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By Inda Luciano Watched the new Miranda July The Future last night at The Regal UA in Berkeley, CA, my current home and hometown of the filmmaker. Those that get the wackiness of her debut film Me and You and Everyone We Know won't be disappointed. Although her riot grrrl days are long gone and she now lives with her husband, the director of Beginners , in the plush hip  Silver Lake area of Los Angeles, she hasn't lost her Berkeleyan depth, quirkiness, experimental tendencies, or nag for creating characters that exemplify what many might consider awkward human behavior. In this article, July tells the NYT that one of the investors in the film, a German company, requested that a percentage of the actors be German. And they were not only German, but Nazi-looking German, and in very stereotypical emotionless roles. It made me wonder what the half-Jewish writer/director had in mind. Another thing that struck me was that she went all genesis on us by making the lead female ch