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

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 ...

The suffering artist story is as old as time. Yet “The Brutalist” tells it with such specificity and visceral conviction, it feels entirely fresh. Modern, even. This intimate and epic movie, which ...

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” ...

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 ...

Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), protagonist of Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” is not the first postmenopausal cinematic antiheroine to ask to speak to a manager. But she is — apologies to Frances ...

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 Box Show at the Jones Institute invites 39 artists to explore the form, shape and figure that is the box. Photo: Jason Henry When I read the curator statement that contained a single sentence, I ...

Jeff Arcuri is scheduled to perform two shows at the Masonic in San Francisco on Jan. 11. Photo: Jerod Harris / Getty Images for Netflix Jeff Arcuri sold a cell phone to a comedian, and then decided ...