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Dennis Harvey

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Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company

'Touch Me,' 'Dead Lover,' 'The Serpent's Skin,' more offer fun twists on genre thrills. Plus: A spooky Irish tale rises again.

Screen Grabs: Tributes to three trailblazing women filmmakers

Plus: Bright comedy 'Fantasy Life,' Kiyoshi Kurosawa's moody horrors, free-falling in 'Space Cowboy' and Putin's Russia.

Screen Grabs: Back to the USSR

'Two Prosecutors' and 'Soviet Silver' take us there. Plus: A Dutch film Nazi, a Palestinian revolt, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' more

Screen Grabs: At 30, Berlin & Beyond still goes above and beyond

Hot jazz, thrash metal, Udo Kier on tap. Plus: Clara Bow still has 'It,' Rose Byrnes gets a 'Tow,' '1000 Women in Horror,' more

Screen Grabs: It’s all Greek (and Irish and French) to us

Euro-fests deliver in SF. Plus: South Bay's Cinequest heats up, 'My Father's Shadow,' Billy Preston biopic, more

Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment

Plus: New German cinema, African Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray’s 'Days and Nights in the Forest'.

Screen Grabs: Back to back with Almodovar muse Carmen Maura

Plus: Jewish Film Institute’s Winterfest, Emeryville International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, BAMPFA gets psychedelic, more.

Screen Grabs: End of days at Fear and Faith Horror Festival—plus other new flicks to help scream it out

Also: "Films of Remembrance" explores forced WWII Japanese American incarceration, a glockenspiel-equipped tribute to Georges Melies.

Screen Grabs: Oscar missed this heartwarming tale set in 1990 Iraq—you don’t have to

Plus: New People and Castro Theatre are back to their celluloid nature, 'Pillion' is both graphic and graceful.

Screen Grabs: All eyes on IndieFest and Mostly British’s big cinematic ideas

Bay-centric docs on The Residents and Dennis Peron, plus past and present blockbuster epics.