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Screen Grabs: ‘Song for Cesar’ pumps up the music behind Chicano Power

Dennis Harvey - March 17, 2022

Plus: 'Master' and 'Alice' probe Black experience spooky and surreal, and 'Fabian: Going to the Dogs' delves into early Nazi Germany

Movies

Screen Grabs: Noir heist and nail-biting suspense in ‘Midcentury Madness’

Dennis Harvey - March 10, 2022

Plus: Ukrainian seige doc 'The Earth Is As Blue As An Orange,' several good indie freakouts, and 'The Exorcism of God'

Onstage

Review: Curious ‘Quixote’ provides grand displays of ballet

Charles Lewis III - February 28, 2022

There’s something noticeably missing from the San Francisco Ballet version of Don Quixote (music by Minkus, choreography by Petipa by way of Gorsky.) It...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Coppola revives ‘Godfather’—and Dinklage delivers in ‘Cyrano’

Dennis Harvey - February 24, 2022

Exactly 50 years ago this February 25, The Godfather was released. It was an adaptation of a pulpy best-seller that no one expected much...

Movies

Screen Grabs: Freedom, and other compromised concepts

Dennis Harvey - February 17, 2022

Liberation and constraint, from Belgian playgrounds and the back alleys of Chad to Ted Kaczynski's paranoid manifesto.

Environment

‘We feel abandoned’: Bayview protest highlights ongoing toxic waste scandal

Tom Molanphy - February 14, 2022

Community demands excavation and removal of Hunters Point Naval Shipyard radioactive residue, with local oversight.

Dance

Review: SF Ballet leapt joyfully into electronic complexity with ‘Blake Works’

Rita Felciano - February 12, 2022

Program II of Helgi Tómasson's final season also included his neoclassical jewel 'Caprice' and a Jerome Robbins favorite.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Embarcadero Center Cinema is gone, but there are revivals aplenty

Dennis Harvey - February 7, 2022

Mourning another rep house gone, and looking forward to old school movies—brilliant, romantic, cheesy, and beastly.

Dance

Review: Volcanic ‘Mrs. Robinson’ heads up Helgi Tómasson’s final SF Ballet season

Rita Felciano - February 5, 2022

Longtime artistic director exits with flag firmly planted in 21st century, but who can resist Balanchine's 'Symphony in C'?

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: ‘Who We Are’ lays out just how much racial justice has stalled

Dennis Harvey - February 2, 2022

Plus: Poetic 'Why is We Americans,' listless 'Sundown,' rousing 'The Conductor'—and 'Guess Who's Coming to Dinner,' too.

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Screen Grabs: ‘Song for Cesar’ pumps up the music behind Chicano Power

Screen Grabs: Noir heist and nail-biting suspense in ‘Midcentury Madness’

Review: Curious ‘Quixote’ provides grand displays of ballet

Screen Grabs: Coppola revives ‘Godfather’—and Dinklage delivers in ‘Cyrano’

Screen Grabs: Freedom, and other compromised concepts

‘We feel abandoned’: Bayview protest highlights ongoing toxic waste scandal

Review: SF Ballet leapt joyfully into electronic complexity with ‘Blake Works’

Screen Grabs: Embarcadero Center Cinema is gone, but there are revivals aplenty

Review: Volcanic ‘Mrs. Robinson’ heads up Helgi Tómasson’s final SF Ballet season

Screen Grabs: ‘Who We Are’ lays out just how much racial justice has stalled

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