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What we saw at Sundance, Part 2: A side-trip to Slamdance

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 23, 2020

Culling through the forty features viewed at both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals last week has been as much fun as watching them...

Movies

What we saw at Sundance, part 1: Wild rides and deep looks

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - February 19, 2020

Culling through the 40 features viewed at both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals last week has been as much fun as watching them...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Raining Internet cats and live-action dogs

Dennis Harvey - February 19, 2020

It’s raining cats and dogs with the more family-friendly film events of the week. One is the new 20th Century Fox Animation/Disney live action...

Art

Electrifying art of Black Power in ‘Soul of a Nation’

Emily Wilson - February 18, 2020

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983 was organized by London’s Tate Museum and traveled to Arkansas, New York,...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Get in the van!

Dennis Harvey - February 11, 2020

This Friday, we’re already getting commercial releases of movies that premiered at Sundance just the other week. Two got a mixed reception there: Downhill...

Arts + Culture

Never mind the Brexit, here’s Mostly British film fest

Dennis Harvey - February 10, 2020

Our political relations with the Britain may be strained at present—last month its Defense Secretary said they were looking for new strategic alliances as...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Forget those Oscars, let’s go to Berlin & beyond

Dennis Harvey - February 4, 2020

The Oscars are this Sunday, which ceremony will provide its annual mercy-killing service of putting a stop to the endless “awards season” talk—at least...

Movies

Indiefest electrifies with punk and sci-fi royalty, surreal thrillers, local debuts

Dennis Harvey - January 24, 2020

SF Indiefest (Wed/29-February 13) may not look backward a great deal, but when it does, it has to be the right fit for a festival...

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Screen Grabs: Battle of the giant Russian oligarchs

Dennis Harvey - January 21, 2020

The big event this week is Friday’s return of Noir City, whose latest annual edition at the Castro we’ve previewed separately here. Among commercial openings...

Movies

Sights set globally, Noir City dives into ‘a bitter little world’

Dennis Harvey - January 21, 2020

No longer jailbait, but surely full of other moral and criminal sandtraps for the unwary protagonist, Noir City (Fri/24-February 2 at the Castro Theatre) hits...

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What we saw at Sundance, Part 2: A side-trip to Slamdance

What we saw at Sundance, part 1: Wild rides and deep looks

Screen Grabs: Raining Internet cats and live-action dogs

Electrifying art of Black Power in ‘Soul of a Nation’

Screen Grabs: Get in the van!

Never mind the Brexit, here’s Mostly British film fest

Screen Grabs: Forget those Oscars, let’s go to Berlin & beyond

Indiefest electrifies with punk and sci-fi royalty, surreal thrillers, local debuts

Screen Grabs: Battle of the giant Russian oligarchs

Sights set globally, Noir City dives into ‘a bitter little world’

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