John Waters’ work at Rena Bransten Gallery shows off the humor and cinematic connections in the filmmaker’s visual art.

Under a Southern California sun, five teens laze in the grass by a eucalyptus grove and an oil rig bobbing in and out of the ground. A teenage girl reads a homophobic tirade published in a newspaper ...

At San Francisco Playhouse’s “The Play That Goes Wrong,” I got to remember that backstage is a charmed, sacred space. Actor Renee Rogoff, left, waits to go on stage as production assistant Quinn ...

A documentary about the artist makes its world premiere at the Mill Valley Film Festival the same weekend a de Young exhibition opens. Filmmaker Julie Rubio, director of the documentary “The True ...

Both classic and innovative, the film stars the voice of Lupita Nyong’o, who gives carefully nuanced life to a robot lost — ...

Pat (Maggie Li Lin Lin, in glasses) and Angie (Patra Au Ga Man, standing) are a same-sex couple who join Pat’s family for special dinners in the Hong Kong film “All Shall Be Well.” Photo: Strand ...

Sara Jane Moore — who fired two shots at President Gerald R. Ford — is the subject of Robinson Devor’s documentary “Suburban Fury,” which will close Doc Stories, SFFilm announced on… Would-be ...

From the moment he heard about “The Wild Robot,” Chris Sanders knew it was a story he wanted to bring to the screen. “Everything about this seemed like the right fit,” the filmmaker told the Chronicle ...

Cellist Eileen Moon, center, is set to kick off Festival Napa Valley's fall season in September. Photo: Festival Napa Valley A quintet led by a former New York Philharmonic cellist is kicking off ...

Melding its Indian and Australian roots, Glass Beams delivers psychedelic rhythms with a ’70s’s classical Indian twist. The trio maintains its anonymity by wearing ornate gold masks, though ...

If you’re a Francophile with an interest in psychoanalysis, Lauren Elkin’s smart and steamy debut novel, “Scaffolding,” may be for you. Even if you’re just a reader looking for an intriguing story of ...