per pauline kael it is “an unusually ugly-looking movie” except for 24 stunningly beautiful handheld frames of the sun over the treeline and 12 (give or take) frames of a dewed frond. Yes and elaine may
in july 2024, a little over a decade after the release of AT BERKELEY, construction of new student housing broke ground at people’s park, a historic rallying point for various movements of radical activism in the 60s, now fenced by shipping containers stacked double-high.
while the park is not featured (cough) in the documentary, I think its story forms an interesting dialogue with the film. wiseman’s treatment of the student protest is a particularly illustrative moment for the film’s thesis:…
i say this sincerely .. people should give bi gan less money to make movies
