The heart has its reasons that Reason fails to comprehend, at least that's what the French say.

The Castro Theatre performs its role as both a showcase for classic film and a neat place to catch today's award-season cinema.

"Novitiate" (opening Friday) is that rare new film that can inspire both a shock of recognition and a feeling of deja vu.

Todd Haynes' high-reaching ode to youthful dreams and disappointments "Wonderstruck" comes to us from New Jersey-born designer-illustrator-author Brian Selznick's popular 2011 book.

The powerful new French drama "BPM (Beats Per Minute)" immediately makes the personal political.

"The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin" (2017), Jennifer Kroot's bio-documentary (with co-director Bill Weber), is several films in one.

Rats are everywhere, just like people. They want what we want: warmth, shelter, food, family.

"The Language of Shadows" is a one-hour documentary included on Kino Lorber's DVD release of FW Murnau's classic chiller "Nosferatu" (1922).

Early in the new biopic "Tom of Finland," opening Friday, our hero is a Finnish soldier guarding his country's northern border from enemy attack.

My usual critical apparatus was stymied by "Human Flow," opening Friday at San Francisco's Clay and Berkeley's Shattuck.

The new biographical drama "Goodbye Christopher Robin," from British director Simon Curtis, takes on the tricky task of grounding a beloved collection of child-friendly nursery stories.

After viewing the new documentary "The Lavender Scare," there's no doubt that the 1950s were the worst time to be LGBTQ in this country.

In 1991, following the release of their first collaboration "Poison," producer Christine Vachon and director Todd Haynes found themselves on the leading edge of what has since been dubbed New Queer Cinema.

The 2017 Mill Valley Film Festival unspools Oct. 5-15.