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Tagged with: Film

From Lagos with love—and the god of fire

Joshua Rotter -
Bisi is more than a stage name for the 29-year-old Nigerian singer-songwriter who’s called San Francisco home for the last decade. It’s also a...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Escape your family at the movies

Dennis Harvey -
Apparently obeying the logic that audiences will be sufficiently occupied with such recent popular entries as Frozen 2 or Ford v Ferrari—if they aren’t simply...
Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Hip-Hop (Dance Fest) hurray! + more

Marke B. -
I'm old enough to remember rappers on Fillmore corners and TURF dancers in Oakland intersections. The homeboys gathered on my stoop throughout the day...
Movies

Martin Scorsese on ‘The Irishman,’ old friends, and loving Castro Theatre

Joshua Rotter -
Martin Scorsese loves San Francisco’s Castro Theatre. So much so that the legendary Mean Streets, Goodfellas, and Casino director opened his latest gangster epic,...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Now that’s Italian!

Dennis Harvey -
Most weeks of the year in the Bay Area there’s some film festival or other—sometimes several at once. Amidst such plenty, it’s easy to...

Defying genre, Pursuit Grooves flies high with ‘Bess’

John-Paul Shiver -
While researching Mae Jemison, the first Black female astronaut, Pursuit Grooves, aka Vanese Smith, read about her bringing Bessie Colemanʻs photograph along for the journey into...
Arts + Culture

Arts Forecast: And here’s the real kicker…

Marke B. -
ARTS FORECAST The Stomp tour stomped into town for a very brief visit at ACT last weekend (why, when it could stay so much longer?)—and the...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Three of the year’s best dramas and more

Dennis Harvey -
Many new films of interest opening this Friday—so many, in fact, that we had to write separately about the week’s revival highlights (see here)...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: French noir to vintage punk, a week of retro gems

Dennis Harvey -
Considering all the odds against it—real estate/rent issues, changing audiences, ever-more home viewing options—it’s pretty amazing that San Francisco still has any arthouse scene...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two movies for grown-ups at the multiplex

Dennis Harvey -
Last month 76-year-old Martin Scorcese ignited a firestorm—at least amongst fuming fanboy types—when he shrugged that he’d “tried” to grok superhero movies, “But that’s...
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