Downtown’s last commercial movie theater, the Regal UA Berkeley, could soon close.
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Discomforting film adds sound, dialogue to footage of Germany’s 1941 invasion of Soviet Union
Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s ‘Babi Yar. Context,’ showing at the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, is the one documentary you must see in 2022.
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Pacific Film Archive spotlights films of Márta Mészáros, one of Hungary’s finest directors
A film about a wealthy couple who hire a Jewish surrogate mother in pre-World War II Hungary is airing Wednesday, the latest in the Pacific Film Archive’s series on Márta Mészáros.
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Berkeley special effects genius started filming his new stop-motion masterpiece in 1987
The parade of primordial horrors in Phil Tippett’s ‘Mad God’ will blow your little mind to pieces. It opens Friday at the Roxie Theater.
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SF DocFest films go deep on hyphy, Chumbawamba, Ruth Paine of JFK assassination fame
Berkeley director Max Good interviewed Paine, now in her 80s, who lived with Lee and Marina Oswald in the months before JFK’s murder.
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The World Goes to the Dogs in ‘Mondocane’
The first feature-length film from writer-director Alessandro Celli imagines an all too realistic dystopia.
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Shattuck Cinemas is closing, as downtown loses another movie theater
Downtown Berkeley, which once boasted a half-dozen movie theaters, will soon be down to one.
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Proposal for California Theatre would keep facade, add high-rise housing
A proposal to build “approximately 15 stories” of new housing behind the theater’s facade cleared an early hurdle this month.
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Berkeley filmmaker’s documentary career has covered the saga of Korean adoptees
Deann Borshay Liem began her career exploring the mystery of her own identity. In ‘Geographies of Kinship, her latest film, she’s looking to place personal stories “within a broader historical phenomenon.”
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CAAMFest films explore the complexities of the Asian-American experience
One movie looks at a man unjustly accused of murder; another examines a restaurant in Michigan contending with COVID-19 and racism.
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As owners move to sell the California Theatre, fans try to save it
An unidentified prospective buyer has plans to “transform” the 108-year-old California Theatre, one of its owners says.
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Filmmaker Jon Else turns an operatic flop into cinematic gold
‘Land of Gold’ is making its West Coast premiere April 28 at the Castro Theatre as part of the San Francisco International Film Festival.