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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Celebrating an Iranian giant’s ‘life as art’

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS As the White House agitates off-and-on for war against Iran, it’s a particularly poignant juncture for the first major posthumous retrospective of...
Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: A gripping dispatch from the heart of Aleppo

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS No doubt many cineastes in the Bay Area and well beyond will be lining up this weekend for arguably the first interesting mainstream...
Movies

‘The Great Hack’: They’ve got your data, and yes they’ve used it

Joshua Rotter -
Social network Facebook has faced fierce criticism for its dubious privacy practices for years. In the beginning, it was tracking user activity via "Like"...
Movies

Jewish Film Festival sparks with romance, tragedy, fiddler on roof

Dennis Harvey -
Though it has programmed its share of controversial fare over the years, the 39th edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will open...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A Japanese master of ‘The Human Condition’ gets his due

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Considered by some one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers of a brilliant period (the Fifties and Sixties), the late Masaki Kobayashi nevertheless never...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A wave of women behind the camera

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Though some aspects of filmmaking have been edging slowly towards gender equity for a while, there’s no question that the #MeToo movement...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The perils of ‘Midsommar’

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The big noise commercially this week is Spider-Man: Far From Home, yet another entry in the most confusingly overpopulated movie franchise of...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Andy Warhol’s brilliant camp

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Andy Warhol was the man who sold the world on Pop Art in the 1960s, and much of that success lay in...
Movies

Vanessa Williams on her fearless Frameline ‘Luv Tale’

Joshua Rotter -
Professional growth was always critical for actress Vanessa Williams. Going from supporting roles like gun moll Keisha in 1991’s crime thriller New Jack City...
Lit

An audience with Marc Huestis, ‘Impresario of Castro Street’

Joshua Rotter -
Legendary event producer Marc Huestis is famous for organizing lavish tributes to Hollywood stars including Debbie Reynolds, Ann Miller, Jane Russell, Karen Black, Patty...
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