Les Blank’s Final Foray
He brings cinema verité pioneer Richard Leacock into focus with an East Bay release.
Read MorePosted by Michael Fox | Mar 9, 2016 | Movies |
He brings cinema verité pioneer Richard Leacock into focus with an East Bay release.
Read MorePosted by Michael Fox | Dec 2, 2015 | Movies |
The filmmaker continues his institutional fixation, turning his camera away from the Highland Hospital ER to the Oakland Police Department.
Read MorePosted by Michael Fox | Sep 4, 2014 | Art, Movies |
Whether you’re running a museum or a pizzeria, location is paramount. Currently nestled adjacent to the UC Berkeley campus, the Berkeley Art Museum is perfectly accessible and yet a tad out of the way, unless you’re student or faculty member. Same goes for the affiliated Pacific Film Archive, displaced from the BAM building some years ago due to seismic concerns and ensconced in a theater a few blocks west. Hence the excitement, from audiences and curators alike, about BAM/PFA’s new $100-plus-million home reuniting the two that is under construction in downtown Berkeley at the site of a former UC printing plant.
Read MorePosted by DeWitt Cheng, Rita Felciano, Michael Fox, Julia Park Tracey, Andrew Gilbert and Sam Hurwitt | Sep 4, 2014 | Other Arts & Culture |
The fall arts season offers exciting programming across many genres.
Read MorePosted by Michael Fox | Jul 3, 2014 | Movies, Other Arts & Culture |
It was a day much like any other in her Berkeley office in the Zaentz Media Center when Nancy Kates was struck with the idea of making a documentary about the late essayist and novelist Susan Sontag. “I went home and I had seven of the 16 books she published while she was alive,” Kates recalls. “That said something to me.”
Read Moreby Michael Fox | Health & Fitness |
An Alamedan realizes her skin-care business dream by setting up shop, Rise Face and Body, in her hometown,