Dare Daniel Podcast – The All Dares Episode “I need to share this pain with someone.” On this very special episode, heathen Daniel Barnes and Corky “Spoonman” McDonnell celebrate the loyal listeners of the Dare Daniel podcast. First, Daniel and Corky work through a bumper crop of bad […]
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The Fall of the American Empire (2019; Denys Arcand) GRADE: C By Daniel Barnes The film opens on Friday, July 12, at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. “Static, Shapeless and Flat” While the films of Atom Egoyan chart a pronounced rise and fall, fellow Canadian filmmaker Denys Arcand […]
Paris is Burning (1990; Jennie Livingston) Grade: B+ By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, July 5, at the Landmark Opera Plaza in San Francisco and the Landmark Shattuck in Berkeley. Released in 1990 but immersed in the ethos of 1980s New York, Paris is Burning still feels like one of the […]
Funan (2019; Denis Do) GRADE: B- By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, June 21, at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. French artist and first-time feature filmmaker Do based this “digitally hand-drawn” GKIDS release on stories told by his Cambodian mother. Earnest and filled with grace, Funan follows a Phnom […]
Whose Streets? (2017; Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes *Opens Friday, August 11, at the Landmark Embarcadero in San Francisco and the Landmark California in Berkeley. A portrait of activism captured by activists, mostly focusing on street-level views of the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri. […]
Person to Person (2017; Dustin Guy Defa) GRADE: B By Daniel Barnes A scruffy little charmer from festival darling Defa, in the form of a smart indie ensemble piece about – what else? – mixed-up New Yorkers stumbling towards some sort of personal connection. Defa made his bones with […]
