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Heated moments

Dennis Harvey - August 14, 2017

SCREEN GRABS Filmmaking in the Philippines hit a first "golden age" in the years after World War II. That was followed by a 1960s...

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The Agenda: Remembering the I-Hotel

Tim Redmond - July 30, 2017

On August 4, 1977, a piece of San Francisco’s heart was torn out. At midnight, the San Francisco Sheriff’s Office broke down the door...

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Star time

Dennis Harvey - July 18, 2017

SCREEN GRABS There’s never been an un-interesting moment for the SF Jewish Film Festival (July 20 to August 6) to be going on, in...

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Jodorowsky’s zoom

Dennis Harvey - July 11, 2017

SCREEN GRABS In perhaps the most surprising and vigorous artistic comeback since Thomas Pynchon suddenly started publishing again after a quarter-century pause, Alejandro Jodorowsky...

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Police Commission set to discuss the effectiveness of tasers

Sana Saleem - June 21, 2017

It's back to tasers at the Police Commission where a working group is set to present its findings at Wednesday's meeting. The city has...

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The Agenda, June 19-26: Budget, Tasers, a great movie and politics for the 99 percent….

Tim Redmond - June 19, 2017

It’s budget time in San Francisco: The supes Budget and Finance Committee has been holding hearings for months, and the $10.1 billion budget is...

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Look out

Dennis Harvey - June 9, 2017

SCREEN GRABS After the long-fought but still remarkable gains of recent years under the most gay-friendly POTUS in American history, the LGBTQ community has...

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Sgt. Pepper, UnderCover

Joanna Ladd - May 26, 2017

1967 was a banner year for music – a year when Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, and Aretha Franklin topped the charts. But perched...

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Surfing the docs

Dennis Harvey - May 26, 2017

SCREEN GRABS This is a moment when the notion of watching documentaries sounds like mandatory homework: The world is falling apart, many parties would...

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A leap for CROSSROADS

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - May 16, 2017

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque’s eighth annual experimental film festival, CROSSROADS 2017, has some genuine medicine for the overabundance of melancholy fogging up the...

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