-- Using the garbage and junk-drawer debris from oh-my-God real-life celebrities (!), crafty artist Jason Mercier creates jaw-dropping portraits of A- through D-list notables, which range from Parker Posey to Heidi Fleiss. Celebrity Junk Drawer opens tonight starting at 9 p.m. at 111 Minna Galley (at Second St.); admission is free. -- Dance, get trashed, shove something up your nose in the bathroom, shove something up, um, somewhere elsewhere in the bathroom, have a......

SFIFF audience members queued up Monday night at the Kabuki theater in a nebulous, zigzag, seemingly endless line to see Fay Grim, the latest from indie auteur Hal Hartley. Featuring everybody's favorite indie starlet, Parker Posey plays the title role as a hilariously dazed single mother who falls into a web of international espionage like Alice falling down the rabbit hole. A sequel to Henry Fool, Grim reunites the original characters a decade later. Stopping......

Drew Altizer is on fire! He passed along these adorable pictures of adorable Parker Posey, who was in town yesterday for the screenings of her two (count 'em, two) indie movie extravaganzas last night for the SFIFF -- Broken English (by Zoe Cassavetes -- yes, of that Cassavetes family) and Fay Grim (by Hal Hartley -- yes, that Hal Hartley). Isn't Parker Posey just cute as a button? Thanks for passing these along, Drew!......

It's been forty-nine years of great cinema for the SF International Film Festival (SFIFF), and starting April 26 through May 10 2007, it'll be fifty! To celebrate their gold anniversary, the SFIFF is not only presenting the always-dazzling film festival itself, but hosting a huge array of events as well: from tributes to Spike Lee (and a screening of When The Levees Broke), and awards to locals George Lucas and Robin Williams, an address about......

For everything, there is a season... Last week, the ultimate fact that all things come to an end was made obvious in the most painful way it can be, with the loss of a loved one. In the past week, reflections have been made and tears have been shed. This week the task of confronting the day-to-day grind of life, but with a noticeable void, has begun. And if you thought the previous paragraph......

SFist always feels vindicated when our nemesis, the Chron's Mick LaSalle, disses a movie we're interested in. As we might have mentioned before, he is our Bizarro-self when it comes to films, as everything he feels we feel in exactly the opposite. This week's tiny triumph of the SFist spirit (and our Big Budget Pick of the Week)is his dislike of Closer, which we have been (uncharacteristically, since there aren't any car chases, zombies, or......