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Broke-Ass Stuart Lands IFC Travel Show

Brock Keeling — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:05:28 GMT

Time to start retroactively kissing writer/blogger Stuart Schuffman's ass, Bay Area media folks. Because Schuffman (AKA Broke-Ass Stuart) just landed his own travel TV show. It'll be called Young, Broke, and Beautiful and will Air on IFC this summer.

According to Hollywood Reporter, the half-hour travel show "targets alternative culture enthusiasts" and is set to air in June.

Schuffman, a UC Santa Cruz gradate, started Broke-Ass Stuart, a site devoted to living on the cheap, here in San Francisco. He has since expanded it to New York City.

Congratulation, Broke-Ass.

SFist Watches: The Bridge

Rain Jokinen — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:10:13 GMT

We watched the movie on DVD recently, and that was the reaction we had during more than one scene. We also shed a few tears. The movie isn't for the faint of heart, but it's not a snuff film either; there isn't as much footage of jumpers as one would fear (or hope for, depending on how you feel about these things), so what images are shown are shocking every time. Instead, the majority of the movie is focused on interviews with the families and friends of some of the people who chose to end their lives at the Golden Gate Bridge in 2004 (as well as an interview with a young man who survived a jump a few years earlier). Understanding why people choose to end their lives--and why they choose to do it on the Bridge--is the goal of the film, but those are questions that aren't really that hard to answer. Mental illness and/or severe depression play a factor in all the suicides discussed in the film and, well...the Golden Gate Bridge is a beautiful place to end it all. So, ultimately, the movie becomes an exercise in dread. Dreading the inevitable sight of these people jumping...and knowing someone else will probably do the very same thing some time this month.

Ironically, the issue of a suicide barrier, which was the topic of Tad Friend's New Yorker article "Jumpers," which was the inspiration for the documentary, isn't really mentioned in the film at all. And it's an issue that is, apparently, after 70 years of Bridge suicides, still being studied...

Free Movies In Union Square? Inconceivable!

rita — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:55:29 GMT

Who doesn't love free movies? Comcast and cable channel IFC are sponsoring three nights of free movies starting today through Thursday in Union Square, to celebrate the awesomeness of indie film. Plus: free!

They're screening tonight, and Napoleon Dynamite on Thursday, but the one we're guessing will have the entire town crammed onto that little concrete plaza outside Macy's is tomorrow's screening of every single human being in the world's favorite movie, The Princess Bride. As..... you...... wish!

Festivities start around 6:30 with booths (one of which is a DVD donation booth for SF General) and local short film screenings, and the movies themselves start after sunset (8 p.m.-ish), after a singalong of "I Want Candy" and concomitant candy giveaway.

Raising Arizona

Interview: Miranda July

emily — Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:07:23 GMT

Miranda's first feature length film won big at Sundance, and opens next week in San Francisco. "Me and You and Everyone We Know" is about connecting in a disconnected world, and about meeting someone who changes how you go about living your world. Cool, right?

As always, SFist has the mad love for our readers: Enter to win two special engagement passes good any time during July 5th - July 21st to go see Me and You and Everyone We Know PLUS an IFC DVD pack!!! (Deadline to enter is June 30th.)