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Watch your back! 'Noir City' fest wraps

Watch your back! 'Noir City' fest wraps

  • by Tavo Amador
  • Jan 31, 2018

This year's Noir City film festival at the Castro Theatre finishes with some rarely seen examples of the genre.

Brazilian brutality

Brazilian brutality

  • by David Lamble
  • Jan 24, 2018

"Vazante" is an engrossing film from veteran director Daniela Thomas.

Fearful times: Noir plays the Castro

Fearful times: Noir plays the Castro

  • by Tavo Amador
  • Jan 24, 2018

Eddie Muller's 16th Noir City Film Festival, running Jan. 26-Feb. 4 at the Castro Theatre, features many frightening, rarely seen films. Audiences will leave chilled and edgy.

Bad blood

Bad blood

  • by David Lamble
  • Jan 24, 2018

The 2018 Oscar candidate from Lebanon "The Insult" begins with deceptive simplicity.

Hump Days

Hump Days

  • by Sari Staver
  • Jan 17, 2018

The Hump! Film Festival, the 13th annual event, is coming to San Francisco's Victoria Theater, Jan. 17-27.

(Mis)representing

(Mis)representing

  • by David-Elijah Nahmod
  • Jan 17, 2018

Tonight (Jan. 18) the GLBT Historical Society will explore how queer people have been portrayed on screen.

Insider view

Insider view

  • by David Lamble
  • Jan 17, 2018

As I watched the Magnolia Pictures doc "The Final Year" (opening Friday), I marveled at how director Greg Barker sliced and diced a tumultuous period for President Barack Obama's foreign policy team.

2018 Oscar picks

2018 Oscar picks

  • by David Lamble
  • Jan 17, 2018

It's time once again to play that favorite LGBTQ parlor game: name this year's batch of Best Picture Academy Award nominations.

January chilling at the Castro Theatre

January chilling at the Castro Theatre

  • by David Lamble
  • Jan 10, 2018

The Castro Theatre welcomes the New Year with a schedule peppered with films up for award-season honors.

Film Noir icons don't die

Film Noir icons don't die

  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jan 10, 2018

Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame would have been 94 on Nov. 28, had she not died of stomach cancer in 1981.

Wintertime up on the Silver Screen

Wintertime up on the Silver Screen

  • by David Lamble
  • Jan 3, 2018

Following are a few film picks to while away Winter 2018.

The rich are always with us

The rich are always with us

  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jan 3, 2018

The latest film from septuagenarian bad-boy director Michael Haneke has the adolescently passive-aggressive title "Happy End."

Back in the saddle again

Back in the saddle again

  • by David Lamble
  • Jan 3, 2018

Writer-director Scott Cooper's "Hostiles," opening Friday, is a bleak but moving excursion along the closing Western frontier.

10 More Winners on 2017 Screens

10 More Winners on 2017 Screens

  • by David Lamble
  • Dec 27, 2017

The second half of our top films of 2017 begins and ends with young men in love (Germany's "Center of My World," Britain's "God's Own Country.")