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Screen Grabs

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

Dennis Harvey -
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

Screen Grabs: The terror that is ‘Us’

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

In ‘Yoga Play,’ Dipika Guha twists commerce into comedy

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE When Dipika Guha got her Bachelor’s degree in English from University College London, she wasn’t thinking of being a playwright. She’d just moved with...
Screen Grabs

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

Dennis Harvey -
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,...
Screen Grabs

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

Dennis Harvey -
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...
Screen Grabs

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

Dennis Harvey -
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....
Movies

What we saw at Sundance, Part 1

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2019 With more than 14,000 submissions from more than 150 countries, the Sundance Film Festival (which celebrated its 35th Anniversary) narrowed down...
Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: British Film Fest, Holiday, Tongues Untied….

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS As we mourn the abrupt loss of the AMC Van Ness 14—it closed on short notice last week—and hope the same fate...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Son Jarocho Festival, J Dilla shots, and queer gamers unite!

Caitlin Donohue -
ARTS FORECAST In the years that have passed since the 2006 death of Detroit producer, J. Dilla’s import has only come into sharper focus....
Screen Grabs

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

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