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Dennis Harvey

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Screen Grabs: O say can you see? Frederick Wiseman and ‘The Encampments’ turn gaze to U.S. injustice

Plus: Documentaries on teen folk star Janis Ian, funk history, and songwriter Allee Willis sound off.

Screen Grabs: Family cries? New releases offer complex kin across cultures

Plus: There's no forgetting the perils of Nazism past or present at this year's Berlin & Beyond festival.

Screen Grabs: BAMPFA raises curtain on poetic Ukrainian cinema, once subject to brutal censorship

Plus: A satisfying slow pitch from 'Eephus,' 'Magazine Dreams' proves nearly as troubled as its star's backstory, more.

Screen Grabs: Let’s run away to Greece

Greek Film Fest brings new visions. Plus: Cinequest, Robert Townsend, 'Mickey 17,' Gunvor Nelson, Karel Doing, more movies

Screen Grabs: David Lynch and Todd Haynes take over the Bay

Plus: African Film Festival, 'psycho-biddies' John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush, Superfine's surreal gay adult fun, more

Screen Grabs: The Swedish outsider who challenged gender roles behind the camera

Plus: Two very different legends in 'Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story' and 'Art Spielgelman: Disaster Is My Muse'

Screen Grabs: Everybody loves the free public library (we hope)

JFI Winterfest gets bookish. Plus: heavy metal horror, Bay Area graffiti at Balboa; Tehran meets Winnipeg at Roxie

Screen Grabs: ’40 Years of Queer’ is a kaleidoscope of love, sex, and liberation

Plus: Paddington in Peru, Timestalker, No Other Land, Dead Thing, more new movies to check out

Screen Grabs: Diving into the ingenious ‘race films’ of Oscar Micheaux

Black History Month resurrects the 20th-century auteur. Plus: Sly Stone, Fantastic Negrito, and Captain America

Screen Grabs: Beyond the Dowager Countess at Mostly British Film Fest

From Peru to Palestine, familiar names and faces crop up in far-flung places for 17th installment at Vogue Theatre.