What's a hottie with a body, a good personality and an ivy league education have to do to find a husband these days? Well, if you're an Iranian-American Jew (or really any Americanized member of an immigrant group), the answer is plenty. Love Iranian-American Style (Ed note: we'd link to the film itself, but the SFJFF site won't let us. We hate that!) played at the 26th Annual San Francisco Jewish Film Festival on Saturday......

We thought nothing could put us off our grub. After we saw Super Size Me we left the theatre absolutely dying for a double cheeseburger. Well, Another Hole in the Head finally did it. We've officially given up food. Eating disorder here we come! Feed is a crime movie that delves into the underbelly of "feeders" and "gainers." It was like the most perverse episode of "CSI" ever with its love of obscure fetishes and......

Our mistake was thinking any movie shown during the Hole in the Head Horror Festival would be at least a little scary. Watching a monster that looks like a slightly more sinister version of the Cal mascot, Oskie the Bear pawing a naked lady is kinda horrific but scary? Not so much. The Beast is good old-fashioned B grade camp and the audience for the almost-midnight showing of this soft-porn "monster" movie came with the......

There's a subculture of women in Japan who go bonkers for dudes with the Ziggy Stardust look. Or at least that's what we concluded after we saw the West Coast premiere of The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief (GHSTOLT) at the Women's Building on Saturday. Those dudes have some freaking crazy hairdos! Imagine a mullet mated with a peacock and gave birth to a Las Vegas showgirl head-dress. Really we......

Thursday night the Castro Theatre looked like a giant faculty meeting of humanities professors from some crunchy liberal arts university. But what can you expect from the West Coast premiere of a Robert Altman movie based on an old timey public radio show that originates in Minnesota of all places, don't cha know? A Prairie Home Companion closed the San Francisco International Film Festival Thursday night to a sell-out crowd. Despite the fact that......

Sunday was the kind of day that makes San Francisco seem like the best city ever. The sun was shining, neighbors in our building delivered our Sunday paper straight to our door instead of stealing it, children laughed in the street, flowers bloomed and small birdies and woodland creatures helped us get dressed in the morning while we hummed a happy tune. Watching Tom Ammiano opinining for the television cameras while we waiting in......

Before the screening of the documentary, They Chose China, Director Shuibo Wang stood in front of the audience and declared that San Francisco was his favorite city in North America. That already predisposed the largely gray-haired audience to feel kindly towards the director but then he further ingratiated himself by saying, "I have never experienced a festival like this. It is very very warm. This is a very sweet experience." Wang, whose previous documentary......

Despite our initial resolve to move at a dignified pace through this film festival, we got overly excited on our first day out and may have shot our wad way too early. We planned to see only one movie—the Chinese chick flick, Perpetual Motion on Saturday night but an SFIFF insider in the press room told us we simply must stay for The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai. It's porn! It's funny! It's political!......

Filmmaker Georgia Lee dropped out of Harvard Business School to make movies. That must rank right up there with biting your fingernails and dating a felon as one of the all time best ways to torture your mother. Fear not Mrs. Lee, Georgia seems like she's doing okay. A short film she directed while at NYU film school was spotted by Martin Scorsese who took her under his wing during the shooting of Gangs of......

If you think your life is bad, Grain in the Ear, the story of an ethnic-Korean kimchee peddler living in China, will either put your own misery in perspective or overwhelm you with the bleakness of grinding poverty, the Sisyphean nature of our existence and the realization that most people suck. We hope it's the former but after watching Grain in the Ear, we were ready to just crawl off to some quiet corner......

The Korean movie Rules of Dating, made its North American premiere at the Castro on Friday night. What appears at first to be a light-hearted romantic comedy about a libidinous school teacher vainly pursuing the student teacher in his charge quickly takes on a much darker tone when you throw in work place sexual harassment and what amounts to one of those, "hmmm we think that was pretty much a rape scene" moments into......

When it comes to Hollywood movies, Asian-American men get no loving. They're nunchuck throwing assassins or emasculated nerds. Working your pimply teenage sex-appeal is hard enough for any adolescent but try doing it when Sixteen Candles was released. That movie ruined the lives of many Asian-American men, we hear. If you don't believe us, just say "whassa happenin hoss stuff" to any Asian man who endured Long Duk Dong imitations during high school and......

Director Kang Je-Gyu is arguably Korea's hottest director right now. His first big hit, Shiri, about a dangerous North Korean female assasin broke records in Korea and grossed more than Titanic. His latest hit, Tae Guk Gi, shattered box office records again and it's estimated that almost a third of the country turned up at movie theatres and plunked down their hard-earned won to watch this tale of brothers and country torn apart by the......