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Screen Grabs: A feast of docs and dancing

It’s a big week for non-fiction cinema, the main event being SFFilm’s fifth annual Doc Stories, which brings together several of the year’s most...

Review: A fiery intellect bound by exoticism in ‘The Chinese Lady’

Even as the audience files in, we are already part of the play, or rather, the exhibition. Atung (Will Dao) sits in front of...

Screen Grabs: A 14-hour movie with a 40-minute ‘middle finger’

If you’re looking for some suitable Halloween screen entertainment, you’re in the right place—well, almost. Our separate guide to this season’s scary movies, including...

So many spooky Halloween movies!

As Halloween approaches, some people ready their “sexy” costumes and gear up to chest-heave cocktails onto the lap of their fellow ex-frat bros and/or...

Screen Grabs: A bounty of international film fests

Mill Valley may be over, but the fall cavalcade of local film festivals continues. This week alone brings at least four (that we know...

Michael Sneed’s ‘Days We Lost’ claps back at depression, debt

When Oakland artist Michael Sneed returned home in 2017 from graduating college in Washington DC, he didnʻt feel all that celebratory. Trying to sort out the next...

Olympia Dukakis has a few words

'Do what you want. Treat people decently,' says the film legend, with a new doc and honors at the Greek Film Festival.

Banjos, bandanas, & a Monkee—the scene at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

The weather was gorgeous and the crowd broke records at the 19th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, which seemed to include a lot more roots...

Screen Grabs: News of the world at the Arab Film Fest

Who knows if we’ll ever see the day when the Arab Film Film Festival does not seem of urgent political relevance. But this year’s...

The Onyx spirals upward, beaming ‘Black Girl Magic’

It’s a Thursday night at The Uptown in Oakland, and people are filtering in for the opening set. Six black women take the stage,...