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Friday, January 31, 2025

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Tagged with: Documentary

Burger Boogaloo, other big fests reschedule in COVID wake

The forthcoming 11th annual Burger Boogaloo festival, held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park and originally planned for July 11 and 12 has been rescheduled for Halloween weekend due to...

Screen Grabs: How about a little levity?

One slender plus in all this corona-crisis-ing has been the extent to which friends and strangers alike have gone to amuse each other long-distance,...

Screen Grabs: Leap upon your sofa, intrepid explorers

Now that theaters are closed and basically everyone is reduced to home viewing, it’s easier than ever to see what those viewing trends are....

Screen Grabs: A major director quietly remakes the Western

Austerity is not a quality greatly prized in commercial filmmaking. While we may revere them now, it’s worth remembering that such leading cinematic minimalist...

Review: Sketch comedy legends Culture Clash return—with big tío energy

In these incendiary political times, watching the three master sketch comedians of pioneering Latino troupe Culture Clash is like dipping your spoon into a...

Screen Grabs: Traveling the world, popcorn in hand

This week’s openings personify the movies’ appeal as armchair travel, encompassing cinematic detours to Ireland, Israel, Poland, China (twice), American backroads and various African...

’80s troubadour Colin Hay is still a man at work

Singer Colin Hay could have written Men at Work’s first major hit “Who Can It Be Now?” anywhere. But there was something about conceiving it...

What we saw at Sundance, part 3: Crossed borders and different lives

Culling through the forty features viewed at both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals last week has been as much fun as watching them...

Screen Grabs: A tragic star hounded by the FBI

A couple of the smaller, more idiosyncratic local film festivals add to the celluloid mix this week. Within the larger Noise Pop schedule of...

Robbie Robertson on heart-wrenching The Band doc ‘Once Were Brothers’

The Band’s Robbie Robertson feels that most rock autobiographies and documentaries lack “feeling." But finding so much pathos and excitement in much of his former...