California Theatre

The focus of preservation efforts needs to be expanded beyond simply saving the California Theatre’s building from demolition; this theater needs to be financially supported through some outside mechanism, and I think that advocating for government subsidies or grants would be an excellent way to turn this singular effort into a larger movement.

Not much remains of Berkeley’s California Theatre, a previous landmark for movies and shows, since it closed at the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020.

Theaters aren’t going anywhere, at least for Berkeley. The city’s cinema scene has managed to exist outside the typical film industry narrative.

Expectations were understandably high for “It Comes At Night,” — A24's latest horror film — and thankfully, director Trey Shults delivers. The pacing of Shults’ script is impeccable — though the epitome of a slow burn, there’s a white-knuckle fluidity to the series of wrong turns that result in the film’s devastating third act.

The city of Oakland confirmed in a press release Sunday that UC Berkeley alumnus David Cline, as well as Nick Gomez-Hall and Donna Kellogg, who both worked in Berkeley, were victims of the Oakland warehouse fire that took place Friday.