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Screen Grabs: French noir to vintage punk, a week of retro gems

November 11, 2019

Considering all the odds against it—real estate/rent issues, changing audiences, ever-more home viewing options—it’s pretty amazing that San Francisco still has any arthouse scene...

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Screen Grabs: Two movies for grown-ups at the multiplex

November 7, 2019

Last month 76-year-old Martin Scorcese ignited a firestorm—at least amongst fuming fanboy types—when he shrugged that he’d “tried” to grok superhero movies, “But that’s...

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Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…

November 4, 2019

Woe betide the Bay Area movie lover equally enthused about South Asian cinema, transgender screen expressions, and amateur porn—because this week the signature local...

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Screen Grabs: A feast of docs and dancing

October 29, 2019

It’s a big week for non-fiction cinema, the main event being SFFilm’s fifth annual Doc Stories, which brings together several of the year’s most...

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Screen Grabs: A 14-hour movie with a 40-minute ‘middle finger’

October 22, 2019

If you’re looking for some suitable Halloween screen entertainment, you’re in the right place—well, almost. Our separate guide to this season’s scary movies, including...

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So many spooky Halloween movies!

October 18, 2019

As Halloween approaches, some people ready their “sexy” costumes and gear up to chest-heave cocktails onto the lap of their fellow ex-frat bros and/or...

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Screen Grabs: A bounty of international film fests

October 15, 2019

Mill Valley may be over, but the fall cavalcade of local film festivals continues. This week alone brings at least four (that we know...

Arts + Culture

With ‘Gialloween II,’ Italian horror classics splatter the Roxie

October 15, 2019

The week before Halloween, the Roxie is reviving a series inaugurated two years ago with the seasonally-appropriate Gialloween II—a showcase for four vintage Italian...

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Screen Grabs: News of the world at the Arab Film Fest

October 8, 2019

Who knows if we’ll ever see the day when the Arab Film Film Festival does not seem of urgent political relevance. But this year’s...

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Screen Grabs: From ‘The Joker’ to Japan…

October 1, 2019

It’s no joke that the film crowding out all others this week is Todd Phillips’ Joker, with Joaquin Phoenix drawing bets as a likely...

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