Dear Teresa Concepcion: Well, in one sense of the word “best,” I’d say the Roxie Theater, the Stanford Theatre, the Rafael Film Center and the theater inside the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film ...

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. “My Old Ass” is one of the films ...

Two renowned musicians with a love of jazz and popular song come together with the San Francisco Symphony for a night of piano virtuosity. French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and American pianist and ...

The world premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s “Before We Fall” positively overwhelms in a concert featuring cellist Johannes Moser and conductor Dalia Stasevska. Conductor Dalia Stasevska leads the San ...

Dear Robert Freud Bastin: I never really met Gene Hackman, but I was at a press conference where he was getting interviewed, and I was close to him and saw how he spoke to people and carried himself.

The first feature film from director James Madigan is an action drama about havoc on a Bangkok to SFO jetliner. Unfortunately, it falls flat. Josh Hartnett stars as a man on a mission who is on a ...

“Clown in a Cornfield” will never be ranked among the classics of our time, but there are aspects of it that are worthy of admiration. Based on Adam Cesare’s 2020 novel of the same name, it’s not only ...

On board the Demeter, the vampire Count Orlok, played by German actor Max Schreck (1879 - 1936), emerges from one of his coffins before they can be destroyed by the ship's first mate, played by ...

Buttons aren’t just utilitarian fasteners. Plunge your hand into a bucket of them, and it’s like a mini swim in a ball pit. They click and clack with ASMR satisfaction. And in artist Beau McCall’s ...

Cringe comedy is apparently here to stay, and the latest example is “Friendship.” The film highlights the talents of sketch comic Tim Robinson, a Second City and “Saturday Night Live” alum. If you’re ...

Caro De Robertis’ oral history captures the transformative power of oral histories from elder trans, nonbinary and genderqueer people of color. Oakland author Caro De Robertis’ latest book is “So Many ...

Ambrose Akinmusire and Alonzo King partner for “The Beauty of Dissolving Portraits,” which captures the struggle for connection in a fractured world. Theo Duff-Grant performs in “The Beauty of ...