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50 is the new 20, darling—Frameline Fest celebrates golden year of queer film

Stars past and present align for world's longest-running LGBTQ movie festival. Here's our inside guide.
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Screen Grabs: Audre Lorde rises again at Queer Women of Color Film Fest

Plus: Summer with Monica Vitti, Nicholas Meyer's SF sci-fi, a daring 'Devil Queen,' A Complete Stanley Kubrick, more movies on tap
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Screen Grabs: Things are looking grim. Time for a trip to Bleak Week

Plus: 'Trainspotting' slams back into cinemas, 'Carolina Caroline' rides the grift, a straightforward (ahem) 'Rocky Horror' doc, more movies
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Screen Grabs: Fêting a visionary film noir genius

Cinematographer John Alton was all over the genre. Plus: three by Agnes Varda, a slew of French noirs, and Brendan Fraser gets miscast.
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Screen Grabs: 25th DocFest brings high-heeled anarchy, Amazing Sea Monkeys, rock star wangs

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Oakland tent evictions, queer rights in Cuba, a Palestinian comedy club, NOFX and Grateful Dead jams also on menu.
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Screen Grabs: Soapy ‘Diamonds’ may just be the Italian ‘Steel Magnolias’

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Plus: Hitchcock Fest hits the Balboa, while Alamo Drafthouse celebrates Brian De Palma's Hitchcockian breakthroughs.
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Screen Grabs: Forbidden, foreboding ‘Hitler, A Film From Germany’ returns

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Plus: Jude Law as Putin in 'Wizard of the Kremlin,' 500 years of ginkgo in 'Silent Friend,' and a masterpiece of non-sectarian mysticism
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Screen Grabs: CAAMFest eye-openers include ‘the Godfather of Silicon Valley’s Indian Mafia’

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Plus: Odes to impresarios Robert Wilson and Craig Baldwin, risky 'Blue Heron' and foodie-feminist 'Mistura.' New movies!
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Screen Grabs: Silent Film Fest returns to its ancestral home

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Back to the Castro with plenty of rarities and gems. Plus: Tap into Ovid for a wacky 1974 Lithuanian rock opera and more.
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Screen Grabs: Everyone is lying to you for money and no one cares about crazy people

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Searing docs by the truckload, from DocLands fest to two Barbara Kopple classics. Plus: Charlie XCX goes Polish, more movies
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Screen Grabs: SFFILM Fest hits 69. Nice.

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11 days of global visions, including Boots Riley's latest, a Kid Koala cartoon, and 'The Empire Strikes Back.' Plus: 'I Swear,' 'The Blue Trail,' more
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Screen Grabs: In the trenches of democracy with Amy Goodman

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Bracing 'Steal This Story, Please!' Plus: Soderbergh's intelligent 'The Christophers,' biting 'Continental '25,' spectral 'Dry Leaf'
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Screen Grabs: Balboa Theater hits 100—and honors a costuming legend

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Plus: 'Return to Oz,' a new Camus, Doris Day's cult lesbian moment, Paleolithic Herzog, 'Faces of Death,' more
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Screen Grabs: Aliens, witches, mermaids, and other swell company

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'Touch Me,' 'Dead Lover,' 'The Serpent's Skin,' more offer fun twists on genre thrills. Plus: A spooky Irish tale rises again.
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Screen Grabs: Tributes to three trailblazing women filmmakers

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Plus: Bright comedy 'Fantasy Life,' Kiyoshi Kurosawa's moody horrors, free-falling in 'Space Cowboy' and Putin's Russia.
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Screen Grabs: Back to the USSR

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'Two Prosecutors' and 'Soviet Silver' take us there. Plus: A Dutch film Nazi, a Palestinian revolt, 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers,' more
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Screen Grabs: At 30, Berlin & Beyond still goes above and beyond

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Hot jazz, thrash metal, Udo Kier on tap. Plus: Clara Bow still has 'It,' Rose Byrnes gets a 'Tow,' '1000 Women in Horror,' more
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Screen Grabs: It’s all Greek (and Irish and French) to us

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Euro-fests deliver in SF. Plus: South Bay's Cinequest heats up, 'My Father's Shadow,' Billy Preston biopic, more
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Screen Grabs: Iranian films bring fable, black comedy, and social indictment

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Plus: New German cinema, African Film Festival, and Satyajit Ray’s 'Days and Nights in the Forest'.
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