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Dennis Harvey

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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...

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: 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:...

Silent Film Fest ranges afar—but don’t worry, there’s still Buster

It's been edging in this direction for a while, and it’s probably not a strategy that can or should be repeated ad finitum. But...

Screen Grabs: A seriously funny Italian legend, JT LeRoy, Hail Satan?

SCREEN GRABS Though he never reached the heights of international fame achieved by such fellow countrymen as Marcello Mastroianni or Franco Nero, Ugo Tognazzi was...

Screen Grabs: Cannabis nuns, Sapphic poets, Riot Grrrl blues….

SCREEN GRABS The SFFILM Festival, whose second half continues through Tues/23 at various SF and East Bay venues, has like many such organizations made a significant...

Screen Grabs: Aretha’s Amazing Grace, Blood for Dracula, Peterloo…..

SCREEN GRABS Yes, this is the opening week of the SFFILM Festival, the event so big we gave it its own separate feature (see here)....

SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

The big-screen experience for movies is on the cultural endangered list, between venues going under (or having their leases revoked by landlords eager to...

Screen Grabs: A wonderful ‘Diane,’ Czech newbies, public library drama….

SCREEN GRABS The inevitable comic book adaptation aside, this is a week full of rather serious movies. So perhaps we should start off with the...

Screen Grabs: Jeff Adachi, Romanian scandal, magnificent cake…

SCREEN GRABS In a week that brings the literally elephantine spectacle of a (mostly) live-action Dumbo remake by Tim Burton, you might well run in...