Arts And Entertainment
Moving Pictures: Tracing Childhood’s Alternate Realities
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday September 29, 2006
Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) is one of the most influential and iconic of Spanish films. Set “somewhere on the Castillian plain” in 1940, just after the Spanish Civil War, Erice’s film conjures a remote village where the echoes of war and repression resound in the lives of an increasingly fragmented family.
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Moving Pictures: The Evolution Of an Artist
By Justin DeFreitas
Friday September 29, 2006
Even today, 30 years after his death and nearly 100 years since he first stepped before a motion picture camera, Charlie Chaplin is still one of the most recognizable people in the world. The dandified Tramp, with his brush mustache, ill-fitting clothes, wicker cane and derby hat, is an iconic figure, but one whose familiarity has to some extent undermined his art. Chaplin today has become something of a two-dimensional figure, a static icon that means little to those born in the decades since his heyday; he exists as a fully formed entity, a known quantity, and is therefore just as easily ignored, an image from the past that no longer requires our attention.
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The Theater: ‘Mother Courage’ at Berkeley Rep
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Friday September 29, 2006
On the wall was chalked:/They Want War./The man who wrote it/Has already fallen.
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The Theater: Beckett’s ‘Happy Days’ at City Club
By Ken Bullock, Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 26, 2006
“You’re going to talk to me! Another happy day!” Samuel Beckett’s heroine Winnie addresses her seldom-seen husband Willie after he’s finally emitted a syllable.
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Moving Pictures: ‘Milarepa’ Screening Benefits Tibetan Charities
By Justin DeFreitas
Tuesday September 26, 2006
Milarepa, a new film by Tibetan lama and actor/director Netken Chokling, will show at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 at Wheeler Hall Auditorium on the UC campus.
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Moving Pictures: Taiwan Film Festival Comes to UC Campus
By Justin DeFreitas
Tuesday September 26, 2006
Another weekend, another film festival.
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Books: Burdick’s Lost ‘The Ninth Wave’ Deserves New Life
By Steve Tollefson, Special to the Planet
Tuesday September 26, 2006
Resurrecting a book is probably like raising Lazarus. It can happen, but only with a little divine intervention. On the other hand, there are scientifically documented cases—like Their Eyes Were Watching God (and indeed all the works
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