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Government by the rich
"The #1 rule of political reporting is 'Follow the money,'" says John Adams, capital bureau chief for The Great Falls Tribune from 2007-15, who covers campaign finance abuse in Montana.
Bruce LaBruce's sexy 'Mädchen' remix
Watching Bruce LaBruce's new movie induced flashbacks of woman-only space in all its glory and terror.
When Paris was lesbians
There are so many lesbians running around now, it's hard to imagine a time when they were at a premium.
Garden of Life & Death
A 2017 documentary, shot in 2014, introduces the work of a tall Dutchman named Piet Oudolf, an innovative landscape gardener.
Up yours! Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood is one of those names you've heard, you know, you've forgotten. Well, it's back in a dynamic new biopic that's restless and breathless.
Luminous Isabelle Huppert
Although "Mrs. Hyde" leaves a lot to be desired, its storytelling wobbly, not for an instant did I feel that Isabelle Huppert, now 65, was repeating herself.
Muscle is as muscle does
"Man Made" is a slick, upbeat documentary about bodybuilders transitioning or transitioned to male,
Kidnapping Andrea Riseborough
Andrea Riseborough is a marvelous actress. She's one of those chameleons who can be anybody, given the right makeup, costume, and script.
Cobby makes a comeback
Cobby is a 60-year-old male chimpanzee who has lived at the San Francisco Zoo for 50 years.
SF Silent Film Festival opens with a bang
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is hands-down the most excellent of the year, even though everyone in the films is dead and there's no possibility of clamoring red-carpet adulation by selfie-obsessed fans.
Shallow 'Seagull' in a hurry
A new film of Anton Chekhov;s 1896 play "The Seagull" opens Friday at the Landmark Clay.
Tony Kushner's complex God
"Angels in America" was born in San Francisco. Berkeley Rep artistic director Tony Taccone was artistic director at San Francisco's Eureka Theatre in 1989 when he commissioned Tony Kushner to write it.
The Other Michelangelo: Antonioni
When I first saw Antonioni films as a young actress, I was spellbound by their beauty, intelligence, rigor, elegance, design, grasp, reach, generosity, compositions, and montage.
How they program the SFFILM Festival
Sitting down with Noah Cowan and Rachel Rosen on a wide veranda overlooking the greenery of the Presidio, afforded this outsider insight into the machinations required to craft the sprawling schedule of the San Francisco International Film Festival.
L.A. lesbian noir lite
A dead body attracts cops and tests loyalties in a moneyed, motorcycled Movieland enclave where three women of various ethnicities have been playing the elusive lesbian triangle.
Old Irish man talks peace
Warring factions turn out to be Padraig O'Malley's bread and butter, as you'll see in "Peacemaker," starting Friday at the Roxie.
Vintage workers' woes at the Roxie
"The Dark Side of the Dream: Subversive Cinema for Subversive Times, 1933-1964" is the provocative title of a mini-fest of old studio potboilers centered on the dangers of being employed.
Margaret Millar rediscovered
Out of the past now comes Canadian mystery writer Margaret Millar in a multiple omnibus edition, the seven-volume "Collected Millar" (Syndicate Press, $99.99).
Film Noir icons don't die
Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame would have been 94 on Nov. 28, had she not died of stomach cancer in 1981.
The rich are always with us
The latest film from septuagenarian bad-boy director Michael Haneke has the adolescently passive-aggressive title "Happy End."