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.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Nicole Graev Lipson fearlessly examines the multitudes of identities women have in her new memoir-essay collection.

Chronicle film critic emeritus Mick LaSalle also answers questions about who he thinks really got snubbed at the Oscars, “The Letter” and the late Heuwell Tircuit.

In “Long Island Compromise” by Taffy Brodesser-Akner, an heir’s kidnapping sets in motion the tailspin of his offspring gifted with privilege but, alas, no ambition.

The vintage Grateful Dead T-shirt sold for a record price through auction at Sotheby’s. Photo: Sotheby's An original Grateful Dead T-shirt from 1967 sold for $17,640 through Sotheby’s on Friday, Oct.