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Helping others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is as true for the world at large as it is for people who are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brentongieser.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brenton Gieser\u003c/a>’s documentary film, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.the50film.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, currently streaming on Apple TV and Amazon Prime and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-50-oakland-special-release-screening-event-tickets-878111393817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screening at the New Parkway Theatre\u003c/a> in Oakland on April 19, hones in on this idea of mutual assistance by highlighting \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2014/04/30/offender-mentor-certification-teaches-inmates-to-help-themselves-others/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s Offender Mentor Certificate Program (OMPC)\u003c/a> and a few of the men who’ve gone through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956043 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from the film, 'The 50,' shows a room where men are dressed in state-issued prison clothing while sitting in a circle of chairs and holding a discussion. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from ‘The 50’ shows men sitting in a circle, sharing thoughts about the healing process. \u003ccite>(Via Brenton Grieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within the film’s first 15 minutes, viewers are brought into the California State Prison in Solano, where the first OMCP program began in 2008. The mentorship program uses the “parallel process,” where men are encouraged to work through their own traumas while simultaneously assisting others. It’s exemplified by people like Anthony Hill, a mentor who is also incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he stands in front of a class, Hill illustrates a pyramid on a dry-erase board and identifies common roadblocks people face in addition to the “junk” that informs a person’s core beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The way I was raised affects the way I think,” Hill says to a room of other men in blue shirts. “And the way I think is the way I behave, right?” Heads nod as he pinpoints the issues of maintaining a certain image and yearning for acceptance as the catalyst to many peoples’ misguided actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hill believes that people are not inherently bad, but rather misled or misinformed by core beliefs gone awry due to childhood trauma. But there’s a solution: on the bottom of the pyramid, Hill adds a layer. “Up under here is some good stuff, because there’s good in everybody,” he says before going around the room, making eye contact and letting each individual know that he sees the good in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956044 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16%E2%80%AFAM-800x394.png\" alt=\"Anthony Hill, a mentor with California’s Offender Mentor Certificate Program, stands in front of a whiteboard discussing methods of personal healing. \" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-800x394.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-1020x502.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-160x79.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-768x378.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-1536x756.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-2048x1007.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-1920x944.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Hill, a mentor with California’s Offender Mentor Certificate Program, stands in front of a whiteboard discussing methods of personal healing. \u003ccite>(Via Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pulling out this “good stuff” that hides beneath our learned behavior is a universal idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We come into this world as — not to get too existential — but as beings that are steeped in goodness,” says filmmaker Brenton Gieser. “And so many people aren’t afforded opportunities to fully actualize that goodness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gieser adds that being born into poverty, being of a certain race or inheriting generational family challenges are all obstacles that can make any person deviate from the “good stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any level of investigation into our own journeys,” says Gieser, will lead people to “understand moments where innocence was stripped away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, the film’s three main characters Cameron Clark, Al Roensch, and Randy Carter sit down and discuss moments in their childhood where they changed for the worse, while viewers are shown reenactments and visual metaphors related to their stories. Gieser says the goal of these clips isn’t solely to illustrate the stories being told, but to bring audiences into \u003cem>the feeling\u003c/em> of each experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956046 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A behind the scenes shot of filmmaker Brenton Gieser giving directions on the set of the film 'The 50'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A behind-the-scenes shot of filmmaker Brenton Gieser giving directions on the set of the film ‘The 50.’ \u003ccite>(Via Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one scene, Clark opens up about a time he was incarcerated and exchanged photo albums with a person in the cell adjacent to him. After flipping through the images, he soon realized that the person with whom he’d swapped photo albums was the nephew of the man Clark was incarcerated for murdering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark recalls the following day, when the two had a meeting. “This dude walks up to me and kneels down on one knee,” says Clark, as the reenactment shows the two congregating in what’s described as a blindspot on the yard. “I’m looking at him, so I kneel down on one knee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nephew of the slain man explained how his uncle used to take him to wrestling matches, illustrating the joy they had together — humanizing him. Clark couldn’t handle it, and abruptly excused himself. 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Clark encourages the men in the audience by saying that the community needs and misses them, and reminds them that there’s a spot for them when they return.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the film trails off from Clarks’ speech and visuals of graduates, images of others who’ve since transitioned out of prison are shown, as well as their professional titles. An interview with Clark plays as he continues his vocal encouragement to those who’ve been through what he’s been through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are experts in the field when it comes to loneliness, hurt and pain,” says Clark, noting that with the right support these people who’ve been incarcerated, who are now mentors and non-profit workers, could go so much further. “We could ultimately become the greatest healers of our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The 50’ screens on Friday, April 19, at 6 p.m., the New Parkway Theater in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-50-oakland-special-release-screening-event-tickets-878111393817\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>One of the most important parts of community healing is assisting individuals directly, one-on-one. And a key aspect for those looking to heal themselves? Helping others.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is as true for the world at large as it is for people who are incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.brentongieser.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brenton Gieser\u003c/a>’s documentary film, \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.the50film.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 50\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, currently streaming on Apple TV and Amazon Prime and \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-50-oakland-special-release-screening-event-tickets-878111393817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">screening at the New Parkway Theatre\u003c/a> in Oakland on April 19, hones in on this idea of mutual assistance by highlighting \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/insidecdcr/2014/04/30/offender-mentor-certification-teaches-inmates-to-help-themselves-others/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California’s Offender Mentor Certificate Program (OMPC)\u003c/a> and a few of the men who’ve gone through it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956043 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group.jpg\" alt=\"A scene from the film, 'The 50,' shows a room where men are dressed in state-issued prison clothing while sitting in a circle of chairs and holding a discussion. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Solano-State-Prison-OMCP-group-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A scene from ‘The 50’ shows men sitting in a circle, sharing thoughts about the healing process. \u003ccite>(Via Brenton Grieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Within the film’s first 15 minutes, viewers are brought into the California State Prison in Solano, where the first OMCP program began in 2008. The mentorship program uses the “parallel process,” where men are encouraged to work through their own traumas while simultaneously assisting others. It’s exemplified by people like Anthony Hill, a mentor who is also incarcerated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As he stands in front of a class, Hill illustrates a pyramid on a dry-erase board and identifies common roadblocks people face in addition to the “junk” that informs a person’s core beliefs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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But there’s a solution: on the bottom of the pyramid, Hill adds a layer. “Up under here is some good stuff, because there’s good in everybody,” he says before going around the room, making eye contact and letting each individual know that he sees the good in them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956044\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956044 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16%E2%80%AFAM-800x394.png\" alt=\"Anthony Hill, a mentor with California’s Offender Mentor Certificate Program, stands in front of a whiteboard discussing methods of personal healing. \" width=\"800\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-800x394.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-1020x502.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-160x79.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-768x378.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-1536x756.png 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-2048x1007.png 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Screenshot-2024-04-16-at-7.59.16 AM-1920x944.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anthony Hill, a mentor with California’s Offender Mentor Certificate Program, stands in front of a whiteboard discussing methods of personal healing. \u003ccite>(Via Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Pulling out this “good stuff” that hides beneath our learned behavior is a universal idea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We come into this world as — not to get too existential — but as beings that are steeped in goodness,” says filmmaker Brenton Gieser. “And so many people aren’t afforded opportunities to fully actualize that goodness.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gieser adds that being born into poverty, being of a certain race or inheriting generational family challenges are all obstacles that can make any person deviate from the “good stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any level of investigation into our own journeys,” says Gieser, will lead people to “understand moments where innocence was stripped away from us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one point, the film’s three main characters Cameron Clark, Al Roensch, and Randy Carter sit down and discuss moments in their childhood where they changed for the worse, while viewers are shown reenactments and visual metaphors related to their stories. Gieser says the goal of these clips isn’t solely to illustrate the stories being told, but to bring audiences into \u003cem>the feeling\u003c/em> of each experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13956046\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13956046 size-medium\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-800x534.jpg\" alt=\"A behind the scenes shot of filmmaker Brenton Gieser giving directions on the set of the film 'The 50'\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-800x534.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-1020x681.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600-768x513.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/DSC_6600.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A behind-the-scenes shot of filmmaker Brenton Gieser giving directions on the set of the film ‘The 50.’ \u003ccite>(Via Brenton Gieser)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In one scene, Clark opens up about a time he was incarcerated and exchanged photo albums with a person in the cell adjacent to him. After flipping through the images, he soon realized that the person with whom he’d swapped photo albums was the nephew of the man Clark was incarcerated for murdering.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark recalls the following day, when the two had a meeting. “This dude walks up to me and kneels down on one knee,” says Clark, as the reenactment shows the two congregating in what’s described as a blindspot on the yard. “I’m looking at him, so I kneel down on one knee.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nephew of the slain man explained how his uncle used to take him to wrestling matches, illustrating the joy they had together — humanizing him. Clark couldn’t handle it, and abruptly excused himself. But even in leaving, the moment stuck with him, pushing him on his path to examine himself and find the “good stuff.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The 50 | Official Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/gW0cb_ZHick?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Clark, no longer incarcerated, is now the \u003ca href=\"https://www.dovebayarea.org/our-story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Executive Director of D.O.V.E.\u003c/a>, a non-profit focused on preventing crime and helping those formerly incarcerated to successfully return to the larger society.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film ends as Clark speaks to the graduating class of the 8th session of OMPC, on a day that happens to be the program’s 10th anniversary. 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An interview with Clark plays as he continues his vocal encouragement to those who’ve been through what he’s been through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are experts in the field when it comes to loneliness, hurt and pain,” says Clark, noting that with the right support these people who’ve been incarcerated, who are now mentors and non-profit workers, could go so much further. “We could ultimately become the greatest healers of our society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘The 50’ screens on Friday, April 19, at 6 p.m., the New Parkway Theater in Oakland. \u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-50-oakland-special-release-screening-event-tickets-878111393817\">Details here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola died Friday surrounded by family at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement. No cause of death was given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor, who grew up in Orange County, California, met Francis while working as an assistant art director on his directorial debut, the Roger Corman-produced 1963 horror film \u003cem>Dementia 13\u003c/em>. (She had studied design at UCLA.) Within months of dating, Eleanor became pregnant and the couple were wed in Las Vegas in February 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955933\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-1536x1014.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Coppola and wife, Eleanor, pose July 16, 1991, in Los Angeles. Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ and who raised a family of filmmakers, died Friday, April 12, 2024. She was 87. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Chris Martinez, File)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their first-born, Gian-Carlo, quickly became a regular presence in his father’s films, as did their subsequent children, Roman (born in 1965) and Sofia (born in 1971). After acting in their father’s films and growing up on sets, all would go into the movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what the family has given except I hope they’ve set an example of a family encouraging each other in their creative process whatever it may be,” Eleanor told The Associated Press in 2017. “It happens in our family that everyone chose to sort of follow in the family business. We weren’t asking them to or expecting them to, but they did. At one point Sofia said, ‘The nut does not fall far from the tree.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gian-Carlo, who’s seen in the background of many of his father’s films and had begun doing second-unit photography, died at the age of 22 in a 1986 boating accident. He was killed while riding in a boat piloted by Griffin O’Neal, son of Ryan O’Neal, who was found guilty of negligence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='forum_201208101000']Roman directed several movies of his own and regularly collaborates with Wes Anderson. He’s president of his father’s San Francisco-based film company, American Zoetrope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sofia became one of the most acclaimed filmmakers of her generation as the writer-director of films including \u003cem>The Virgin Suicides\u003c/em>, \u003cem>Lost in Translation\u003c/em> and the 2023 release \u003cem>Priscilla\u003c/em>. Sofia dedicated that film to her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955934\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-768x502.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-1536x1005.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Coppola, seen in her Los Angeles home in January 1992, turned the turbulent making of ‘Apocalypse Now’ in the Philippines by her husband, Francis Coppola, into ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.’ \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Craig Fujii)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In joining the family business, the Coppola children weren’t just following in their father’s footsteps but their mother’s, too. Beginning on 1979’s \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, Eleanor frequently documented the behind-the-scenes life of Francis’ films. The Philippines-set shoot of \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em> lasted 238 days. A typhoon destroyed sets. Martin Sheen had a heart attack. A member of the construction crew died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor documented much of the chaos in what would become one of the most famous making-of films about moviemaking, 1991’s \u003cem>Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just trying to keep myself occupied with something to do because we were out there for so long,” Eleanor told CNN in 1991. “They wanted five minutes for a TV promotional or something and I thought sooner of later I could get five minutes of film and then it went on to 15 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept shooting but I had no idea … the evolution of myself that I saw with my camera,” continued Eleanor, who ended up shooting 60 hours of footage. “So, it was a surprise for both of us and a life changing experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor also published \u003cem>Notes: On the Making of ‘Apocalypse Now’\u003c/em> in 1979. While the film focused on the film set tumult, the book charted some of Eleanor’s inner turmoil, including the challenges of being married to a larger-than-life figure. She wrote of being a “woman isolated from my friends, my affairs and my projects” during their year in Manilla. She also frankly discusses Francis having an extramarital affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is part of me that has been waiting for Francis to leave me, or die, so that I can get my life the way I want it,” wrote Eleanor. “I wonder if I have the guts to get it the way I want it with him in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1474px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1474\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955935\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_.jpg 1474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-800x1042.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-1020x1329.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-768x1000.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-1179x1536.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1474px) 100vw, 1474px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated portrait of Eleanor Coppola, released by the Coppola family. Eleanor Coppola died on Friday at 87. \u003ccite>(Chad Keig/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They remained together, though, throughout her life. And Eleanor continued to seek out creative outlets for herself. She documented several more of her husband’s films, as well as Roman’s \u003cem>CQ\u003c/em> and Sofia’s \u003cem>Marie Antoinette\u003c/em>. She wrote a memoir in 2008, \u003cem>Notes on a Life\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2016, at the age of 80, Eleanor made her narrative debut in \u003cem>Paris Can Wait\u003c/em>, a romantic comedy starring Diane Lane. She followed that up with \u003cem>Love Is Love Is Love\u003c/em> in 2020. Eleanor had initially set out only to write the screenplay to \u003cem>Paris Can Wait\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One morning at the breakfast table my husband said, ‘Well you should direct it.’ I was totally startled,” Eleanor told The AP. “But I said ‘Well, I never wrote a script before and I’ve never directed, why not?’ I was kind of saying ‘why not’ to everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor died just as Francis is preparing a long-planned, self-financed epic, \u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em>, which is to premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is survived by her husband; her son Roman and his wife, Jen, their children, Pascale, Marcello and Alessandro; her daughter Sofia and her husband, Thomas, their children Romy and Cosima; her granddaughter Gia and her husband, Honor, and their child Beaumont; and by her brother William Neil and his wife, Lisa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor recently completed her third memoir, the family said. In the manuscript she wrote:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I appreciate how my unexpected life has stretched and pulled me in so many extraordinary ways and taken me in a multitude of directions beyond my wildest imaginings.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, and who raised a family of filmmakers, has died. She was 87.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coppola died Friday surrounded by family at home in Rutherford, California, her family announced in a statement. No cause of death was given.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor, who grew up in Orange County, California, met Francis while working as an assistant art director on his directorial debut, the Roger Corman-produced 1963 horror film \u003cem>Dementia 13\u003c/em>. (She had studied design at UCLA.) Within months of dating, Eleanor became pregnant and the couple were wed in Las Vegas in February 1963.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955933\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1267\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955933\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-800x528.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-1020x673.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-768x507.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823039786-1536x1014.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Francis Coppola and wife, Eleanor, pose July 16, 1991, in Los Angeles. Eleanor Coppola, who documented the making of some of her husband Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic films, including the infamously tortured production of ‘Apocalypse Now,’ and who raised a family of filmmakers, died Friday, April 12, 2024. She was 87. \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Chris Martinez, File)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their first-born, Gian-Carlo, quickly became a regular presence in his father’s films, as did their subsequent children, Roman (born in 1965) and Sofia (born in 1971). After acting in their father’s films and growing up on sets, all would go into the movies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t know what the family has given except I hope they’ve set an example of a family encouraging each other in their creative process whatever it may be,” Eleanor told The Associated Press in 2017. “It happens in our family that everyone chose to sort of follow in the family business. We weren’t asking them to or expecting them to, but they did. At one point Sofia said, ‘The nut does not fall far from the tree.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Sofia dedicated that film to her mother.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1256\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955934\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-800x523.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-1020x667.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-160x105.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-768x502.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/AP24103823159000-1536x1005.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eleanor Coppola, seen in her Los Angeles home in January 1992, turned the turbulent making of ‘Apocalypse Now’ in the Philippines by her husband, Francis Coppola, into ‘Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.’ \u003ccite>(AP Photo/Craig Fujii)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In joining the family business, the Coppola children weren’t just following in their father’s footsteps but their mother’s, too. Beginning on 1979’s \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em>, Eleanor frequently documented the behind-the-scenes life of Francis’ films. The Philippines-set shoot of \u003cem>Apocalypse Now\u003c/em> lasted 238 days. A typhoon destroyed sets. Martin Sheen had a heart attack. A member of the construction crew died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor documented much of the chaos in what would become one of the most famous making-of films about moviemaking, 1991’s \u003cem>Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was just trying to keep myself occupied with something to do because we were out there for so long,” Eleanor told CNN in 1991. “They wanted five minutes for a TV promotional or something and I thought sooner of later I could get five minutes of film and then it went on to 15 minutes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just kept shooting but I had no idea … the evolution of myself that I saw with my camera,” continued Eleanor, who ended up shooting 60 hours of footage. “So, it was a surprise for both of us and a life changing experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor also published \u003cem>Notes: On the Making of ‘Apocalypse Now’\u003c/em> in 1979. While the film focused on the film set tumult, the book charted some of Eleanor’s inner turmoil, including the challenges of being married to a larger-than-life figure. She wrote of being a “woman isolated from my friends, my affairs and my projects” during their year in Manilla. She also frankly discusses Francis having an extramarital affair.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is part of me that has been waiting for Francis to leave me, or die, so that I can get my life the way I want it,” wrote Eleanor. “I wonder if I have the guts to get it the way I want it with him in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955935\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1474px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1474\" height=\"1920\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955935\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_.jpg 1474w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-800x1042.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-1020x1329.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-160x208.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-768x1000.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Eleanor.CourtesyPhoto.Family.AP_-1179x1536.jpg 1179w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1474px) 100vw, 1474px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated portrait of Eleanor Coppola, released by the Coppola family. 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Eleanor had initially set out only to write the screenplay to \u003cem>Paris Can Wait\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“One morning at the breakfast table my husband said, ‘Well you should direct it.’ I was totally startled,” Eleanor told The AP. “But I said ‘Well, I never wrote a script before and I’ve never directed, why not?’ I was kind of saying ‘why not’ to everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor died just as Francis is preparing a long-planned, self-financed epic, \u003cem>Metropolis\u003c/em>, which is to premiere next month at the Cannes Film Festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She is survived by her husband; her son Roman and his wife, Jen, their children, Pascale, Marcello and Alessandro; her daughter Sofia and her husband, Thomas, their children Romy and Cosima; her granddaughter Gia and her husband, Honor, and their child Beaumont; and by her brother William Neil and his wife, Lisa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eleanor recently completed her third memoir, the family said. 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"content": "\u003cp>Unlike many of the famous people interviewed in the documentary \u003ci>Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill\u003c/i>, I can’t remember exactly when I first heard Sill’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know it was decades after the 1971 release of her self-titled debut album, released by David Geffen’s brand-new Asylum Records. It was definitely long after her death, in 1979, by overdose. As someone who wasn’t alive in the ’60s and ’70s, I placed Sill’s music into my mental filing cabinet alongside contemporaries and label-mates like Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, as if it had always been there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she took up far more of my mental space than that crowd. Sill’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kTAesI73E1U?feature=shared\">Jesus Was a Cross Maker\u003c/a>” became my go-to example of a baffling yet perfect breakup song. At low points, I listened to “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kyPhvHEtRuw?feature=shared\">The Kiss\u003c/a>,” from her 1973 sophomore album, on repeat. Her haunting voice, sliding through strange tempo shifts and baroque-inspired compositions, still sends shivers down my spine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Person with eyes closed singing into mic with rose-colored glasses\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1536x1049.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1920x1311.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated photo of Judee Sill singing. \u003ccite>(Greenwich Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What I didn’t understand then, and what \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> explains patiently, admirably, is just how short-lived Sill’s career was, and how far she had fallen from the heights she hoped to achieve as “the world’s greatest living songwriter” before her death at age 35. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the strange landscape of endlessly available streaming music, songs are now often loosed from albums, free-floating from any connection to era or location. This can lead to a transcendent form of time travel, like when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM18Wuw3Tns\">modern artists cover Sill’s work\u003c/a> in front of massive cheering crowds. But it can also obscure significant biographical facts and musical context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i>, directed by Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom, carefully stitches Judee Sill’s life and music back together. It’s a story that follows a familiar music industry arc, but still holds surprises. We learn that it was in reform school, for instance, that Sill gained her “gospel licks” as the church organist. And that she arrived in reform school after she was arrested, at age 18, as a “teen-age housewife who joined three friends in staging over a dozen robberies ‘just for kicks’” (according to the San Fernando \u003ci>Valley Times\u003c/i>).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSYc-cLZUEs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sill showed early musical aptitude, learning to harmonize with herself on a piano as a young girl at her father’s Oakland bar. After his death, Sill’s mother married a Disney animator and moved the family to Los Angeles. By Sill’s accounts, it was a chaotic and abusive household she couldn’t wait to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hear from family, friends, lovers and musicians who came up with Sill in Los Angeles piano bars and folk music haunts. (Many of those musicians found extraordinary success.) We see bits of her songwriting, her drawings and diaries. Animations illustrate some of her more occult and religious themes — she credited divine inspiration for her songs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most excellent parts of \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> arrive in Sill’s own voice. It’s a relief when various star-studded covers melt into Sill’s original versions. Her singing is so crystalline it’s utterly heartbreaking: pure beauty coming out of all that pain, loss and addiction. In the final years of her life she went through numerous surgeries after a car accident; she fell back into hard drugs after doctors wouldn’t prescribe her painkillers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment.jpg\" alt=\"Billboard with album cover and information set against blue sky\" width=\"900\" height=\"611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The billboard Asylum Records rented in November 1971 for the release of Judee Sill’s debut album. In the documentary, Sill says she rented a car to sit across the street and just look at it. \u003ccite>(Greenwich Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond the songs, we also hear her tell parts of her own story. At one point, a recorded interview shows her striving, thankful for what she has, but restless. Also a treat: her deadpan on-stage banter (when her audience was receptive), in which Sill frames her songs with tidbits of biography I’m sure listeners believed were wildly embellished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> doesn’t bother with the precise dates of performances or arrive at a definitive answer to why Asylum dropped Sill after just two albums. Linda Ronstadt offers perhaps the final word on that matter. “There wasn’t anybody out to get her,” Ronstadt says. “She just didn’t deliver the goods that would have resonated in that culture in that time.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total precision is not the goal of \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i>, which relies much on 50-year-old memories. But this film does achieve what it ardently sets out to do: introduce Sill to those who are ready to experience the resonance of her music in the present moment. Footage of countless YouTube covers of “The Kiss” scrolls past, and the talking heads offer up an idea of valiantly living on through one’s art. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m sure Judee Sill would agree. I just wish she was here to tell us so.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill’ begins streaming on Amazon and Apple TV on April 12, 2024. It comes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/\">4 Star\u003c/a> (2200 Clement St., San Francisco) April 16—17 with live pre-show music from \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill-730-pm-62pdl\">Silverware\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill-730-pm\">Free Key Choir\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Unlike many of the famous people interviewed in the documentary \u003ci>Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill\u003c/i>, I can’t remember exactly when I first heard Sill’s music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I know it was decades after the 1971 release of her self-titled debut album, released by David Geffen’s brand-new Asylum Records. It was definitely long after her death, in 1979, by overdose. As someone who wasn’t alive in the ’60s and ’70s, I placed Sill’s music into my mental filing cabinet alongside contemporaries and label-mates like Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt and Jackson Browne, as if it had always been there. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, she took up far more of my mental space than that crowd. Sill’s “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kTAesI73E1U?feature=shared\">Jesus Was a Cross Maker\u003c/a>” became my go-to example of a baffling yet perfect breakup song. At low points, I listened to “\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/kyPhvHEtRuw?feature=shared\">The Kiss\u003c/a>,” from her 1973 sophomore album, on repeat. Her haunting voice, sliding through strange tempo shifts and baroque-inspired compositions, still sends shivers down my spine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955794\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Person with eyes closed singing into mic with rose-colored glasses\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1366\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955794\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-800x546.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1020x697.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-768x525.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1536x1049.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Judee-Singing-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment_2000-1920x1311.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An undated photo of Judee Sill singing. \u003ccite>(Greenwich Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What I didn’t understand then, and what \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> explains patiently, admirably, is just how short-lived Sill’s career was, and how far she had fallen from the heights she hoped to achieve as “the world’s greatest living songwriter” before her death at age 35. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the strange landscape of endlessly available streaming music, songs are now often loosed from albums, free-floating from any connection to era or location. This can lead to a transcendent form of time travel, like when \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM18Wuw3Tns\">modern artists cover Sill’s work\u003c/a> in front of massive cheering crowds. But it can also obscure significant biographical facts and musical context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i>, directed by Andy Brown and Brian Lindstrom, carefully stitches Judee Sill’s life and music back together. It’s a story that follows a familiar music industry arc, but still holds surprises. We learn that it was in reform school, for instance, that Sill gained her “gospel licks” as the church organist. And that she arrived in reform school after she was arrested, at age 18, as a “teen-age housewife who joined three friends in staging over a dozen robberies ‘just for kicks’” (according to the San Fernando \u003ci>Valley Times\u003c/i>).\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/FSYc-cLZUEs'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/FSYc-cLZUEs'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cp>Sill showed early musical aptitude, learning to harmonize with herself on a piano as a young girl at her father’s Oakland bar. After his death, Sill’s mother married a Disney animator and moved the family to Los Angeles. By Sill’s accounts, it was a chaotic and abusive household she couldn’t wait to escape.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We hear from family, friends, lovers and musicians who came up with Sill in Los Angeles piano bars and folk music haunts. (Many of those musicians found extraordinary success.) We see bits of her songwriting, her drawings and diaries. Animations illustrate some of her more occult and religious themes — she credited divine inspiration for her songs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the most excellent parts of \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> arrive in Sill’s own voice. It’s a relief when various star-studded covers melt into Sill’s original versions. Her singing is so crystalline it’s utterly heartbreaking: pure beauty coming out of all that pain, loss and addiction. In the final years of her life she went through numerous surgeries after a car accident; she fell back into hard drugs after doctors wouldn’t prescribe her painkillers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955795\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment.jpg\" alt=\"Billboard with album cover and information set against blue sky\" width=\"900\" height=\"611\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955795\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment.jpg 900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-160x109.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/Photo-4-Asylum-Billboard-November-1971-Credit-Greenwich-Entertainment-768x521.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The billboard Asylum Records rented in November 1971 for the release of Judee Sill’s debut album. In the documentary, Sill says she rented a car to sit across the street and just look at it. \u003ccite>(Greenwich Entertainment)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond the songs, we also hear her tell parts of her own story. At one point, a recorded interview shows her striving, thankful for what she has, but restless. Also a treat: her deadpan on-stage banter (when her audience was receptive), in which Sill frames her songs with tidbits of biography I’m sure listeners believed were wildly embellished.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i> doesn’t bother with the precise dates of performances or arrive at a definitive answer to why Asylum dropped Sill after just two albums. Linda Ronstadt offers perhaps the final word on that matter. “There wasn’t anybody out to get her,” Ronstadt says. “She just didn’t deliver the goods that would have resonated in that culture in that time.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Total precision is not the goal of \u003ci>Lost Angel\u003c/i>, which relies much on 50-year-old memories. But this film does achieve what it ardently sets out to do: introduce Sill to those who are ready to experience the resonance of her music in the present moment. Footage of countless YouTube covers of “The Kiss” scrolls past, and the talking heads offer up an idea of valiantly living on through one’s art. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m sure Judee Sill would agree. I just wish she was here to tell us so.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Lost Angel: The Genius of Judee Sill’ begins streaming on Amazon and Apple TV on April 12, 2024. It comes to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/\">4 Star\u003c/a> (2200 Clement St., San Francisco) April 16—17 with live pre-show music from \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill-730-pm-62pdl\">Silverware\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.4-star-movies.com/calendar-of-events/lost-angel-the-genius-of-judee-sill-730-pm\">Free Key Choir\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>The makers of the influential 2008 documentary \u003cem>Food, Inc.\u003c/em> never planned to make a sequel. They figured they’d said it all in their harrowing look at a broken, unsustainable food system — a system led, they argued, by a few multinational corporations whose monopoly squeezes out local farmers, mistreats animals, workers and the soil itself, and makes all of us less healthy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But 16 years after that Oscar-nominated film, they’re back with \u003cem>Food, Inc. 2\u003c/em>. What happened? Well, first of all, the pandemic — an event that both strained our food system and revealed its precariousness, they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Also, the filmmakers suggest, it was perhaps naive to assume that informed, ethical shoppers could alone reverse such an entrenched narrative. “You can change the world with every bite,” the first film had argued, urging consumers to buy local and organic, patronize farmer’s markets, demand healthy school lunches and most of all, read labels and understand what they’re eating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955639']Now, much of that is happening. But some problems have worsened, and new ones have emerged. “We really thought we could change the system one bite at a time,” says investigative author and producer Michael Pollan (\u003cem>The Omnivore’s Dilemma\u003c/em>), who’s back with frequent commentary along with fellow author/producer Eric Schlosser (\u003cem>Fast Food Nation\u003c/em>). “As important as that is, it’s not enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Directed by Robert Kenner and Melissa Robledo, the new film begins, as did the first, with an inspiring image out of a painting — here, a tractor gliding along a field of crops under a glistening sun. If you’ve seen the original, you’ll know such a scene will soon yield to images of unsavory assembly lines, “kill floors” at slaughterhouses, or workers earning pennies in fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A lot has happened since 2008. More people are interested in what they’re eating and where it’s from. Farmer’s markets are everywhere, and supermarkets carry organic and GMO-free food, because consumers want it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But, Pollan reminds us, the industry is still dominated “by a handful of very large and very powerful companies.” In normal times this power is invisible, but when the pandemic hit, the curtain was peeled back, he says. We see images of countless hogs euthanized because they couldn’t be processed, and farms disposing of perfectly good milk. At the same time, many supermarket shelves were empty, and people lined up in their cars, hungry. This, the film argues, is what happens when only a few companies are in charge. Some babies don’t get their formula, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToWTxhYkrKk\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As with the first film — the style is very much the same — we’re taken across the country (and beyond), listening to a stream of voices: organizers, workers, farmers, nutritionists, politicians, entrepreneurs, scientists. (Occasionally we don’t know who’s talking for a few seconds, which can be confusing.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955510']In Immokalee, Florida, lifelong farmworker (and labor leader) Gerardo Reyes Chavez explains how immigrant workers — mostly Latino and Haitians — are both relied upon and mistreated. “The industry wants immigrant workers because they feel they can take advantage of us,” he says. If we’re eating fruits and vegetables, Schlosser and Pollan tell us, we’re part of a chain of exploitation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With flashy, colorful and user-friendly graphics, the film traces industry consolidation: the few companies who have 70% of the carbonated drinks market, for example, or 80% of the baby food market. Such realities violate the spirit of antitrust legislation, they argue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We meet people like Wisconsin dairy farmer Sarah Lloyd, whose 450-cow farm feels huge to her, but other farms have 5,000 or 10,000 or 20,000 cows. How can she compete?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marion Nestle, biologist and nutritionist at New York University, looks back a few decades and marvels at how food has become something available anytime, anywhere: “You go into a clothing store and there are candy bars at the checkout counter.” She especially marvels at the escalating portion size over the years, a thought illustrated by a stack of pancakes that keeps on growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A professor in Brazil, Carlos Monteiro, posits that “ultra-processed” foods are a key factor in diabetes. His ideas are borne out by an experiment at the National Institutes of Health that shows people who eat such highly processed foods consume a whopping 500 more calories per day. Mark Schatzker (\u003cem>The Dorito Effect\u003c/em>) talks about artificial flavors and how they trick the body into eating more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Are there solutions to all this? The filmmakers consider a bunch, approving of some more than others. Everyone’s coming up with “plant-based” substitutes (fake chicken wings, honey without bees.) But Pollan worries consumers might think “plant-based” means healthy food — often, it’s nothing of the kind. One promising idea: An ocean farmer, Bren Smith, is farming kelp, and a chef is using it in her restaurant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955729']The most emotional moment concerns Taco Bell, but not the food there. Fran Marion, a Taco Bell worker (and activist) has a tear streaming down her face as she describes the challenge of feeding her children and avoiding living out of her car. She does not get health care or sick leave, she says, and as an adult has never been able to afford seeing a doctor. She speaks of working all day with food and coming home to hear her son’s stomach growl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film ends where the last one did: with a call to action. “Join us in transforming our food system,” it says, providing a website where viewers can get involved. 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"content": "\u003cp>In the movies, there are few settings more hopeful than elementary schools. And almost none where the characters’ derailed dreams and deflated enthusiasm hit us harder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I’m not just talking about the students. Sarnet (Deniz Celiloğlu), the teacher at the center of Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s riveting \u003cem>About Dry Grasses\u003c/em> (screening April 6 and 14 at the \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/production/about-dry-grasses/#showtimes\">Roxie\u003c/a>), exudes idealism and commitment from the moment we encounter him traipsing through a snowy rural landscape in Eastern Anatolia. A city fellow in his fourth (and hopefully final) year assigned to a remote village school, he may not totally fit in with the local lifers but we sense that he’s one of the good guys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet the more time we spend with Sarnet — and Ceylan’s quietly piercing drama runs three-and-a-quarter hours, on par with the filmmaker’s previous two films — the more we come to see his elitism and arrogance. It trickles out in his interactions with his fellow teacher and roommate Kenan (Musab Ekici), but really reveals itself in Sarnet’s dealings with the film’s two female characters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s not coincidence or happenstance; nothing is, in Ceylan’s measured social critiques. The dialogue is rife with hints about the power of Turkish authorities (the police, the education ministry) and the pressures of family and tradition. The invisible, malignant forces are governmental as well as patriarchal, to the degree you wish to separate them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955518\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still8_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Two men in winter clothes on a snowy street\" width=\"2000\" height=\"838\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955518\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still8_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still8_2000-800x335.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still8_2000-1020x427.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still8_2000-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still8_2000-768x322.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still8_2000-1536x644.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still8_2000-1920x804.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) and Kenan (Musab Ekici) in ‘About Dry Grasses.’ \u003ccite>(Janus Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sarnet resists the status quo, or so he thinks. When his favorite student, Sevim (stellar newcomer Ece Bağci), has a love letter confiscated from her personal belongings by another teacher during an impromptu and shocking classroom search, he manages to obtain it for her. But he bungles its return and lies to Sevim, a betrayal that subsequently leads her to report him to the principal for another alleged indiscretion. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>About Dry Grasses\u003c/em> depicts the characters’ behavior with the ambiguity that attaches to human interactions, eliminating the dynamic of villains and victims. Instead we get people’s complexity, and a glimpse at how a hurt and angry liberal will resort to the kind of repressive actions he would ascribe to those he considers reactionaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know exactly who and what these people are,” Sarnet tells his class after he angrily orders Sevim out in the hall the next day. “It’s just a few, isn’t it?” Then he advises his students, in a heinous act of blacklisting, to ostracize Sevim. (His instruction doesn’t seem to stick, fortunately.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarnet’s response to Sevim’s allegation suggests that his altruism was skin deep. Perhaps his bitterness and cynicism are symptoms of his (first) midlife crisis. Either way, Ceylan subtly sets his characters’ frustration, malaise and moral paralysis against a backdrop of social and political repression and corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sit on couch and chair around a table, talking\" width=\"2000\" height=\"821\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-800x328.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-1020x419.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-768x315.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-1536x631.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-1920x788.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu), Kenan (Musab Ekici) and Nuray (Merve Dizdar) in ‘About Dry Grasses.’ \u003ccite>(Janus Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>About Dry Grasses\u003c/em> plows this field through Sarnet and Kenan’s developing friendship with Nuray (Merve Dizdar, who received the Best Actress award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival), a teacher at another school. Nuray lost a leg in a suicide bomb attack in Ankara and moved back to the area to live with her parents. Fiercely independent and an avowed socialist, she is having a hard time re-adjusting to the rhythms of village life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything seems to take so long here — lessons, breaks, waiting for weekends, nights, everything,” she says. She gently prods Sarnet to pursue his oft-mentioned wish to move to Istanbul, while side-eyeing Kenan (who likewise grew up in the area, and has the additional advantage of being dark and handsome).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of \u003cem>About Dry Grasses\u003c/em> takes place indoors, fueled by tea and conversation, with the incipient claustrophobia broken by brief escapes outdoors for lovely open vistas of white nothingness. Talk, in this world, is as much a way of passing the time as it is of deepening connections. But as Nuray tries to impress on Sarnet, in a pivotal dinner at her place when her parents are away on a trip, action beats words every time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps missing the point, over and over, in an Olympic-level feat of deflection and auto-blindness. His squashed ambition, the movie suggests, reflects an entire generation’s thwarted promise and diminished expectations. Nuray, the most politically astute figure in the film, chooses to put it in personal terms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955520\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still5_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Three people in golden-lit landscape with ruins of two large columns\" width=\"2000\" height=\"838\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955520\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still5_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still5_2000-800x335.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still5_2000-1020x427.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still5_2000-160x67.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still5_2000-768x322.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still5_2000-1536x644.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still5_2000-1920x804.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A still from ‘About Dry Grasses.’ \u003ccite>(Janus Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It seems to me that everything beautiful in this world gets stuck in the webs we weave before it ever reaches us,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>About Dry Grasses\u003c/em> leaves the futures and fates of its characters open, as it should. You might see Sarnet, three decades hence, becoming a cosseted curmudgeon (and confirmed loner) like Paul Giamatti’s private-school prof in \u003ci>The Holdovers\u003c/i>. One can imagine Nuray and Kenan continuing on their current roads, without feeling as if they compromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sevim, I think Ceylan hopes she grows up to be Nuray. With better opportunities, in a more progressive Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘About Dry Grasses’ plays at the Roxie (3125 16th St., San Francisco) on April 6 and 14. \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/production/about-dry-grasses/\">Tickets and more information here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>About Dry Grasses\u003c/em> depicts the characters’ behavior with the ambiguity that attaches to human interactions, eliminating the dynamic of villains and victims. Instead we get people’s complexity, and a glimpse at how a hurt and angry liberal will resort to the kind of repressive actions he would ascribe to those he considers reactionaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We all know exactly who and what these people are,” Sarnet tells his class after he angrily orders Sevim out in the hall the next day. “It’s just a few, isn’t it?” Then he advises his students, in a heinous act of blacklisting, to ostracize Sevim. (His instruction doesn’t seem to stick, fortunately.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sarnet’s response to Sevim’s allegation suggests that his altruism was skin deep. Perhaps his bitterness and cynicism are symptoms of his (first) midlife crisis. Either way, Ceylan subtly sets his characters’ frustration, malaise and moral paralysis against a backdrop of social and political repression and corruption.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13955519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000.jpg\" alt=\"Three people sit on couch and chair around a table, talking\" width=\"2000\" height=\"821\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13955519\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-800x328.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-1020x419.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-160x66.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-768x315.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-1536x631.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/04/ADG_Still4_2000-1920x788.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu), Kenan (Musab Ekici) and Nuray (Merve Dizdar) in ‘About Dry Grasses.’ \u003ccite>(Janus Films)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>About Dry Grasses\u003c/em> plows this field through Sarnet and Kenan’s developing friendship with Nuray (Merve Dizdar, who received the Best Actress award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival), a teacher at another school. Nuray lost a leg in a suicide bomb attack in Ankara and moved back to the area to live with her parents. Fiercely independent and an avowed socialist, she is having a hard time re-adjusting to the rhythms of village life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everything seems to take so long here — lessons, breaks, waiting for weekends, nights, everything,” she says. She gently prods Sarnet to pursue his oft-mentioned wish to move to Istanbul, while side-eyeing Kenan (who likewise grew up in the area, and has the additional advantage of being dark and handsome).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of \u003cem>About Dry Grasses\u003c/em> takes place indoors, fueled by tea and conversation, with the incipient claustrophobia broken by brief escapes outdoors for lovely open vistas of white nothingness. Talk, in this world, is as much a way of passing the time as it is of deepening connections. But as Nuray tries to impress on Sarnet, in a pivotal dinner at her place when her parents are away on a trip, action beats words every time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He keeps missing the point, over and over, in an Olympic-level feat of deflection and auto-blindness. His squashed ambition, the movie suggests, reflects an entire generation’s thwarted promise and diminished expectations. 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You might see Sarnet, three decades hence, becoming a cosseted curmudgeon (and confirmed loner) like Paul Giamatti’s private-school prof in \u003ci>The Holdovers\u003c/i>. One can imagine Nuray and Kenan continuing on their current roads, without feeling as if they compromised.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for Sevim, I think Ceylan hopes she grows up to be Nuray. With better opportunities, in a more progressive Turkey.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘About Dry Grasses’ plays at the Roxie (3125 16th St., San Francisco) on April 6 and 14. \u003ca href=\"https://roxie.com/production/about-dry-grasses/\">Tickets and more information here\u003c/a>.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Has there been a more satisfying actor to watch mature on screen in recent years than Dev Patel? The endearingly earnest, scrawny kid of \u003cem>Slumdog Millionaire\u003c/em> has steadily grown into a singularly intense and sensitive leading man. It’s a transformation that, for anyone who missed \u003cem>Lion\u003c/em>, \u003cem>The Personal History of David Copperfield\u003c/em> or \u003cem>The Green Knight\u003c/em>, may be especially jarring in watching Patel’s new film, \u003cem>Monkey Man\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like \u003cem>Slumdog Millionaire\u003c/em>, the film is set in Mumbai and has a touch of fable to it. But in tone and texture, it could hardly be more different. Bathed in blood and fury, \u003cem>Monkey Man\u003c/em> is one gory coming out party for Patel, who also directed and co-wrote the film. He kicks so much butt in this movie — at one point he punches a punch — that it’s enough to make you wonder if the search for the new James Bond ought to be redirected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>[aside postid='arts_13955250']Monkey Man\u003c/em>, produced by Jordan Peele, is aiming for something grittier, though — more in Bruce Lee territory or the neighborhood of Park Chan-wook’s \u003cem>Oldboy\u003c/em> — wild, kinetic places to be where martial-arts action turns mythic and feverish. At its best moments, \u003cem>Monkey Man\u003c/em> does that tradition justice. But at all its moments, the movie is a convincing display of Patel’s still-expanding power and tenacity as a performer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Monkey Man\u003c/em> is most explosive in its blistering first half-hour. Patel’s character, credited only as Kid, fights while wearing a gorilla mask in an underground boxing ring. 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The syndicate Kid is trying to infiltrate ultimately leads to a religious leader (Makarand Deshpande). \u003cem>Monkey Man\u003c/em>, which Netflix dropped before it was picked up by Peele and Universal, is pointedly political in its fictionalized echoes of modern, Modi-led India.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13954872']While Kid recovers with the help of the sage Alpha (Vipin Sharma) and a group of transgender women in hiding, these elements are slowly brought from a simmer to a boil. \u003cem>Monkey Man\u003c/em> makes room for cutaways to TV news reports (some footage comes from real demonstrations) and copious flashbacks to a violent land grab from Kid’s childhood, during which his mother Neela (Adithi Kalkunte) was brutally murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The real-world metaphors and Hindu contexts of \u003cem>Monkey Man\u003c/em> add to the film’s potency but aren’t always smoothly incorporated. This is a movie that namechecks \u003cem>John Wick\u003c/em>, too. 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More than anything else, he brings a compelling gravity to a film that is quite serious about getting seriously brutal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-800x78.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>‘Monkey Man’ is released nationwide on April 5, 2024. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In so many ways, TJ Ballantyne is a classic Ken Loach hero: a working-class, middle-aged man trying to simply eke out a dignified living, but meeting obstacles at each turn — a victim of unforgiving social realities that leave people like him in the dust.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like many of these Loach protagonists, TJ can’t get a break — even from gravity, as when he tries to fix the wooden letter “K” that rests above the Old Oak, the dilapidated pub he runs in a former mining town that’s been in decline for decades. Talk about decline: That letter keeps tilting downward, even when TJ fixes it with a broomstick. He turns away and it simply falls again.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13954702']Loach has never been subtle with his messaging, and why should he start now, at the apparent end of his filmmaking career? The 87-year-old director, who’s made nearly 30 features, has said \u003cem>The Old Oak\u003c/em> is likely the last. He’s said that before, but assuming it’s true, the film is a poignant and moving coda to a career spent chronicling personal indignities amid broader social ills like poverty and unemployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now, the migrant crisis. Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty address this through an unusual friendship between TJ and Yara, a young Syrian woman and refugee who ends up, with her family, in the town, to the hostility of many. For once, a man like TJ and his fellow villagers, all struggling, are not the neediest in the story. There are others who need even more help. In this story of two communities at odds, Loach seeks to end a trilogy of films set in northeastern England on a message of conciliation and hope.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We begin somewhere near Durham, in 2016. Syrian war refugees have been arriving in Britain as they have elsewhere in Europe, and it’s no surprise that some have been sent to a desolate former mining town where housing is dirt cheap.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of the locals are furious about the intrusion. In a devastating pre-credits sequence, the busload of refugees arrives to taunts from the townspeople, who say they weren’t even warned. “Who are they? Where are they from? More Muslims?” some shout out, profanities added. Others, like TJ and family friend Laura, try to help get the families settled.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwb0c5zqsyM\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yara (Ebla Mari), who’s in her early 20s, has arrived with her mother. Her father, who is either imprisoned in Syria or dead, had gifted her with a camera, and she’s using it to document her arrival (the sequence is shown through her photos). An angry man in a football jersey tussles with her and her camera drops to the ground, broken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During their research, Loach and Laverty noticed that many pubs in former mining towns were now shuttered. In their story, the Old Oak is the last remaining pub, and moreover the only gathering space left in town. Over pints poured by TJ, men he grew up with — Charlie, for example, whose wife is ailing and whose house has plummeted in value, and Vic and Eddy, the angriest of the bunch, complain about the interlopers. “We can’t even take care of our own kids,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The transition is ugly. Young boys are bullied at school. When a local girl falls ill, Yara tries to help by accompanying her home to rest; the mother arrives home and throws the young Syrian violently out of the house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13955344']For TJ, whose marriage has failed and who’s estranged from his son, things go from bad to worse. His only companion is a beloved former stray dog who appeared in his life at his darkest moment; she is constantly threatened by nasty dogs owned by thugs. A former miner himself, he’s holding onto his pub by the skin of his teeth. And now, some of the locals want to use his empty back room to hold a meeting and air grievances about the migrants. He makes excuses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Further conflict ensues when TJ agrees to use the back room for a far different purpose: to serve free meals, as a way of building community, and a throwback to solidarity during labor unrest decades earlier. This works beautifully for many, but the most negative voices in the town — in scenes that occasionally feel a tad heavy-handed — continue to sow discord and harass the Syrians, all while denying they are racist. “All we want is our pub back,” they say.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Worse is to come for the Old Oak, which essentially becomes the main character here: a connection to a happier past for the village, a key part of a troubled present, and a source of possible hope for a harmonious future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it is indeed hope that infuses the closing scenes, unlike many a Loach film. Yes, there are a few too many speeches that sound like, well, speeches rather than dialogue. And the resolution arrives just a bit too quickly and easily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But these seem like forgivable sins. 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