Lights, Camera, Hella Action: The East Bay on Film

The best and the worst of the East Bay on the silver screen.

Andrew Chamings
The Bold Italic
Published in
5 min readMar 3, 2017

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Some of the greatest movies all time (The Conversation, The Maltese Falcon) and a few of the worst (Nine Months, Just Like Heaven) are set in San Francisco. While the East Bay is maybe a little less cinematically iconic, it has had its moments. Here’s a rundown of the good, the bad and the Matrix.

Moneyball

For a movie set in Oakland, about Oakland, there is not a lot of Oakland in this…

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English screenwriter, producer and writer in California. Senior Editor at @thebolditalic. Also in Vice, The Atlantic and the SF Chronicle.