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Film & Television

Wednesday, August 4, 2021

David Lowery’s ‘The Green Knight’ decapitates medieval expectations

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The A24-produced “The Green Knight,” is admittedly very, very light on medieval sword-and-shield spectacle, offering instead an epic of the internal — and a rapturous, wonderfully bizarre one at that.
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New Year 2021

Thursday, January 28, 2021
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‘A jam-packed catalogue’: 8 anticipated films that were pushed from 2020

Here’s a guide to some of the most exciting 2020 movies that are finally coming out in 2021 after being delayed due to the pandemic.
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Culture Shot

Monday, July 24, 2017

Daily Cal Arts’ 10 films to see in theaters this week

It’s the height of summer, but theaters around the Bay Area are currently resplendent in a wide variety of amazing pictures right now, from tentpole superhero movies to quiet, meditative micro-budget films
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Film & Television

Thursday, July 13, 2017

‘A Ghost Story’ paints visceral picture of grief with simple visuals, in masterful subversion of expectations

There are, in fact, two ghosts in David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story.” One is played by Casey Affleck, covered in a white hospital morgue sheet with two hastily cut eye holes. The other is us.
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Film & Television

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Adrift in time: director David Lowery on his metaphysical indie film ‘A Ghost Story’

Quiet, meditative and at times a touch cosmic in theme, the film is one of this year’s best and a shining example of how indie, micro-budget films can strike poignant, thought-provoking emotional chords. David Lowery wrote, directed and edited the film, and he sat down with The Daily Californian to discuss his creative process.
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Film & Television

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

‘Rich Hill’ is a beautiful look at a condition that’s inherently very ugly

Missouri is in America’s — and the world’s — spotlight right now with news outlets doing their best to cover the events in Ferguson despite a police-enforced media blackout. But nearly five hours southwest of Ferguson, where Michael Brown was shot and killed by a police officer on Aug. 9,
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