There are a lot of film festivals underway this weekend -- and we're going to most of them! So, stay tuned all next week for SFist reports from the trenches, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't be out there seeing some of these movies for yourself. Before we get to our picks from these fests, here's some news (remember: you heard it first on SFist) from our pals at IndieFest:

IndieFest is opening a year round gallery/live theater/movie house/event space. We open on Thursday December 1st with the return of Re-Animator for a two week run. We'll be showing movies, presenting plays and art shows, fashion shows, live music, you name it. If it's indie, underground, alternative it'll have a home at IndieLoft. There are a bunch of great alternative venues in San Francisco and we hope this space will compliment them and keep alt-arts thriving in SF.... the space is 3000 sq/ft with 12 ft ceilings near Mission and 17th. We'll be able to seat 120-150. We're looking for theater companies now to fill our calendar starting in January. We're available for film festivals, private screenings, and private events.

We're thrilled as all hell because we think that the city wants and needs a venue like this, and the IndieFest folks are the best ones for the job. Congratulations, y'all! You can contact them at info AT sfindie.com.

Women in Love, screening tonight as part of the Film Arts Festival.

Both are mandatory viewing, but we recommend ever-so-slightly higher, due to its having a bit more mass appeal. Romance! Intrigue! Stunning fight scenes! Sexy love scenes! Sparkly dialogue! Surprising fatalities! It's pretty much everything we were hoping a Whedonesque movie would be. You don't have to have seen "Firefly," the TV show on which the movie is based, to jump right in; with some clever flashbacks and a Touch-of-Evil-esque introduction, everything is set up: crazy girl on the run from evil government, hiding on a run-down ship in a time that resembles post-Civil-War reconstruction but is set 500 years in the future. Someone scary is chasing our heros for secrets they don't even know they have; and in this movie, evil really IS everywhere, from a psychotic government agent to space-cannibals to horrible secrets embedded in a graceful 17-year-old girl. It opens pretty much everywhere in town today.

Not a lot going on this weekend! Nothing interests us on the big budget front, that's for sure. Fine, we were considering . That was before we saw that Mick LaSalle liked it, so now we're sure it's crap. Instead, we're harking back to some classic cinema, stuff we've either seen before (or should have).