The film, directed by Michael Jacobs, is among the opening features at the San Francisco Documentary Festival.

More than 200 former Great Dickens Christmas Fair participants are organizing a boycott, saying it has not done enough to address concerns from people of color.

San Francisco's hub for first-run art house movies, which first opened in 1995, will close after this week, sources tell The Chronicle.

Where does the line fall between the living and the dead? How do you know when you’re awake or dreaming? Whose presence is real, and whose is merely a figment of the imagination? These are the ...

Tilda Swinton, left, and Julianne Moore star in “The Room Next Door,” the first English-language feature from acclaimed Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. Photo: Sony Pictures Classics Soon enough we ...

Storytelling is a huge part of Native culture, and there is compelling work from both contemporary and more traditional Indigenous authors.

American Disabled for Accessible Public Transit activists protest in Las Vegas. PBS’ “Change, Not Charity: The Americans With Disabilities Act” documents the push to pass the Americans With ...

The screening of the Oakland-filmed “Freaky Tales” at the Grand Lake Theatre became a star-studded event and full on celebration of the Bay Area.

A new art installation that baffled and delighted visitors to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for a few days has been removed by city officials. The sculpture, which depicted the extinct Xerces blue ...

German actor Max Schreck plays Count Orlok, an unofficial Dracula copy, in F.W. Murnau's 1922 horror classic, "Nosferatu." Photo: Cinequest Robert Eggers’ remake of “Nosferatu” is an atmospheric ...

The latest from action master Martin Campbell (“Casino Royale”) is a strong showcase for a fun, game Ridley.

Haley Bennett stars as Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquot, the woman who invented Champagne as we know it, in “Widow Clicquot.” Photo: Vertical More movies should be like “Widow Clicquot” — smart, ...