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Hello Kitty to ‘Happy Cleaners’: Asian American film shines at CAAMFest

Dennis Harvey -
From SF’s own Chinatown to the crisscrossing currents of transnational adoption, this year’s CAAMFest—formerly known as the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival—covers the...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS For those not glued all weekend to the SF Silent Film Festival (see our preview here), there’s actually another film festival to consider:...
Culture

A live cinema event to ‘Remember Los Siete’ in the Mission

Caitlin Donohue -
On May 1,1969, a pair of cops stopped a group of Latino activists on the Mission District's Alvarado Street. In the ensuring altercation, one...
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Screen Grabs: A seriously funny Italian legend, JT LeRoy, Hail Satan?

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Though he never reached the heights of international fame achieved by such fellow countrymen as Marcello Mastroianni or Franco Nero, Ugo Tognazzi was...
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Screen Grabs: Cannabis nuns, Sapphic poets, Riot Grrrl blues….

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The SFFILM Festival, whose second half continues through Tues/23 at various SF and East Bay venues, has like many such organizations made a significant...
Movies

After 50 years, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ rides again

Joshua Rotter -
Back in 1967, Hollywood photographer Michael Childers, whose career was taking off, answered a fateful phone call from Broadway star Kaye Ballard, whom he...
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Screen Grabs: Aretha’s Amazing Grace, Blood for Dracula, Peterloo…..

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Yes, this is the opening week of the SFFILM Festival, the event so big we gave it its own separate feature (see here)....
Movies

From Gorbachev to ‘Red Joan’: SFFILM Fest gets geopolitical

Reese Erlich -
MOVIES The 62nd SFFILM Festival kicks off next week, and as usual there's a plethora of movies to choose from (see our preview here)....
Movies

SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

Dennis Harvey -
The big-screen experience for movies is on the cultural endangered list, between venues going under (or having their leases revoked by landlords eager to...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A wonderful ‘Diane,’ Czech newbies, public library drama….

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The inevitable comic book adaptation aside, this is a week full of rather serious movies. So perhaps we should start off with the...
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