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‘American Factory’ a tale of two blue collars: US and Chinese

As the United States grows more urbanized and service-oriented—not to mention politically polarized—the image of the blue collar factory worker becomes more remote to...

Arts Forecast: Frameline Fest gets new executive director, more …

ARTS FORECAST I honestly have no idea how one would wrangle an organization that puts on such a huge annual film festival—more than 60,000 attendees,...

Screen Grabs: What happened to Dag Hammarskjold?

SCREEN GRABS It’s mid-August, the weather is theoretically fine, the summer blockbusters are already well into their runs—it is not a time of the...

Screen Grabs: A devil in Tasmania, Tel Aviv on fire…

SCREEN GRABS The San Francisco Cinematheque has been doing all too many posthumous tribute programs of late, as major figures of experimental film and video...

Screen Grabs: Celebrating an Iranian giant’s ‘life as art’

SCREEN GRABS As the White House agitates off-and-on for war against Iran, it’s a particularly poignant juncture for the first major posthumous retrospective of...

Screen Grabs: A gripping dispatch from the heart of Aleppo

SCREEN GRABS No doubt many cineastes in the Bay Area and well beyond will be lining up this weekend for arguably the first interesting mainstream...

‘The Great Hack’: They’ve got your data, and yes they’ve used it

Social network Facebook has faced fierce criticism for its dubious privacy practices for years. In the beginning, it was tracking user activity via "Like"...

Jewish Film Festival sparks with romance, tragedy, fiddler on roof

Though it has programmed its share of controversial fare over the years, the 39th edition of the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival will open...

Lulu Wang on good lies and immigrant family ties in ‘The Farewell’

Director Lulu Wang’s films are built on secrets and lies. Her 2014 directorial debut, Posthumous, explores what happens when a struggling artist (Jack Huston), who...

Screen Grabs: A Japanese master of ‘The Human Condition’ gets his due

SCREEN GRABS Considered by some one of the greatest Japanese filmmakers of a brilliant period (the Fifties and Sixties), the late Masaki Kobayashi nevertheless never...