‘Uneasy’ Shadows Two ‘Broke Brown Girls’
A comedic web series, ‘Uneasy’ was dreamed up by Oaklanders Samiat Salami and Vanessa Flores, who both star as some version of themselves in each episode.
May 27, 2019
BAMPFA Hosts Hirokazu Kore-eda Retrospective
BAMPFA’s Kore-eda retrospective, comprising seven evening screenings between May 2 and 18, is a soul-soothing invitation to discover both the universality and the complexity in the banality of everyday life.
May 1, 2019
Elves and Development Collide in Sara Dosa’s Latest Doc
A quirky headline — “Elf Lobby Shuts Down Construction of Road” — prompts the Berkeley native to head to Iceland.
April 15, 2019
SFFILM Looks Eastward
The Grand Lake Theatre joins BAMPFA as an East Bay outlet for the SFFILM Festival, and the crop of movies is promising.
April 9, 2019
Big Screen Dreams in Albany
March 13, 2019
Children’s Film Fest Rides to the Rescue at Chabot Space & Science
The 11th edition of the Bay Area International Children’s Film Festival brings compelling shorts, foreign films, and anime to the screen.
February 14, 2019
Cal Professor Tom McEnaney Explores the Bias of Speech
In his class Sounding American, his students put the sound of speaking in the racial crosshairs.
January 16, 2019
Two Michael Glawogger Films Screen at BAMPFA
Glawogger’s most ambitious epics, ‘Megacities’ (1998) and ‘Workingman’s Death’ (2005), demand and deserve to be seen on the big screen, and BAMPFA fills the bill this month.
January 16, 2019
New Documentary Celebrates the Life of Ursula K. Le Guin
Arwen Curry’s 'The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin' examines the impact of the Berkeley-born science fiction writer.
December 4, 2018
