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Screen Grabs: Revisit the glitzy disaster of ‘Showgirls’

Dennis Harvey - June 3, 2020

During a week in which a nation-shaking epidemic shutdown has managed to become a concern secondary to curfews, social chaos, and military-dictatorship-type responses to...

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Screen Grabs: Into ‘The Vast of Night’—and beyond

Dennis Harvey - May 30, 2020

A couple restored minor classics, plus new features about recording-industry sexism, Islamic fundamentalism and UFO invasion, make this another wide-ranging week in the streaming...

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Screen Grabs: Big hearts and summer lovin’

Dennis Harvey - May 27, 2020

Summer romance is the foundation on which many a movie used to be built, before summer moviegoing became primarily about comic-book heroes and other...

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Screen Grabs: What’s a long weekend? It’s staycation stream time

Dennis Harvey - May 22, 2020

It’ll be odd to have a Memorial Day weekend under quarantine—or one without, presumably, the usual exodus of city dwellers to other destinations—but there...

Movies

10 years later, H.P. Mendoza’s ‘Fruit Fly’ plays a very changed San Francisco

Pam Grady - May 21, 2020

What Fruit Fly writer/director H.P. Mendoza originally had in mind for the film's 10th anniversary screening at this year's CAAMFest was a replay of...

Culture

Screen Grabs: Lesbian filmmakers who destroyed stereotypes

Dennis Harvey - May 20, 2020

While there’s still no ETA on when movie exhibition spaces will be back open in California, there’s still plenty of ways to support those...

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Screen Grabs: Two of SF’s biggest acting exports light up screens again

Dennis Harvey - May 9, 2020

One of the first cultural casualties of the pandemic was, of course, live theater, with many local productions stopped mid-run, others’ openings canceled, and...

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

Marke B. - April 30, 2020

As we move farther toward festival season, it's really dawning that our hugest events will take place on our screens. It's not like we...

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Screen Grabs: The lyin’ preacher, the witch-tree, and The Whistlers

Dennis Harvey - April 27, 2020

Escapism may be one of the few commodities experiencing a boom during lockdown, but not all escapes are lighthearted—the new releases highlighted below offer...

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Screen Grabs: New flicks (yes, they still exist)

Dennis Harvey - April 20, 2020

As a change of pace from our recent columns compiling lists of choice home-viewing items from the celluloid past, this week we’ll take a...

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Screen Grabs: Revisit the glitzy disaster of ‘Showgirls’

Screen Grabs: Into ‘The Vast of Night’—and beyond

Screen Grabs: Big hearts and summer lovin’

Screen Grabs: What’s a long weekend? It’s staycation stream time

10 years later, H.P. Mendoza’s ‘Fruit Fly’ plays a very changed San Francisco

Screen Grabs: Lesbian filmmakers who destroyed stereotypes

Screen Grabs: Two of SF’s biggest acting exports light up screens again

Arts Forecast: How Weird (that everything is virtual now)

Screen Grabs: The lyin’ preacher, the witch-tree, and The Whistlers

Screen Grabs: New flicks (yes, they still exist)

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