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All of you YouTube addicts out there are probably familiar with many of the "absoludicrous"* found video clips from Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett's touring Found Footage Festival (*Mr. T makes an appearance in the "Celebrities Who Teach" series). The critically-acclaimed event will be in San Francisco tonight and tomorrow night at the Roxie Red Vic at 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. and this Sunday at the Parkway in Oakland for a 5 p.m. matinee. Every screening features Nick and Joe's live, in-person commentary. If you can't make it to the live show, you have the option to buy the Found Footage Festival Vol. 2 DVD, which features Nick and Joe's commentary and the live audience laugh track from a screening at The Heights Theater in Minnesota. Note: This event has very adult content. There is a clip at the end that will shock, titillate, and stun -- shall we say, "flopping, full frontal?" more ›

Theatrical Releases April 13th, 2007 We haven’t seen everything on the roster for this week but we have seen Hot Fuzz and we strongly suggest it. Hot Fuzz does for cop/buddy action films what Pegg, Wright and Frost’s Shaun of the Dead did for zombie films. Fuzz is every bit as researched and diligent as was Shaun. Afterwards you can hit the pub and discuss which you think is funnier. more ›

We were originally going to put a cursory summary of Partners in Preservation's program in Day Around The Bay, but after poking around on the website, it's so cool that we've elevated it to a stand-alone post. American Express, in connection with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and the World Monuments Fund, will give $1 million to historic sites around the Bay Area. The way they'll determine who to give the money to and how to divide it up is by online voting. more ›

Looking for a good cause to support? Everyone's favorite Mission art house theater, the Roxie, is hosting a special benefit tomorrow night (Sunday July 30) to raise funds to restore their marquee. more ›

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"I want to put the awe back in superhero movies," says filmmaker Michael Sparaga, "The characters have sort of become blasé about what they could do, as well as the people watching them." His movie, , screens as part of SF Indiefest on Thursday and Saturday at 4:30pm at The Roxie, has no shortage of awe: mild-mannered comic enthusiast Norman is bowled over to discover a coworker with superpowers. As a sidekick, Norman loyally prepares Victor to fight crime and defend liberty ... but Victor has other ideas. It was important to Michael that Victor's freaky abilities be handled with reverence -- "in the real world," he told us, "if we saw anybody do anything phenomenal, we'd be so awestruck we'd think about it the rest of our lives. I wanted to make a realistic superhero movie. We can't identify with somebody flying from outerspace -- although we love superman -- but you can put a lot of magic in something simpler." more ›

Will the rain ever stop? Hope it didn't rain too hard on your New Year Eve's festivities, readers, as some of your favorite SFist staffers close out 2005 and ring in oh-six. We also finished our Fisties of the Year! Did your favorites win? In other news, Al Gore is moving into Chris Daly's district (and down the block from Gavin), BART fares are going up, and hey! The Roxie's not going to close! Also -- check out the pictures from our first annual SFist Christmas party -- we hope you had a good time. Welcome SFists Sarah, Chuck, and Karen -- and check out our interview with local author (and sometimes-commenter!) Judy B. Party picture by Paolo. Check out our flickr! more ›

The name on everybody's lips is gonna be..... The New College Roxie Film Center! Ending years of nail-biting and speculation, the Roxie Theater on 16th and Valencia has been saved from shuttering by its neighbors the New College. The New College received an anonymous $200,000 donation earmarked to pay off the Roxie's debts and to turn the theater into a nonprofit. Bill Banning, who used to own the Roxie, will stay on as a film programmer, but the day-to-day operations have been turned over to new executive director Allyce Bass and the New College Media and Film Studies department chair Mary Ellen Churchill. The Roxie will continue to screen movies, but will also double as a classroom during the day, and they'll have special events there too. The Roxie Film Center will have its grand opening on April 7. Cineaste Gavin Newsom'll be there, and issued the following statement: "As small independent theaters struggle, New College and the Roxie are keeping the spirit of independent film alive." Truly, the language of cinema -- it's universal! more ›

Wow. After the splendor that was the San Francisco International Film Festival, we're just bushed. Still, we'll forge ahead and ourselves to see some movies this weekend, we guess. The things we do! more ›

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SFist is so &%#$# sick of the blizzard of press surrounding Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow that we could puke. more ›