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From Scream Queens to Queer Genius: Frameline LGBTQ Film Fest takes it in

Dennis Harvey -
It’s always a political moment for the world’s oldest/largest LGBTQ film festival. But this year is extra-special, alas: When was the last time we...
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Screen Grabs: She’s the Official Coolest Person Ever

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Here’s something you don’t normally see mid-summer at the multiplex: Simultaneous openings of two movies with Emma Thompson. Neither are exactly Howard’s...
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Hopes, fears, dreams, and ‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’

Joshua Rotter -
Two African American dreamers, Jimmie (first-time actor Jimmie Fails) and Mont (Jonathan Majors) are struggling to survive in the unforgiving reality of the City...
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Screen Grabs: Last Black Man in San Francisco, Mexico’s Golden Age ….

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS In addition to SF Cinematheque’s annual Crossroads showcase for experimental work at SFMOMA (see Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' preview this week) and the continuation...
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Watching at CROSSROADS 2019: Avant-garde film festival returns

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual experimental film festival CROSSROADS is celebrating its 10th year at the SFMOMA, Fri/7-Sun/9. With 62 ​works of film, video, and...
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Screen Grabs: Going big, from Woodstock to Godzilla

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Bigger is presumably better this week, with Godzilla: King of the Monsters (the third Hollywood film about the critter who’s starred in...
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I want my SF DocFest: Our critic’s top picks

Dennis Harvey -
Truth is reliably stranger than fiction at SF DocFest, whose 18th annual edition takes over the Roxie Theater for eleven days starting May 30, with...
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Screen Grabs: ‘War and Peace’ thrills in its gargantuan spectacle

Dennis Harvey -
The movies suffered an approximately 15 year case of elephantiasis starting in the early 1950s, when television began to seriously impact box-office returns. Hollywood’s...
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Exploring love on its own terms with the team behind “The Sun is Also a Star”

Joshua Rotter -
Daniel Bae is a lifelong romantic, who pens love poems in a little notebook he carries around with him. Natasha Kingsley (Yara Shahidi) is...
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Screen Grabs: Lessons from the dictatorship mark ‘The Silence of Others’

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS This week brings the arrival of John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, the latest entry in what’s been one of the few action-oriented franchises worth...

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