Colin Hanks is back with a new documentary, "John Candy: I Like Me," a funny, poignant homage to one of the comedy greats. Streams on Amazon starting 10/11 & screens at the Mill Valley Film Festival twice this weekend. Colin and John's son, Chris Candy, talk about it in the @sfchronicle.com.

Terence Stamp has left the building. I had the good fortune to be able to speak to him in 2002. Thanks to the Wayback Machine, I was able to unearth that long ago interview, presented here. It is long, as he recalled what was then a 40-year career.

H.P. Mendoza is at the Roxie Theater Wednesday, July 22, with his directorial feature FRUIT FLY. Come and sing along. H.P. talks about his homegrown, guerrilla first film and the upcoming SUPER MAGIC CITY in @missionlocal.org.

Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends. But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month. See you soon, NYC.

Local hero Daveed Diggs receives the SF Jewish Film Festival's Freedom of Expression Award on July 31 at the Piedmont. In @sfchronicle.com, the Oakland native talks about the award & how his Jewish upbringing & father's storytelling influenced his own path. www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Opening tomorrow: Canadian filmmaker R.T. Thorne's tense feature debut 40 ACRES, a terrific thriller. Read my interview with Thorne and star Danielle Deadwyler in the @sfchronicle.com.

Screening 6/21 at @framelinefestival.bsky.social and later on @independentlens.bsky.social, "The Librarians" depicts the struggles of librarians to protect our to read against reactionary censors. Filmmaker Kim A. Snyder & librarian Marie Masferrer take us through it in @48hills.bsky.social.

@framelinefestival.bsky.social opens Wednesday. I have some picks in the @sfchronicle.com, including the one picture, "By Design," in which Juliette Lewis trades bodies with a chair. What can I say? It amused me.

Brit Charlie Shackleton meant to make a different documentary about the Zodiac Killer but rights issues forced him to make something more personal. He reveals all about ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT, screening June 1 at SF DocFest, in my @sfchronicle.com interview.

DocLands 2025 begins tomorrow at the Rafael, a feast for documentary lovers. I pick seven of my favorites in the San Francisco Chronicle. datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

"Free for All: The Public Library" screens tonight on "Independent Lens" and streams on the PBS app. With libraries under threat, doc couldn't be timelier. I talk to filmmakers Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor about their decade-long endeavor in the @sfchronicle.com.

Kyle Casey Chu/Panda Dulce was reading to children during Drag Story Hour at the San Lorenzo Library in 2022 when Proud Boys interrupted. Now Chu and co-writer Róisín Isner explore the aftermath in a narrative short, "After What Happened at the Library," screening Weds., Apr. 23 at SFFILM Festival.

Not sure how effective this petition might be but whatever we can do to get this man (and all the others in his same situation) home: sign.moveon.org/petitions/br...

Farmworkers & day laborers are the subject of 5 short films in Serenata de Protesta screening at the Roxie on April 5. In Mission Local, CiNEOLA curators Daniel Díaz & Diana Sánchez Maciel discuss the program, while Andrés Lira reveals how his family's story informs his doc "Primero, sueño."

You can cry, you can scream, you can protest... or you can laugh. Comic Lisa Geduldig and her fellow standup comics are taking on dire political situation with "Resistance Comedy," starting this Sunday and commencing monthly at Eclectic Box. Read my @missionlocal.org interview with Lisa for the 411.

Coming to KQED soon (& the Grand Lake 3/16 if you want to catch a @Daveed Diggs sighting) is this miniseries following a college counselor at Antioch's Deer Valley High School during the 2020-21 school year. Super engaging. My interview with the filmmakers & "Mr. Cam" is in the @sfchronicle.com.

If you're in the neighborhood this Saturday, head to the Roxie Theater to catch Mission Mediarts co-founder Ray Balberan presenting footage from the neighborhood's 1970s past. Read about this slice of Mission history in @missionlocal.org.

Is it possible at this point in time to have a feel-good Silicon Valley story? Yes, it is. Longtime freelance Apple editor Kenji Yamamoto makes his documentary directing debut with THE DREAMERS & I, world premiering at Cinequest. Read about Kenji and his film in the @sfchronicle.com.

Coming to the Roxie Theater on Saturday, Feb. 22, a fabulous documentary about a San Francisco force of nature, folksinger Faith Petric. Read my interview with filmmakers Christie Herring and Estelle Freedman in @missionlocal.org.

This would be funny if it wasn't so sad and enraging.

Denise Zmekhol talks to me about her phenomenal documentary "Skin of Glass," a story ostensibly about the Săo Paolo skyscraper her father Roger designed but really about so much more. Read my @sfchronicle.com interview and then watch the movie Monday, Feb. 17, on @independentlens.bsky.social.

Jp Allen, Anthony Lucero, @anthonyhand.bsky.social, Miyoni Nelson, & Isaac Hirotsu Woofter all have films in San Francisco IndieFest. They talk about putting together independent features and the importance of the festival in the @sfchronicle.com.

I have a new outlet and there is a new doc about Bay Area jazz station KCSM playing at the Roxie on Saturday. Read all about it in @missionlocal.org.

It is Paul Newman's 100th birthday. A little reminder of the magic he created on screen.

One of my favorite films of the season is fly on the wall in the ABC control room as the sports department finds itself covering the attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Oscar-nominated writer/director Tim Fehlbaum and star John Magaro take me behind the scenes in 48 Hills.

Seeking something to do today to take your mind off, well, you know... Go see THE BRUTALIST but first read my @48hills.bsky.social interview with screenwriter Mona Fastvold, cinematographer Lol Crawley, and production designer Judy Becker describing the architecture behind their achievement.

@jenniolsonsf.bsky.social is back at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive with a new genderqueer series, "Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas," beginning Friday, Jan. 17. She tells me about it, along with comments from Cheryl Dunye in the @sfchronicle.com.

Too much monkey business! Director Michael Gracey and star Jonno Davies talk to me in @48hills.bsky.social about their biopic of English pop star Robbie Williams, an exuberantly old-fashioned musical. All singing, all dancing, all simian.

HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING director RaMell Ross is back with a spectacular adaption of Colson's Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize winner. He talks to me in @48hills.bsky.social about bringing the book to screen in his own immersive style.

Maestro Ben Palmer and San Francisco Silent Film Festival Artistic Director Anita Monga share the skinny with me on Saturday's Hitchcock event at Grace Cathedral. Read the story in @sfchronicle.com .

Co-directed by Ukrainian artist Slava Leontyev and American filmmaker Brendan Bellomo, the Oscar-shortlisted "Porcelain War" depicts war in Ukraine through the eyes of artists. The film opens in Bay Area theaters on Jan. 3. Read my interview with the filmmakers in @sfchronicle.com.

PSA: This is at Opera Plaza, Feb. 5 and 9. Got my tickets for the Scottish play aka "Dr. Who Goes Rogue" for the purposes of this Donmar Warehouse production.

SNL vet Kyle Mooney and his pal Evan Winter recall that edgy moment when the world held its collective breath over the coming of a new century. They talk to me in @48hills.bsky.social about their new comedy Y2K, a comedy for Gen Z teens but with plenty of Millennial and Gen X laughs.

Stevie Nicks meets David Lynch in Dan Noall's trippy FLEETWOOD PEAKS, screening at Another Hole in the Head, Wednesday, Dec. 11. I talk to the English artist about his exceptional project in @sfchronicle.com.

This is pretty great. RIP, Earl.

Did you know Ted Danson has a new Netflix series? And that it's set in San Francisco? Some of it even filmed here. Read all about it in my @sfchronicle.com interview executive producer Morgan Sackett and Danson's costar Lilah Richcreek Estrada.

"Authorities executed a search warrant and also found a bear costume in the suspects' home." So few things make me laugh these days. But this did. 🐻🐻🐻

CFI & Berkeley FILM Foundation present 3 Best Picture winners and one of Phil Kaufman's greatest, all produced by Saul Zaentz, this weekend at the Rafael. Zaentz's nephew, Paul; Oscar-winning sound engineer Mark Berger; & Ralph Fiennes reminisce about the late producer in @sfchronicle.bsky.social.