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Lucy has a perfect, privileged life. She is rising in a Manhattan advertising startup, husband Adrian is a successful surgeon, and they have friends, connections and a sweet condo. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

In 2015, Academy Award-winning director Debra Chasnoff made an interesting decision when she was diagnosed with stage four breast cancer: She decided she didn't want to know how much time she had left. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

How would Pixar's new, brightly colorful animated film "Luca" have performed as a theatrical-only release? [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Rita Moreno is obviously multitalented - she is, after all, one of the few people to have an EGOT (an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony). She is also resilient, given that she has had a 70-odd-year career. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On May 24, 2019, Taiwan became the first Asian country to legalize same-sex marriage. It was a watershed moment culturally, and in the two years since, its ripple effects are still being felt in the country, including in its national cinema. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Oakland natives Rafael Casal and Daveed Diggs have turned their 2018 movie "Blindspotting," which spotlighted their hometown's ever-changing challenges, into a TV series that debuts on Starz on Sunday, June 13. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Any child from the mid-20th century can tell you about the Moomins, a beloved hippopotamus-like family living in - where else? - Moominland. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Pride Parade has been canceled for the second year in a row because of the pandemic, but what's shaping up as an epic Frameline film festival is trying its best to fill that void on the Pride Month calendar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Berlin and Beyond is perhaps the only Bay Area film festival to have theatrical screenings in both 2020 and 2021. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

David Thomson is fully vaxxed and relaxed as he settles into his armchair a few feet from his cluttered office desk. As the morning light pours in from a bay window in his Fillmore district house, he motions a visitor to a nearby chair. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

At 48, Toni Collette is busier than ever. One could make the case she is doing the best work of her career in recent years. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Not only are movie theaters reopening in San Francisco during the pandemic, but a new one is opening as well. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Bright, colorful, funny, female-centric - and hella Oakland. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

With the San Francisco Pride Parade canceled for the second year in a row due to the pandemic, the biggest official outdoor event during Pride Month will now be a movie series at Oracle Park. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Imagine a Liam Neeson revenge thriller with an early Coen brothers oddball vibe. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The worldview of the new documentary "Tell Them We Were Here," which profiles eight current Bay Area artists whose work over the decades has not only made an impact but also helped inform the Bay Area's artistic identity, is expressed by an early voice-over in the film: "Artists in the Bay Area are more devoted to a 'life' in arts rather than a 'career' in arts." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

"Bullitt" is one of the most intense detective movies ever made, anchored by one of cinema's greatest car chases. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Several San Francisco independent movie theaters are reopening in May and June, joining major national chains that have been open for about two months. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, the sounds of live jazz wafted up and down Balboa Street in the Outer Richmond District as a small crowd sipped beer, munched on popcorn and moved with the rhythm. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Talented director Andrew Chen's "Wet Season" is about a high school teacher who is constantly surrounded by people, yet utterly alone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Actor Michael B. Jordan grew up in Newark, N.J., but many consider him an honorary Bay Area guy - and he agrees. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Organizers of the San Francisco International Film Festival are excited at the prospect of being able to once again pack the Castro Theatre and other local venues for their 2022 festival. But after this month's successful online and drive-in events, they realize that what started as a pandemic stopgap might become a permanent feature of SFFilm. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The smart, scrappy students of Lowell High School are trying against long odds to get into some of the nation's top colleges and universities, and they can put this on their resumes: They are getting into some of the nation's top film festivals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When Cher, a longtime animal rights activist, first heard about the plight of Kaavan, an Asian bull elephant living in severe neglect at the Islamabad Zoo in Pakistan, she had a message for the 4-ton pachyderm: [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

John Boyega's turn as a crusading public defender resonated with San Francisco International Film Festival audiences. So did the true stories of 20-year-old Lily Hevesh, one of the world's greatest domino topplers, and 15-year-old Alex, a Cuban ballet dancer immigrating to the United States. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

By the time Charles Shannon, a white artist in Montgomery, Ala., came across Bill Traylor, a homeless African American man scribbling away on pieces of cardboard as people passed by on the city's celebrated Monroe Street, Traylor was in his 80s, having lived quite the life. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Anyone wondering what 1960s TV show "Ironside" would have been like if Raymond Burr had been a dirty cop gets their answer courtesy of Morgan Freeman in the dreadful new thriller "Vanquish." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

For many American moviegoers, the breakout star of 2020 is 73-year-old Youn Yuh-jung, the grandmother in Lee Isaac Chung's magnificent family drama "Minari." Youn and co-star Steven Yeun became the first actors of Korean descent ever to be nominated for Oscars - Youn is the odds-on favorite to win the Academy Award for best supporting actress. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

What can Oakland's past teach us about its post-pandemic future? More on that in a moment. But first, let's talk about the present. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Programming a film festival in 2021 has an inherent difficulty: Because of the coronavirus pandemic, filmmakers toiling away in 2020 were challenged like never before. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It started by challenging Death to a game of chess and ended with "Game of Thrones." [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

It would seem counterintuitive, given that we are slowly emerging from a pandemic, but there's good reason to get out of the house and into the open air to check out a museum exhibit about a quarantine. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There's light at the end of the pandemic tunnel and - for Bay Area film lovers - it's the glow of the movie projector. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There's little doubt that Pope Francis is the most socially conscious pontiff in history, railing against human destruction of the environment and advocating for a proactive approach to climate change; as well as urging rich, Western countries to do a better job at handling waves of migrant and immigrant people displaced by war and environmental disasters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The San Francisco International Film Festival is back, revamped and recharged. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

While independent movie theaters are closed, the Coven Film Festival - an event devoted to films by emerging women and non-binary filmmakers in the Bay Area and elsewhere - has taken a novel approach: Instead of one yearly online festival, as most others are doing, it has decided to run smaller, quarterly online festivals. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Frida Kahlo fans, you're on the clock. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Oscar nominations are set to be announced Monday, March 15, and Fort Mason Flix is ready. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

As the only surviving dragon of Kumandra, Sisu can shape-shift into a human, glow with strength and energy, stop armies with a dense fog, swim as fast as a speedboat, and dance on raindrops among the clouds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Joe Carnahan grew up in Fairfield, not Hong Kong, but you'd never know it by his movies, which stay light on their feet with the fast-moving kineticism and stylish visuals you would expect from the land of John Woo and Johnnie To. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

There's an emptiness in Edee's life as vast as the wide-open spaces she sees as her emotional escape route. We don't know why, but we know it's bad: Her sister is concerned that she might do harm to herself. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The projectors are ready to roll and the big screens in the Bay Area about to light up once again, according to Cinemark, which announced this week that several of its Century movie venues would be among the first indoor theaters in the area to welcome back filmgoers this month. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]