Film & Television

Predictably unpredictable, the festival’s 95-film lineup comprises names big, small and overall niche. This year, deputy arts editor Dominic Marziali and arts reporters Maida Suta, Emma Murphree and Piper Samuels covered the festival online and in person.

On Jan. 22, with an asphalt pomp heretofore unseen on the West Coast, Joel Coen took to the stage at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) to discuss two films, the first John Huston’s 1987 "The Dead", and the second him and his brother Ethan’s 2013 “Inside Llewyn Davis.”

What better way to ring in a wedding than to prove your devotion by murdering a few pirates together along the way? A romantic action-comedy may not be the most orthodox of genre combinations, but it is one that brings a renewed sense of enjoyment.

This year, The Daily Californian’s arts reporters Maya Thompson, Sarah Runyan and Asha Pruitt traveled to Park City, Utah to view the festival’s prestigious lineup on the big screen. Here’s what they watched.

Polley has not only left the scattered wreckage and lost autonomy of her past to author her own intricate narrative, but she endeavors to fold in the obscured narratives of women en masse into a finely woven tapestry of possibility.

In its booze-addled worship of cinema, “Babylon” loses sight of its north star, turning a story about the victims of excess into excess itself and becoming spectacularly tone deaf to the context surrounding it.

Amid the film’s scattered use of a myriad of locked-in, puerile symbols, any empathy is squeezed out in favor of an overly wordy, writerly script.

For Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, there is no better feeling than briefly residing in a different universe — especially the lavish, unruly Hollywood in Damien Chazelle’s “Babylon.”

“The Way of Water” plunges its audience into a three-hour runtime many will find it easy to drown in.

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