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I know what you’re thinking,” a disgruntled Captain Dickson (Ice Cube) tells a group of baby-faced cops in an early scene in “21 Jump Street.” “Angry, black captain! Ain’t nothing but a stupid stereotype!” Whatever problems with stereotypes these cops have, Captain Dickson suggests they better start embracing the ones
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At a quick glance, “Casa De Mi Padre” looks like an utterly racist movie. But then you see the angelic face of Gael Garcia Bernal, who plays La Onza, the evil drug lord, smoking two cigarettes at a time with utmost seriousness, and the skepticism cools. Then you have the
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Film This Friday, The Castro Theatre shows Andrzej Zulawski’s newly unearthed “Possession.” This 1981 film has been traveling the repertory circuit, at the BAMcinematek in New York and The Cinefamily in Los Angeles. The film is half body horror nightmare, half poem to broken East Berlin, and a wholly anxiety-filled
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From March 8 to 18, the Center for Asian American Media presents the 30th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. This is one of many homegrown Bay Area fests that pays tribute to cineastes of difference who have otherwise been marginalized by the Hollywood machine. We cannot turn to
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If only there were a better way to say “billowing curtains.” That phrase barely scratches the essence of the first image of Lynne Ramsay’s “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” which is a prelude to hell. The curtains, set to the sound of a sputtering lawn sprinkler, reveal an orgy
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Shit is probably a word thrown around often when discussing the work of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim. Reactions such as “This is a load of shit!” or “Who put this shit on screen?” would not be uncommon coming from your average audience. And they would be factually correct. Tim
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Film This Friday afternoon, at 3 p.m., the Berkeley Art Museum is hosting Film Forward, a colloquium on the state of film education, curation and criticism. Prominent Bay Area film personalities will be on the panel, including independent filmmakers Tiffany Shlain (“Connected”) and Barry Jenkins (“Medicine for Melancholy”), film journalists
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Hear the Daily Cal arts reporters Ryan Lattanzio, Thomas Coughlan, Eytan Schindelhalm, Braulio Ramirez, Hannah Levy and Jessica Pena give their predictions for Sunday’s 84th annual Academy Awards.
Film Readers know I have talked about “Melancholia” ad nauseum, but this Thursday, Feb. 23 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco could be your last chance to see Lars von Trier’s spectacular film on the big screen. It’s kind of a trek, but witnessing “Melancholia” — which stars Kirsten
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Wait for someone named “Margaret” to appear in Kenneth Lonergan’s film of that name, and it will be in vain. The title “Margaret” is taken from Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem “Spring and Fall,” addressed to a grieving girl too young and small to understand the enormity of what she grieves
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