Dennis Harvey, Author at 48 hills

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Screen Grabs: Noir heist and nail-biting suspense in ‘Midcentury Madness’

March 10, 2022

Plus: Ukrainian seige doc 'The Earth Is As Blue As An Orange,' several good indie freakouts, and 'The Exorcism of God'

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Screen Grabs: Fests fete films from Greece, UK, Berlin & Beyond (and here at home)

March 7, 2022

Wayne Wang gets a retrospective, the SF Urban Film Fest comes panel-rich, and Dennis Hopper's critical comeback is restored.

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Screen Grabs: Pattinson’s lips aside, ‘The Batman’ proves to be monotonous murk

March 2, 2022

Plus: Flicks that are actually worth your eyeball strain, from a showcase of Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil to 'Huda's Salon'

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Screen Grabs: New films provide visions of the end

February 28, 2022

Plus: Slovakian 'Servants' is stunning—our critic's favorite movie of the year so far.

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Screen Grabs: Coppola revives ‘Godfather’—and Dinklage delivers in ‘Cyrano’

February 24, 2022

Exactly 50 years ago this February 25, The Godfather was released. It was an adaptation of a pulpy best-seller that no one expected much...

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Screen Grabs: A ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’… of influencers?

February 21, 2022

Plus: Two outrageous retro classics and three indie horrors that caught our eye (if not our hearts)

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Screen Grabs: Freedom, and other compromised concepts

February 17, 2022

Liberation and constraint, from Belgian playgrounds and the back alleys of Chad to Ted Kaczynski's paranoid manifesto.

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Screen Grabs: From silents to Noise Pop, setting old scores and new

February 15, 2022

Hendrix in Maui, Chaplin at the Paramount, Aelita the Queen of Mars, Gwar, and more movies mix with music.

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Screen Grabs: Women at the center—coming of age, taking revenge

February 10, 2022

'The Sky is Everywhere,' 'The Worst Person in the World,' and 'Catch the Fair One' unfold in very different ways.

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Screen Grabs: Embarcadero Center Cinema is gone, but there are revivals aplenty

February 7, 2022

Mourning another rep house gone, and looking forward to old school movies—brilliant, romantic, cheesy, and beastly.

Dennis Harvey

Screen Grabs: Noir heist and nail-biting suspense in ‘Midcentury Madness’

Screen Grabs: Fests fete films from Greece, UK, Berlin & Beyond (and here at home)

Screen Grabs: Pattinson’s lips aside, ‘The Batman’ proves to be monotonous murk

Screen Grabs: New films provide visions of the end

Screen Grabs: Coppola revives ‘Godfather’—and Dinklage delivers in ‘Cyrano’

Screen Grabs: A ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’… of influencers?

Screen Grabs: Freedom, and other compromised concepts

Screen Grabs: From silents to Noise Pop, setting old scores and new

Screen Grabs: Women at the center—coming of age, taking revenge

Screen Grabs: Embarcadero Center Cinema is gone, but there are revivals aplenty

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