The Landmark Albany Twin on Solano Avenue, which has been operating for over 80 years, is the latest local movie house closing its curtains.
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Berkeley filmmaker who celebrated garlic eating and shoe swallowing gets his day at PFA
Les Blank’s ‘Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers’ and ‘Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe’ (he really did — after Alice Waters cooked it!) will be shown on the big screen Saturday. Blank died in 2013.
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Fantastic Negrito tells his own story in new documentary
‘Have You Lost Your Mind Yet?’ — a feature-length film following the performer’s journey from rural Massachusetts to Oakland — is one of the highlights of San Francisco DocFest, which starts Thursday.
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‘Starling Girl’ meets dashing youth pastor: Story of evangelical angst told with nuance in new film
The characters in ‘The Starling Girl’ — opening Friday at San Francisco’s AMC Kabuki 8 — are believable, fallible human beings struggling to avoid sin.
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Perestroika blues and gender-bending fun at Pacific Film Archive
A late Soviet-era parable and a wacky Thai adventure movie come to the Pacific Film Archive.
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Can booze save 109-year-old Elmwood theater, the last movie house in Berkeley?
A little chardonnay with your feature presentation? Berkeley’s last remaining commercial movie theater, the Rialto Cinemas Elmwood, bets on a beer-and-wine license to lure back movie-goers.
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Frigid film with a hungry bear is top Berkeley pick for upcoming SFFILM Fest
Playing at Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive during the 66th SFFILM Fest: ‘The Snow and the Bear,’ a riveting mystery. Plus: ‘Daliland,’ a biopic of the Spanish surrealist, ‘Martinez,’ a small-scale office comedy-drama, and more.
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‘Berlin And Beyond’ film festival touches down at The Elmwood
A fractious family, a unique director, and an extremely clever young man are highlights of this year’s festival, which comes to Rialto Cinemas Elmwood on March 27.
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Berkeley film series celebrates ‘pioneers of queer cinema’
The two-month series at the Pacific Film Archive kicks off Friday with the 1996 comedy-drama ‘The Watermelon Woman.’ Andy Warhol’s ‘My Hustler’ screens Saturday.
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The final curtain for the Regal UA, Berkeley’s 90-year-old art deco movie palace
Generations of movie-goers are mourning the loss of a cinematic and architectural treasure, which closed around Feb. 3, weeks before anticipated.
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At SF IndieFest: Jolly pranksters, sonic tricksters and a madcap murder spree
‘Poundcake,’ about the media circus set off by a serial killer who targets Brooklyn’s white men, is hilarious. Also worth seeing: Ryan Worsley’s ‘Stand by For Failure,’ about the band Negativland, and ‘Chop and Steele,’ about the creators of the Found Footage Festival.
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Jailbreak classic ‘Le Trou’ comes to Pacific Film Archive Saturday
Jacques Becker’s final film depicts a tension-filled Parisian jailbreak.
