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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...

Divas closes—and SF loses its ‘trans town square’

Going to the last night of business at Divas on March 30 was like stepping into a time machine. Divas—the only transgender bar in...

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...

The sun hasn’t set yet on Sonny Smith’s SF

ALL EARS As the decade began, all eyes were on San Francisco’s rock scene. Sic Alps, Thee Oh Sees, White Fence, and the Fresh...

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...

What we saw at Sundance (and Slamdance), part 4: Narrative features

SUNDANCE 2019 Our festival critic Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from the Sundance Film Festival. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 here!  Honey...

Screen Grabs: Never mind the Oscars, we’ve got screwballs and Pod People

SCREEN GRABS As if nothing mattered but the Oscars on Sunday (harrumph!), there are no major Hollywood releases this weekend, and few notable arthouse ones....

What we saw at Sundance, Part 3: MiDNiTE MOViES and Beyond!

SUNDANCE 2019 Jesse Hawthorne Ficks reports from Sundance. See part 1 here and part 2 here!  The Death of Dick Long (Daniel Scheinert, US)  Absurdism dates back to...

Exploring the ‘Convergence’ of Yiddish and African American spiritual music

ALL EARS There are a couple of reactions that stand out to Black Yiddishist opera singer Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell when he performs a...

What we saw at Sundance, Part 1

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2019 With more than 14,000 submissions from more than 150 countries, the Sundance Film Festival (which celebrated its 35th Anniversary) narrowed down...