Arts & Entertainment Calling All Font Film Auteurs The Typophile Film Festival is now accepting entries for its 2005 edition, to be shown at TypeCon 2005 in NYC this July. Last year's festival featured two of the shorts we created (catch
Arts & Entertainment Pop Parody: Ron English at Varnish Fine Art Known as the father of "agit-pop," English juxtaposes a highly critical political sensibility with modern advertising techniques, using his message to alter their meaning. Aided by an extended family of subverts, the artist
Arts & Entertainment SF DocFest: SFist Has You Covered Usually, we try as hard as we can to avoid the real world, but we'll make an exception for the fourth San Francisco Documentary Film Festival. There are so many unbelievable films to
misc Get Stuffed: Mifune But where to go when there was no sponsored vittles in the hospitality lounge? Critics can not live on beer and cheesecake alone! Okay, maybe Roger Ebert did for a few decades, but
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Palindromes</i> Back on April 13, Gothamist published this great interview with director Todd Solondz. At the time, we wondered if he'd be screening his new film, , at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Sure
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Youth Voices and Visions So far SFist has been covering the San Francisco International Film Festival as a spectator, but SFist Paolo has graciously agreed to offer his perspective as a festival participant. His short, "Elements" appears
Arts & Entertainment Now You, Too, can be a Gay Usher Just when you were starting to worry that The Castro Theater might've gone all ex-gay, along comes Frameline 29, the 29th annual San Francisco International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, or
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off Screen</em> If this review were an Edgar G. Ulmer movie, it would be covered in fog, have a sweeping orchestral score (public domain of course), and SFist would be a nihilistic outsider desperate for
Arts & Entertainment SF International Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered One of the many perks of SFist, (besides the private jet, sumptious office spaces, and Gavin calling round-the-clock "just to say 'hi'"), is that we are forced to get out of the house
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Bay Area Hog the Camera This Week Well, after checking out what goes on on some of these local programs, we don't think that'll really be an issue. First up is "Bay Area Focus", which airs Sundays at 8:30
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: </i>Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents</i> The scene at the Kabuki for the last night of the Asian-American Film Festival was jam-packed, with three movies all starting at the same time, and people dressed to the nines for the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Oldboy</i> SFist spends more time than is seemly pondering where our beloved action film genre is headed next. We feel like the Matrix thing, beautiful as it is, is long over, and the wisecracking
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Parties To Which We <i>Were</i> Invited SFist was thrilled to receive an invitation to opening night of the 23rd Annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. After the screening of the fantastic , the action turned to the gala
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Saving Face</i> We had barely finished pawing through our wares (Pad Thai mix! Toothpaste! Febreeze! And much, much more!) when event emmcee Emerald Yeh, whom we miss every time we watch the news, took the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: SFist Has You Covered SFist is proud of our coverage of local events, including SF IndieFest, SF Noise Pop, and Cinequest. We're really happy to continue this tradition with our coverage of the San Francisco International Asian
Arts & Entertainment Coming Attractions: Cinequest 2005 The San Jose Film Festival is in its 15th year (The gift for that is crystal by the way. I'm sure they'd appreciate it.) and once again is bringing a jam-packed lineup of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jason Blalock Jason Blalock combined inspiration from an old SFist fav, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, and his shock and awe-induced state from encountering the Raider Nation, and turned this all into art. Jason's film Oakland
Arts & Entertainment SF Watches: Movies This Weekend Obviously, the "at" where it "is", is 7th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival. You knew that already, didn't you? However, what if that screening of you had your heart set on is
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: SFist has you covered See the complete schedule of films here, buy tickets here, and we'll see y'all there! SF IndieFest logo from their site. Thanks to SF IndieFest and Larsen Associates for making our coverage possible
Arts & Entertainment Scribes Snit at Sundance [] Tiburon's Robert Redford was busy wining and dining indiewood out in Utah at his Sundance Film Festival this weekend. Netflix Film Critic and blogger James Rocchi (who recently attended a panel organized by
Arts & Entertainment SFist Cares ... About Relaxing Sometimes Rock on. Artists' Television Access is presenting the Amnesty International Mini Film Festival, running this Saturday and Sunday. Films are $5 each, the price just covering the event itself. Cheap and requires no
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend All Festival Edition If SFist answered to mammon instead of to you, our readers, we might bother to have a big budget pick this week. But look at what's out there! Dude, it's so not going
Arts & Entertainment Self-Powered Marshmallows If you were walking down 24th east of Mission yesterday around 6:15 like SFist was, you may have been treated to the sight of a few dozen bicyclists tricked out in white
misc Big Screen Fifteen movies are screening, running the gambit from classic IMAX fair like Whales (about, yes, Whales) to Pulse: a Stomp Odyssey which tours with Stomp. Thrill Ride, which traces the history of roller
Arts & Entertainment Unleash Your Inner Coen SFist wants to encourage all of you Bay Area folks to get out there and actually use your degrees in film for something other than the local pub quiz. That's right, people. it's
