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Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The French Had a Name For It …

Dennis Harvey - November 12, 2018

SCREEN GRABS Importation of foreign language films has reportedly been on the decline for many years because US audiences are growing more resistant to reading...

Onstage

A timely, unrelenting family drama unfolds at Magic Theatre

Elaine Elinson - October 25, 2018

ONSTAGE When Annie (Martha Brigham) opens the front door of her family home at the beginning of Magic Theatre's "The Resting Place" (through November 4),...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The War at Home, Wings of Desire, What They Had …

Dennis Harvey - October 22, 2018

SCREEN GRABS There are no less than four solid, serious dramas opening at local theaters this week, signaling that the silly season (which these days...

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: SF Shorts, Beautiful Boy, Filipino Cine Festival…

Dennis Harvey - October 16, 2018

SCREEN GRABS While the SF Greek and Arab Film Festivals continue for their second, final weekends (see last week’s column for more details), it’s otherwise...

News + Politics

The neighborhood case for Proposition 10

George Wooding - October 14, 2018

Vote YES to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (state ballot measure Proposition 10). This state law repeal will impact the entire state. Current existing...

Movies

Rupert Everett on ‘Happy Prince,’ gay victories, and Oscar Wilde’s schlong

Joshua Rotter - October 9, 2018

Actor Rupert Everett, who’d already garnered critical notice in acclaimed art house films Another Country (1984), Dance with a Stranger (1985), and The Madness...

Onstage

ACT’s ‘Sweat’ asks: When does class solidarity end and racism begin?

Elaine Elinson - October 8, 2018

ONSTAGE The tavern setting is a familiar trope for American theater and television—think Langston Hughes’ Simple series, Casablanca, The Iceman Cometh, or Friends. It offers both an intimate...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Mill Valley, SF Dance, Drunken Film Fests ….

Dennis Harvey - October 1, 2018

SCREEN GRABS It’s a starry as well as busy week in Bay Area filmgoing, with major openings including the new Bradley Cooper/Lady Gaga A Star...

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Joan Jett, Hola Mexico, Hong Kong Cinema …

Dennis Harvey - September 23, 2018

SCREEN GRABS This week brings a whole lot of mini-festivals to various Bay Area screens. The Roxie has the Hola Mexico, a three-day touring edition...

Party Radar

Party Radar: BFFs Forever

Marke B. - August 30, 2018

PARTY RADAR This week, BFF.fm aka Best Frequencies Forever internet radio is celebrating five years of broadcasting some of the most diverse programming heard outside of a...

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