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“This is an essential American story”: director Julie Ha of ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ speaks

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How a documentary that preserves a key moment in Bay Area history came to be.
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Screen Grabs: European relations hit the skids in ‘Spin Me Round’ and ‘Orphan: First Kill’

Dennis Harvey -
The former takes 'Eat, Pray' into comic territory, while 'Orphan' presents a psycho Estonian waif.
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Screen Grabs: The saga of Chol Soo Lee—and the arrival of Cinequest

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: 'Big Trouble in Little China' gets a screening worthy of a cult fave, and this week's new releases.
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Screen Grabs: Tween screams—and other late-summer hits and misses

Dennis Harvey -
A crucial abortion-at-the-border doc, 'Summering' recalls a gender-switched 'Stand By Me,' plus more new releases.
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Screen Grabs: It’s a miracle—a new cinema opens in SF

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: Godzillafest goes Gamera, Indian Forrest Gump, '80s macho meatheads, Planet of the Vampires, more movies
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Screen Grabs: Family dysfunction, with all the yikes

Dennis Harvey -
Patton Oswalt's 'I Love My Dad,' Lena Dunham's 'Sharp Stick,' teen pregnancy fallout in 'Icon,' more cringey relations
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Screen Grabs: Let the banjos duel again—’Deliverance’ is back

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: Two movies take on Texas in very different ways, and a passel of new horror flicks, from Norway to Uber.
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Screen Grabs: Back in time—1993 and 1982—for tall tales and tragedy at school

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: Rebecca Hall's corker paranoid turn in 'Resurrection' and Rebeca Huntt's confessional (maybe?) 'Beba'
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Screen Grabs: Sorry, ‘Nope.’

Dennis Harvey -
Plus: Interplanetary spewing barbarians in 'This is Gwar,' antic Brazilian diversion 'Jesus Kid,' more new movies
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Film is a battleground: Sam Fuller’s hot-button noirs and war tales still sting

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
BAMPFA's 'From the Front Page to the Front Lines' packs a wallop with 10 essential films from the under-sung director

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