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Hot-mess bisexuals, Orthodox blackmail, Daveed Diggs: SF Jewish Film Fest dives in

45th edition foregrounds comedy and conflict, kicking off with 'Coexistence, My Ass,' and playing throughout SF and East Bay

Movies Dennis Harvey - July 13, 2025

Screen Grabs: Truth, justice, and… something something

'Sovereign' insurrection, 'Underground Orange' rebellion, a swarm of Swedish auteurs, Garbage Pail Kids, more movies

Movies Dennis Harvey - July 8, 2025

Screen Grabs: Caught up in the raptors, again

'Jurassic' holiday weekend kicks. Plus: Thomas Kinkaide's secrets, Fraenkel Film Fest, Bill Gunn and Mikio Naruse retrospectives, more.

Movies Dennis Harvey - July 2, 2025

Screen Grabs: A Bollywood-inflected tale of sneaky lesbian vs. imperious mom

That's 'The Queen of My Dreams.' Plus: ATA's Anti-Fascist Film Series, experimental Taiwanese flicks, feminist docs, more.

Movies Dennis Harvey - June 24, 2025

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Screen Grabs: Tribute to 100 years of Robert Altman, a cynic’s New Hollywood takeover

Dennis Harvey - June 10, 2025

Plus: The antic and sexy sides of SF's Bruce Conner, Amerinide firestarter 'Northern Lights,' and Pride month flicks galore.

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Screen Grabs: Country creep abounds at BAMPFA’s rural noir series

Dennis Harvey - June 2, 2025

Plus: Terrifyingly eccentric Obayashi's greatest hits, and Palo Alto's Stanford Theater celebrates 100 years.

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Screen Grabs: ‘White With Fear’ cashes out lucrative Caucasian terror complex

Dennis Harvey - May 28, 2025

Plus 'Bring Her Back' bests formulaic horror, 'Bad Shabbos' delivers nimble and droll dinnertime catastrophe, more.

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Screen Grabs: Handsome ‘Stelios’ tells story of singer who forever changed Greek pop

Dennis Harvey - May 19, 2025

Plus: 11 Hitchcock films in one weekend at the Balboa, a Jane Austen-inspired rom-com, much more.

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Screen Grabs: Swamp Dogg’s delightfully digressive bachelor pad, the documentary

Dennis Harvey - May 12, 2025

Plus: 'Friendship' keeps its inexcusable cringe sprightly and the Bay gets another chance with 'The Donn of Tiki.'

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Screen Grabs: Corny clowns, familial thorns abound

Dennis Harvey - May 7, 2025

New releases 'Clown in a Cornfield,' 'The Gullspång Miracle,' and 'Jimmy in Saigon' offer chills of all persuasions.

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CAAMFest 2025 spotlights ‘Boat People,’ ‘Yellowface,’ ‘Chinatown Cha Cha’

Dennis Harvey - May 5, 2025

Screen dives also fête the maker of the first ever feature film by and about Asian Americans, and investigate Chinatown evictions.

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Screen Grabs: 50 years later, they still fart in your general direction

Dennis Harvey - May 1, 2025

'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and more movies from 1975. Plus: Doclands, 'Bonjour Tristresse,' 'The Surfer,' more

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Screen Grabs: The shivers and ‘The Shrouds’

Dennis Harvey - April 24, 2025

Cronenberg keeps rising from the dead. Plus: 'The Ugly Stepsister,' a slew of new queer films, 'Compensation,' more

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Screen Grabs: Flashing back with John & Yoko, Neil Young, and Pink Floyd

Dennis Harvey - April 17, 2025

From street protests to Pompeii, legendary rockers take the screen again. Plus: Palestinian drama 'The Teacher'

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SFFilm Fest taps local topics with forest fires, gig workers, ode to the Roxie

Dennis Harvey - April 14, 2025

68th edition expands footprint—and celebrates figures like Sky Hopinka, Andre Holland, Chris Columbus.

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Screen Grabs: Despite fabulous international locations, ‘Grand Tour’ gives interior anti-epic

Dennis Harvey - April 8, 2025

Plus: Congolese director Jean Luc Herbulot's 'Zero' as video game, and 'Psycho Therapy' flips Buscemi's buddy film technique.

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Screen Grabs: O say can you see? Frederick Wiseman and ‘The Encampments’ turn gaze to U.S. injustice

Dennis Harvey - March 31, 2025

Plus: Documentaries on teen folk star Janis Ian, funk history, and songwriter Allee Willis sound off.

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Screen Grabs: Family cries? New releases offer complex kin across cultures

Dennis Harvey - March 24, 2025

Plus: There's no forgetting the perils of Nazism past or present at this year's Berlin & Beyond festival.

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Screen Grabs: BAMPFA raises curtain on poetic Ukrainian cinema, once subject to brutal censorship

Dennis Harvey - March 17, 2025

Plus: A satisfying slow pitch from 'Eephus,' 'Magazine Dreams' proves nearly as troubled as its star's backstory, more.

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Screen Grabs

Hot-mess bisexuals, Orthodox blackmail, Daveed Diggs: SF Jewish Film Fest dives in

Screen Grabs: Truth, justice, and… something something

Screen Grabs: Caught up in the raptors, again

Screen Grabs: A Bollywood-inflected tale of sneaky lesbian vs. imperious mom

Screen Grabs: Tribute to 100 years of Robert Altman, a cynic’s New Hollywood takeover

Screen Grabs: Country creep abounds at BAMPFA’s rural noir series

Screen Grabs: ‘White With Fear’ cashes out lucrative Caucasian terror complex

Screen Grabs: Handsome ‘Stelios’ tells story of singer who forever changed Greek pop

Screen Grabs: Swamp Dogg’s delightfully digressive bachelor pad, the documentary

Screen Grabs: Corny clowns, familial thorns abound

CAAMFest 2025 spotlights ‘Boat People,’ ‘Yellowface,’ ‘Chinatown Cha Cha’

Screen Grabs: 50 years later, they still fart in your general direction

Screen Grabs: The shivers and ‘The Shrouds’

Screen Grabs: Flashing back with John & Yoko, Neil Young, and Pink Floyd

SFFilm Fest taps local topics with forest fires, gig workers, ode to the Roxie

Screen Grabs: Despite fabulous international locations, ‘Grand Tour’ gives interior anti-epic

Screen Grabs: O say can you see? Frederick Wiseman and ‘The Encampments’ turn gaze to U.S. injustice

Screen Grabs: Family cries? New releases offer complex kin across cultures

Screen Grabs: BAMPFA raises curtain on poetic Ukrainian cinema, once subject to brutal censorship

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