Stories about Horror
Screen Grabs: Alice Cooper, Cecil Beaton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk….
A trio of tributes to vastly different personalities. Plus: Miracle Mile, Christopher Robin, Good Manners, and more in cinemas this week
Trump, the Deep State, and grassroots democracy
Understanding the two political narratives competing for public attention today - and the one that gets all the news media attention
Can I get a whiteness?
Dear white people: brown people have been good to you.
Screen Grabs: Jewish Film Fest, Eighth Grade, Blindspotting …
The Cakemaker, a double feature of classic French films starring Andrew Clement, Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti, and more in cinemas this week.
‘Black Powers: Reframing Hollywood’ at SFMOMA celebrates plucky cinematic classics
From 'Body and Soul' to 'Do the Right Thing,' the three-week series brings African American directors to the fore.
The sheer audacity of ‘Angels in America’
Berkeley Rep's brilliant revival is both homecoming and reckoning for Tony Kushner's 25-year-old 'Gay Fantasia on National Themes"
Arts Forecast: Gray Area Festival lineup, Laborfest, Fillmore Jazz Fest…
Pink Flamingos, Stereo Argento, The Go-Go's, All Day I Dream, and more this week—plus a protest against family separations at the border.
The Civil War, from another side, in ‘Father Comes Home from the Wars Parts 1, 2, and 3’
Suzan-Lori Parks' riveting epic at ACT's Geary Theatre gives a complex account of the yearning for—and terror of— individual freedom.
Screen Grabs: The SF International Film Fest is here
The Big Kahuna of film fests takes over cinemas. Plus: Journey's End, The Quiet Place, Beauty and the Dogs, Itzhak, and more in theaters.
Screen Grabs: A kung fu classic, an unsung war epic …
A huge financial heist, some awesome Other Cinema weirdness, and more in cinemas this week.