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Aldo Leopold documentary premieres at Berkeley
The life and contributions of wildlife ecology pioneer Aldo Leopold are showcased in a new documentary, "Green Fire," which gets its West Coast premiere Monday at Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive...
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Forum on breaking the cycle of violence to draw experts, producer of “The...
New ways to prevent or reduce community violence will be the topic of a Tuesday, Sept. 6 public forum with University of California, Berkeley, experts in education, public health and social welfare...
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Posters, pizza and outdoor Roger Corman movie part of BAM/PFA’s fall semester...
The Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive will put on a spread Thursday, Aug. 25 for new, incoming students, treating them to free classic art posters from previous BAM/PFA exhibitions, music, pizza...
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English student going to Cannes Film Festival to serve on jury
Graduate student Ryan Lattanzio is heading to the Cannes Film Festival, where he'll help select the winner of the “Visionary Award," for a fledgling independent filmmaker.
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Playwright/alum Stan Lai to discuss creativity, theater
The prolific director/playwright Stan Lai comes home to the Berkeley campus to talk about contemporary theater, culture and creativity in Asia and the United States -- and what the world would be like...
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The Oscars? Berkeley adjunct’s been there, won that
With Academy Awards for his work on Apocalypse Now, The Right Stuff, Amadeus and The English Patient, the San Francisco native has found a different kind of satisfaction teaching "The Sound of Film" to...
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Berkeley alum, Class of ’50, still ‘Running Wild’
Dayton Hyde, 88, has been a cowboy, a rodeo clown, a rancher, a photographer, a non-fiction author, a novelist, a poet and a conservationist. And now he's the star of a new documentary.
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Obsessed with film, mathematician makes movie about obsession
Olga Holtz, one of three tenured math professors at UC Berkeley, has taken a huge leap outside her field by writing and directing a short film about obsession, filmed on the Berkeley campus. The movie...
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Robert Reich on just-released ‘Inequality for All’ documentary
Professor Robert Reich, in a Q&A, talks about his new documentary "Inequality for All," what the film says about his inspirational students at Berkeley and prospects for strengthening American...
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Spring 2014 coming attractions: legacies of war, collaborative art, Cal Day...
The gamut of events offered at UC Berkeley is a perennial feast for hungry minds, and this semester’s lineup is no exception.
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Free screening of ‘Inequality for All,’ followed by Q&A with its makers
Members of the campus community and public are invited to see the new documentary on economic inequality, featuring Berkeley professor Robert Reich, on Wednesday, Feb. 5. A Q&A session with Reich,...
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Berkeley researcher examined, lived the life of a migrant farmworker
After the special screening of a new film about California labor leader Cesar Chavez, a UC Berkeley medical anthropologist who traveled and worked with Mexican migrants talks about life for today's...
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Coming this fall: FSM, early America, vaudeville, sounds of the human condition
World politics, world-class artistry, Homecoming weekend — just some of what's happening at Berkeley this fall. The semester brings the Australian Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Willem Dafoe, weekly...
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Rare silent film, with live music, highlights sweeping Georgian cinema series
The screening of the rare Georgian silent film Eliso, with live musical accompaniment by Trio Kavkasia playing a score commissioned by BAM/PFA, is a highlight of the 50-film Discovering Georgian Cinema...
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Cal Performances’ new season goes RADICAL with artistic, ecological themes
Berkeley RADICAL, a new initiative to promote artistic literacy among the millennial generation, is driving Cal Performances' 2015-16 season, which starts with a weeklong residency by conductor Gustavo...
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Berkeley film curator honored by nations of France and Georgia
Susan Oxtoby, senior film curator at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, received the French Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters at a ceremony in San Francisco yesterday, and next...
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Summer concert series blooms again at UC Botanical Garden
The annual Redwood Grove summer concert series is returning to the UC Botanical Garden. Although tonight's opening performance is sold out, music lovers will have plenty more chances: Every Thursday...
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For Ojai at Berkeley music fest, the drumbeat goes on
The fifth annual Ojai at Berkeley, formerly known as Ojai North, is coming to campus June 18–20, The musical extravaganza will be led this year by percussionist Steven Schick, an ensemble leader,...
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Art critic, author and journalism professor emeritus David Littlejohn passes...
David Littlejohn is recalled as a a brilliant teacher, a cultural adventurer, a tough editor and a gentleman who over the course of nearly three decades instructed students at UC Berkeley's Graduate...
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Oral history team hunts for Rosie the Riveter war stories
The Bancroft Library's Regional Oral History Office will be part of the annual reunion of Rosie the Riveters in Richmond, as it sends interviewers in search of a few good women and their accounts of...
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