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Screen Grabs: Country creep abounds at BAMPFA’s rural noir series

Plus: Terrifyingly eccentric Obayashi's greatest hits, and Palo Alto's Stanford Theater celebrates 100 years.

Movies Dennis Harvey - June 2, 2025

Screen Grabs: ‘White With Fear’ cashes out lucrative Caucasian terror complex

Plus 'Bring Her Back' bests formulaic horror, 'Bad Shabbos' delivers nimble and droll dinnertime catastrophe, more.

Movies Dennis Harvey - May 28, 2025

SFDocFest’s 24th edition brings anti-escapist cinema, boundary-pushing takes

Grammar activism, blockbuster magazine heroines, and Qatari street cats. Dodging reality? Not in these seats.

Arts + Culture Dennis Harvey - May 26, 2025

Screen Grabs: Handsome ‘Stelios’ tells story of singer who forever changed Greek pop

Plus: 11 Hitchcock films in one weekend at the Balboa, a Jane Austen-inspired rom-com, much more.

Movies Dennis Harvey - May 19, 2025

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Screen Grabs: Swamp Dogg’s delightfully digressive bachelor pad, the documentary

Dennis Harvey - May 12, 2025

Plus: 'Friendship' keeps its inexcusable cringe sprightly and the Bay gets another chance with 'The Donn of Tiki.'

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Screen Grabs: Corny clowns, familial thorns abound

Dennis Harvey - May 7, 2025

New releases 'Clown in a Cornfield,' 'The Gullspång Miracle,' and 'Jimmy in Saigon' offer chills of all persuasions.

Arts + Culture

Bay Area arts organizations reel, vow to survive NEA grant cancellations

Caitlin Donohue - May 7, 2025

Agency's new 'priorities' include supporting communities of color, despite defunding BIPOC-led organizations.

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CAAMFest 2025 spotlights ‘Boat People,’ ‘Yellowface,’ ‘Chinatown Cha Cha’

Dennis Harvey - May 5, 2025

Screen dives also fête the maker of the first ever feature film by and about Asian Americans, and investigate Chinatown evictions.

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Groundbreaking ‘Godfather of Asian American Media’ gets his due at CAAMFest

Joshua Rotter - May 4, 2025

Tadashi Nakamura's 'Third Act' chronicles his father's life, from internment camp and filmmaking success to living with Parkinson's.

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Screen Grabs: 50 years later, they still fart in your general direction

Dennis Harvey - May 1, 2025

'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and more movies from 1975. Plus: Doclands, 'Bonjour Tristresse,' 'The Surfer,' more

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Playing a gig worker—and being one, too—in an increasingly chilly SF

Joshua Rotter - April 24, 2025

Asia Kate Dillon stars in Elena Oxman's 'Outerlands,' which details navigating loss in a city that seems to be closing in.

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Screen Grabs: The shivers and ‘The Shrouds’

Dennis Harvey - April 24, 2025

Cronenberg keeps rising from the dead. Plus: 'The Ugly Stepsister,' a slew of new queer films, 'Compensation,' more

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Screen Grabs: Flashing back with John & Yoko, Neil Young, and Pink Floyd

Dennis Harvey - April 17, 2025

From street protests to Pompeii, legendary rockers take the screen again. Plus: Palestinian drama 'The Teacher'

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SFFilm Fest taps local topics with forest fires, gig workers, ode to the Roxie

Dennis Harvey - April 14, 2025

68th edition expands footprint—and celebrates figures like Sky Hopinka, Andre Holland, Chris Columbus.

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Unnamed Footage Festival leans into low-budget, shaky-cam community

Daniel Bromfield - April 9, 2025

'Tinsman Road,' 'Fat Tuesday,' and 'Hunting Matthew Nichols' among spooky stand-outs.

Culture

DOGE yanks California Humanities funding, sending artists reeling

Marke B. - April 9, 2025

For Bay Area documentary filmmakers like Brandon Tauszik, it's 'back to the drawing board'—and GoFundMe.

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Screen Grabs: Despite fabulous international locations, ‘Grand Tour’ gives interior anti-epic

Dennis Harvey - April 8, 2025

Plus: Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot's 'Zero' as video game, and 'Psycho Therapy' flips Buscemi's buddy film technique.

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Screen Grabs: Is ‘hella wild’ retro caper ‘Freaky Tales’ worthy of The Town?

Dennis Harvey - April 2, 2025

Plus: Literary Naomi Watts is perfectly cast in 'The Friend,' 'A Nice Indian Boy' pulls formulaic gay heartstrings.

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Screen Grabs: O say can you see? Frederick Wiseman and ‘The Encampments’ turn gaze to U.S. injustice

Dennis Harvey - March 31, 2025

Plus: Documentaries on teen folk star Janis Ian, funk history, and songwriter Allee Willis sound off.

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Movies

Screen Grabs: Country creep abounds at BAMPFA’s rural noir series

Screen Grabs: ‘White With Fear’ cashes out lucrative Caucasian terror complex

SFDocFest’s 24th edition brings anti-escapist cinema, boundary-pushing takes

Screen Grabs: Handsome ‘Stelios’ tells story of singer who forever changed Greek pop

Screen Grabs: Swamp Dogg’s delightfully digressive bachelor pad, the documentary

Screen Grabs: Corny clowns, familial thorns abound

Bay Area arts organizations reel, vow to survive NEA grant cancellations

CAAMFest 2025 spotlights ‘Boat People,’ ‘Yellowface,’ ‘Chinatown Cha Cha’

Groundbreaking ‘Godfather of Asian American Media’ gets his due at CAAMFest

Screen Grabs: 50 years later, they still fart in your general direction

Playing a gig worker—and being one, too—in an increasingly chilly SF

Screen Grabs: The shivers and ‘The Shrouds’

Screen Grabs: Flashing back with John & Yoko, Neil Young, and Pink Floyd

SFFilm Fest taps local topics with forest fires, gig workers, ode to the Roxie

Unnamed Footage Festival leans into low-budget, shaky-cam community

DOGE yanks California Humanities funding, sending artists reeling

Screen Grabs: Despite fabulous international locations, ‘Grand Tour’ gives interior anti-epic

Screen Grabs: Is ‘hella wild’ retro caper ‘Freaky Tales’ worthy of The Town?

Screen Grabs: O say can you see? Frederick Wiseman and ‘The Encampments’ turn gaze to U.S. injustice

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