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Max Siegel
Max Siegel is a staff writer for The Daily Californian. He began working as a contributing writer in the arts & entertainment section in fall 2009, and served as the lead film critic in fall 2010. He is currently a fourth-year student majoring in Film. Contact him at [email protected] |
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Doctor Strange Thursday, May 12, 2011 | 3:53 am | By Max Siegel Oddball Film+Video, the largest film archive in Northern California, is tucked away in a warehouse in the Mission District. Venture down a dark street lined wit... | ![]() |
LIVE BLOG: 83rd Academy Awards Sunday, Feb 27, 2011 | 11:43 pm | By Ryan Lattanzio, Sam Stander, Jawad Qadir, Max Siegel LIVE BLOG: 83rd Academy Awards... |
Oscar Picks & Predictions Thursday, Feb 24, 2011 | 9:24 am | By Sam Stander, Ryan Lattanzio, Max Siegel, Jawad Qadir MAX SIEGEL Picks: Picture: "Winter's Bone" Director: Darren Aronofsky Actor: Colin Firth Actress: Natalie Portman Supporting Actor: Christian Bale Su... | ![]() |
Relatable and Rebellious, Araki's Queer Films... Thursday, Feb 17, 2011 | 5:20 am | By Max Siegel FUCK THE WORLD," spray-painted in blood-red on a concrete block. That's the first image in Gregg Araki's "The Living End." A young man in shades finishes sprayi... | ![]() |
Bardem Wrestles With Slow Death in 'Biutiful'... Thursday, Jan 27, 2011 | 6:29 am | By Max Siegel No one does disaster better than Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. It's guaranteed that any seemingly normal family-oriented event, like sitting around the dinner ta... | ![]() |
Pioneering Gay Baseball Player Profiled in Ne... Monday, Nov 15, 2010 | 8:45 am | By Max Siegel Glenn Burke was well on his way to having a successful athletic career. In the 1970s, he wowed audiences at Berkeley High School with his agility on the basketb... | ![]() |
SF Docfest Thursday, Oct 14, 2010 | 6:45 am | By Max Siegel, Hayley Hosman, Charlene Petitjean, David Wagner, Ryan Lattanzio Eccentric subjects are on the menu in the ninth SF DocFest, a two-week-long documentary film festival that plays at the Roxie Theater. DocFest offers a range of... | ![]() |
Oakland Underground Film Festival Monday, Sep 27, 2010 | 9:07 am | By Max Siegel, Nastia Voynovskaya The annual Oakland Underground Film Festival is only in its second year, and already it has begun to fulfill a lot of its potential, screening underappreciated... |
Telluride Invites Film Lovers Into the Fold Monday, Sep 13, 2010 | 6:25 am | By Max Siegel Y ou enter the Telluride Film Festival knowing that you're taking a leap of faith. The town is perched nearly two miles up in the mountains, in an isolated par... | ![]() |
Silence is Golden Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 | 5:03 am | By Max Siegel, Liz Mak Silent films conjure images of a time long past, so it's of no surprise that the 15th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival, which took place at the Castro... | ![]() |
SF Jewish Film Festival Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 | 5:36 am | By Hayley Hosman, Cynthia Kang, Liz Mak, Catherine Kim, Max Siegel The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival is celebrating its 30th year as the self-described "world's oldest and largest Jewish film festival." Held in five differ... | ![]() |
Documentary Delivers Love Letter to Film Geek... Thursday, Jul 22, 2010 | 5:37 am | By Max Siegel What makes a director great? This is the question that most viewers would ask upon seeing the title of Angela Ismailos' documentary "Great Directors." That titl... | ![]() |
Prolific Beatle Flies Solo at SF's AT&T Park Thursday, Jul 15, 2010 | 4:21 am | By Max Siegel After a conspicuous absence from San Francisco going on 44 years, Sir Paul McCartney returned with a bang. Backed by an extremely talented band with some of the... |
Avant-Garde Visual Artist Defies 'Gravity' On... Thursday, Jun 10, 2010 | 7:01 am | By Max Siegel Tim Burton wasn't the first guy to discover the appeal of constructing fantastic sets. In the 1970s, an eccentric named Leonard Wood responded to his wife Mary'... | ![]() |
LCD Soundsystem
THIS IS HAPPENING
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Thursday, May 20, 2010 | 6:50 am | By Max Siegel LCD Soundsystem return with their third and reportedly final album. It's difficult to categorize the band's genre, but one thing listeners can agree on is that... | ![]() |