The 20th San Francisco Independent Film Festival returns at precisely the moment when you're feeling a little exhausted from pre-Oscar buzz.

The patron saint of outsiders, French director Claire Denis, doesn't fear to tread on the dark side.

This year's Noir City film festival at the Castro Theatre finishes with some rarely seen examples of the genre.

The 2018 Oscar candidate from Lebanon "The Insult" begins with deceptive simplicity.

Eddie Muller's 16th Noir City Film Festival, running Jan. 26-Feb. 4 at the Castro Theatre, features many frightening, rarely seen films. Audiences will leave chilled and edgy.

"Vazante" is an engrossing film from veteran director Daniela Thomas.

As I watched the Magnolia Pictures doc "The Final Year" (opening Friday), I marveled at how director Greg Barker sliced and diced a tumultuous period for President Barack Obama's foreign policy team.

It's time once again to play that favorite LGBTQ parlor game: name this year's batch of Best Picture Academy Award nominations.

Tonight (Jan. 18) the GLBT Historical Society will explore how queer people have been portrayed on screen.

The Hump! Film Festival, the 13th annual event, is coming to San Francisco's Victoria Theater, Jan. 17-27.

Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame would have been 94 on Nov. 28, had she not died of stomach cancer in 1981.

The Castro Theatre welcomes the New Year with a schedule peppered with films up for award-season honors.

Writer-director Scott Cooper's "Hostiles," opening Friday, is a bleak but moving excursion along the closing Western frontier.

Following are a few film picks to while away Winter 2018.