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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.

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Screen Grabs: From silents to Noise Pop, setting old scores and new

Dennis Harvey - February 15, 2022

Hendrix in Maui, Chaplin at the Paramount, Aelita the Queen of Mars, Gwar, and more movies mix with music.

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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.

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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: Indiefest adds thematic heft to the usual wild fun

Dennis Harvey - February 1, 2022

Black rage, migrant mystery, and sex-trafficking revenge join cat daddies, Airsteam trailers, and 'Mother Schnuckers' this year.

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Screen Grabs: ‘Simple Passion’ is French, explicit, and kind of meh

Dennis Harvey - January 27, 2022

Plus: A ludicrous new Woody Allen movie, Poly Styrene's life gets x-rayed, Italian youth speak out

Movies

Ficks’ Picks Epic List: Our favorite films of 2021 (or so)

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks - January 26, 2022

A mega-countdown of recommended movies, videos, and even double features recently released

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Screen Grabs: Help, there’s a yak in the classroom

Dennis Harvey - January 19, 2022

A film from Bhutan heads to the Oscars. Plus: 'The Jockey,' 'Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn,' and the final film from Jóhann Jóhannsson

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Screen Grabs: ‘Lost Daughter’ dares to explore maternal instinct’s absence

Dennis Harvey - December 16, 2021

Plus: 'Nightmare Alley' intrigues, 'Margrete: Queen of the North' engrosses, and 'Revolution of Our Times' inspires.

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Screen Grabs: Looking back at Chaplin—and ahead to International Oscar noms

Dennis Harvey - December 13, 2021

New biopic digs in. Plus: Slovenia's sweet 'Sanremo,' Chile's chilling 'White on White,' Japan's 'Drive My Car'—and 'Afrofuturistik' hits big screens

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Screen Grabs: Freedom, and other compromised concepts

Screen Grabs: From silents to Noise Pop, setting old scores and new

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

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

Screen Grabs: Indiefest adds thematic heft to the usual wild fun

Screen Grabs: ‘Simple Passion’ is French, explicit, and kind of meh

Ficks’ Picks Epic List: Our favorite films of 2021 (or so)

Screen Grabs: Help, there’s a yak in the classroom

Screen Grabs: ‘Lost Daughter’ dares to explore maternal instinct’s absence

Screen Grabs: Looking back at Chaplin—and ahead to International Oscar noms

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