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Win a free ticket to a Frameline Film Fest movie

Join us at the world’s original—and largest—LGBTQ+ film festival in the world for Pride month.

Contest Marke B. - June 16, 2025

From piercing icon to flaming ecosexuals, Frameline’s tales of rupture and survival

Interviews with the fest's compelling protagonists of 'WICKET,' 'A Body To Live In,' and 'Playing with Fire.'

Movies Joshua Rotter - June 13, 2025

Reel love: 3 LGBTQ icons profiled on Frameline’s silver screen

They brought trans innovation to 'Drag Race,' created 'Rocky Horror,' delivered legendary reads—and now they're getting their flowers.

Movies Joshua Rotter - June 11, 2025

Screen Grabs: Tribute to 100 years of Robert Altman, a cynic’s New Hollywood takeover

Plus: The antic and sexy sides of SF's Bruce Conner, Amerinide firestarter 'Northern Lights,' and Pride month flicks galore.

Movies Dennis Harvey - June 10, 2025

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Free Frameline Fest tickets to the next 20 new 48 Hills members!

Marke B. - June 10, 2025

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A real San Franciscan shows the city like it is in ‘What’chu Mixed With?’

Alan Chazaro - June 9, 2025

Debut director Maya Cameron-Gordon's short film delivers Bay Area bildungsroman.

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

Dennis Harvey - June 2, 2025

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

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

Dennis Harvey - May 28, 2025

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

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

Dennis Harvey - May 26, 2025

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

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

Dennis Harvey - May 19, 2025

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

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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.

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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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Win a free ticket to a Frameline Film Fest movie

From piercing icon to flaming ecosexuals, Frameline’s tales of rupture and survival

Reel love: 3 LGBTQ icons profiled on Frameline’s silver screen

Screen Grabs: Tribute to 100 years of Robert Altman, a cynic’s New Hollywood takeover

Free Frameline Fest tickets to the next 20 new 48 Hills members!

A real San Franciscan shows the city like it is in ‘What’chu Mixed With?’

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

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