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 the band onstage dies away to the cheers of the audience members.  As if in
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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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Mundanes may see the Zoom app solely as a device for holding meetings at a distance.  Members of the team behind the Another Hole In The Head Film Festival demonstrated over the past six days another use for Zoom.  As
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In the Sean Penn-directed film “Into The Wild,” protagonist Christopher McCandless’ travels take him to the Southern California desert.  There, he sees Leonard Knight’s folk art sculpture Salvation Mountain and even meets Knight himself.  The sculpture is a colorful expression
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Raymond Chandler once famously wrote about how the Santa Ana winds could push people to murder.  For viewers who’ve never had the pleasure of living with the Santa Ana winds, seeing the halny at full strength may give you an
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As this review of Dan Partland’s new documentary “#Unfit: The Psychology Of Donald Trump (hereafter “#Unfit”)” is being written, the carnival of bald-faced lies and open bigotry calling itself the 2020 Republican National Convention has wrapped up.  The news media
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