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A Detroit techno visionary soundtracks a German sci-fi classic (again)

Jeff Mills performs his new, third score for Fritz Lang's dystopian 'Metropolis': 'I wish it weren't so relevant now'
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Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment

Plus: New German cinema, African Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray’s 'Days and Nights in the Forest'.
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What we saw at Sundance 2026: 9 narrative features that found the plot

'Buddy' taps horror in children's TV, Channing Tatum shines as SF father in Beth de Araújo's 'Josephine', a surprising wartime divorce comedy soars.
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Screen Grabs: Back to back with Almodovar muse Carmen Maura

Plus: Jewish Film Institute’s Winterfest, Emeryville International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, BAMPFA gets psychedelic, more.
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What we saw at Sundance 2026: 8 documentaries bringing back facts

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An ode to Barbara Hammer, a women's chess champ, Marianne Faithfull's reckoning—and polar bears.
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Screen Grabs: End of days at Fear and Faith Horror Festival—plus other new flicks to help scream it out

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Also: "Films of Remembrance" explores forced WWII Japanese American incarceration, a glockenspiel-equipped tribute to Georges Melies.
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‘Pillion’ director Harry Lighton on kinky dom-com’s delicious chemistry

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Interplay of stars Harry Melling and Alexander Skarsgård lend BDSM discovery tale emotional authenticity.
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Grab a free pass to see new movie ‘Midwinter Break’

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Lesley Manville and Ciarán Hinds take a trip to Amsterdam and discover a hidden truth.
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Screen Grabs: Oscar missed this heartwarming tale set in 1990 Iraq—you don’t have to

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Plus: New People and Castro Theatre are back to their celluloid nature, 'Pillion' is both graphic and graceful.
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Screen Grabs: All eyes on IndieFest and Mostly British’s big cinematic ideas

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Bay-centric docs on The Residents and Dennis Peron, plus past and present blockbuster epics.
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Swinging ’60s icon Twiggy: ‘It happened so fast, and I was so young’

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The model-actor became a cultural phenomenon; new doc at Mostly British fest fills in her complexity.
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Indiefest giveaway: Score free tickets to new Dennis Peron doc ‘Join the Club’

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We've got 10 pairs of tickets to new movie chronicling the beloved queer cannabis pioneer. Here's how to win!
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Screen Grabs: Showings so rare it’s like glimpsing a snow leopard

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Robert Beavers and Rob Nilsson, seen again. Plus: Jodie Foster as splendid grump, Paris Hilton as Paris Hilton, and, er, 'Melania.'
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Screen Grabs: Ann Lee won’t take any of your crap

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Women take center screen, including 'Mother of Flies,' 'H is for Hawk,' 'In Cold Light,' and 'Sound of Falling.'
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Screen Grabs: Noir City sings the blues

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Plus: Swedish silent cinema classics, Jennifer Reeves' therapeutic deconstruction, beautiful 'Magellan,' and a hurrah for Truffaut.
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Screen Grabs: Based on true Palestinian stories

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Two harrowing tales told in very different ways. Plus: Lucy Liu's 'Rosemead,' Kristin Stewart's 'Chronology of Water,' more
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Screen Grabs: Our favorite films of 2025

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Features and docs we couldn't shake in a very terrible political year. Plus: 'The Plague' adds one more to the list
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Screen Grabs: Triumph of the pencil-‘stached uber weasel

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Timothée Chalamet scores in 'Marty Supreme.' Plus: Park Chan-wook takes on vulture capitalism, and 1941 'Texas' returns.
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Screen Grabs: Bi Gan’s dazzlingly hubristic ‘Resurrection’

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Plus: 'La Grazia,' 'Suburban Fury,' and 'We Shall Not Be Moved' provide meatier holiday fare than the multiplex
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