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Screen Grabs: Triumph of the pencil-‘stached uber weasel

Timothée Chalamet scores in 'Marty Supreme.' Plus: Park Chan-wook takes on vulture capitalism, and 1941 'Texas' returns.

Screen Grabs: Bi Gan’s dazzlingly hubristic ‘Resurrection’

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

Screen Grabs: On the lam with excellent ‘The Secret Agent’

Plus: Harrowing account of Russian press crackdown in 'My Undesirable Friends' and gay rural Indian romance in 'Cactus Pears'

Screen Grabs: ‘Merrily We Roll Along’ rolls onto big screens

Plus: Librarians, feminists, prophets, poets, Plastic Man, Kurosawa, an uncut 'Kill Bill,' and 300-minute 'Castration Movie.'

Screen Grabs: Let’s get weird for the holidays at Another Hole in the Head

Blood-sucking landlords, hilarious hoagies, deadly influencers, bad haircuts: 'Tis the season for the 22nd freak film fest

Screen Grabs: Delightful ‘Left-Handed Girl’ steals big movie week thunder

Plus: Weepy 'Hamnet,' convoluted 'Wake Up Dead Man,' a 1969 Ken Jacobs treasure, and more great Lost Landscapes of SF.

Screen Grabs: A soft spot for ‘Sentimental Value’

Plus: Edgar Wright and Noah Baumbach's latest, fine 'Rebuilding,' urgent 'Anniversary,' barbed 'Disinvited,' more new movies

Screen Grabs: Transgender Film Fest comes at a powerful moment

Plus: Reanimated Underground Short Film Fest packs 36 flicks into seven hours, and Colombia on Film celebrates 'resistia en transita.'

Screen Grabs: Silent Film Fest proffers Gold Rush of gems in new location

Relocating for now to Orinda Theatre, the essential event still dives into outstanding material with live accompaniment.

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Screen Grabs: Arab Film Fest kicks off with ‘Palestine 36’

Plus: Doc Stories, Ode to Joy, Gunvor Nelson, Marta Mateus, Rithy Pahn, terrific 'Train Dreams,' misfire 'Nuremberg,' more movies

Screen Grabs: Halloweek brings the scares, killer clowns and all

Plus: Spike & Mike's Animation Fest returns, a vivid look at Artsakh, stranger-than-fiction 'Mistress Dispeller,' more movies

Screen Grabs: Emma Stone is an alien—or not?—in ‘Bugonia’

Plus: Jafar Panahi's latest Iranian moral thriller, Yoav Potash documents Jewish erasure in Poland, more movies

Screen Grabs: East LA guerrilla artists fire up SF Latino Film Fest

Plus: Green Film Fest dives into rainforest resistance, melting memories, brown bear kerfuffles, train dreams, more

Screen Grabs: UN Film Fest brings human rights ‘Messages for the Future’

Plus: 'Urchin' and 'If I Had Legs I'd Kick You' take on prickly personalities in surprisingly engaging ways.

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Screen Grabs: 3rd i Fest reaches ‘Beyond Bollywood’ for thrills

Plus: Mexican terror in 'Noche Oscura,' bittersweet SF nostalgia in 'Fairyland,' dark fantasy 'Ice Tower,' Orwell on the line, more movies

Screen Grabs: The Big Kahuna of local fall film fests arrives

Plus: J. Hoberman haunts Beat paths, classic Westerns on the big screen, a queer Japanese epic, new releases, more

Screen Grabs: ‘One Battle After Another’ tests our moment’s wild waters

Paul Thomas Anderson delivers radical leftists terrorists, fascist invasions, Leonardo in a man-bun. Plus: A flimsy 'Him'

Screen Grabs: Blasting off with Jordan Belson’s mind-expanding cinema

Plus: 'Cannes for dirtbags' Scumdance Fest, Emma Thompson on thin ice, and a 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' love letter.

Screen Grabs: Psychedelic bro love swirls in ‘Lemurian Candidate’

Plus: Studio 8 Film Festival celebrates work from dearly departed Art Institute, Cheryl Dunye at BAMPFA, more releases.

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