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From Gorbachev to ‘Red Joan’: SFFILM Fest gets geopolitical

MOVIES The 62nd SFFILM Festival kicks off next week, and as usual there's a plethora of movies to choose from (see our preview here)....

SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

The big-screen experience for movies is on the cultural endangered list, between venues going under (or having their leases revoked by landlords eager to...

Screen Grabs: A wonderful ‘Diane,’ Czech newbies, public library drama….

SCREEN GRABS The inevitable comic book adaptation aside, this is a week full of rather serious movies. So perhaps we should start off with the...

Screen Grabs: Jeff Adachi, Romanian scandal, magnificent cake…

SCREEN GRABS In a week that brings the literally elephantine spectacle of a (mostly) live-action Dumbo remake by Tim Burton, you might well run in...

Screen Grabs: The terror that is ‘Us’

SCREEN GRABS For many, the movie of 2017 was Get Out, the first directorial feature for Jordan Peele of the comedy duo Key &...

Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….

SCREEN GRABS Though it doesn’t get the same international nostalgic attention these days accorded similar movements in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, one of...

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...

Arts Forecast: Reptaliens, Spear of Destiny, V Vale….

ARTS FORECAST For decades, if you had a question about sex, any question at all, you would "Ask Isadora." The goddess of alternative weekly...

Welcome, Puffragettes! ‘Mary Janes: The Women of Weed’ comes to town

PUFF I heard that the cannabis industry was predominantly a male-driven industry when I first got involved in it, and while I've met many...

Screen Grabs: Dynamation Celebration, African Film Fest, and even more cats!

SCREEN GRABS It’s a busy week for arthouse openings and other film events of interest, though we couldn’t see everything in advance. Among the...