by Sabrina Schroeder-Dammann
Sabrina Schroeder-Dammann is featured in the new documentary States of Grace, which takes an intimate look at her family in the wake of a life-changing accident.
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THE DOG: Love Is a Dog from Hell
by Dennis Harvey
The Dog (7 pm) and Dog Day Afternoon (8:55 pm) screen Thursday, September 11 at the Castro Theatre.
Very well-received at the time, Sidney Lumet’s 1975 Dog Day Afternoon still personifies for many people what was so great about 1970s “New Hollywood” cinema: a gritty urban crime tale with depth and humor, stressing character over thrills or FX, aimed squarely at adults. Adding additional frisson was the fact that the story, which might have seemed ridiculous in less capable hands, was, in fact, based on a real-life incident. Continue reading
PFA: Derek Jarman, Visionary
by Dennis Harvey
“The only audience I worry about is my collaborators on the film; everything, and everyone else, is outside the circle. Cinema audiences interest me no more than the tide of humanity that passes each day under my window in Charing Cross Road—I wish them well.” Continue reading
Editor’s Pick: ADD THE WORDS
by Michael Guillén
In my first political science class at San Francisco State University in the mid-’70s, my professor argued that without practicing solidarity with the struggles of disempowered people, political change could never be effected. Solidarity became the introductory lynchpin to an engaged activism that resisted pluralistic efforts to divide and conquer. “Unless you can feel solidarity with the cultural critiques proposed in Malcolm X’s autobiography and the prison letters of George Jackson,” my professor insisted, “you will never understand the plight of Black people in the United States.” Continue reading
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