“Uncle Boonmee”: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Latest Is Bizarre, Beautiful

“Uncle Boonmee”: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Latest Is Bizarre, Beautiful
When Apichatpong Weerasethakul was growing up in Thailand, he learned about movies the way kids everywhere did in the 1980s: pushing cassette after cassette into the family VCR. Beyond Spielberg and other recommended imports like Bonnie and Clyde , beyond hip B-horror movies like Evil De…
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Oakland cop testifies in Nortenos gang injunction hearing
The police officer responsible for most of the evidence against defendants in the city’s proposed Fruitvale gang injunction took the stand Wednesday, defending the physical scope of the suit, which critics have said is too broad.
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