
Geduldig has been helping her mother refine her writing process, sharing tips with her mother from her experience in the business.
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‘Supernova’ is unassuming portrait of enduring, celestial love
The love story succeeds the most with the excellent chemistry between the two leads; their relentless back and forth breathes life into the drier, less visual parts of the film.
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DVDs and Defamiliarization
Cutting Room Floor
At every painstaking step in the DVD watching process, I am reminded that I am watching a film, just like Shklovsky would have intended.
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UC Berkeley alumna Veronica Selver talks documentary, collaboration, Bay Area
“The best thing about making a film is, you discover things along the way. It’s a very live relationship that you have with the film,” Selver said in an interview with The Daily Californian.
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On bungled names and inescapable identities
Off the Beat
Acknowledging our names is equivalent to acknowledging the power of where we come from, no matter how storied or displeasing our ancestral clues may be.
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‘Irmi’ is poignant, personal documentary of one Jewish woman’s journey through 20th century
“Irmi” excellently puts forth the externalities of her strongest emotions: love, loss, survival and her capacity for being in and appreciating the present.
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‘Hubie Halloween’ is ambitious gag gone very wrong
“Hubie Halloween” fails to accomplish any narratorial feats and is likely to disappoint audiences looking for a fresh and spooky film for the holiday season.
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