Bernard Boo
667 articles written by Bernard Boo
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Our Favorite Childhood Movies
As we’re caught in the middle of the whirlwind that is the holiday season, many of us will be traveling great distances, arguing with our families at the dinner table, receiving shitty gifts we have to pretend to like,...
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The Lisinac Brothers Talk ‘Along the Roadside’, Celebrating Californian Diversity
In Along the Roadside, the debut feature by Zoran Lisinac, a young man from the Bay Area (Iman Crosson) and a colorblind German tourist (Angelina Häntsch) accompany each other on a road trip to a big music festival in Southern...
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Much like its successful predecessor, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire–directed by Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) and based on the book series by Suzanne Collins–features rock-solid performances, great writing, and inventive action set pieces set in a sci-fi dystopia. The...
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The Barnes Brothers Call ‘East Nashville Tonight’ Their ‘Hypothetical Documentary’
East Nashville Tonight, co-directed by brothers Todd and Brad Barnes, is hilariously summed up in the film’s official synopsis: In February of 2013, the Barnes Brothers attempted to shoot a documentary about the lives of Todd Snider, Elizabeth Cook...
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The Industry’s Brightest Gather for SFFS Fall Celebration Panel
This past Thursday in San Francisco, the San Francisco Film Society held their inaugural Fall Celebration, honoring four films that look to be contenders come Oscar season: Nebraska, Fruitvale Station, Her, and The Square. Patrons gathered at elite social club The Battery to...
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Watch Wes Anderson’s ‘Castello Cavalcanti’ Starring Jason Schwartzman
Wes Anderson is certainly keeping himself busy these days (lucky us!) A short film written and directed by Anderson himself and produced for Prada, Castello Cavalcanti follows Jed Cavalcanti (Anderson favorite Jason Schwartzman) as he ends up stranded in 1955...
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The Armstrong Lie
In 2008, when legendary cyclist Lance Armstrong announced that he would return from retirement and compete in the Tour de France once again (he’d won seven years straight, from 1999 to 2005), director Alex Gibney saw an incredible opportunity...
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Factory 25 Acquires Joe Swanberg’s ‘All the Light in the Sky’
New York independent film and music distributor Factory 25 has acquired rights to mumblecore god Joe Swanberg‘s (Drinking Buddies) All the Light in the Sky, starring Jane Adams (Hung.) Adams plays Marie, a middle-aged actress living in Malibu who’s struggling...
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Divergent Trailer Premiere
Below, check out the brand new trailer for Divergent, the latest release from Summit Entertainment, the folks who brought us the recent Ender’s Game adaptation and, of course, the Twilight series. Helmed by Neil Burger (The Illusionist), the adaptation of Veronica Roth’s novel...
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American Promise
American Promise is a terrific film about racial imbalance and family dynamics, whose immense 13-year production process (from 1999 to 2012) was lengthy by design; filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson began documenting their son, Idris, and his best...
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‘Gravity’ VFX Breakdown Showcases 3-D Convergence
Not only is Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity one of the most visually immersive moviegoing experiences in memory, it’s also one of the handful of films that utilize 3-D technology to enhance the cinematic experience in a significant way. The “survival” element of...
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Brewster and Stephenson talk ‘American Promise’, Raw & Revealing Moments Of Two Families
Filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson turned their cameras on their son, Idris, and his friend, Seun, in 1999, documenting their lives for the next 13 years as the boys navigated the stressful environment of a prestigious, predominantly white...
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3rd i’s ‘South Asian Film Festival’ Enlivens SF, Rolls Into Palo Alto
Celebrating 100 Years of Indian Cinema This year’s run of 3rd i’s San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival had a fantastic four day run this past weekend in San Francisco, and continues this Saturday night, November 16th in...
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Running From Crazy
Barbara Kopple, director of the riveting 1976 labor strike documentary, Harlan County U.S.A., misfires with her latest doc, Running From Crazy, a film that homes in on all the wrong things while the good stuff flies under the radar. Through the...
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Pratibha Parmar Talks ‘Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth’, Capturing the Essence of the Author
For many of us, our knowledge of Alice Walker begins and ends with her tenth, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Color Purple, and Steven Spielberg’s subsequent film adaptation.Documentarian and longtime friend of Walker, Pratibha Parmar, tells the story of Walker’s remarkably...