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For a television show to be able to last for 50 years — and a science fiction show at that — there has to be something special to it, something that allows it to change and evolve as the decades pass and popular culture ebbs and flows through space-time, wibbly-wobbly
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For a little more than four hours, director Frederick Wiseman’s camera floats through UC Berkeley’s campus, taking viewers into the magical and mundane corners of the university during the fall of 2010. Students lounge on a knoll covered in autumn leaves. Researchers work diligently on a pair of robotic legs
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O, brave new world that has such people in it — such people as Hollywood sound-designer Randy Thom. He sees the film industry as changing in response to new technology and theories of sound. Specifically, sound design is a field in which traditional notions of sound as merely “icing on
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Plush seats, Sour Patch Kids and movies are my jam. I nestle into my seat, gorge on my Kiddies and (usually) thoroughly enjoy the film unfolding before me. Stylish prose, hot chocolate and novels are also my jam. I nestle into my disc chair, which feels like angels of heaven
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What does it mean to be a symbol of hope? For the first hour of the “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire,” Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) grapples with becoming an emblem she doesn’t want to be. For Katniss, being a symbol means being controlled and given minimal agency over her actions
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We first meet Woody Grant as he lurches, glassy-eyed and disheveled, along a desolate road in Billings, Mont. He is on his way, on foot and alone, to Lincoln, Neb., to claim the million-dollar sweepstakes prize he believes he has won after receiving a certificate in the mail. Grant, played
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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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Idris Brewster and Seun Summers, two middle-class black kids, are about to enter Dalton School, one of the most prestigious prep schools in the nation. Dalton School provides a rigorous and ambitious program that prepares students for admission to elite colleges. The Dalton School’s vision for its students, like the
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Remember when Matthew McConaughey was best known as the stylishly optimistic Mr. Right with a surfer-cowboy drawl? The one who starred in romantic comedies based around improbable meetings with Kate Hudson or Jennifer Lopez? It seems McConaughey sure doesn’t. “Dallas Buyers Club” is the latest in his recent line of intense
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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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