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Screen Grabs: All weekend long, the Roxie celebrates French noir

SCREEN GRABS If you’re not busy this week with CAAM (see our preview here), there’s a competing mini-festival of sorts which overlaps with it just...

Hello Kitty to ‘Happy Cleaners’: Asian American film shines at CAAMFest

From SF’s own Chinatown to the crisscrossing currents of transnational adoption, this year’s CAAMFest—formerly known as the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival—covers the...

Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…

SCREEN GRABS For those not glued all weekend to the SF Silent Film Festival (see our preview here), there’s actually another film festival to consider:...

Silent Film Fest ranges afar—but don’t worry, there’s still Buster

It's been edging in this direction for a while, and it’s probably not a strategy that can or should be repeated ad finitum. But...

Screen Grabs: A seriously funny Italian legend, JT LeRoy, Hail Satan?

SCREEN GRABS Though he never reached the heights of international fame achieved by such fellow countrymen as Marcello Mastroianni or Franco Nero, Ugo Tognazzi was...

Screen Grabs: Cannabis nuns, Sapphic poets, Riot Grrrl blues….

SCREEN GRABS The SFFILM Festival, whose second half continues through Tues/23 at various SF and East Bay venues, has like many such organizations made a significant...

After 50 years, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ rides again

Back in 1967, Hollywood photographer Michael Childers, whose career was taking off, answered a fateful phone call from Broadway star Kaye Ballard, whom he...

SFFILM Fest opens with stars and ‘Tales’

Opening night of the SFFilm Festival filled the Castro Theatre with basically anyone you could imagine on Wednesday evening, as Netflix premiered the first...

Screen Grabs: Aretha’s Amazing Grace, Blood for Dracula, Peterloo…..

SCREEN GRABS Yes, this is the opening week of the SFFILM Festival, the event so big we gave it its own separate feature (see here)....

From Gorbachev to ‘Red Joan’: SFFILM Fest gets geopolitical

MOVIES The 62nd SFFILM Festival kicks off next week, and as usual there's a plethora of movies to choose from (see our preview here)....

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