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Ficks’ Picks: The best flicks of 2019
From Inuk to Tasmania, blockbuster to experimental, this year's list ranges widely and highlights breathtaking films.
Screen Grabs: A very contemporary Les Misérables
Plus: an incredible tale of 70,000 VHS tapes, the Village People's disco disaster, and more in cinemas this week.
Cartooning the Japanese Internment, through George Takei’s eyes
In a book and show at the Cartoon Art Museum, illustrator Harmony Becker realizes a US tragedy in fine-grained detail.
Screen Grabs: New year, death row
January's usual grab-bag of silly movies is leavened by two serious legal dramas (and a legend's epitaph).
Screen Grabs: Homage to a gorgeous legend + 2019’s best films
French New Wave star Anna Karina returns to the big screens. Plus: Cunningham, Invisible Life, and more in cinemas.
For San Francisco, the Gay Men’s Chorus brings the ‘Holigays’ home
"We first performed the Christmas Eve shows in 1991 when the AIDS pandemic was at its worst." Now, the annual shows are a mainstay.
Screen Grabs: Bombshells, Cats, and Star Wars—must be holiday time
Sink your claws into blockbuster season—plus Lost Holiday, Miyazaki Mania, Agnes Varda, Chinatown Rising, and more
Michael Apted’s monumental, 55-year chronicle of class inequality
The director speaks about his celebrated UP series—now on '63 UP'—tracing the lives of 14 subjects across five decades
Screen Grabs: Fake news from Clint Eastwood and Imelda Marcos
Plus: A Mexican ambulance family, where sound effects come from, one of 2019's best small US features, and more in cinemas.
Burger Boogaloo 2020 announces killer lineup
Legends Alice Bag, Bikini Kill, Circle Jerks, Flipper, and Pansy Division join Younger Lovers, Plastic Bertrand, and more.