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Dennis Harvey

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Showtime, queers: the complete guide to Frameline

LGBTQ film festival approaches its half-century mark with too much relevancy, from real-time tales of triumph to Sapphic sci-fi.

Screen Grabs: Tribute to 100 years of Robert Altman, a cynic’s New Hollywood takeover

Plus: The antic and sexy sides of SF's Bruce Conner, Amerinide firestarter 'Northern Lights,' and Pride month flicks galore.

Screen Grabs: Country creep abounds at BAMPFA’s rural noir series

Plus: Terrifyingly eccentric Obayashi's greatest hits, and Palo Alto's Stanford Theater celebrates 100 years.

Screen Grabs: ‘White With Fear’ cashes out lucrative Caucasian terror complex

Plus 'Bring Her Back' bests formulaic horror, 'Bad Shabbos' delivers nimble and droll dinnertime catastrophe, more.

SFDocFest’s 24th edition brings anti-escapist cinema, boundary-pushing takes

Grammar activism, blockbuster magazine heroines, and Qatari street cats. Dodging reality? Not in these seats.

Screen Grabs: Handsome ‘Stelios’ tells story of singer who forever changed Greek pop

Plus: 11 Hitchcock films in one weekend at the Balboa, a Jane Austen-inspired rom-com, much more.

Screen Grabs: Swamp Dogg’s delightfully digressive bachelor pad, the documentary

Plus: 'Friendship' keeps its inexcusable cringe sprightly and the Bay gets another chance with 'The Donn of Tiki.'

Screen Grabs: Corny clowns, familial thorns abound

New releases 'Clown in a Cornfield,' 'The Gullspång Miracle,' and 'Jimmy in Saigon' offer chills of all persuasions.

CAAMFest 2025 spotlights ‘Boat People,’ ‘Yellowface,’ ‘Chinatown Cha Cha’

Screen dives also fête the maker of the first ever feature film by and about Asian Americans, and investigate Chinatown evictions.

Screen Grabs: 50 years later, they still fart in your general direction

'Monty Python and the Holy Grail' and more movies from 1975. Plus: Doclands, 'Bonjour Tristresse,' 'The Surfer,' more