Berkeley on the big screen: A watchlist for a remote semester
Pixar/Courtesy
There are a handful of films famously shot in Berkeley and the greater East Bay.
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Searching for Berkeley on screen
I’m not going to tell you what legacy to believe in, but I found mine in the millenium pop and JNCO jeans of “Boys and Girls.”
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On their golden anniversary, finding Berkeley in ‘The Graduate’
The film is replete with enough wistful guitars and empty-eyed closeups of its various players to drive home the supremely identifiable sentiment of being marooned unto oneself, with satisfaction and fulfillment only fleeting.
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Illustrious fictional UC Berkeley alumni
UC Berkeley has a rich history of alumni doing amazing things. Activists, Nobel laureates, Emmy Award winners, Olympians and a gamut of other notable folks have emerged from our campus. It’s quite comforting to know that the head of the next successful startup or the person who discovers the cure for
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Brain like Berkeley: The campus in popular culture
Let’s get down to the facts: Going to a school so well-recognized that it’s casually mentioned in the media is really cool. Who among us hasn’t felt a little rush of excitement upon watching Frank Abagnale lie to his girlfriend’s parents about obtaining a degree from the UC Berkeley School
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Pacino’s ‘The Humbling’ cannot compete with Inaratu’s “Birdman.”
If all the world’s a stage, what are all the men and women to do when they can no longer remember their lines? Such is the dilemma facing Simon Axler (Al Pacino), an aging thespian struggling to maintain his career as the line between reality and fiction becomes increasingly blurred.
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Here’s to you, Mr. Nichols
For most of my high school career, I was not much of a reader. I was, however, a self-taught scholar of the online literary summary — SparkNotes, CliffsNotes, even some of the heavier stuff, such as WikiSummaries. I could summarize “Ulysses” in 200 words, “Crime and Punishment” in 100, “Pride
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Planet of the Apes and 10 other movies you didn’t know were filmed in Berkeley
We’ve all heard about The Graduate being filmed here in Berkeley. Every CalSO leader and every other person who ever went to Cal trying to recruit you to come here will never fail to remind you of it. But did you know that some of the last couple decades’ biggest blockbusters were
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Hotel Durant owners look to sell historic property
Berkeley’s historical and esteemed Hotel Durant was put up for sale this week, but management does not anticipate any major changes to the building’s unique design.
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