I think Oakland needs this movie right now,” the Berkeley-born Fleck said during an interview with Boden at one of the film’s star locations — the venerable Grand Lake Theatre. “The city’s gone ...

Anyone who longs for the ‘80s will gobble up Anna Boden and East Bay-born Ryan Fleck’s “Freaky Tales,” a berserk quartet of VHS-like tales that celebrates Oakland’s raucous vitality and creative ...

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's tip of the hat to a specific place and time will even entertain those who know little of the city or the era ...

Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck are the filmmaking duo behind six movies released between 2006 and 2024, and which have varied in ...

The new indie from co-writer-directors Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden keenly evokes a Bay Area of the 1980s, a settling that ...

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the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s co-writers and -directors, Ryan Fleck ...

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It’s infectious, the love “Freaky Tales” has for the Oakland, California, of the mid-1980s. You need not have grown up then and there — as one of the film’s writers and directors, Ryan ...

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“Freaky Tales” shows what can be lost, then, when Nazis, on an upswing again with the modern right, rampage the neighborhood.

Freaky Tales is a microcosm of 80s subculture that chronicles a series of strange, interconnected events in Oakland, ...