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Dennis Harvey

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Onstage

Immersive Jazz Age decadence in ‘The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws’

ONSTAGE One hundred years ago the US Senate bowed to the pressure of temperance activists and passed the National Prohibition Act. It was one...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: She’s the Official Coolest Person Ever

SCREEN GRABS Here’s something you don’t normally see mid-summer at the multiplex: Simultaneous openings of two movies with Emma Thompson. Neither are exactly Howard’s...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Last Black Man in San Francisco, Mexico’s Golden Age ….

SCREEN GRABS In addition to SF Cinematheque’s annual Crossroads showcase for experimental work at SFMOMA (see Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' preview this week) and the continuation...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Going big, from Woodstock to Godzilla

SCREEN GRABS Bigger is presumably better this week, with Godzilla: King of the Monsters (the third Hollywood film about the critter who’s starred in...
Arts + Culture

I want my SF DocFest: Our critic’s top picks

Truth is reliably stranger than fiction at SF DocFest, whose 18th annual edition takes over the Roxie Theater for eleven days starting May 30, with...
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Screen Grabs: ‘War and Peace’ thrills in its gargantuan spectacle

The movies suffered an approximately 15 year case of elephantiasis starting in the early 1950s, when television began to seriously impact box-office returns. Hollywood’s...
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Screen Grabs: Lessons from the dictatorship mark ‘The Silence of Others’

SCREEN GRABS This week brings the arrival of John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, the latest entry in what’s been one of the few action-oriented franchises worth...
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Screen Grabs: All weekend long, the Roxie celebrates French noir

SCREEN GRABS If you’re not busy this week with CAAM (see our preview here), there’s a competing mini-festival of sorts which overlaps with it just...
Movies

Hello Kitty to ‘Happy Cleaners’: Asian American film shines at CAAMFest

From SF’s own Chinatown to the crisscrossing currents of transnational adoption, this year’s CAAMFest—formerly known as the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival—covers the...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…

SCREEN GRABS For those not glued all weekend to the SF Silent Film Festival (see our preview here), there’s actually another film festival to consider:...
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