UC Berkeley Professor Robert Bea in Harry Shearer's The Big Uneasy Mr. Go sounds like the name of a comic book superhero, but such is not the case. As we learn from Harry Shearer’s new documentary, The Big Uneasy (opening this Friday, July 8th at Rialto Cinemas Elmwood), Mr. Go is actually a bit of […]
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Berkeley-born Mike Mills on his new movie “Beginners”
Beginners, which opened in Berkeley on Friday, is by turns moving, sad, and funny. Its director, Mike Mills, has roots in Berkeley. He was born in 1966 at Alta Bates Hospital and lived in the Bay Area for a few years before his family moved to Santa Barbara. The movie — which is Mills’s second, […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: Queen of the Sun
Queen of the Sun: a beautifully shot introduction to a subject of critical importance to our future In 1984, New Zealand band This Kind of Punishment released an album entitled A Beard of Bees. Being a fan of most things Kiwi, I acquired a copy which remains in my possession today and even gets played […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: Phil Ochs There But for Freedom
Phil Ochs. I’m a music lover. I’ve caterwauled in front of many a microphone, avoided countless nightclub two-drink minimums, and spent far too much money on records (and, grudgingly, CDs, but that’s another story). And I’m catholic in my taste: if it’s got a good beat and you can dance to it, chances are I’ll […]
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Berkeley’s last independent cinema on why ads matter
Elmwood Rialto Cinemas: the last remaining independent movie theater in Berkeley. Photo: Keoki Seu Yesterday we ran a story about the closure of Oaks Theatre on Solano Avenue. The cinema’s failure to thrive prompted an interesting discussion among our readers on the difficulties of running a successful independent movie theater. Among the subjects under consideration was […]
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Big Screen Berkeley: Boxing Gym
A young client trains in Boxing Gym. A letter published in the March 1929 issue of Motion Picture Magazine asked: “Why in the world does anybody want to see life represented on the screen as it is? How can they stand to see anything so monotonous? We all see these commonplace things every day of […]
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Night Fliers special screening coming to Berkeley
On July 22, the Rialto Cinemas Elmwood is presenting a special screening of the award-winning movie Night Fliers to support the East Bay programs of the Bay Area based LGBTQ family organization Our Family Coalition. The director of the coming-of-age film, Sara St. Martin Lynne, as well as actors from the movie, will attend a […]
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The Most Dangerous Man: Special Berkeley screening
It’s a Berkeley event, involving an independent Berkeley movie theater, screening a documentary made by a Berkeley resident, to benefit a Berkeley school. Berkeleyside couldn’t live with itself if it didn’t cover this one. On Thursday May 6th, at 7:15 pm, Elmwood Rialto will present a screening of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel […]
