Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Opening Two New Movie Theaters In the South Bay Santa Clara and Mountain View will both be getting new Alamo Drafthouse movie theaters this summer, as the hip theater chain is taking over two abandoned shopping mall movie theaters with plans to revitalize them.
Arts & Entertainment Sony Just Bought the Alamo Drafthouse Theater Chain, Including the SF Location Sony Pictures Entertainment just bought up all 35 locations of the boozy and boutique movie theater chain Alamo Drafthouse, including the New Mission theater on Mission Street, after the chain had previously declared bankruptcy in 2021.
Arts & Entertainment 21-Hour Marathon of All Nine 'Star Wars' Movies Happening at Alamo Drafthouse Are you such a big Star Wars fan that you'd like to sit through all nine movies of the saga in one go with a bunch of other Star Wars fans? Well, Alamo Drafthouse can give you this experience.
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Taylor Swift Movie Premiere Brings Out SF Swifties (And Little Girls) Dressed All Too Well The ‘Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour’ concert film opened Friday, and San Francisco Taylor Swift fans showed they were evermore than willing to live up to their reputation as highly accessorized, friendship bracelet-wearing devotees.
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, But Hopes to Keep SF Location Open The boozy, boutique movie theater is actually a chain of 40 theaters nationwide that has declared bankruptcy, but for now, the Mission Street location is not on the chopping block.
Arts & Entertainment Alamo Drafthouse To Launch $20 Monthly Movie Passes By Year-End Just about everybody's favorite local movie theater since it opened four years ago, Alamo Drafhouse, is set to launch a new subscription service along the lines of the troubled Moviepass.
Arts & Entertainment Happy 40th To 'The Last Waltz,' The Greatest Concert In San Francisco History The Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco was the first place that the Band played as "the Band," guitarist Robbie Robertson tells director Martin Scorsese in an interview from his magnificent concert documentary The
Arts & Entertainment All About 'I'm Not Fascinating,' A Quirky Relic Of 1990's San Francisco I'm Not Fascinating—The Movie! The Trailer from danny plotnick on Vimeo. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the first screening of I'm Not Fascinating, a 1996 film centered on the arguably
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Alamo Drafthouse Celebration Of SF Cinema From 'Mrs. Doubtfire' To 'The Last Waltz' Has there ever been a better time to escape into the soothing oblivion of a dark movie theater? Not to mention one where you can drink at your seat and where you're expressly
Arts & Entertainment Go See This Thing: John Waters's Early Film <i>Multiple Maniacs</i> At Alamo Drafthouse Last night, Alamo Drafthouse once again proved how terrific a new cultural asset it is for San Francisco, hosting the local premiere of a restored (and reviled!) print of John Waters's early, trashy
Arts & Entertainment What To Watch At The SF International Film Festival, Kicking Off Thursday The 59th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival, or SFIFF for those in a hurry, kicks off this Thursday and runs through May 5th. The festival's made a big change this year, moving
Arts & Entertainment As Lost Weekend Moves Out On Valencia, Partner 1-2-3-4 Go! Records Finds New Home Next Door Lost Weekend Video has played host to inventory from Oakland's 1-2-3-4 Go! Records since last year when the two announced a partnership. However, things changed when the DVD palace decided to shack up
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l Film Festival Moving To Alamo Drafthouse For 2016 There's been another cinematic coup for Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, newly open at Mission and 21st Street. After scoring Star Wars: The Force Awakens for their grand opening and bringing in Lost Weekend Video
Arts & Entertainment Lost Weekend Video Actually Closing On Valencia, Moving In With Alamo Drafthouse Well, once again: This is sad. But perhaps not as sad as previous tales of the demise of video stores beloved by local cinephiles. It turns out that part of the deal struck
Arts & Entertainment Photos: <em>Star Wars</em> Premiere Awakens Stellar Cosplay Unless you’ve been living in a $500-a-month crawlspace, you know that Star Wars: Episode VII opens nationwide today and had West Coast premieres last night. Though we were denied access to press
