Arts & Entertainment Alexander Skarsgard Went In Drag To The <em>Diary Of A Teenage Girl</em> Premiere Monday night marked the official premiere of Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, and for some reason one of the film's stars, Alexander Skarsgard, decided to attend
Arts & Entertainment Trailer Drops For Unauthorized Steve Jobs Documentary By The Guy Who Made 'Going Clear' Alex Gibney, the director who made the provocative HBO documentary Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, has just made a new doc about the man who made Apple, Steve Jobs, titled
Arts & Entertainment Eight Must-See Movies At Frameline (The LGBT Film Fest) San Francisco's LGBT film festival Frameline kicks off Thursday night, and it is now in its 39th year, making it the oldest continually running film fest geared to the LGBT set in the
Arts & Entertainment That Outdoor Cinema At Hayes Valley's PROXY May Finally Happen This Fall It turned out to be a lie when we were promised outdoor movies at Hayes Valley's semi-permanent PROXY complex last fall, and it looks as though the concept for the space has morphed
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Hot Pursuit, Maggie, Cambodian Rock and Roll Welcome to Me - AMC Van Ness and Presidio Welcome to Me is like a Saturday Night Live movie based on a character that really shouldn't have a back story. Would Penelope, Kristen
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Avengers, Adult Beginners, And The End of the Tour Avengers: Age of Ultron — Everywhere By the time you finish reading this sentence, this sequel will have made another million dollars. Far From the Madding Crowd — Embarcadero Latest adaption of the classic Thomas
Arts & Entertainment Here's What To Watch At The San Francisco International Film Festival The San Francisco International Film Festival lineup was announced today, and it brings a wealth of cinematic treasures—some of which might not play in the Bay Area again. Running April 23 -
Arts & Entertainment 'San Andreas' Trailer Destroys California, Your Afternoon "Where will you be... when everything falls apart?" That's the ominous question at the center of the adrenaline-injected trailer for San Andreas, the mega-disastrous disaster-porn flick that promises to make all Californians want
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's 5 Best Movie Theatres Yes, it's true, between internet skullduggery and On Demand, you can see an awful lot of movies without ever leaving your couch (or bed). But you've got to admit, in the right circumstances
Arts & Entertainment Kristen Wiig, Alexander Skarsgard Shooting '70s-Era Movie in S.F. As San Francisco guiltily enjoys another week of clear, sunny skies, the city is also basking in a continued wave of Hollywood attention with the start of yet another on-location film, this time
Arts & Entertainment Video: Shot-For-Shot 'Bullitt' Remake Makes Us Feel Like Steve McQueen If you've ever felt the urge to re-live the groundbreaking car chase from Bullitt in contemporary San Francisco, but couldn't be bothered with finding a Mustang and participating in some moving vehicle violations,
Arts & Entertainment Tim Burton Transforms North Beach Into 1950s San Francisco This morning crews on the set of Big Eyes, a forthcoming film from director Tim Burton, transformed Grant Avenue into a scene right out of 1950s San Francisco. The film, tentatively set to
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 SFist Reviews: 'Kink' and 'Interior. Leather Bar' at Frameline James Franco is on a mission. It's a valid mission, but also one that you might expect from an undergraduate with a passion for pushing buttons, a liberal sensibility, and resources like wealth
Arts & Entertainment That '70s Jobs: Watch Ashton Kutcher In Trailer For 'Jobs' Formerly (and excruciatingly) titled jOBS, Ashton Kutcher's latest film, all about noted Apple CEO and cofounder, Steve Jobs, will premier August 16th. As the trailer shows, the film (reconfigured as Jobs) covers Steve's
Arts & Entertainment Woody Allen's Movie 'Blue Jasmine' Features Many S.F. Spots You may remember seeing Woody Allen wandering the city in a fishing hat last year, and the fruits of his labor are on their way. The trailer is now out for 'Blue Jasmine',
Arts & Entertainment Go See This Tonight: 'Peaches Does Herself' First off, is Peaches still a thing? It seems like the only time we hear her — or rather, when we hear that song of hers — is during Dyke March after-parties. (God bless you,
SF News Relax, John Waters Is NOT Dead! National Report, some sort of second-rate Onion, reported that acclaimed filmmaker and all-around swell human being John Waters dropped dead on Wednesday. This, thankfully, was not the case. He is alive and well,
Arts & Entertainment Best San Francisco Movie Theaters San Francisco movie audiences are arguably the worst in the entire country. They like to arrive late in typical flakey fashion, they hiss at the screen (please stop doing that), and, far worse,
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Dave Grohl's 'Sound City' Let's face it: none of us thinks about Dave Grohl nearly enough. But the former Nirvana drummer and Foo Fighters frontman is at it again, this time as the director of a newly
Arts & Entertainment 'Fruitvale' Wins Sundance Grand Jury Prize At Sundance, the momentum behind Ryan Coogler's debut feature about the last days in the life of Oscar Grant proved strong enough to propel the film to the festival's top Grand Jury Prize
Arts & Entertainment That '70s Jobs: First Clip Of Ashton Kutcher As Steve Jobs Is Predictably Kutcherian Although we've had a preliminary glimpse with these sultry promo shots, it feels like we've been waiting ages — like the same amount of time we wait for a new iPhone, basically — to see
SF News Filmmakers Ryan Coogler and Forest Whitaker Talk Oscar Grant, 'Fruitvale' In the wake of a huge buzzwave at Sundance and a $2.5 million distribution deal with the Weinstein Co., Ryan Coogler's Fruitvale has already sparked debate about the what it means to
Arts & Entertainment The Best Cultural Events In San Francisco While San Francisco is best known for its acclaimed food scene and unyielding political righteousness, it is also known to hold some pretty swank and artful events boasting worldwide talent. Highbrow enrichment, if
