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Film featuring Bay Area actor Carl Lumbly tells how a 1971 oil spill helped a Black driver overcome entrenched racism in S.F.'s trucking industry.
What you need to know for the 44th annual Mill Valley Film Festival, which plans to celebrate cinema in-person and online from Oct. 7-17.
David Lewis May 5, 2021Updated: May 9, 2021, 1:18 am The Smith Rafael Film Center will be hosting this year’s in-person, indoors DocLands Documentary Film Festival. Photo: Smith Rafael Film Center For 14 months, Bay Area film festivals have made do during the COVID-19 pandemic with streaming, drive-in showings and virtual Q&As with filmmakers and stars. To be sure, outdoor screenings offer their own charms and festival streaming is here to stay. But some still clamor for the intimacy, community and power that only a theatrical festival experience can provide. Well, the wait app...
G. Allen Johnson March 5, 2021Updated: March 10, 2021, 1:24 pm Cinemark is marketing its auditoriums for booking by families and small groups of friends. Photo: Cinemark Movie theater screens are lighting up across the Bay Area once again, but don’t expect a Hollywood ending just yet. The cinematic atmosphere in the Bay Area is more like a David Lynch film: strange, surreal and disjointed. On the plus side, major theater chains AMC Theatres and Cinemark have reopened, as Alameda and Solano counties this week joined San Francisco, Santa Clara, Marin, San Mateo and Napa counties ...
Philippe Lacote begins his spellbinding fable with the scenic aerial vista of a Jeep making its way through a verdant landscape to a large, imposing building. The young punk in handcuffs accompanied by armed soldiers can’t admire the view or appreciate the sweet air; he’s too anxious about his destination at the end of the rutted road. The lad arrives at the dank Ivory Coast prison at an auspicious time, as the inmate who runs the place—subject to the arbitrary rule of the brutish authorities, of course—is nearing the end of his reign. He christens the newcomer Roman and appoints him ...