‘Herself’ is poignant but shallow narrative of resilience and community

“Herself” is a heartwarming tale of resilience and community that showcases how coming together and supporting one another can create something beautiful.
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“Herself” is a heartwarming tale of resilience and community that showcases how coming together and supporting one another can create something beautiful.
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The battle for justice comes in many forms for many different communities — this community just prefers its freedom dressed in black and devil horns.
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“That was the conversation,” Diggs said in an interview with The Daily Californian. “That was the Oakland we were representing.”
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“I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore” begins with a litany of reasons to validate the film’s title, which, on the National Standardized Spectrum of Suck, range from an old woman spewing racist bile to a careless man spoiling the ending of a good book. Coming off a
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As Kirsten Johnson films Jacques Derrida, the subject of a film she’s working on, she nearly gets hit by an oncoming car. “She sees everything around me, but she’s totally blind,” says Derrida. Johnson’s career as a documentary cinematographer requires her to constantly capture the subtle and often nuanced intricacies
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Amid a sea of sloppily assembled sequels and halfhearted attempts at reviving the mainstream R-rated drama, finding a film that packs the authenticity and intimacy of real life has become a tiresome endeavor. That’s now mostly reserved for the theater, where you can sit in a velvety seat and watch
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Sundance season may be in full swing, but the Bay Area has some pretty awesome festivals of its own. Check out these upcoming events for film fanatics, all of which take place January through February. African Film Festival at UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (Jan. 17 –
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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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Classic Schmosby. After seven years of playing Ted Mosby in “How I Met Your Mother,” Josh Radnor has been making efforts to discover life apart from his architect alter ego. However earnestly he has tried to create another image of himself, he only kind of, sort of departs from Ted.
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