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Screen Grabs: 2022 shapes up to be Year of the Ass

EO charms. Plus: A pleasant Lady Chatterley's Lover, insightful Empire of Light, and fondly satirical Leonor Will Never Die

Screen Grabs: Don’t mess with brilliant, spitfire director Christine Choy

From Tiananmen Square's dissident exiles to the roiling Mississippi Triangle, the driven filmmaker tackles deep subjects

Screen Grabs: A great artist takes the opioid-peddling Sackler Family to task

Plus: Ukrainian benefit at Other Cinema, left-field twists in 'Nr. 10,' an aspirational Indian rapper goes bad in 'Four Samosas.'

Nikyatu Jusu mines the precarity of immigrant labor for terror in ‘Nanny’

"If every domestic worker stopped working tomorrow, a lot of people's lives would fall apart in this capitalistic system," the director says.

Buster Keaton is the GOAT (and Pola Negri slays) in ‘Day of Silents’

This time around, the annual Castro showcase of delectable rarities also gives two Asian actors their due, among other wonders

Artist, mother, wife, and cat: SFMOMA Joan Brown retrospective celebrates a shapeshifter

Beginning within the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Brown's career defies simple classification.

Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop Dance Fest, Amoeba Anniversary, Non Stop Bhangra Diwali, more

Sō Percussion, Sip Shop Eat, SF Coffee Fest, Manos Lindas, Union Square Skating Rink, and more to do this weekend.

Screen Grabs: Remarkable Arab voices—queer, refugee, Lebanese, Palestinian—fill local screens

This week: Arab Film Fest, New Lebanese Cinema of the '70s and '80s, 'Holy Spider.' Plus, a lost 1974 Oakland Blaxploitation delight.

Screen Grabs: Transgender Film Fest celebrates 25 eye-opening years

Plus: Canadian legends in 'Moments of Perception,' Housewife Aryan Nation in 'Soft & Quiet,' Jennifer Lawrence in 'Causeway,' more

Screen Grabs: At American Indian Film Fest, remembering the Alcatraz occupation

Plus: Doc Stories highlights Jerry Brown's disruptions, sweeping Georgian cinema series, Animation Show of Shows