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Ficks’ Picks at the 11th Annual CROSSROADS Experimental Film Festival 

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
This year's mind-melting batch of experimental films at San Francisco Cinematheque's 11th annual CROSSROADS 2020, may be extremely helpful to some of you looking...
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Screen Grabs: Get a funky zap from ‘Mr. Soul!’

Dennis Harvey -
One had hoped that the passage of over half a century from the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s would provide a view of...
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Screen Grabs: Flicks for diverse takes on the forces that be

Dennis Harvey -
From globe-trotting LGBTQ narratives to social justice documentaries (and dramas), there’s a lot of diversity amongst fresh streaming releases this week—as well as some...
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Screen Grabs: Lysergicize the whimsical

Dennis Harvey -
For obvious reasons, some stylistic aspects of 1960s counterculture were slower to infiltrate Soviet bloc nations than general populations in the West. Even as...
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‘Tesla’ explores early years of a genius whose impact is still felt

Pam Grady -
Filmmaker Michael Almereyda has been living with Nikola Tesla for nearly as long as he has been alive—no wonder that he wound up making...
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Screen Grabs: No name on the bullet

Dennis Harvey -
Last weekend saw the 75th anniversary of V-J Day, when Emperor Hirohito’s official surrender signaled the de facto end of World War II. You...
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Screen Grabs: Cheap thrills, serial killers, and miscellaneous mayhem

Dennis Harvey -
For most, this summer may be low on vacation travel by necessity. That leaves even more room for humbler kinds of escapism, from “beach...
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Screen Grabs: Fighting disability stereotypes, from Frankenstein to Rain Man

Dennis Harvey -
The #MeToo era has brought heightened attention to a lot of mis- and under-representation issues in entertainment media, not all of them related to...
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Screen Grabs: Every day they write the book

Dennis Harvey -
Writing and writers seem to be the dominant theme in this weekend’s new releases—something that is seldom a particularly exciting subject for movies, admittedly....
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Clap your hands, stomp your feet for ‘River City Drumbeat’

Pam Grady -
River City Drumbeat (playing Fri/7-August 21 at Roxie Virtual Cinema) captures a Louisville, KY, phenomenon: the River City Drum Corp, a youth brigade of African...

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