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Screen Grabs: A revered documentarian faces the ultimate loss in ‘Remake’

Plus: Celebrating disability rights, 'First Looks' at Oscar's shorts candidates, Nicolas Winding Refn's hell, the Dardennes' mothers.
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Screen Grabs: Honk, honk, here comes ‘The Odyssey’

Plus: Evil Dead Burn's witless gore, two queer classics return, three cheers for Jacques Tati and Robin Williams, more movies.
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46th Jewish Film Fest embraces universal experience (sea monkeys included)

Rideshare drivers, Hollywood abortion, Gen Z hedonists, Woody Guthrie, 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High' in expansive program.
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Screen Grabs: Famous artists choose their favorite flick (and you can watch)

Fraenkel Film Fest links visual arts. Plus: sexy-synthy 'Onda Nova,' poet Mary Oliver doc, Turkish mystery 'Burning Days,' more movies
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Screen Grabs: On America’s birthday, a scathing oligarch slapdown returns

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'Citizen Kane' rides again. Plus: Julie Carmen's colorful career, hilarious 'She's the He,' a Studio Ghibli legend, more movies
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Screen Grabs: Need a bracing dose of gumption? ‘Ask E. Jean’

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The 'eccentric personality' who sued Trump and won. Plus: vivid 'Maddie's Secret,' poppy 'Peter Asher,' retro 'Rose of Nevada'
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50 is the new 20, darling: Frameline Fest celebrates golden year of queer film

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Stars past and present align for world's longest-running LGBTQ movie festival. Here's our inside guide.
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Screen Grabs: Audre Lorde rises again at Queer Women of Color Film Fest

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Plus: Summer with Monica Vitti, Nicholas Meyer's SF sci-fi, a daring 'Devil Queen,' A Complete Stanley Kubrick, more movies on tap
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Screen Grabs: Things are looking grim. Time for a trip to Bleak Week

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Plus: 'Trainspotting' slams back into cinemas, 'Carolina Caroline' rides the grift, a straightforward (ahem) 'Rocky Horror' doc, more movies
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Screen Grabs: 25th DocFest brings high-heeled anarchy, Amazing Sea Monkeys, rock star wangs

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Oakland tent evictions, queer rights in Cuba, a Palestinian comedy club, NOFX and Grateful Dead jams also on menu.
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Screen Grabs: Forbidden, foreboding ‘Hitler, A Film From Germany’ returns

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Plus: Jude Law as Putin in 'Wizard of the Kremlin,' 500 years of ginkgo in 'Silent Friend,' and a masterpiece of non-sectarian mysticism
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Screen Grabs: CAAMFest eye-openers include ‘the Godfather of Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia’

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Plus: Odes to impresarios Robert Wilson and Craig Baldwin, risky 'Blue Heron' and foodie-feminist 'Mistura.' New movies!
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Screen Grabs: Silent Film Fest returns to its ancestral home

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Back to the Castro with plenty of rarities and gems. Plus: Tap into Ovid for a wacky 1974 Lithuanian rock opera and more.
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Screen Grabs: Everyone is lying to you for money and no one cares about crazy people

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Searing docs by the truckload, from DocLands fest to two Barbara Kopple classics. Plus: Charlie XCX goes Polish, more movies
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Michael Jackson and Prince deserve better

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Sanitized blockbuster 'Michael' and estate-quashed Prince doc rob us of nuanced, imaginative, and true portraits of the pop giants.
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Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest hits 69. Nice.

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11 days of global visions, including Boots Riley's latest, a Kid Koala cartoon, and 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Plus: 'I Swear,' 'The Blue Trail,' more
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Screen Grabs: In the trenches of democracy with Amy Goodman

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Bracing 'Steal This Story, Please!' Plus: Soderbergh's intelligent 'The Christophers,' biting 'Continental '25,' spectral 'Dry Leaf'
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Screen Grabs: Balboa Theater hits 100—and honors a costuming legend

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Plus: 'Return to Oz,' a new Camus, Doris Day's cult lesbian moment, Paleolithic Herzog, 'Faces of Death,' more
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Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company

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'Touch Me,' 'Dead Lover,' 'The Serpent's Skin,' more offer fun twists on genre thrills. Plus: A spooky Irish tale rises again.
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