The Alliance for Social and Economic Justice will be holding its inaugural Social and Economic Justice Film Festival on January 23-24, 2021.  This collection of short and feature films features work from the U.S., Argentina, India, South Africa, and elsewhere. 
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2020 truly showed how film streaming could be a godsend to cinephiles.  Thanks to COVID concerns, theatrical screenings became impractical for most of 2020.  But the pivoting to virtual cinema screenings by San Francisco’s Roxie Theater among others allowed new
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Let’s play a word and phrase association game.  The subject is Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud popularly known to the world as “MBS.”  Of course, “Crown Prince” and “Saudi Arabia” immediately come to mind.  The words “ambitious,” “powerful”
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One of the 2020 Another Hole In The Head Film Festival’s offerings shows why the slogan “All Cops Are Bastards” may be far truer than the average person may be comfortable with.  Amadeo Canonico’s “The Statement” gets at these truths
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(“Collective” is now streaming for Bay Area audiences via the Pacific Film Archive (www.bampfa.org) website) Early in Alexander Nanau’s riveting documentary “Collective,” the film shows 2015 footage from a nightclub punk rock concert.  The pounding chords of a song by
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Rita Hargrave and Reginald D. Brown’s documentary “The Last Mambo” offers a wonderful toe-tapping, skirt-twirling historical overview of the San Francisco Bay Area Latinx music scene.  It gives plenty of shoutouts to the various types of Latinx music genres available,
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San Francisco-based film director Chelsea Christer comes full circle this week.  Back in 2005, Christer was a teenager growing up in “a small conservative town in the middle of Colorado.”  Attending the Epitaph Tour’s concert at Denver’s Ogden Theatre, she
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37th Mill Valley Film Festival opener Ariel Winograd’s “The Heist Of The Century” inventively entertains and brings out a viewer’s vicarious miscreant.  It recreates the planning and execution of the 2006 Banco Rio bank robbery, a Buenos Aires caper that
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