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Tagged with: Cinema

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Screen Grabs: Monsters (and wonders) of history awaken

Dennis Harvey -
The holiday season tends to induce nostalgia, and while Hollywood is always very interested in directing your leisure dollars towards big new commercial movies,...
Movies

Another Hole in the Head fest brings a healthy dose of violent mayhem

Dennis Harvey -
Are imminent global environmental and current national political catastrophes getting you down? Do you frequently wish perceived foes would “just die screaming”? Are you...
Arts + Culture

Life before dot-com: Two exhibitions explore the not-so-distant past of SF

Dennis Harvey -
San Francisco has tended to be defined by its high profile cultural moments and movements, from the libertine Barbary Coast era to the Beats,...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Escape your family at the movies

Dennis Harvey -
Apparently obeying the logic that audiences will be sufficiently occupied with such recent popular entries as Frozen 2 or Ford v Ferrari—if they aren’t simply...
Movies

Martin Scorsese on ‘The Irishman,’ old friends, and loving Castro Theatre

Joshua Rotter -
Martin Scorsese loves San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. So much so that the legendary Mean Streets, Goodfellas, and Casino director opened his latest gangster epic,...
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Screen Grabs: Now that’s Italian!

Dennis Harvey -
Most weeks of the year in the Bay Area there’s some film festival or other—sometimes several at once. Amidst such plenty, it’s easy to...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: French noir to vintage punk, a week of retro gems

Dennis Harvey -
Considering all the odds against it—real estate/rent issues, changing audiences, ever-more home viewing options—it’s pretty amazing that San Francisco still has any arthouse scene...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two movies for grown-ups at the multiplex

Dennis Harvey -
Last month 76-year-old Martin Scorcese ignited a firestorm—at least amongst fuming fanboy types—when he shrugged that he’d “tried” to grok superhero movies, “But that’s...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: South Asian cinema, transgender visions, amateur porn…

Dennis Harvey -
Woe betide the Bay Area movie lover equally enthused about South Asian cinema, transgender screen expressions, and amateur porn—because this week the signature local...
Movies

Transgender visions in urgent times

Peter-Astrid Kane -
Visibility has always been a guiding principle of queer liberation. From Harvey Milk’s “Come out, come out, wherever you are” to the debates over...
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