Small Screen Berkeley: CAAMFest 2020
San Francisco’s annual celebration of Asian and diaspora cinema will be coming to a device near you, albeit in a curtailed form, starting Wednesday, May 13 and continuing through Friday, May 22.
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Small Screen Berkeley: ‘Deerskin’, ‘Natan’ and ‘The Whistlers’
There are incredible films you can stream from home that go beyond Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu and other services.
Small Screen Berkeley: ‘Balloon’ and the return of Pacific Film Archive
Chances also are that you’re in the mood for a movie with a happy ending: meet ‘Balloon.’ Plus: Pacific Film Archive films are coming to a small screen near you!
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Small Screen Berkeley: Less obvious, but no less good, films to stream while sheltering
There’s a treasure trove of movies to stream at home if you know where to look — and luckily for us our film writer does!
Small Screen Berkeley: Beyond Netflix, Amazon, Apple and Disney
If you look beyond the usual platforms, there are excellent places to find British, Korean and Russian films as well as restored American classics for diverting lockdown viewing.
Big Screen Berkeley: How hard is it to make it as a gig worker? ‘Sorry We Missed You’ delivers the discouraging news
Also: Mick Jagger stars in a finely crafted slice of suspense opening this week, ‘The Burnt Orange Heresy,’ and ‘Brightness’ offers a magical realist examination of a father-son relationship.
Big Screen Berkeley: Fraud and faith are at the center of the Oscar-nominated ‘Corpus Christi’
Bartosz Bielenia is outstanding as Daniel, a troubled young man paroled from juvenile hall who ends up impersonating a priest.
Big Screen Berkeley: The zombies in ‘Zombi Child’ are not the type you might expect
Though the supernatural does eventually intrude, the French film is largely a deliberately paced examination of teenage tomfoolery, cultural appropriation, and elitist pedagogy.
Big Screen Berkeley: ‘Beanpole’ reminds us that war doesn’t end when the guns fall silent
Set in a veterans’ hospital in the Soviet Union after World War II, and directed by 28-year old Kantemir Balagov, the film eschews the sort of flag-waving patriotism too frequently exhibited by recent Russian cinema.
Big Screen Berkeley: In ‘The Traitor’ a Mafia foot soldier turns on the Cosa Nostra
This Italian film is about a Cosa Nostra loyalist who willingly assassinates his enemies, only to turn on the Italian Mafia when his two young sons disappear.
Big Screen Berkeley: More SF IndieFest
This week’s movies encompasses everything from traditional arthouse fare to the ultra-outré.
Big Screen Berkeley: Oscar-nominated short subjects; SF Indiefest
Landmark Shattuck Cinemas will once again show the shorts in contention for an Oscar. SF IndieFest has a number of films it is worth crossing the bay for.
