SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend, Sexxxy Film Festival Edition
There are a lot of film festivals underway this weekend -- and we're going to most of them! So, stay tuned all next week for SFist reports from the trenches, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be out there seeing some of these movies for yourself. Before we get to our picks from these fests, here's some news (remember: you heard it first on SFist) from our pals at IndieFest:
IndieFest is opening a year round gallery/live theater/movie house/event space. We open on Thursday December 1st with the return of Re-Animator for a two week run. We'll be showing movies, presenting plays and art shows, fashion shows, live music, you name it. If it's indie, underground, alternative it'll have a home at IndieLoft. There are a bunch of great alternative venues in San Francisco and we hope this space will compliment them and keep alt-arts thriving in SF.... the space is 3000 sq/ft with 12 ft ceilings near Mission and 17th. We'll be able to seat 120-150. We're looking for theater companies now to fill our calendar starting in January. We're available for film festivals, private screenings, and private events.
We're thrilled as all hell because we think that the city wants and needs a venue like this, and the IndieFest folks are the best ones for the job. Congratulations, y'all! You can contact them at info AT sfindie.com.
Image from Women in Love, screening tonight as part of the Film Arts Festival.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts is presenting CineKink from November 3-5, with 7 and 9 p.m. shows every night. CineKink "is an NY-based organization that recognizes and encourages the positive depiction of alternative sexuality in film and television." You know what that means? Three nights of movies about sex! Yee-haw! All four of the movies this weekend look great, but we have our eye on tonight's 7 p.m. show, Original Pride: The Satyrs Motorcycle Group, a documentary about one of the first gay men's social organizations, a Harley (SFist's all-time favorite bike) club established in 1954. SFist Matt is seeing both of tomorrow night's shows, so check back next week to hear his always brilliant thoughts on the films.
If that's not hot enough for you. how about the Balboa's Sin in Soft Focus Series? "Fans of "pre-Code" Hollywood films (those made before the 1934 Production Code cracked down on "sinful movies") are happily familiar with Warner Bros.' urban dramas and M-G-M's fallen women sagas but have a hard time finding the pre-Code films made by Paramount Pictures...To remedy this situation, the Balboa is presenting 43 hard-to-see Paramount titles. (SFist Jake is Mr. Pre-Code film, see his pieces on the topic here, here, and here.) Every bill is a double feature, some with shorts, as well. The series runs November 3 - 24.
If you had somehow missed it, The Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema is going on, from November 3-9. In addition to all the films we've plugged before, SFist is especially excited about seeing Women in Love, a documentary about the SF radical lesbian community, tonight at 10 at the Roxie. If we're not mistaken, SFist Rita will also be bringing you coverage of the Wellstone screening Saturday at 8:20, also at the Roxie.
What about you? What are you going to see, Fest or otherwise? Let us know in the comments.