Did you know that three Academy Award-winning “best films” came from Berkeley? Or that the name of Alice Waters’ iconic Chez Panisse restaurant was inspired by a movie date? Or that Pauline Kael, the ...

To a dedicated admirer of European movies, going to “Fassbinder and the New German Cinema,” a 20-title retrospective series ...

Rialto Cinemas in Elmwood is Berkeley’s last remaining commercial movie theater. But even with no competition left in the city, it’s still having to find new ways to survive. Enter: beer, wine and ...

Panoramic Interests has overcome one hurdle in its quest to gut the back of an Art Deco movie theater in Berkeley and replace it with a 17-story apartment building. The San Francisco-based developer ...

The last historic movie theater in downtown Berkeley is set for demolition after the City Council unanimously supported a developer’s proposal to replace it with a 17-story apartment complex. The ...

Rialto Cinema is for cinephiles, art film nerds, hopeless romantics, comedy nuts, thrill seekers, and anyone else looking to find entertainment in a dark room surrounded by strangers as a movie is ...

German cinema, Rose Byrne, and San Francisco's cable cars have the spotlight today. Berlin & Beyond, one of the most ...

The curtain call has come for the United Artists Theater in Berkeley, as the city's last historic movie theater faces demolition. The building faces demolition after the city council unanimously ...

an Oscar nominee, an Oscar winner, an indie documentary and the first gay rom-com from a major studio. The Elmwood has weathered two closings, witnessed the transition to the sound era of film and ...