Entries from SFist tagged with 'cannesfilmfestival'
January 22, 2008
Let's Get Lost (1988): Bruce Weber followed around jazz trumpeter and heroin addict Chet Baker on a year-long excursion, "from the West Coast, to the East Coast, to Europe--including a stop at the Cannes Film Festival--with interviews with Chet, colleagues and friends, including dueling insights from his third wife, a former British show girl, and three children in Oklahoma, and from old flame Ruth Young, a sardonically throaty torch singer." Screens tonight at 7......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"December 13, 2007
-- The 2007 'Stache Bash: The regular world now knows what bears have known for a long time: mustaches are kinda cool. This even will show you just how cool they, in fact, are. Burlesque troupe Kitty Kitty Bang Bang and DJ Ross Hogg's hip hop, dancehall, roots reggae, and dub sounds intertwine with a night of 'stache championing. Tonight's bash will feature a mustache pageant, a beer foam retention test, a mustache haiku......
Continue Reading "SFist Tonight"April 26, 2006
Oh, man, we're coming down to it--Bravo's Top Chef just keeps getting better and better. Watch this San Francisco-based series tonight at 10 p.m. before it's too late! Someone is walking away from this competition with a bunch of stuff, including money and a spread in Food & Wine. As usual, we're reminding you what happened last week to hype you up for tonight's episode. ...
Continue Reading "Top Chef: The Spanish-American War; Cannes or Canned?"March 16, 2005
SFist spends more time than is seemly pondering where our beloved action film genre is headed next. We feel like the Matrix thing, beautiful as it is, is long over, and the wisecracking action dude is tired as heck. What's next? We got a peek at a possible answer to that question at SFIAAFF's jam packed screening of 2004 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Winner and bad-ass Korean gangster film Oldboy at the Kabuki......
Continue Reading "SFIAAFF: Oldboy"