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Dennis Harvey

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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.

Screen Grabs: Showings so rare it’s like glimpsing a snow leopard

Robert Beavers and Rob Nilsson, seen again. Plus: Jodie Foster as splendid grump, Paris Hilton as Paris Hilton, and, er, 'Melania.'

Screen Grabs: Ann Lee won’t take any of your crap

Women take center screen, including 'Mother of Flies,' 'H is for Hawk,' 'In Cold Light,' and 'Sound of Falling.'

Screen Grabs: Noir City sings the blues

Plus: Swedish silent cinema classics, Jennifer Reeves' therapeutic deconstruction, beautiful 'Magellan,' and a hurrah for Truffaut.

Screen Grabs: Based on true Palestinian stories

Two harrowing tales told in very different ways. Plus: Lucy Liu's 'Rosemead,' Kristin Stewart's 'Chronology of Water,' more

Screen Grabs: Our favorite films of 2025

Features and docs we couldn't shake in a very terrible political year. Plus: 'The Plague' adds one more to the list

Screen Grabs: Triumph of the pencil-‘stached uber weasel

Timothée Chalamet scores in 'Marty Supreme.' Plus: Park Chan-wook takes on vulture capitalism, and 1941 'Texas' returns.