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Friday, April 19, 2024

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Dennis Harvey

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Screen Grabs: Young stars of ‘Tori and Lokita’ shine in perilous refugee tale

Plus: 'The Five Devils' a potent tale of oppression, while 'The Forger' tries for lighthearted Holocaust survival (?)

Roxie and BAMPFA film series open to Eurasian cinematic back chapters

Ukraine director Kira Muratova gets her due (sans Soviet censorship), Roxie goes classic French feature.

Screen Grabs: Rise up, film buffs! Funds needed for CinemaSF’s neighborhood screens

Plus: A 1987 space obscurity and new flicks with "midnight movie" vibes.

At Berlin & Beyond, a rare vision of Oscars’ sleeper favorite on big screen

'All Quiet on the Western Front' joins a lineup of German-language gems.

Screen Grabs: Cauleen Smith’s elliptical visions of Afrofuturism

Hers is far from the only far-seeing auteur's screen program this week.

Screen Grabs: The flaming feminisms of Lizzie Borden

The director and her trilogy at BAMPFA. Plus: 4-Star shines on women directors, American tragey in. 'Sansón & Me'

Screen Grabs: Boom times and hard times at Pornhub

Plus: Charles Bronson is a rock 'em-sock 'em hustler, Carol Kane goes bananas in 'The Mafu Cage'

Screen Grabs: The mystic avant-garde of Thai master Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Plus: William Kentridge, Wim Wenders, and Beth B retrospectives; new releases.

Screen Grabs: How to fight the latest LGBTQ oppression? Let’s get queerer

'Pioneers of Queer Cinema' runs at BAMPFA, plus hunky gay love from Down Under in 'Lonesome' and 'Punch'

Screen Grabs: Confronting the horror of throwing kids in cages

Plus: Inspiring eco-youth in 'Blueback,' devastating grooming in 'Palm Trees and Powerlines,' snitty brats in 'Children of the Corn'