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Movies

Screen Grabs: 2022 shapes up to be Year of the Ass

Dennis Harvey - December 8, 2022

EO charms. Plus: A pleasant Lady Chatterley's Lover, insightful Empire of Light, and fondly satirical Leonor Will Never Die

Onstage

Fashioning a new ‘Wuthering Heights,’ from hand-me-downs and reclaimed fabrics

Emily Wilson - December 7, 2022

Costumer Vicki Mortimer talks about the importance of sustainable and vintage outfits in adaptation at Berkeley Rep

Art Review

Artist, mother, wife, and cat: SFMOMA Joan Brown retrospective celebrates a shapeshifter

Genevieve Quick - November 24, 2022

Beginning within the Bay Area Figurative Movement, Brown's career defies simple classification.

Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘Users’ tackles life on tech, Spielberg makes a ‘small’ film

Dennis Harvey - November 23, 2022

Plus: 'A Couple' gives voice to Tolstoy's long-suffering wife, and 'The Swimmers' beats the crowdpleaser formula.

Arts + Culture

Ignore the plot: ‘The Great Comet’ seeks to entertain

Charles Lewis III - November 22, 2022

With a cast of two dozen, the Shotgun Players have a blast. Shame about the dropped COVID restrictions.

Stage Review

SF Opera dazzles with new ‘La Traviata,’ ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ productions

Charles Lewis III - November 20, 2022

Centennial season swings for the fences—and freshens up two traditional classics.

Movies

Screen Grabs: Two Mexican heavyweights go big

Dennis Harvey - November 17, 2022

Iñárritu and Del Toro aim high with "Bardo' and 'Pinocchio.' Plus: 'Dos Estaciones,' 'There There,' and 'The Menu'—new movies!

Music

Seeing ‘La Traviata’ anew, through the lens of a feminist reckoning

Emily Wilson - November 14, 2022

Shawna Lucey's production at SF Opera focuses on courtesan Violetta's agency to control her own life and decisions.

Stage Review

Trans power takes center stage in ‘The Red Shades’ and ‘Pony’

Charles Lewis III - October 31, 2022

Cutting Ball's identity-oriented murder mystery and a 'superhero rock opera' at Z Space show why SF's theater scene is unique

Movies

Screen Grabs: A lost local ’90s gem finally gets a revival

Dennis Harvey - October 13, 2022

Plus: A Lebanese all-woman rock band doc, the return of Dario Argento and Claire Denis, and 'All Quiet on the Western Front"

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Screen Grabs: 2022 shapes up to be Year of the Ass

Fashioning a new ‘Wuthering Heights,’ from hand-me-downs and reclaimed fabrics

Artist, mother, wife, and cat: SFMOMA Joan Brown retrospective celebrates a shapeshifter

Screen Grabs: ‘Users’ tackles life on tech, Spielberg makes a ‘small’ film

Ignore the plot: ‘The Great Comet’ seeks to entertain

SF Opera dazzles with new ‘La Traviata,’ ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’ productions

Screen Grabs: Two Mexican heavyweights go big

Seeing ‘La Traviata’ anew, through the lens of a feminist reckoning

Trans power takes center stage in ‘The Red Shades’ and ‘Pony’

Screen Grabs: A lost local ’90s gem finally gets a revival

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