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Screen Grabs: Horse Feathers!—and even more great comedy streaming

Dennis Harvey - April 10, 2020

Before winding up, for the time being at least, our survey of cinematic comedies that will lighten up your house arrest sojourn (part one...

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Screen Grabs: Buckle up for more cinematic adventure

Dennis Harvey - March 30, 2020

Part Two of our armchair audiovisual world tour offers more scenic and adventuresome distraction from “shelter-at-home” stasis. (Part One is here.) While we’re not heavily...

Staying in? Binge on mixtape romance ‘High Fidelity’

John-Paul Shiver - March 13, 2020

In the updated, rebooted, race and gender-swapped HULU 10-part series High Fidelity, adapted from the 1995 Nick Hornby classic novel (made into a hit movie in...

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Screen Grabs: A major director quietly remakes the Western

Dennis Harvey - March 10, 2020

Austerity is not a quality greatly prized in commercial filmmaking. While we may revere them now, it’s worth remembering that such leading cinematic minimalist...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Traveling the world, popcorn in hand

Dennis Harvey - March 4, 2020

This week’s openings personify the movies’ appeal as armchair travel, encompassing cinematic detours to Ireland, Israel, Poland, China (twice), American backroads and various African...

Arts + Culture

These film revivals prove SF is still a place for movie lovers

Dennis Harvey - March 2, 2020

Though exhibition is perennially imperiled—the most recent bad news being that after 110 years, the Clay Theatre is no more, the good news that...

Onstage

John Cameron Mitchell and the origin of ‘Anthem Homunculus’

Joshua Rotter - February 26, 2020

John Cameron Mitchell wanted his new podcast Anthem: Homunculus to boldly go where no audio series had gone before. In it, Mitchell plays uninsured Midwestern...

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Screen Grabs: A tragic star hounded by the FBI

Dennis Harvey - February 25, 2020

A couple of the smaller, more idiosyncratic local film festivals add to the celluloid mix this week. Within the larger Noise Pop schedule of...

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Screen Grabs: Raining Internet cats and live-action dogs

Dennis Harvey - February 19, 2020

It’s raining cats and dogs with the more family-friendly film events of the week. One is the new 20th Century Fox Animation/Disney live action...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: Get in the van!

Dennis Harvey - February 11, 2020

This Friday, we’re already getting commercial releases of movies that premiered at Sundance just the other week. Two got a mixed reception there: Downhill...

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Screen Grabs: Horse Feathers!—and even more great comedy streaming

Screen Grabs: Buckle up for more cinematic adventure

Staying in? Binge on mixtape romance ‘High Fidelity’

Screen Grabs: A major director quietly remakes the Western

Screen Grabs: Traveling the world, popcorn in hand

These film revivals prove SF is still a place for movie lovers

John Cameron Mitchell and the origin of ‘Anthem Homunculus’

Screen Grabs: A tragic star hounded by the FBI

Screen Grabs: Raining Internet cats and live-action dogs

Screen Grabs: Get in the van!

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