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Screen Grabs: The shift evident, women directors rise

Dennis Harvey - July 24, 2020

While the stampede of sexual harassment and assault accusations unleashed by the #MeToo movement may make it seem the entertainment industry is a sexist...

Movies

City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest

Pam Grady - July 22, 2020

When the Roxie Theater announced the first open call for a Mixtape event in 2015, the festival was never meant to become an annual...

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Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil

Dennis Harvey - July 21, 2020

The Trump regime’s egregious wrongdoing and pollutive effect on society has wound up bringing greater attention to long-term (yet rapidly worsening) woes of American...

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Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’

Dennis Harvey - July 17, 2020

This weekend’s new streaming releases are dominated by two major literary adaptations, both of which would have looked great on the big screen ......

Movies

New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Johnny Ray Huston - July 17, 2020

Imagine, if you will, a time before carefully categorized and context-free snippets and vignettes on PornHub—a time before 10,000 slangy, jokey descriptors turned sex...

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Screen Grabs: Welcome to Jewish Film Fest’s online ‘Cinegogue’

Dennis Harvey - July 14, 2020

Four months into the COVID crisis (with no end in sight yet), many film festivals and organizations have had time to come up with...

Onstage

Too soon for COVID jokes? Shazia Mirza on Zoom comedy and life at home

Joshua Rotter - July 13, 2020

Shazia Mirza has been making the most of quarantine. The award-winning British stand-up comedian and writer—best known for her show “The Kardashians Made Me...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services

Dennis Harvey - July 9, 2020

The demand for streaming movies has increased such during recent months that many films are getting taken off the shelf where they’ve laid neglected...

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Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Dennis Harvey - July 7, 2020

For years the San Francisco Silent Film Festival was a July event, and this summer would have marked its 25th anniversary—but due to you-know-what,...

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Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

Dennis Harvey - July 3, 2020

New releases of interest this Friday run a global gamut from Vegas to Australia and Japan, with France, Russia and South Korea in between....

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Screen Grabs: The shift evident, women directors rise

City quarantine, set to film for the Roxie’s Mixtape-in-Place fest

Screen Grabs: Films that pull back the veil

Screen Grabs: Don’t look away from ‘Decade of Fire’ and ‘The Painted Bird’

New restorations of Arthur Bressan Jr.’s films make for porn reborn

Screen Grabs: Welcome to Jewish Film Fest’s online ‘Cinegogue’

Too soon for COVID jokes? Shazia Mirza on Zoom comedy and life at home

Screen Grabs: From the dark, to the streaming services

Screen Grabs: Build your own silent film festival

Screen Grabs: In the grip of hard truths—both political and personal

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