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Movies: Diop, Scorsese retrospectives at BAMPFA, Balboa early Halloween, ‘It Ends,’ ‘Sad and Beautiful World’

Filmmaker retrospectives and horror classics highlight the week’s screen scene.  Significant French filmmaker Alice Diop, whose cinema contains stories from communities seldom represented onscreen, is the focus of a retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive running Thursday through Sept. 18. Documentaries by Diop include 2011’s “Danton’s Death,” about a versatile Black actor who is offered only “street” roles; and 2016’s “On Call,” filmed […] The post Movies: Diop, Scorsese retrospectives at BAMPFA, Balboa early Halloween, ‘It Ends,’ ‘Sad and Beautiful World’ appeared first on Local News Matters .

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Filmmaker retrospectives and horror classics highlight the week’s screen scene.  Significant French filmmaker Alice Diop, whose cinema contains stories from communities seldom represented onscreen, is the focus of a retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive running Thursday through Sept. 18. Documentaries by Diop include 2011’s “Danton’s Death,” about a versatile Black actor who is offered only “street” roles; and 2016’s “On Call,” filmed […] The post Movies: Diop, Scorsese retrospectives at BAMPFA, Balboa early Halloween, ‘It Ends,’ ‘Sad and Beautiful World’ appeared first on Local News Matters .

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According to Local News Matters’s source item, Movies: Diop, Scorsese retrospectives at BAMPFA, Balboa early Halloween, ‘It Ends,’ ‘Sad and Beautiful World’, Filmmaker retrospectives and horror classics highlight the week’s screen scene.  Significant French filmmaker Alice Diop, whose cinema contains stories from communities seldom represented onscreen, is the focus of a retrospective at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive running Thursday through Sept. 18. Documentaries by Diop include 2011’s “Danton’s Death,” about a versatile Black actor who is offered only “street” roles; and 2016’s “On Call,” filmed […] The post Movies: Diop, Scorsese retrospectives at BAMPFA, Balboa early Halloween, ‘It Ends,’ ‘Sad and Beautiful World’ appeared first on Local News Matters .

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