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Government by the rich

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jul 26, 2018

"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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jul 11, 2018

Watching Bruce LaBruce's new movie induced flashbacks of woman-only space in all its glory and terror.

When Paris was lesbians

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jun 27, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jun 27, 2018

A 2017 documentary, shot in 2014, introduces the work of a tall Dutchman named Piet Oudolf, an innovative landscape gardener.

Up yours! Vivienne Westwood

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jun 20, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jun 20, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jun 19, 2018

"Man Made" is a slick, upbeat documentary about bodybuilders transitioning or transitioned to male,

Kidnapping Andrea Riseborough

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jun 13, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • May 30, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • May 23, 2018

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

  • THEATER
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • May 16, 2018

A new film of Anton Chekhov;s 1896 play "The Seagull" opens Friday at the Landmark Clay.

Tony Kushner's complex God

  • THEATER
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • May 2, 2018

"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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Apr 25, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Apr 4, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Apr 4, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Mar 28, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Mar 21, 2018

"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

  • BOOKS
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jan 31, 2018

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

  • MOVIES
  • 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.

The rich are always with us

  • MOVIES
  • by Erin Blackwell
  • Jan 3, 2018

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