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

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

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'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and more movies from 1975. Plus: Doclands, 'Bonjour Tristresse,' 'The Surfer,' more
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Screen Grabs: The shivers and ‘The Shrouds’

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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 -
From street protests to Pompeii, legendary rockers take the screen again. Plus: Palestinian drama 'The Teacher'
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Screen Grabs: Let’s run away to Greece

Dennis Harvey -
Greek Film Fest brings new visions. Plus: Cinequest, Robert Townsend, 'Mickey 17,' Gunvor Nelson, Karel Doing, more movies
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Screen Grabs: David Lynch and Todd Haynes take over the Bay

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: African Film Festival, 'psycho-biddies' John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush, Superfine's surreal gay adult fun, more
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Screen Grabs: The Swedish outsider who challenged gender roles behind the camera

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Plus: Two very different legends in 'Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story' and 'Art Spielgelman: Disaster Is My Muse'
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Screen Grabs: Everybody loves the free public library (we hope)

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JFI Winterfest gets bookish. Plus: heavy metal horror, Bay Area graffiti at Balboa; Tehran meets Winnipeg at Roxie
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What we saw at Sundance 2025: 12 narrative trips, animatronic buddies included

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
Teenagers on the range, misguided missionaries, a cerulean-faced orphan puppet? The Park City fest took many turns.
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Screen Grabs: ’40 Years of Queer’ is a kaleidoscope of love, sex, and liberation

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Plus: Paddington in Peru, Timestalker, No Other Land, Dead Thing, more new movies to check out

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