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Screen Grabs: Jeff Adachi, Romanian scandal, magnificent cake…

SCREEN GRABS In a week that brings the literally elephantine spectacle of a (mostly) live-action Dumbo remake by Tim Burton, you might well run in...

Screen Grabs: The terror that is ‘Us’

SCREEN GRABS For many, the movie of 2017 was Get Out, the first directorial feature for Jordan Peele of the comedy duo Key &...

Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….

SCREEN GRABS Though it doesn’t get the same international nostalgic attention these days accorded similar movements in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, one of...

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...

Arts Forecast: Reptaliens, Spear of Destiny, V Vale….

ARTS FORECAST For decades, if you had a question about sex, any question at all, you would "Ask Isadora." The goddess of alternative weekly...

Screen Grabs: Dynamation Celebration, African Film Fest, and even more cats!

SCREEN GRABS It’s a busy week for arthouse openings and other film events of interest, though we couldn’t see everything in advance. Among the...

What we saw at Sundance (and Slamdance), part 4: Narrative features

SUNDANCE 2019 Our festival critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Sundance Film Festival. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here!  Honey...

Screen Grabs: Never mind the Oscars, we’ve got screwballs and Pod People

SCREEN GRABS As if nothing mattered but the Oscars on Sunday (harrumph!), there are no major Hollywood releases this weekend, and few notable arthouse ones....

What we saw at Sundance, part 2: Documentaries

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Sundance Film Festival: See part 1 here and part 3 here!  SUNDANCE 2019 The Documentary categories are often the best...

Screen Grabs: Fighting for survival in ‘Arctic’ and courting death in Norwegian black metal

Yors truly is just back from the Sundance Film Festival, and the only thing you really need to know about that is that quite...