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Ficks’ Picks: Favorite films (spoiler-free!) of 2016

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SCREEN GRABS Our esteemed film critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, who attended Sundance, SFiFF, Crossroads, Frameline, and Mill Valley Film Festival this year, picks the cream...
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What if AIDS never happened?

Marke B. -
SCREEN GRABS What if Sylvester sang at this year's Grammys? What if Keith Haring was speaking right now at Art Basel Miami, or appearing at...
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Latin lovers, shady players, and super Jeegs

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS In the medium’s first decades, then again for a couple decades or more in the post-WW2 era, Italy had one of the...
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3rd i opens up

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The oldest and largest media arts organization of its type in the US, 3rd i Films launches its 14th annual San Francisco...
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Noir, n’est-ce pas?

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Things are changing at the Roxie (not for the first time) at the Roxie, with some fresh programming blood and the departure...
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‘Moonlight’ electrifies

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS In 2008, the SF International Film Festival premiered then-local resident Barry Jenkins’ Medicine for Melancholy, a stylish surprise in which a one-night-stand between...
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Company Town: Tech vs. grassroots on the screen

Tim Redmond -
SCREEN GRABS It’s hard to imagine that the Aaron Peskin-Julie Christensen election was just a year ago. Back then, the mayor was heavily involved...
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A different kind of “femme fatale”

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS As Election Day approaches, it is clear that to much of our nation’s citizenry, there is nothing more horrifying than a woman...
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Hole-y terrors

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS As Election Day approaches, real life is terrifying enough -- making it a good moment to blow off steam by experiencing some...
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Champagne supernovas, spilling over

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS/ALL EARS The biggest noise of 90s Britpop, Manchester’s Oasis was briefly as massive as their hype -- not to mention their self-estimation...

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