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Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services

Dennis Harvey -
The demand for streaming movies has increased such during recent months that many films are getting taken off the shelf where they’ve laid neglected...
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Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Dennis Harvey -
For years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival was a July event, and this summer would have marked its 25th anniversary—but due to you-know-what,...
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Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Dennis Harvey -
New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....
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Screen Grabs: Cinema’s future in doubt, but these world classics endure

Dennis Harvey -
Movie theaters (drive-ins aside—who’d have imagined they’d get a comeback?) remain closed for the time being, their re-openings TBD in the Bay Area and...
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In ‘John Lewis: Good Trouble,’ filmmaker Dawn Porter limns civil rights icon

Pam Grady -
Congressman John Lewis, the civil rights icon who has represented the 5th District of Georgia, including Atlanta, since 1987, is 80 now, running for...
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Screen Grabs: ’90s UK rave scene springs back to life in ‘Beats’

Dennis Harvey -
The SF International Film Festival that wasn’t a couple months ago—one of COVID-19’s earliest cultural casualties—would have included a 20th-anniversary screening of Greg Harrison’s...
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Looking for a hot gay connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’

Johnny Ray Huston -
As titles go, Ask Any Buddy is evocative. On its surface, it brings up the idea of acquiring knowledge or answers through communication with...
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All hail Jacki Weaver, Pride’s hilarious, touching ‘Stage Mother’

Joshua Rotter -
When Jacki Weaver was asked to star in director Thom Fitzgerald’s latest film, Stage Mother, the Academy Award-nominated Animal Kingdom and Silver Linings Playbook...
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‘Ahead of the Curve’ flips through legendary lesbian magazine’s impact

Pam Grady -
For many in the lesbian and queer community, Curve magazine (originally Deneuve), launched in 1990, has been a source of community connection. For filmmaker...
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Screen Grabs: Frameline’s Pride Showcase cruises onto your laptop

Dennis Harvey -
Frameline without the audience is a funny prospect—imagine the dismay among those patrons whom COVID has denied their annual chance to conspicuously stand near...

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