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Screen Grabs: Three new films of note

February 22, 2017

Our critic Dennis Harvey checks out three new films: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxhi_3hDUPE THE LURE Those who found La La Land too generic a mashup of movie-musical cliches will certainly find more originality...

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‘Wick’ is it

February 12, 2017

SCREEN GRABS Taking place about five minutes after the last one ended, John Wick: Chapter 2 has Keanu Reeves’ puppy-eyed unstoppable killing machine forced back into the...

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Of singing lambs and serial killers

February 6, 2017

ON STAGE Broadway and Hollywood used to be frenemies. It was an accepted wisdom that film versions killed off the audience for a stage...

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Dive into Indiefest

February 4, 2017

SCREEN GRABS SF Indiefest (running through February 16) is the founding cornerstone of The Empire That Jeff Ross Built, a year-round series of film festivals...

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Latin lovers, shady players, and super Jeegs

November 15, 2016

SCREEN GRABS In the medium’s first decades, then again for a couple decades or more in the post-WW2 era, Italy had one of the...

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3rd i opens up

November 10, 2016

SCREEN GRABS The oldest and largest media arts organization of its type in the US, 3rd i Films launches its 14th annual San Francisco...

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Noir, n’est-ce pas?

November 1, 2016

SCREEN GRABS Things are changing at the Roxie (not for the first time) at the Roxie, with some fresh programming blood and the departure...

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‘Moonlight’ electrifies

October 28, 2016

SCREEN GRABS In 2008, the SF International Film Festival premiered then-local resident Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy, a stylish surprise in which a one-night-stand between...

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A different kind of “femme fatale”

October 26, 2016

SCREEN GRABS As Election Day approaches, it is clear that to much of our nation’s citizenry, there is nothing more horrifying than a woman...

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Hole-y terrors

October 25, 2016

SCREEN GRABS As Election Day approaches, real life is terrifying enough -- making it a good moment to blow off steam by experiencing some...

Dennis Harvey

Screen Grabs: Three new films of note

‘Wick’ is it

Of singing lambs and serial killers

Dive into Indiefest

Latin lovers, shady players, and super Jeegs

3rd i opens up

Noir, n’est-ce pas?

‘Moonlight’ electrifies

A different kind of “femme fatale”

Hole-y terrors

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