After 12 days of screenings, panels, and interviews, the 40th annual Santa Barbara Film Festival (SBIFF) has come to an end. The closing-night film, A Missing Part (Une Part Manquante) provided an ...

On a rainy evening in Santa Barbara, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life opened the 40th Santa Barbara Film Festival. A line of umbrellas stretched along the Arlington Theatre, protecting an audience eager to ...

All eyes and senses are fixed on the lead actress Mikey Madison (Better Things), who will be paid tribute at the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and whose performance is nothing short ...

In other words, Emilia Pérez is fabulously unlike any film you’ve ever seen. It’s a LOT. And it’s definitely not for everybody. But for me, it’s one of the most compelling, refreshing, and original ...

The film features an excellent performance by Colman Domingo (the recent Gotham Award winner will be honored with the Montecito Award by Santa Barbara International Film Festival on February 14), a ...

The star-studded Santa Barbara International Film Festival hits our town February 8-18 and we can’t wait. Here’s the skinny on the opening night film, Miranda’s Victim, a preview of some of the ...

Claudia Sanchez’s documentary Transmexico took the Audience Choice Award on Saturday at the Santa Barbara Film Festival ... the fest’s Spirit Award for Independent Cinema; Nays Baghai ...

It very much resembles writer Richard Curtis’s own hometown of Walberswick, as he confided to Roger Durling at a recent SBIFF Cinema Society screening of holiday film, now streaming on Netflix. “So ...