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

Dennis Harvey -
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)....
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From Gorbachev to ‘Red Joan’: SFFILM Fest gets geopolitical

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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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SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

Dennis Harvey -
The big-screen experience for movies is on the cultural endangered list, between venues going under (or having their leases revoked by landlords eager to...
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Screen Grabs: A wonderful ‘Diane,’ Czech newbies, public library drama….

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The inevitable comic book adaptation aside, this is a week full of rather serious movies. So perhaps we should start off with the...
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Screen Grabs: Jeff Adachi, Romanian scandal, magnificent cake…

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS In a week that brings the literally elephantine spectacle of a (mostly) live-action Dumbo remake by Tim Burton, you might well run in...
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Screen Grabs: The terror that is ‘Us’

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SCREEN GRABS For many, the movie of 2017 was Get Out, the first directorial feature for Jordan Peele of the comedy duo Key &...
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Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Though it doesn’t get the same international nostalgic attention these days accorded similar movements in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, one of...
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Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

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SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...
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Screen Grabs: Dynamation Celebration, African Film Fest, and even more cats!

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS It’s a busy week for arthouse openings and other film events of interest, though we couldn’t see everything in advance. Among the...
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What we saw at Sundance (and Slamdance), part 4: Narrative features

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SUNDANCE 2019 Our festival critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Sundance Film Festival. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here!  Honey...

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