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Screen Grabs: The world’s most popular comedy duo shows its seams in ‘Stan & Ollie’

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Laurel & Hardy may be the most popular comedy duo ever — their fame was international, easily surviving the transition from silents to talkies...
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Screen Grabs: ‘Lost Landscapes of San Francisco’ returns

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SCREEN GRABS In the silent era there were numerous important women filmmakers—a testament, alas, to how the medium wasn’t taken “seriously” for many years,...
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Screen Grabs: Our favorite movies of the year (and what’s on now)

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SCREEN GRABS As 2018 comes to a close, we can pause and reflect that as so often is the case, what was a pretty...
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Screen Grabs: Xmas Weekend flicks galore

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SCEEN GRABS This week brings two major new films about “divisive” American political figures—not exactly what the general public usually wants for Xmas, but...
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Screen Grabs: Robin Hood, Spider-Verse, The Quake …

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SCREEN GRABS There’s a rather large number of films we didn’t get (and/or want) to see in advance opening this week, including Once Upon...
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Screen Grabs: Holiday zombies, wild Youtubers, Japanese classics…

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SCREEN GRABS There was so much happening last week, we didn’t have room to mention two major series now already in-progress at Berkeley’s Pacific...
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Screen Grabs: Lost Landscapes of San Francisco, Roma, The Favourite …

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SCREEN GRABS This is no time for Christmas shopping, at least if you’re a film buff—not only is the genre festival Another Hole in the...
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Screen Grabs: Another Hole in the Head, Green Book, Shoplifters …

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SCREEN GRABS As SF bathes in a toxic haze, with citizens walking around like the masked denizens of a dystopian-future movie, it might seem a...
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Screen Grabs: The French Had a Name For It …

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SCREEN GRABS Importation of foreign language films has reportedly been on the decline for many years because US audiences are growing more resistant to reading...
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Screen Grabs: Festival mania fills local cinemas!

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SCREEN GRABS There is surely nowhere in the world with more film festivals per capita than San Francisco. While the bigger annual events are...

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