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I want my SF DocFest: Our critic’s top picks

Truth is reliably stranger than fiction at SF DocFest, whose 18th annual edition takes over the Roxie Theater for eleven days starting May 30, with...

Screen Grabs: ‘War and Peace’ thrills in its gargantuan spectacle

The movies suffered an approximately 15 year case of elephantiasis starting in the early 1950s, when television began to seriously impact box-office returns. Hollywood’s...

Spin Doctors’ Chris Barron on break ups, break downs, and the group’s new music

Spin Doctors’ frontman Chris Barron can easily flash back to his first time playing San Francisco. It was 1991 and his neo-hippie jam band was...

Screen Grabs: All weekend long, the Roxie celebrates French noir

SCREEN GRABS If you’re not busy this week with CAAM (see our preview here), there’s a competing mini-festival of sorts which overlaps with it just...

Screen Grabs: The Nude Vampire, Babylon, Gay USA…

SCREEN GRABS For those not glued all weekend to the SF Silent Film Festival (see our preview here), there’s actually another film festival to consider:...

What is Bay Area drag? Oaklash Festival has some wild ideas

"Television is not nor has it ever been the ultimate form of drag," Oaklash Drag Festival co-founder and performer and East Bay-based drag queen...

Screen Grabs: A seriously funny Italian legend, JT LeRoy, Hail Satan?

SCREEN GRABS Though he never reached the heights of international fame achieved by such fellow countrymen as Marcello Mastroianni or Franco Nero, Ugo Tognazzi was...

After 50 years, ‘Midnight Cowboy’ rides again

Back in 1967, Hollywood photographer Michael Childers, whose career was taking off, answered a fateful phone call from Broadway star Kaye Ballard, whom he...

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

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)....

SFFILM Fest brings new ‘Tales of the City,’ rare gems, big star power

The big-screen experience for movies is on the cultural endangered list, between venues going under (or having their leases revoked by landlords eager to...