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

It’s often ranked as the greatest film comedy of all time, beloved for its outlandish high jinks, its spectacular reveals, and the copious opportunities it gave actors to showcase their chops in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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” ...

“Megalopolis” star Aubrey Plaza is asking for privacy following the death of her husband, writer-director Jeff Baena. “This is an unimaginable tragedy. We are deeply grateful to everyone who has ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The music of LA-based Sudanese-American artist Dua Saleh (they/them) explores the inner self and the world at large. With their long-awaited full-length debut, a collection of R&B-infused electronic ...