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Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

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New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....
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Screen Grabs: Cinema’s future in doubt, but these world classics endure

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Movie theaters (drive-ins aside—who’d have imagined they’d get a comeback?) remain closed for the time being, their re-openings TBD in the Bay Area and...
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Screen Grabs: ’90s UK rave scene springs back to life in ‘Beats’

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The SF International Film Festival that wasn’t a couple months ago—one of COVID-19’s earliest cultural casualties—would have included a 20th-anniversary screening of Greg Harrison’s...
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Screen Grabs: Frameline’s Pride Showcase cruises onto your laptop

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Frameline without the audience is a funny prospect—imagine the dismay among those patrons whom COVID has denied their annual chance to conspicuously stand near...
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Screen Grabs: Trans films to the front for Pride

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Normally, the Frameline International LGBTQ Film Festival would already be open, though this year COVID-19 has pushed the festival into a smaller online edition running this...
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Screen Grabs: Two movies so bad they’re (almost) good

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This last Sunday marked our POTUS’ birthday—he’s now 74, never mind that he frequently plays the “too old” card on people just a couple...
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Screen Grabs: For Pride, where to find SF’s queer film fests online

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Normally at this time of year many Bay Areans (and a few visitors arriving just for this reason) would be about to suspend nearly...
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Screen Grabs: Black history and protest films to stream now

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As public outrage towards police violence against the Black community (like the gun control movement) has too often seemed to wane in the Trump...
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Screen Grabs: Revisit the glitzy disaster of ‘Showgirls’

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During a week in which a nation-shaking epidemic shutdown has managed to become a concern secondary to curfews, social chaos, and military-dictatorship-type responses to...
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Screen Grabs: Into ‘The Vast of Night’—and beyond

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A couple restored minor classics, plus new features about recording-industry sexism, Islamic fundamentalism and UFO invasion, make this another wide-ranging week in the streaming...

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