Barry Jenkins

Onstage at San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox, Jenkins was joined by his longtime friend and collaborator Nicholas Britell who, backed by the SF Symphony, made a live case for the vitality of film scores interested in “amplifying characters’ emotions, not imposing.” 

These emotional states evoked by Chastain are as potent an actor could desire from their observers, signaling possibly the most prominent talent in the industry today.

“If Beale Street Could Talk” harks the power of love to inspire resilience.

Though the show featured some pleasantly surprising wins and an impressive number of awards given to artists of color, the moments we could champion were quickly snuffed out by those that disappointed.

Even though “Beale Street” is a better film than “Vice,” the latter is the easier awards sell. As films such as “Darkest Hour” or “Bohemian Rhapsody” can attest, even awful-to-mediocre biopics with strong central performances are an Oscars shoo-in for best actor and best picture.

The world is blooming with powerful Black-centered works of art.

Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize winning poet, passed away this past week.

Every semester in The Daily Californian’s arts & entertainment department, we welcome a new batch of beat reporters. While they will spend the semester reporting on a multitude of different projects and exhibits specific to their expertise, they rarely have the opportunity to focus on their topics on a small scale.

A Sam Raimi stan and recent graduate who missed UC Berkeley’s film and media commencement ceremony to screen his short film, “Life in Color,” at the Cannes Film Festival.