I’m not kidding. And neither are “Better Man” subject Robbie Williams nor the film’s director Michael Gracey. This rise, fall ...

She is us and we are her, shadows looking at each other, as she forces us to contemplate our own place in time and our own ...

Brady Corbet’s ambitious “The Brutalist,” about a post-World War II architect, challenges the way Hollywood makes movies.

Writer-director Jeff Baena, whose darkly comedic independent films included “The Little Hours” and who was married to his frequent creative collaborator Aubrey Plaza, has died. He was 47. Baena was ...

The new four-film festival at the Roxie in San Francisco was designed to provide hope and recognize powerful cinema. Resistance Film Festival, a new four-film showcase at the Roxie, was curated to ...

There’s the mercurial Prelude in C-Sharp Minor — clanging like a thunderstorm, smoldering like a fireplace. There’s Piano Concerto No. 2, indelibly associated with “Brief Encounter” — roiling, aching, ...

The director is nobly caring for his wife, actress Mary Beth Hurt, during her long journey through Alzheimer’s; dealing with health issues of his own; and mourning the impending death of humanity — he ...

Kitty (Miranda Liu, left) and Evie (Anna Kosiarek) are roommates and friends who sometimes drive each other nuts in City Lights Theater Company's "In Love and Warcraft." Photo: Christian Pizzirani / ...

“September 5” director Tim Fehlbaum, left, and actor John Magaro sit for a portrait in San Francisco on Dec. 6. “September 5” is an Oscar-contender about ABC Sports’ coverage of the Israeli hostage ...

With the organization’s home base, the Castro Theatre, on pause, events on Nob Hill and at SFJazz Center cater to classic film fans. Carl Brisson and Anny Ondra in Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Manxman” ...