"Oh Lucy!" is that rare foreign-language social comedy that one should not arrive late for.

A best-selling teen novel has become this spring's most charming gay film.

Even before she left her Nazi-threatened Austrian childhood home, it was clear that Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) was not just another pretty face.

A couple married 48 years, skillfully brought to life by film veterans Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland, are the best reason to catch Italian director Paolo Virzi's American film debut "The Leisure Seeker."

Oscar winners and runners-up feature heavily in the Castro Theatre's March schedule. A dash of classic French cinema adds spice to this cold and unpredictable month.

Although film is considered a director's medium, it's equally dependent on writers. Thus, from their inception, the Academy Awards honored screenplays.

In "Tehran Taboo," opening Friday at the Roxie, a collection of cartoon adults and kids take us on a perilous excursion through a country our president has consigned to limbo.

Director Andrey Zvyagintsev's bleak and emotionally harrowing domestic drama "Loveless" is Russia's Oscar candidate for Best Foreign Language Film.

To describe Francois Ozon as a cinema "bad boy" may seem a tad quaint, but the one-time Young Turk of French film is back with a new feature that comes with big aspirations.

Again this year Landmark Theatres is offering audiences a chance to see the new Academy Award nominees in the categories of Best Animated & Best Live Action Short Films.

"In Between" opens with a comic prologue. A young woman is having her legs waxed by a grandmotherly type.

Since its inception a decade ago, the Mostly British Film Festival has carved out an unusual niche, distinguishing itself among a crowded field of local festivals as a reliable source for classic and first-run English-language movies from abroad.

In the second half of February, the Castro Theatre's countdown to Oscar rolls out a handful of Best Picture contenders the way they should be seen.

"A Fantastic Woman," the 2018 Best Foreign Film Oscar nominee from Chile, opens in the shadows, within a poorly lit Santiago nightclub.