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Dennis Harvey

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Screen Grabs: At SFFILM Fest, local looks from Steph Curry to Boots Riley

Our picks from the 66th edition, which kicks off in Oakland and presents plenty of global visions (plus Rose Pak).

Screen Grabs: Nam June Paik still tells the TV future

Plus: Owen Wilson as a Bob Ross-alike in 'Paint,' exquisite toxic cringes in Todd Flaherty's 'Chrissy Judy'

Screen Grabs: The ‘first US rock band to play behind the Iron Curtain’ disappeared. Why?

Plus: Wacko superheroics in French 'Smoking Causes Coughing,' understated reconciliation in 'Acidman'

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'