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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Aretha’s Amazing Grace, Blood for Dracula, Peterloo…..

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS Yes, this is the opening week of the SFFILM Festival, the event so big we gave it its own separate feature (see here)....
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Screen Grabs: A wonderful ‘Diane,’ Czech newbies, public library drama….

Dennis Harvey -
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...
Onstage

Review: Wild highs and lows in ‘Falsettos’

Marke B. -
ONSTAGE The first act of revered musical Falsettos—the touring 2016 Broadway revival stops at Golden Gate Theatre through April 14—is a fascinating study in nostalgia....
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Jeff Adachi, Romanian scandal, magnificent cake…

Dennis Harvey -
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...
Onstage

Tracking the human condition through a Nigerian family epic

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE While writing the nine plays of the Ufot Family Cycle, which follows several generations of a family of Nigerians in America, Mfoniso Udofia...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….

Dennis Harvey -
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...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...
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Screen Grabs: Dynamation Celebration, African Film Fest, and even more cats!

Dennis Harvey -
SCREEN GRABS It’s a busy week for arthouse openings and other film events of interest, though we couldn’t see everything in advance. Among the...

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

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

Detailing the splashy brilliance of Berkeley Rep’s ‘Metamorphoses’

Emily Wilson -
ONSTAGE When actor Benjamin Ismail was in high school, he loved Edith Hamilton’s Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes. "They're so primal and ancient...
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