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Dayton Hyde, 88, has been a cowboy, a rodeo clown, a rancher, a photographer, a non-fiction author, a novelist, a poet and a conservationist. And now he’s the star of a new documentary.
Tag: film
The Oscars? Berkeley adjunct’s been there, won that
February 19, 2013:
With Academy Awards for his work on Apocalypse Now, The Right Stuff, Amadeus and The English Patient, the San Francisco native has found a different kind of satisfaction teaching “The Sound of Film” to Berkeley undergrads for the past 13 years.
Playwright/alum Stan Lai to discuss creativity, theater
January 25, 2013:
The prolific director/playwright Stan Lai comes home to the Berkeley campus to talk about contemporary theater, culture and creativity in Asia and the United States — and what the world would be like without theater.
English student going to Cannes Film Festival to serve on jury
May 7, 2012:
Graduate student Ryan Lattanzio is heading to the Cannes Film Festival, where he’ll help select the winner of the “Visionary Award,” for a fledgling independent filmmaker.
Posters, pizza and outdoor Roger Corman movie part of BAM/PFA’s fall semester welcome for new students
August 23, 2011:
The Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive will put on a spread Thursday, Aug. 25 for new, incoming students, treating them to free classic art posters from previous BAM/PFA exhibitions, music, pizza and an outdoor screening of Roger Corman’s classic sci-fi thriller, “It Conquered the World.”
Ethnic studies professor Alex Saragoza in PBS documentary about Mexican revolution
May 12, 2011:
Alex Saragoza, associate professor of Chicano and Latino Studies, is featured in the PBS documentary, “The Storm that Swept Mexico. The documentary, which airs this Sunday, May 15, explores the roots of the Mexican Revolution of 1910, which was led by such icons as Emiliano Zapata and Francisco “Pancho” Villa.
Aldo Leopold documentary premieres at Berkeley
February 24, 2011:
The life and contributions of wildlife ecology pioneer Aldo Leopold are showcased in a new documentary, “Green Fire,” which gets its West Coast premiere Monday at Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive theater in a screening co-sponsored by the campus’s Sagehen Creek Field Station.
Conference: Cinema across media — the 1920s
February 22, 2011:
“Cinema Across Media: The 1920s” is a two-and-a-half-day conference that will include five plenary speeches, two plenary roundtables, eight concurrent panels, and a weeklong series of silent film screenings with live musical accompaniment at the Pacific Film Archive.
The true language of love? It’s math, says Berkeley professor Edward Frenkel, whose steamy new film touches a nerve
November 30, 2010:
Determined to reveal math’s inherent beauty to the world, Berkeley math professor Edward Frenkel has made a short film, “Rites of Love and Math,” which is both an homage to the film “Yukoku” by Japanese writer Yukio Mishima and an allegory about mathematics. Even before its North American premiere tomorrow night in Berkeley, though, the film is causing controversy.
Expert offerings celebrate the terror in scary movies
October 26, 2010:
Trying to pick feature films for your own Halloween fright fest this weekend? A few UC Berkeley film authorities provide their picks of scary movie favorites — from “Freaks” to “Dumplings” — to help with the decision.
43 years after ‘Titicut Follies,’ it’s Berkeley, the movie
September 14, 2010:
With dozens of documentaries under his belt, Frederick Wiseman has found that “when you turn the camera off, the interesting thing will happen.” That, in part, is why he plans to shoot some 250 hours of film for his exploration of life at Berkeley.
Coming attractions: A short list of the campus’s enticing fall events
August 30, 2010:
This semester’s rich range of cultural offerings includes a daylong cornucopia of free arts performances, as well as appearances by violin virtuoso Christian Tetzlaff, the much-loved Mark Morris Dance Group, director and outside-the-box thinker Peter Greenaway, and bestselling writer David Sheff.
