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Screen Grabs: Two major docs on devastating scandals

Dennis Harvey -
Equal parts entertaining and discomfiting, the two major documentaries opening at local theaters this week are both likely to make you mad. Not at...
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Screen Grabs: French noir to vintage punk, a week of retro gems

Dennis Harvey -
Considering all the odds against it—real estate/rent issues, changing audiences, ever-more home viewing options—it’s pretty amazing that San Francisco still has any arthouse scene...
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Screen Grabs: Two movies for grown-ups at the multiplex

Dennis Harvey -
Last month 76-year-old Martin Scorcese ignited a firestorm—at least amongst fuming fanboy types—when he shrugged that he’d “tried” to grok superhero movies, “But that’s...
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Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…

Dennis Harvey -
Woe betide the Bay Area movie lover equally enthused about South Asian cinema, transgender screen expressions, and amateur porn—because this week the signature local...
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Transgender visions in urgent times

Peter-Astrid Kane -
Visibility has always been a guiding principle of queer liberation. From Harvey Milk’s “Come out, come out, wherever you are” to the debates over...
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Screen Grabs: A feast of docs and dancing

Dennis Harvey -
It’s a big week for non-fiction cinema, the main event being SFFilm’s fifth annual Doc Stories, which brings together several of the year’s most...
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Screen Grabs: A 14-hour movie with a 40-minute ‘middle finger’

Dennis Harvey -
If you’re looking for some suitable Halloween screen entertainment, you’re in the right place—well, almost. Our separate guide to this season’s scary movies, including...
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So many spooky Halloween movies!

Dennis Harvey -
As Halloween approaches, some people ready their “sexy” costumes and gear up to chest-heave cocktails onto the lap of their fellow ex-frat bros and/or...
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Screen Grabs: A bounty of international film fests

Dennis Harvey -
Mill Valley may be over, but the fall cavalcade of local film festivals continues. This week alone brings at least four (that we know...
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With ‘Gialloween II,’ Italian horror classics splatter the Roxie

Dennis Harvey -
The week before Halloween, the Roxie is reviving a series inaugurated two years ago with the seasonally-appropriate Gialloween II—a showcase for four vintage Italian...

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