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We love you, Mamie Van Doren

95-year-old Hollywood legend's new memoir 'You Thought I Was Dead' gushes with celebrities, sex, champagne—and survival.
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The wild inside story of San Francisco’s first gay film festival

50 years ago, a ragtag bunch of local geniuses got together to show their scrappy Super 8s—and a movement was born.
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Surely, they must still be joking: ‘Airplane! Live’ lands classic 1980 movie’s gags

'The more serious we were, the more the comedy worked,' says star Robert Hays, coming to SF with co-star Julie Hagerty.
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Screen Grabs: Audre Lorde rises again at Queer Women of Color Film Fest

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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Iceland’s glaciers melt away like memory in ‘Time and Water’

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Sara Dosa's adventurous doc weaves climate change alarm, family history, and love story into an elegy for our disappearing world.
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Sign up for our newsletter to win FREE Frameline Fest movie tickets

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Subscribe by Wednesday to find out how to enter to win a ticket to the world's first LGBTQ film fest.
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Screen Grabs: Fêting a visionary film noir genius

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Cinematographer John Alton was all over the genre. Plus: three by Agnes Varda, a slew of French noirs, and Brendan Fraser gets miscast.
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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: Soapy ‘Diamonds’ may just be the Italian ‘Steel Magnolias’

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Plus: Hitchcock Fest hits the Balboa, while Alamo Drafthouse celebrates Brian De Palma's Hitchcockian breakthroughs.
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Boots Riley is here to boost you

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Oakland icon pulls no punches talking about new movie 'I Love Boosters' and the power of collective organizing.
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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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