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Dennis Harvey

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Screen Grabs: Dynamation Celebration, African Film Fest, and even more cats!

SCREEN GRABS It’s a busy week for arthouse openings and other film events of interest, though we couldn’t see everything in advance. Among the...

Screen Grabs: Never mind the Oscars, we’ve got screwballs and Pod People

SCREEN GRABS As if nothing mattered but the Oscars on Sunday (harrumph!), there are no major Hollywood releases this weekend, and few notable arthouse ones....

Screen Grabs: British Film Fest, Holiday, Tongues Untied….

SCREEN GRABS As we mourn the abrupt loss of the AMC Van Ness 14—it closed on short notice last week—and hope the same fate...

Screen Grabs: Fighting for survival in ‘Arctic’ and courting death in Norwegian black metal

Yors truly is just back from the Sundance Film Festival, and the only thing you really need to know about that is that quite...

Screen Grabs: IndieFest, Godard’s latest, and a Jeff Goldblum smorgasbord

Last week we mentioned the beginning of SF Indiefest, whose 21st edition starts Wed/30 with the new indie comedy The Unicorn and a “live re-score” of Disney...

Screen Grabs: Our critic’s picks from Noir City and SF Indiefest

A fair share of the Bay Area film community will be spending the next couple weeks looking (and flying) eastward towards the Sundance Film...

Screen Grabs: Dig deeper into ‘made in China’ at SFMoMA film series

One of the world’s largest movie markets, China nonetheless has an odd relationship towards the international film market. Stringently limited number of foreign films...

Screen Grabs: The world’s most popular comedy duo shows its seams in ‘Stan & Ollie’

Laurel & Hardy may be the most popular comedy duo ever — their fame was international, easily surviving the transition from silents to talkies...

Screen Grabs: ‘Lost Landscapes of San Francisco’ returns

SCREEN GRABS In the silent era there were numerous important women filmmakers—a testament, alas, to how the medium wasn’t taken “seriously” for many years,...

Screen Grabs: Our favorite movies of the year (and what’s on now)

SCREEN GRABS As 2018 comes to a close, we can pause and reflect that as so often is the case, what was a pretty...