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Lulu Wang on good lies and immigrant family ties in ‘The Farewell’

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Director Lulu Wang’s films are built on secrets and lies. Her 2014 directorial debut, Posthumous, explores what happens when a struggling artist (Jack Huston), who...
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Screen Grabs: A Japanese master of ‘The Human Condition’ gets his due

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Considered by some one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers of a brilliant period (the Fifties and Sixties), the late Masaki Kobayashi nevertheless never...
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Screen Grabs: A wave of women behind the camera

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Though some aspects of filmmaking have been edging slowly towards gender equity for a while, there’s no question that the #MeToo movement...
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Screen Grabs: The perils of ‘Midsommar’

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The big noise commercially this week is Spider-Man: Far From Home, yet another entry in the most confusingly overpopulated movie franchise of...
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Screen Grabs: Andy Warhol’s brilliant camp

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Andy Warhol was the man who sold the world on Pop Art in the 1960s, and much of that success lay in...
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Vanessa Williams on her fearless Frameline ‘Luv Tale’

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Professional growth was always critical for actress Vanessa Williams. Going from supporting roles like gun moll Keisha in 1991’s crime thriller New Jack City...
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From ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ to Frameline: Kate Walsh on acting and activism

Joshua Rotter -
More is what six friends living in New York City are striving for in Sell By, Mike Doyle’s new romantic comedy. In the film, premiering...
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Burger Queens in Berlin

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FRAMELINE They just don’t make movies like City of Lost Souls anymore (playing at Frameline Film Fest Mon/24). What’s the last one you’ve seen...
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Screen Grabs: A ‘sex raft’ run amuck

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The big news in Bay Area moviegoing this week is the annual arrival of the Frameline LGBTQ film fest, which we previewed here....
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What happened to Halston? New doc dives deep into designer’s story

Joshua Rotter -
In Halston, the new biopic about the visionary American fashion designer, director Frédéric Tcheng makes every effort to remain objective when portraying the contentious...

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