SF News Iconic SF Documentary, 'The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill,' Is Back In Theaters For Its 20th Anniversary The Roxie is hosting the remastered film for a limited release this week, and you can still get tickets.
Arts & Entertainment Ron Howard's New Documentary 'Rebuilding Paradise' Depicts a Town Starting From Scratch The Camp Fire burned through Paradise nearly two years ago, killing dozens and decimating thousands of homes. Now, lauded film director Ron Howard’s new documentary, "Rebuilding Paradise," showcases how the community persevered — and began rebuilding their lives from nothing.
Arts & Entertainment Dioramas and Miniatures Become Vessels For Memory In 'Forever, Chinatown' by Jessica Lachenal While many people turn to cellphone photos, videos, or even journaling to remember the things that are important to them, artist Frank Wong turned to an art form once thought
Arts & Entertainment Trailer: 'Long Strange Trip,' The Four-Hour Grateful Dead Documentary Produced By Martin Scorsese Not many musical acts in human history attracted the cult following and counter-cultural status of The Grateful Dead, a band that, as the AV Club puts it, "at its height, was simultaneously a
Arts & Entertainment Video: Documentary Lays Bare Sacramento Strip Club Trial With Late Carol Doda The son of Earl Warren, the legendary California Governor and US Supreme Court Chief Justice, may not have presided over such progressive liberal decisions as Brown v. Board of Education, but Earl Warren
Arts & Entertainment Documentary Shot At Oakland's Highland Hospital Up For Oscar A UC Berkeley journalism lecturer is up for an Oscar tonight in the documentary short category, and that's filmmaker Dan Krauss for his 24-minute film called "Extremis," about people facing end-of-life decisions, largely
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Metallica Documentary Being Released By Spotify Thursday It's been a long road since Metallica sued Sean Parker's Napster service in 2000. Tomorrow, August 18, Parker-affiliated Spotify is releasing a new four-part documentary series about the formative years of Metallica, titled
Arts & Entertainment Documentary Celebrates The 50th Anniversary Of The Compton's Cafeteria Riot 50 years ago next month, a group of pissed off trans women and hustlers who frequented Gene Compton's Cafeteria at the corner of Turk and Taylor Streets in the Tenderloin revolted against police
Arts & Entertainment Video: New Werner Herzog Doc About Tech Features Elon Musk, Other Luminaries Watch this on The Scene. Wired brings us the trailer for a new documentary from Magnolia Pictures, directed by Werner Herzog, titled Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World. Herzog scopes out
Arts & Entertainment Nancy Pelosi's Daughter Airing Documentary About The New SF On HBO On September 28, HBO is airing the new documentary San Francisco 2.0, directed by Alexandra Pelosi, and the film was screened last night here in town (SFist wasn't invited). As the Business
Arts & Entertainment Video: Upcoming Doc 'Northwest Passage' Explores One Teenager's Unhealthy Obsession With <em>Twin Peaks</em> Filmmaker Adam Baran (Jackpot) says that when he met Travis Blue back in 2005, at an LGBT film festival, "We quickly bonded over our favorite films and TV shows: Twin Peaks, My Own
Arts & Entertainment Video: All About The Rad Video Art Scene In SF In The 1970s KQED and SFMOMA on the Go have just made this great documentary short about pioneering video artists in San Francisco in the 1970s people like Skip Sweeney, who started making abstract "feedback" videos;
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'The Widow Norton,' The Documentary Given that today is officially, by city proclamation, a day of remembrance for Jose Sarria, Empress I, the Widow Norton, we bring you this ten-minute clip of a 2006 documentary by Billy Clift
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'How To Make Money Selling Drugs' Crime isn't supposed to pay, but sometimes it does ... to the tune of something like $1 million a week. Screening at the Roxie Theater this week, How to Make Money Selling Drugs (2012)
SF News HBO Doc On Fight For Gay Marriage In The Works Billed as "the story of a modern-day American revolution," California's history-making Prop 8 snafu, and its triumphant outcome, will be made into an HBO documentary. NYT has more: The still-untitled documentary will be
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Patricia Field Doc Trailer This month at Frameline, the San Francisco LGBT Film Fest, will be the premiere of the new documentary The Little House That Could. It's a film about The House of Field, and the
Arts & Entertainment Video: Documentary Explores Weird Local Role-Playing Game Some of you well connected nerds out there have probably heard of the Jejune Institute, which lately has become known by the moniker Games of Nonchalance. It's an elaborate "alternative reality game" which
SF News Wild Parrots Of Telegraph Hill Increasingly Seen Elsewhere, Like Brisbane The squawking parrots of Telegraph Hill, loved by everyone who doesn't have to live near them, are increasingly spreading out to other areas of the city, and down the peninsula. As the Chron
Arts & Entertainment Marin Man Rebuilds Frank Lloyd Wright-Designed Doghouse Only in the Marin Independent Journal do we get such stories... Novato resident Jim Berger, a Marin native, grew up in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in San Anselmo. His father, a college
SF News Documentary Filmmaker Trailing <em>Examiner</em> Crime Reporters Filmmaker Max Cherney has been hanging out with Examiner crime reporters, and writers on their Law & Disorder blog, Mike Aldax and Rob Nagle. Cherney first caught wind of their work via a
Arts & Entertainment New LCD Soundsystem Documentary To Premiere At Sundance As you know, LCD Soundsystem exists no more. This made many people, both hipster and not, quite sad. The band, led by James Murphy, went out with a huge bang at a final
Arts & Entertainment Watch a Clip From a New Documentary About the Sutro Baths Sutro's: The Palace at Land's End is a new documentary about the historic and long-gone Sutro Baths, which is having its world premiere Friday, November 4, at the Balboa Theater. It has a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Shut Up Little Man,' the Trailer Have you heard about this new documentary, Shut Up Little Man, based on the much-distributed audio-tape brawls of two old drunk guys in the Lower Haight in the 80s? (It's actually being advertised
misc San Francisco Was Once Lovingly Called 'The Smut Capital of America' Were you aware that the birth of hardcore pornography happened right here in San Francisco? Feel proud, kids. During the brief period of 1968 to 1972, the barriers fell for both strip clubs
