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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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It seems obvious that a film featuring child soldiers, genocide and a white guy with Maori face tattoos would spark controversy. What is less obvious about Gavin Hood’s adaptation of “Ender’s Game,” a 1985 science fiction novel by Orson Scott Card, however, is the reason for the debate surrounding the
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Hundreds of students waited outside International House’s Chevron Auditorium in the cold, forming a lengthy line down Piedmont Avenue. They were waiting to get a sneak peek of the first two episodes of the new show “Ja’mie: Private School Girl” as well as a Q&A with Australian comedian and show
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There is something quite tasteless about the mere existence of Oliver Hirshbiegal’s biopic “Diana.” With the Royal Wedding in 2011, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 and the birth of Prince George in 2013, the release of “Diana” feels like an attempt to cash in on the media frenzy surrounding
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“My daughter forgot my birthday,” said director Rob Nilsson, laughing when I met him at Babette Cafe for an interview coincidentally on his 74th birthday. “That’s the first time that happened! I was waiting for her to wish me. We hung up … and then she called me right back
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The San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival features more than 20 films from across the South Asian subcontinent, the United States and Canada and includes independent films and classics as well as bigger-budget Bollywood films. With a penchant for inclusivity, this year’s theme is gender revolutions in the women’s
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