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"content": "\u003cp>Growing up in Santa Rosa, everyone my age either worked at Bradley Video, knew someone who worked at Bradley Video or rented movies from Bradley Video. During the height of home video rentals, its six stores in town outnumbered the corporate behemoths (Blockbuster, Hollywood Video) and the beloved niche store (Video Droid, still missed).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’ve known extras from \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SYTdjG0BO4\">the famous video store scene in \u003cem>Scream\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, which was filmed at a Bradley Video. I’ve heard stories of unsavory after-hours activities involving adult DVDs and brazen employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, yes, I’d heard that the guy who owned Bradley Video has now lost his mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964213\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964213\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_04.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"989\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_04.jpg.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_04.jpg-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_04.jpg-1020x525.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_04.jpg-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_04.jpg-768x396.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_04.jpg-1536x791.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Bradley in the middle of the desert in Death Valley, running the Badwater 135. \u003ccite>(Quinnolyn Benson-Yates)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>By which I mean that Bill Bradley, who declared bankruptcy and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/all-11-stores-close-three-months-after-filing-for-bankruptcy/\">closed all 11 Bradley Video stores\u003c/a> as his industry cratered in 2005, now climbs mountains. 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He’s broken the world record for most consecutive rim-to-rim runs in the Grand Canyon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he’s not about to stop. He’s attempted to swim the English Channel five times. He’s made six attempts at summiting Mt. Denali.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13964210\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13964210\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_03.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"989\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_03.jpg.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_03.jpg-800x412.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_03.jpg-1020x525.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_03.jpg-160x82.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_03.jpg-768x396.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/EpicBill_Pressroom_03.jpg-1536x791.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Bradley climbs Mount Aconcagua, the highest peak in the Americas, at sundown. \u003ccite>(Quinnolyn Benson-Yates)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But… why? \u003cem>Epic Bill\u003c/em> addresses that persistent question in various ways. Being worth $5 million and then going bankrupt at age 45 “royally screwed my mind up,” Bradley says. After a period of self-doubt, he took up a friend’s offer to run a 50-mile race and hasn’t looked back since.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filmed while Bradley attempts the snowy 135-mile Arrowhead race in Minnesota and the 22,837-ft. Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, the documentary digs into the grisly details of Bradley’s pursuits, and the effect extreme conditions have on his body. (Those queasy at the sight of gnarled, blistered feet: be warned.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At his core, he’s an excessive personality type,” says his daughter. That’s evident at one point when, against all advice of race officials who’ve evaluated his condition, he continues the Arrowhead anyway. The only time he stops is when he physically can’t go on; in a self-filmed scene on Mt. 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The way you can prove it to me is to get up in front of the class and recite it by heart.’ And I accepted the challenge and did it, and we both realized we had a means — we had a way of regaining the power of speech through poetry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what a power it was. Jones’ baritone came complete with its own echo chamber. His voice became one of the most instantly recognizable in entertainment history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything about him was big: his commanding stage presence, the intensity of his glance and his brilliance at his chosen craft. Woodie King Jr. is founder of New York’s New Federal Theater, which has been producing shows by and about African-Americans throughout its history. He first became aware of Jones in the early 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a young aspiring actor who had come into New York and he had all the elements of acting — physicality, vocal range, psychically in tune with what was going on,” King says. “And I wanted to be that kind of artist who had that kind of freedom with his instrument.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King saw Jones’ critically acclaimed performance in a 1961 production of Jean Genet’s \u003cem>The Blacks\u003c/em>. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of America’s most beloved actors, James Earl Jones, died Monday at age 93. He was at home in Dutchess County, N.Y. surrounded by his family, his longtime agent Barry McPherson confirmed to NPR.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to an illustrious stage career — which included roles in classics like \u003cem>Macbeth\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Othello\u003c/em> and \u003cem>The Iceman Cometh\u003c/em> — Jones also had an extensive film career, appearing in \u003cem>Dr. Strangelove\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Field of Dreams\u003c/em>, and \u003cem>The Hunt for Red October\u003c/em>. He voiced Mufasa in \u003cem>The Lion King,\u003c/em> and as Darth Vader, he delivered \u003ca href=\"http://www.starwars.com/video/i-am-your-father\">the line that still sends shivers up the spines of \u003cem>Star Wars\u003c/em> fans\u003c/a>: “I am your father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>James Earl Jones was born on Jan. 17, 1931, in Arkabutla, Miss. He was raised by his grandparents. When he was 5 years old, the family moved to a rural farm in Dublin, Mich. Jones said the move so traumatized him that he developed a severe stutter that continued until he was in high school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was able to function as a farm kid, doing all those chores where you call animals,” he told WHYY’s \u003cem>Fresh Air \u003c/em>in 1993, “and I certainly let the family know what my needs were. But when strangers came to the house, the mute happened. I didn’t want to confront them and I wasn’t ready. I hid in a state of muteness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then a high school teacher found a way to help: “He one day discovered that I wrote poetry and he said to me, ‘This poem is so good I can’t believe you wrote it. The way you can prove it to me is to get up in front of the class and recite it by heart.’ And I accepted the challenge and did it, and we both realized we had a means — we had a way of regaining the power of speech through poetry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what a power it was. Jones’ baritone came complete with its own echo chamber. His voice became one of the most instantly recognizable in entertainment history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything about him was big: his commanding stage presence, the intensity of his glance and his brilliance at his chosen craft. Woodie King Jr. is founder of New York’s New Federal Theater, which has been producing shows by and about African-Americans throughout its history. He first became aware of Jones in the early 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was a young aspiring actor who had come into New York and he had all the elements of acting — physicality, vocal range, psychically in tune with what was going on,” King says. “And I wanted to be that kind of artist who had that kind of freedom with his instrument.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>King saw Jones’ critically acclaimed performance in a 1961 production of Jean Genet’s \u003cem>The Blacks\u003c/em>. He also worked with Jones in a 1968 Broadway production of Howard Sackler’s \u003cem>The Great White Hope\u003c/em>, based on the life of champion black boxer Jack Johnson.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was an unbelievable kind of performance,” King recalled. “It was an amazing metamorphosis, watching him transform himself into this vicious boxer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones won a Tony for that role, as well as an Oscar nomination for the 1970 film adaptation, and he won a second Tony in 1987 for his role in August Wilson’s \u003cem>Fences\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first film role was as bombardier Lothar Zogg in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 classic \u003cem>Dr. Strangelove\u003c/em>. In 1972’s \u003cem>The Man\u003c/em>, Jones played the first Black president; in the 1974 black classic \u003cem>Claudine, \u003c/em>he played a garbage man who charms a date out of a welfare mom; and in 1989’s \u003cem>Field of Dreams\u003c/em>, he \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/z6U1p0hehtg?t=5s\">explained why people would care about a baseball diamond in an Iowa cornfield\u003c/a>. Jones \u003ca href=\"http://www.broadway.com/buzz/162156/tony-nominee-james-earl-jones-on-four-decades-of-great-performances-from-othello-to-the-best-man/\">has said\u003c/a> that one of his favorite roles was that of the South African reverend in \u003cem>Cry, the Beloved Country\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones’ voice has pervaded pop culture: He’s the voice of CNN and Verizon, and even showed up on a few episodes of \u003cem>The Simpsons\u003c/em>, which managed to kid the actor about his kaleidoscopic work \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/PX05DJWNj3k?t=1m4s\">in one fell swoop\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his conversation with \u003cem>Fresh Air\u003c/em>, Jones remembered the beginning of his voice-over career with amusement. “I think the first commercials I did … they asked me to ‘just give us the sound of God.’ … They were not embarrassed about saying that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963951\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963951\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JEJ.png\" alt=\"A Black man wearing a suit stretches out his arms and bows his head on stage, surrounded by applauding fellow cast members.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1330\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JEJ.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JEJ-800x532.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JEJ-1020x678.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JEJ-160x106.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JEJ-768x511.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JEJ-1536x1021.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/JEJ-1920x1277.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jones takes a bow after his final performance in Broadway’s ‘You Can’t Take It With You’ in 2015. \u003ccite>(Grant Lamos IV/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>New Federal Theater’s Woodie King said Jones was a warm, somewhat shy man who was a powerful artist. He followed in the footsteps of actors like Sidney Poitier, Paul Robeson and Canada Lee, all of whom refused to be limited by the old stereotypical roles of butlers or buffoons. Jones saw theater as a place for all people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What you have is a master craftsman at work,” King said. “He makes young people aware of the vast possibilities of this business when you are a craftsman. … The Broadway stage sees him as really colorless — not Black or white, but a brilliant artist.”\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>School’s back in session, election season’s heating up, the leaves need raking, and you just want to get out of the house and escape, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ve got you covered. Everything from award contenders to goofy comedies, a smattering of romance, plenty of anti-heroes, even an animated musical documentary constructed entirely of LEGOs — all curated by NPR critics.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’ll see you at the movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoZqL9N6Rx4\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,’ in theaters Sept. 6\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Look, who knows if this is gonna work? Plenty of directors have returned to their early films to see what, if any, gold remains to be mined. Sometimes they hit the motherlode (\u003cem>Mad Max: Fury Road\u003c/em>), other times the result is a cinematic cave-in (\u003cem>The Matrix Resurrections\u003c/em>). Director Tim Burton’s recent films have all displayed his trademark darkness, but it’s been years since we glimpsed the transgressive, anarchic humor he made his bones on. I’m pulling for him. It’s showtime.\u003cem> — Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0jwAP2fS1E\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘His Three Daughters\u003cem>,’ \u003c/em>in theaters Sept. 6, on Netflix Sept. 20\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The cast sells this one: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne are each often the best thing about the projects they’re in. And here they are together, playing sisters who gather when their father is dying. It might not seem obvious to cast such different performers as family, but there is something about three singular women in the same film that makes a kind of sense. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luWZENFNxoU\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Meanwhile on Earth,’ in theaters Sept. 13\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In this moody, surreal French sci-fi film, a young woman grieves her beloved brother, who disappeared on a space mission three years prior. One night, she receives a message: a mysterious presence says it can return him to Earth… if she does it a small favor. It’s the latest from director Jeremy Clapin, whose unforgettable \u003cem>I Lost my Body\u003c/em>, about a severed hand’s quest to be reunited with its original owner, was nominated for an Oscar in 2020. \u003cem>Nous allons! — Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvks3SeCDOs\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘My Old Ass,’ in theaters Sept. 13\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>While hallucinating on mushrooms in her last summer before college, Elliott (Maisy Stella) is visited by her 39-year-old self (Aubrey Plaza), blithely offering unsolicited advice: “I know mom can be annoying but be nice to her; hang out with your brothers; and avoid anyone named Chad.” That’s a cue for Percy Hynes White’s endearingly dorky Chad to make his appearance in Megan Park’s coming-of-age charmer. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GTL2q9ueI4\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘All Shall Be Well,’ in theaters Sept. 20\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A darling of the festival circuit, this Hong Kong drama follows Angie and Pat, a lesbian couple in their 60s who’ve been together for decades. When Pat suddenly dies, her family treats Angie with compassion — at first. Soon, questions over Pat’s estate cause a rift that endangers Angie’s ability to stay in the apartment they shared. Films tackling the intersection of queerness and aging aren’t exactly thick on the ground; early reviews say this one manages to be both sad and life-affirming. \u003cem>— Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9CmC5Rmsdw\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘A Different Man,’ in theaters Sept. 20\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>This brutal psychological drama stars Sebastian Stan as an aspiring actor with neurofibromatosis, a genetic mutation. To widen his casting opportunities, he undergoes facial reconstructive surgery – but when he encounters a fellow performer with the same medical condition (Adam Pearson), he’s forced to reckon with the choice he made. This may be one of the strangest and most challenging things you’ll watch all year, and it’s worth it. \u003cem>— Aisha Harris\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNlrGhBpYjc\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Substance,’ in theaters Sept. 20\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The body horror, the body horror! Coralie Fargeat’s latest film kind of sounds like a mad twist on \u003cem>Severance\u003c/em>: Demi Moore is an aerobics star who’s fired from her show for turning 50. She’s offered the chance to inject a substance that will transform her into a younger version of herself (Margaret Qualley). She must “switch” between her younger and older self every seven days, but — surprise, surprise! — things don’t go exactly as planned. \u003cem>— Aisha Harris\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLJUPjiRbAM\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘WOLFS\u003cem>,’ \u003c/em>in theaters Sept. 20, on Apple TV+ Sept. 27\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>George Clooney and Brad Pitt have been making capers together since \u003cem>Ocean’s Eleven\u003c/em> in 2001. Now, they join up for an action comedy about two sketchy but efficient fixers. The only hangup is that they both work alone, but now they’re forced to work together. It’s a well-worn setup, and the result will depend on whether they can recapture the affectionate repartee one more time. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9_nPeKnpfE\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Megalopolis,’ in theaters Sept. 27\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Look, reportedly this whole production is deeply fraught — \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/14/has-this-guy-ever-made-a-movie-before-francis-ford-coppola-40-year-battle-megalopolis\">\u003cu>you can Google\u003c/u>\u003c/a> the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/movies/francis-ford-coppola-megalopolis-godfather.html\">\u003cu>many reasons yourself\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. But the mere existence of a brand-new Francis Ford Coppola film in 2024 still has people talking. It’s a decades-long passion project with a stacked cast that includes Adam Driver, Giancarlo Esposito, Aubrey Plaza, Talia Shire, and Laurence Fishburne. And its CGI-heavy, time-traveling story looks truly out-there: Coppola reimagines the fall of Rome through the lens of a modern-day New York. \u003cem>— Aisha Harris\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67vbA5ZJdKQ\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Wild Robot,’ in theaters Sept. 27\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Filmmaker Chris Sanders (\u003cem>How to Train Your Dragon\u003c/em>) has been telling interviewers that the computer-generated visuals in this tale of a shipwrecked robot named Roz (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o) who befriends an island’s critters and adopts an orphaned gosling, were inspired by the watercolor backgrounds in Bambi, and by the lush hand-drawn forests of Hayao Miyazaki. The idea was to place the high-tech protagonist of this ecological fable in an emotionally resonant wilderness. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OKAwz2MsJs\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Joker: Folie a Deux,’ in theaters Oct. 4\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The original \u003cem>Joker \u003c/em>was supposed to be a standalone film, but when it made a billion dollars, and Oscar-winner Joaquin Phoenix started dreaming about his deranged Arthur Fleck telling jokes and singing onstage, what’s a poor movie studio to do? Phoenix and director Todd Phillips conjured a story involving Fleck’s music therapist, Harley Quinn; Lady Gaga signed on to play her, and here we are. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY95YW-HVCM\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Platform 2,’ on Netflix Oct. 4\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Platform\u003c/em>, Spanish director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s 2019 feature debut, was a nasty piece of work — an grisly anti-capitalist screed in sci-fi/horror clothing. In a tower prison, the residents of the top floors enjoy sumptuous meals served on a vast slab. But as that platform descends at designated intervals down through the tower, the lower residents fight over leftovers. No, it’s not subtle, as metaphors go, but I’m eager to see where a sequel takes us. \u003cem>— Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bc6trBc1kc\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Piece by Piece,’ in theaters Oct. 11\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Y’know what’d be cool?” asks Pharrell Williams, channeling his “It might seem crazy what I’m ‘bout to say” opening lyric to “Happy” — “is if we told my story with LEGO pieces.” As he is LEGO-ized while saying this in Morgan Neville’s computer-animated documentary and is joined on several new songs by LEGO-ized Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg, it’s hard to disagree.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ9O_tl5Npk\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Saturday Night,’ in theaters Oct. 11\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jason Reitman jumps back 49 years to revel in the nervous energy of Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Jane Curtin on the eve of the very first broadcast of a little late-night comedy show they’d come up with. Interviews with the surviving principals inform the dramedy’s portrait of the hours leading up to those fateful words “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” on Oct. 11, 1975. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1HxTmV5i7c\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Anora,’ in theaters Oct. 18\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first American film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 13 years, Sean Baker’s comic drama follows New York sex worker Anora (Mikey Madison) as she impulsively elopes with Russian tourist Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), who’s eager to avoid deportation. The magic in their fairytale romance is challenged somewhat when Vanya’s parents swan in to try to get the marriage annulled.\u003cem> — Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBMXS32KOQ4\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Rumours,’ in theaters Oct. 18\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Guy Maddin makes movies (\u003cem>Careful\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Saddest Music in the World\u003c/em>, \u003cem>My Winnipeg\u003c/em>) that are rich and strange — not necessarily in a crowd-pleasing way, but invariably in a me-pleasing way. He’s teaming with brothers Evan and Galen Johnson to write and direct this one, and the plot promises a big swing: World leaders attending the G7 conference get lost in the woods. I was all-in for this movie even BEFORE I found it stars Cate Blanchett and a giant brain. And now that I know that? All-innest! \u003cem>— Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGXA1utDS_o\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Woman of the Hour,’ on Netflix Oct. 18\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut (in which she also stars) is based on the story of a serial killer who went on \u003cem>The Dating Game\u003c/em>. It’s a bizarre and unsettling story to say the least, and it got solid reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Kendrick is a more interesting actress than she’s sometimes given credit for, and she may be the same as a director. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963844\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel.png\" alt=\"Two young men gaze up at the sky.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1352\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-800x541.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-1020x690.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-768x519.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-1536x1038.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-1920x1298.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nickel Boys.’ \u003ccite>(L. 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Here, he joins Jesse Eisenberg, who also wrote and directed, to play cousins who join up for a trip in Poland. 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The \u003cem>Shame \u003c/em>and \u003cem>12 Years a Slave\u003c/em> filmmaker wrote and directed this historical drama, which has been described as an “epic journey” set during World War II. And it stars the always captivating Saoirse Ronan as a woman whose young son goes missing in the English countryside. Sign me up.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— Aisha Harris\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rgYUipGJNo\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Gladiator II,’ in theaters Nov. 22\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two decades after the events depicted in Ridley Scott’s \u003cem>Gladiator,\u003c/em> Lucius, the little boy (grandson of an emperor) who cheered on Russell Crowe in the Colosseum, has grown up to be Paul Mescal and finds himself in much the same position. 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Phoenix and director Todd Phillips conjured a story involving Fleck’s music therapist, Harley Quinn; Lady Gaga signed on to play her, and here we are. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/cY95YW-HVCM'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/cY95YW-HVCM'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Platform 2,’ on Netflix Oct. 4\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The Platform\u003c/em>, Spanish director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s 2019 feature debut, was a nasty piece of work — an grisly anti-capitalist screed in sci-fi/horror clothing. In a tower prison, the residents of the top floors enjoy sumptuous meals served on a vast slab. But as that platform descends at designated intervals down through the tower, the lower residents fight over leftovers. No, it’s not subtle, as metaphors go, but I’m eager to see where a sequel takes us. \u003cem>— Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/7Bc6trBc1kc'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/7Bc6trBc1kc'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Piece by Piece,’ in theaters Oct. 11\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“Y’know what’d be cool?” asks Pharrell Williams, channeling his “It might seem crazy what I’m ‘bout to say” opening lyric to “Happy” — “is if we told my story with LEGO pieces.” As he is LEGO-ized while saying this in Morgan Neville’s computer-animated documentary and is joined on several new songs by LEGO-ized Gwen Stefani, Justin Timberlake, Kendrick Lamar, Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z and Snoop Dogg, it’s hard to disagree.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/iZ9O_tl5Npk'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/iZ9O_tl5Npk'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Saturday Night,’ in theaters Oct. 11\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Jason Reitman jumps back 49 years to revel in the nervous energy of Lorne Michaels, Chevy Chase, Gilda Radner, Garrett Morris, John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, and Jane Curtin on the eve of the very first broadcast of a little late-night comedy show they’d come up with. Interviews with the surviving principals inform the dramedy’s portrait of the hours leading up to those fateful words “Live from New York, it’s Saturday Night!” on Oct. 11, 1975. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/p1HxTmV5i7c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/p1HxTmV5i7c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Anora,’ in theaters Oct. 18\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The first American film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 13 years, Sean Baker’s comic drama follows New York sex worker Anora (Mikey Madison) as she impulsively elopes with Russian tourist Vanya (Mark Eydelshteyn), who’s eager to avoid deportation. The magic in their fairytale romance is challenged somewhat when Vanya’s parents swan in to try to get the marriage annulled.\u003cem> — Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/wBMXS32KOQ4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/wBMXS32KOQ4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Rumours,’ in theaters Oct. 18\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Guy Maddin makes movies (\u003cem>Careful\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Saddest Music in the World\u003c/em>, \u003cem>My Winnipeg\u003c/em>) that are rich and strange — not necessarily in a crowd-pleasing way, but invariably in a me-pleasing way. He’s teaming with brothers Evan and Galen Johnson to write and direct this one, and the plot promises a big swing: World leaders attending the G7 conference get lost in the woods. I was all-in for this movie even BEFORE I found it stars Cate Blanchett and a giant brain. And now that I know that? All-innest! \u003cem>— Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/PGXA1utDS_o'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/PGXA1utDS_o'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Woman of the Hour,’ on Netflix Oct. 18\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut (in which she also stars) is based on the story of a serial killer who went on \u003cem>The Dating Game\u003c/em>. It’s a bizarre and unsettling story to say the least, and it got solid reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival last year. Kendrick is a more interesting actress than she’s sometimes given credit for, and she may be the same as a director. \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963844\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963844\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel.png\" alt=\"Two young men gaze up at the sky.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1352\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-800x541.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-1020x690.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-768x519.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-1536x1038.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/nickel-1920x1298.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Nickel Boys.’ \u003ccite>(L. Kasimu Harris/Amazon Content Services)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘The Nickel Boys,’ in theaters Oct. 25\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer winner about a Jim Crow-era reform school (based on Florida’s notorious Dozier School) chronicled the experiences of two Black teenagers — Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson) — as they try to survive the horrors and abuse of the school. RaMell Ross’ film will be the opening attraction at the New York Film Festival. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/nYPJIOF0ys4'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/nYPJIOF0ys4'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘A Real Pain,’ in theaters Nov. 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kieran Culkin is fresh off a stunning performance in HBO’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/succession\">\u003cem>Succession\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, where he could be surprisingly sympathetic for a guy who was basically a sleazeball. Here, he joins Jesse Eisenberg, who also wrote and directed, to play cousins who join up for a trip in Poland. These are both actors who are just about always worth your time, and who doesn’t love a road trip movie? \u003cem>— Linda Holmes\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/I_id-SkGU2k'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/I_id-SkGU2k'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Here,’ in theaters Nov. 1\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Director Robert Zemeckis never met a technological innovation he didn’t want to play with, from motion capture in \u003cem>Polar Express\u003c/em> to digital animation in \u003cem>Who Framed Roger Rabbit.\u003c/em> This time, he’s employing generative AI to face-swap and de-age his \u003cem>Forrest Gump\u003c/em> stars, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright, as they play characters from 18 to 80 in a story that chronicles events on a single plot of land. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/t3HupHq8-eE'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/t3HupHq8-eE'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Emilia Pérez,’ in theaters Nov. 1, on Netflix Nov. 13\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The word out of Cannes earlier this year, where it won the Jury Prize, was that Jacques Audiard’s musical comedy crime film is both exciting and polarizing. At the very least, the logline is compelling: Zoe Saldaña is a lawyer who’s roped into helping a ruthless cartel leader (Karla Sofía Gascón) fake her own death so she can undergo gender affirming surgery. Mentally prepare yourself now for The Discourse to come.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— Aisha Harris\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/O9i2vmFhSSY'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/O9i2vmFhSSY'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Heretic,’ in theaters Nov. 15\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two young women, Mormon missionaries, greet a kindly older man who invites them inside his remote home for a sober discussion of the tenets of their faith. But this is an A24 horror film, so things don’t stay sober for long. The older man in question is played by a slyly sinister Hugh Grant, and his home is an elaborate maze made to test their faiths. I’m getting \u003cem>Barbarian \u003c/em>vibes from the trailer — and it’s not like that cardigan Grant’s wearing makes things any LESS creepy. Brrrr. \u003cem>— Glen Weldon\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963845\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963845\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/blitz.png\" alt=\"A woman runs through a station with a small boy.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1119\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/blitz.png 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/blitz-800x448.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/blitz-1020x571.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/blitz-160x90.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/blitz-768x430.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/blitz-1536x859.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/blitz-1920x1074.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">‘Blitz.’ \u003ccite>(Apple TV+)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Blitz,’ in theaters Nov. 1, on Apple TV+ Nov. 22\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Steve McQueen — that name alone should be enough to warrant attention. The \u003cem>Shame \u003c/em>and \u003cem>12 Years a Slave\u003c/em> filmmaker wrote and directed this historical drama, which has been described as an “epic journey” set during World War II. And it stars the always captivating Saoirse Ronan as a woman whose young son goes missing in the English countryside. Sign me up.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>— Aisha Harris\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/4rgYUipGJNo'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/4rgYUipGJNo'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Gladiator II,’ in theaters Nov. 22\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Two decades after the events depicted in Ridley Scott’s \u003cem>Gladiator,\u003c/em> Lucius, the little boy (grandson of an emperor) who cheered on Russell Crowe in the Colosseum, has grown up to be Paul Mescal and finds himself in much the same position. Enslaved, he’ll fight not tigers, but a rhinoceros, under the tutelage of power-broker Denzel Washington as he opposes a pair of cruel and capricious young emperors. \u003cem>— Bob Mondello\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/6COmYeLsz4c'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/6COmYeLsz4c'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>‘Wicked,’ in theaters Nov. 22\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"title": "Bring Your Global Entry Card — ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel’s a Soul Train Ride to Comedy Joy",
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"content": "\u003cp>“I have global entry!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, does that sound like a funny line? Of course it doesn’t. Whatever in the history of mankind and airport lines could be funny about global entry?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13958707']But put it in the mouth of comedy goddess Catherine O’Hara, and place it in the singularly inventive world of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/28185/theres_a_method_to_tim_burtons_madness\">Tim Burton\u003c/a> and that wacky afterlife waiting room from \u003cem>Beetlejuice\u003c/em>, and it may become the one blessed time in your life you’ll ever guffaw about global entry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It likely won’t be the only thing you’ll guffaw about. Burton is back — and, more significantly, he is BACK — with \u003cem>Beetlejuice Beetlejuice\u003c/em>, 36 years after the original. And for once, the question “Why a sequel?” is moot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not because we know the answer. (Do we?) But, who cares? It’s funny. It may even make you feel better about, well, death, though not “death death.” And Michael Keaton somehow looks exactly the same as he did in 1988 (to be fair, it helps that his character was already dead.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As-vKW4ZboU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Returning to his tale of Keaton’s ghostly, fiendish “bio-exorcist,” director Burton brings back much of the team behind the original, including, alongside O’Hara and Keaton, the still-lovely Winona Ryder as Lydia the Goth Girl (also, Bob the shrunken-head guy).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And we’ve gained Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Willem Dafoe, and for the younger generation, Jenna Ortega, who, as a relatively normal figure, serves as an appealing anchor, her story moving the plot along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13963648']Speaking of plot: if you didn’t see the original, not to worry. It all gets explained (as much as it should be) in time. We begin in Winter River, Connecticut, still home to Lydia Deetz (Ryder), who came as a teenager with batty stepmom Delia and dad Charles, only to learn her new house was haunted by the recently deceased Adam and Barbara (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, alas not back).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia looks much the same — dressed all in black, with spiky bangs and pale skin — but is now a widowed mother, a psychic mediator, and host of a cheesy reality show, \u003cem>Ghost House\u003c/em>, in which she sees ghosts and asks, “Can the living and the dead co-exist?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But one day she sees something in the audience that scares her: visions of Beetlejuice, who wrought havoc when she was a teen and who, when we last left him, was wasting away in the afterlife waiting room (apparently, HE did not have global entry.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Waiting just off set to comfort Lydia after this terrifying vision is her manager and boyfriend, Rory (Theroux), who has a little ponytail almost as smarmy as himself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lydia then gets a concerning message from Delia (O’Hara), an artist of questionable talent and unquestionable ego, who’s mounting a gallery show in which she herself is the canvas. There, Delia tells Lydia that she’s lost Charles. “Is he divorcing you?” gasps Lydia. “What a horrible thought!” replies Delia. “No, he’s dead.” (Such lines are catnip for O’Hara, a genius of comic timing).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13963688']Lydia calls her daughter, Astrid (Ortega), at boarding school. Astrid lists Lydia in her contacts as “Alleged Mom,” which tells you much of what you need to know about their fraught relationship\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But let’s pause this account of the living, because we also have to catch you up on the dead. Down where Beetlejuice is stuck, where the dead live — but not the “dead dead” — Delores, Beetlejuice’s ex-wife, has escaped from the crates (emphasis on plural) in which her body has resided. Watching the glamorous Bellucci literally staple herself together is just one of the glorious creative moments Burton and crew give us here. Alas, Delores doesn’t have much else to do, but this is rather spectacular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re approaching spoiler territory, so let’s just say that things really get complicated when Astrid goes home to Winter River for her father’s funeral. There, she watches as Mom accepts a marriage proposal from smarmy Rory. Racing off to escape, Astrid runs into a cute young guy reading Dostoyevsky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A relationship begins, one that will lead to unexpected mayhem. Let’s just say Lydia will need to call upon — gasp! — Beetlejuice, who will exact a fearsome price for his services, as he is wont to do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And he appears none too soon. Keaton, in his white caked makeup and blackened eyes and hair that looks like he is perpetually sticking his hand into a plug in the wall, slips remarkably smoothly into his old role. “The juice is loose,” as he likes to say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But you know who’s also got the juice flowing? Burton. It’s his inimitable energy that infuses this movie — a joyously rendered sequel that sometimes makes sense, and sometimes doesn’t, but just keeps rollicking. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963809\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 720px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_4151_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963809\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_4151_720.jpg 720w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/img_4151_720-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night, just before Joe Hisaishi conducted ‘Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki.’ \u003ccite>(Liz Seward)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So it’s 2017, right, and I’m in a Tokyo park trying to entertain a group of small schoolchildren. They’d gathered around to stare at my tattoos (which are \u003ca href=\"https://inkcredibletattoovb.com/japans-complicated-past-with-tattoos/\">rare in Japan\u003c/a>), and, in a moment of not knowing what to do, I decided to seek common ground through music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I sung Katy Perry. No reaction. I sung Taylor Swift. Some giggles, but mostly blank stares.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then it hit me: I’m in Japan! So I started singing the theme to \u003cem>My Neighbor Totoro\u003c/em>, and instantly, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/BSL1dUQDnVU/\">a dozen young Japanese children in matching yellow caps\u003c/a> burst into song with me, laughing and singing as we shared an odd, beautiful moment of human connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Multiply that by about 100 million, and you start to understand the global impact of the wonderful music of Joe Hisaishi.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/main-press-photo-Joe-Hisaishi-191001-659-Final-By-Omar-Cruz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963811\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/main-press-photo-Joe-Hisaishi-191001-659-Final-By-Omar-Cruz.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/main-press-photo-Joe-Hisaishi-191001-659-Final-By-Omar-Cruz-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/main-press-photo-Joe-Hisaishi-191001-659-Final-By-Omar-Cruz-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/main-press-photo-Joe-Hisaishi-191001-659-Final-By-Omar-Cruz-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/main-press-photo-Joe-Hisaishi-191001-659-Final-By-Omar-Cruz-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/main-press-photo-Joe-Hisaishi-191001-659-Final-By-Omar-Cruz-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Hisaishi. \u003ccite>(Omar Cruz)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Which is why it was no surprise when tickets for Hisaishi’s three concerts this week with the San Francisco Symphony sold out quickly. As a longtime collaborator of Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki, Hisaishi has composed scores for such timeless films as \u003cem>Spirited Away\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Castle in the Sky\u003c/em> and \u003cem>Princess Mononoke\u003c/em>. With the continued rise of Studio Ghibli’s profile in the United States, and the rare opportunity to see Hisaishi conduct his own music live at the podium, the auditorium was packed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It should be said: This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever seen at Davies Symphony Hall. Multiracial, yes — Asian, Latino, white, Indian, Black, Filipino — and dressed in athleisure and formal gowns alike, plus a kimono or two. At one point a burly mustache guy in a denim jacket over a Princess Mononoke T-shirt walked past me, followed by a shy young girl in sparkly Mary Janes and a pink tutu. (Shout out, also, to the two young men decked out as \u003ca href=\"https://soranews24.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2014/09/b-1.jpg?w=640\">Kiki and Tombo\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13934544']Which is to say that Hisaishi’s music has touched a very wide swath of people, evident in the huge applause that greeted his entrance Thursday night. Performing double duty on the podium and piano, he led the orchestra in themes from his first-ever Miyazaki film, \u003cem>Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind\u003c/em>, while a montage from the movie appeared on a large screen above. So it went across 10 different films, as the orchestra and San Francisco Symphony chorus brought Hisaishi’s enduring melodies to new life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hisaishi is sometimes compared to Hollywood composer John Williams, and Miyazaki to Walt Disney, but neither comparison is really accurate. Just days before, I’d rewatched \u003cem>Spirited Away\u003c/em> at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, and was reminded of the counterbalancing effect of Hisaishi’s scores. During the film’s many scenes of tumult or fear, the music conveys calm beauty; an aural reassurance that amid life’s challenges, somehow, we persevere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2485px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2485\" height=\"1495\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService.jpg 2485w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-1536x924.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-2048x1232.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-1920x1155.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2485px) 100vw, 2485px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Joe Hisaishi conducted ‘Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki’ at Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night, including music from ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service,’ above. \u003ccite>(Studio Ghibli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vocalist Mai Fujisawa conjured that feeling during her performance of “One Summer’s Day,” from \u003cem>Spirited Away\u003c/em>. (She also inspired the only three words Hisaishi spoke from the stage: “She’s my daughter.”) Meanwhile, vocalist Janet Todd’s \u003cem>Princess Mononoke\u003c/em> theme soared gorgeously, offset by the film’s thundering “The Demon God,” essentially the soundtrack to walking through a brick wall. With the Symphony chorus, \u003cem>Ponyo\u003c/em> was jaunty as ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow it was \u003cem>Kiki’s Delivery Service\u003c/em> that hit me the hardest, with its lilting theme, “A Town With an Ocean View.” The screen showed a familiar scene from the film: a young girl flying with her cat and a broom over her hometown, fully free, the way we all should be, except instead we’re tethered to the ground, to our jobs and our phones. (I was torn out of this reverie by a person in front of me playing with ChatGPT prompts for several minutes on her bright phone screen. Welcome to San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13955606']On the whole, the crowd remained incredibly polite, even during the rapturous “Hey Let’s Go” from the concert’s inevitable closer, \u003cem>My Neighbor Totoro\u003c/em>. Several minutes of a standing ovation brought Hisaishi out for an encore of \u003cem>Porco Rosso\u003c/em>‘s “Madness.” More ovations brought him out for another encore, of \u003cem>Princess Mononoke\u003c/em>‘s “Ashitaka and San.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I lost track of how many curtain calls followed. All I know is Hisaishi was showered with love from a small cross-section of his many admirers, just like those schoolkids in Tokyo, who’ve been touched by his music — and were fortunate enough to thank him for it in person.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Which is to say that Hisaishi’s music has touched a very wide swath of people, evident in the huge applause that greeted his entrance Thursday night. Performing double duty on the podium and piano, he led the orchestra in themes from his first-ever Miyazaki film, \u003cem>Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind\u003c/em>, while a montage from the movie appeared on a large screen above. So it went across 10 different films, as the orchestra and San Francisco Symphony chorus brought Hisaishi’s enduring melodies to new life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hisaishi is sometimes compared to Hollywood composer John Williams, and Miyazaki to Walt Disney, but neither comparison is really accurate. Just days before, I’d rewatched \u003cem>Spirited Away\u003c/em> at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland, and was reminded of the counterbalancing effect of Hisaishi’s scores. During the film’s many scenes of tumult or fear, the music conveys calm beauty; an aural reassurance that amid life’s challenges, somehow, we persevere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963819\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2485px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2485\" height=\"1495\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963819\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService.jpg 2485w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-800x481.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-1020x614.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-160x96.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-768x462.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-1536x924.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-2048x1232.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/KikisDeliveryService-1920x1155.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2485px) 100vw, 2485px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Composer Joe Hisaishi conducted ‘Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki’ at Davies Symphony Hall on Thursday night, including music from ‘Kiki’s Delivery Service,’ above. \u003ccite>(Studio Ghibli)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Vocalist Mai Fujisawa conjured that feeling during her performance of “One Summer’s Day,” from \u003cem>Spirited Away\u003c/em>. (She also inspired the only three words Hisaishi spoke from the stage: “She’s my daughter.”) Meanwhile, vocalist Janet Todd’s \u003cem>Princess Mononoke\u003c/em> theme soared gorgeously, offset by the film’s thundering “The Demon God,” essentially the soundtrack to walking through a brick wall. With the Symphony chorus, \u003cem>Ponyo\u003c/em> was jaunty as ever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Somehow it was \u003cem>Kiki’s Delivery Service\u003c/em> that hit me the hardest, with its lilting theme, “A Town With an Ocean View.” The screen showed a familiar scene from the film: a young girl flying with her cat and a broom over her hometown, fully free, the way we all should be, except instead we’re tethered to the ground, to our jobs and our phones. (I was torn out of this reverie by a person in front of me playing with ChatGPT prompts for several minutes on her bright phone screen. Welcome to San Francisco.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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She beamed from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.allvideoclassicgames.com/cdn/shop/products/mavis_beacon2_box.jpg\">cover of the Software Toolworks packaging\u003c/a> as a rare sight in a world of technology dreamed up by white men in Silicon Valley garages: a Black woman of great knowledge and skill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For director \u003ca href=\"https://www.jazminjones.com/\">Jazmin Jones\u003c/a> and her collaborator and associate producer \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cyberdoula/?hl=en\">Olivia McKayla Ross\u003c/a>, Mavis Beacon is a hero, a symbol of their right to use and create technology. In this vein, their project to find the real woman who posed for the role of Mavis in 1987 — Haitian immigrant Renée L’Espérance — is a kind of mythical quest. \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/seeking-mavis-beacon/\">Seeking Mavis Beacon\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, Jones’ excellent new documentary opening Sept. 6 at the Roxie, follows the pair’s attempts to find L’Espérance, honor her and eventually give her the respect and consideration she did not receive as Toolworks’ self-proclaimed “Betty Crocker.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963740\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill2_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Two Black women face each other across table in eclectically decorated space\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1055\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963740\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill2_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill2_2000-800x422.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill2_2000-1020x538.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill2_2000-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill2_2000-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill2_2000-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill2_2000-1920x1013.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olivia McKayla Ross and Jazmin Jones in their West Oakland headquarters in a scene from ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NEON)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Filmed between 2020 and 2023, \u003ci>Seeking\u003c/i> is many things: a thrilling IRL investigation; an argument for representation in technology; a manifesto on cyberfeminism; a buddy film; a cross-country adventure; a pandemic-era story about separation and dislocation; and an ethical conundrum that plays out transparently, sensitively, in very real conversations. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s about us on the road, finding ourselves [in a] coming-of-age journey,” Jones says. “Which is great because initially I thought I was just making a really brooding detective movie. And with Olivia’s involvement came the whimsy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first half of \u003ci>Seeking\u003c/i> has a kind of madcap momentum, fueled by Jones and Ross’ neon-hued build-out of their West Oakland investigation headquarters, their warm hang sessions and surreal man-on-the-street interviews about the lasting influence of Mavis Beacon. The pair are dressed fabulously throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between this footage, the documentary deploys a computer desktop view as an evidence board (though there’s a physical one of those too). Files and videos pop up and play in ingenious, fast-paced montage sequences. For those used to staring at a computer screen with too many tabs open, this presentation feels completely natural, and allows for delightful, wide-ranging references: a Stan Brakhage experimental film clip, a Sade interview about stepping back from fame. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Black women stand around a circle of candles\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1055\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963741\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-800x422.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-1020x538.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-1920x1013.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ritual conducted in Jones and Ross’ West Oakland headquarters in a scene from ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NEON)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At roughly the midway point, a shift occurs. “We thought that the reason no one had spoken to Renée is because the right people hadn’t asked the right questions,” Jones says. But what if L’Espérance’s two-decade-plus absence from the public eye is actually a calculated move? We watch, in real time, as Jones and Ross reevaluate their own narrative understanding of the situation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracking people down for the sake of feeding either nostalgia or collective curiosity has become a cottage industry in the realms of documentary film, podcasting and “where are they now” clickbait stories. Most of those offerings leave a icky aftertaste, but \u003ci>Seeking Mavis Beacon\u003c/i> stands apart, through the clear earnestness of its protagonists and the care they take to consider the ramifications of continuing their search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the film, Jones and Ross have gone through something, and we’ve been right there along with them, examining our own impulses towards cut-and-dry answers and easily searchable results. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first half of \u003ci>Seeking\u003c/i> has a kind of madcap momentum, fueled by Jones and Ross’ neon-hued build-out of their West Oakland investigation headquarters, their warm hang sessions and surreal man-on-the-street interviews about the lasting influence of Mavis Beacon. The pair are dressed fabulously throughout.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between this footage, the documentary deploys a computer desktop view as an evidence board (though there’s a physical one of those too). Files and videos pop up and play in ingenious, fast-paced montage sequences. For those used to staring at a computer screen with too many tabs open, this presentation feels completely natural, and allows for delightful, wide-ranging references: a Stan Brakhage experimental film clip, a Sade interview about stepping back from fame. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13963741\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Black women stand around a circle of candles\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1055\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13963741\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-800x422.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-1020x538.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-160x84.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-768x405.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-1536x810.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/SMBstill5_2000-1920x1013.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ritual conducted in Jones and Ross’ West Oakland headquarters in a scene from ‘Seeking Mavis Beacon.’ \u003ccite>(Courtesy of NEON)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At roughly the midway point, a shift occurs. “We thought that the reason no one had spoken to Renée is because the right people hadn’t asked the right questions,” Jones says. But what if L’Espérance’s two-decade-plus absence from the public eye is actually a calculated move? We watch, in real time, as Jones and Ross reevaluate their own narrative understanding of the situation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tracking people down for the sake of feeding either nostalgia or collective curiosity has become a cottage industry in the realms of documentary film, podcasting and “where are they now” clickbait stories. Most of those offerings leave a icky aftertaste, but \u003ci>Seeking Mavis Beacon\u003c/i> stands apart, through the clear earnestness of its protagonists and the care they take to consider the ramifications of continuing their search.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the end of the film, Jones and Ross have gone through something, and we’ve been right there along with them, examining our own impulses towards cut-and-dry answers and easily searchable results. The manifesto has shifted: people have the right to disappear.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There was a really sweet young filmmaker at the beginning that was like, ‘We’re going to give her a platform that she never had, and she’s going to love us, and we’re going to be best friends and get the best interview ever,’” Jones says. “I’m really glad that I got to grow past that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film’s great gift is that it models a new relationship to information, privacy and artmaking that is not only fun to watch, but just as instructive as a certain high-stakes typing test. \u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘\u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/film/seeking-mavis-beacon/\">Seeking Mavis Beacon\u003c/a>’ begins screening at the Roxie Theater (3117 16th St., San Francisco) on Sept. 6, 2024.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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