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Screen Grabs: She’s the Official Coolest Person Ever

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SCREEN GRABS Here’s something you don’t normally see mid-summer at the multiplex: Simultaneous openings of two movies with Emma Thompson. Neither are exactly Howard’s...
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Screen Grabs: Last Black Man in San Francisco, Mexico’s Golden Age ….

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SCREEN GRABS In addition to SF Cinematheque’s annual Crossroads showcase for experimental work at SFMOMA (see Jesse Hawthorne Ficks' preview this week) and the continuation...
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Screen Grabs: Going big, from Woodstock to Godzilla

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SCREEN GRABS Bigger is presumably better this week, with Godzilla: King of the Monsters (the third Hollywood film about the critter who’s starred in...
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I want my SF DocFest: Our critic’s top picks

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Truth is reliably stranger than fiction at SF DocFest, whose 18th annual edition takes over the Roxie Theater for eleven days starting May 30, with...
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Screen Grabs: ‘War and Peace’ thrills in its gargantuan spectacle

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The movies suffered an approximately 15 year case of elephantiasis starting in the early 1950s, when television began to seriously impact box-office returns. Hollywood’s...
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Screen Grabs: Lessons from the dictatorship mark ‘The Silence of Others’

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SCREEN GRABS This week brings the arrival of John Wick: Chapter 3—Parabellum, the latest entry in what’s been one of the few action-oriented franchises worth...
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Screen Grabs: All weekend long, the Roxie celebrates French noir

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

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

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

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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...

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