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Thursday, April 18, 2024

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Screen Grabs: 22nd edition of DocFest races to cover world around us

Plus: BAMPFA's homage to the seminal Tom Luddy and a Streisand tribute at the Castro.

Sorta blasphemous, ultimately affirming, ‘Book of Mormon’ a show of fraught faith

Creators of 'South Park' craft a bad-taste send-up of missionaries' positions.

Screen Grabs: Avant to celebrate local film icon Craig Baldwin’s new tome!

Plus: Four days of Hitchcock Festival and a chilling tale from Pinochet's Chile.

Screen Grabs: ‘Serpico’ is no smirking nightstick!

Pacino's cop whistleblower classic returns to the big screen, and the silly side of corruption lines up for a double header at the Castro.

Screen Grabs: Penelope Cruz given many reasons to cry in ‘L’immensita’

Plus: Paul Schrader's 'Master Gardener' is worthy, if mixed, effort and important doc on film preservation premieres.

Screen Grabs: ‘Starling Girl’ and ‘Butterfly Vision’ see harsh reality for women today

Plus: 12th San Francisco Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival honors Scarlot Harlot, and polemic 'Gigi' comes to Vogue.

Screen Grabs: ‘Eight Mountains’ brings us to the peak of male friendship

High-altitude nature provides expansive background for class-spanning platonic love.

Screen Grabs: CAAMFest returns with raunchy ‘Joy Ride,’ Indonesian rap, rocking Fanny

Plus: Doclands brings a focus on music and climate change, and 'Man With a Camera' still stuns.

Screen Grabs: Oh dear, the director of ‘The Room’ has made a shark movie

Plus: A collection of Alee Peoples' playful shorts, Christian Mungiu's latest searing Romanian indictment, more

Screen Grabs: The triumph of Louise Brooks, the flash of Pola Negri

Classics that you can't miss. Plus: Very different family dramas in 'Riceboy Sleeps,' 'The Restless,' and 'Winter Boy'