Arts & Entertainment SFIFF Giveaway: <em>A Woman Under the Influence</em> at Castro Theatre on Sunday Here's our third giveaway for the SFIFF Sunday screenings at the Castro Theatre. Email us (sfistevents @ gmail.com) with your full name, and please include "A Woman Under the Influence" in the subject
Arts & Entertainment "An Evening with Francis Ford Coppola & Friends" at SFIFF on May 1 Francis Ford Coppola is this year's recipient of the San Francisco International Film Festival's Founders Directing Award. The evening will start off with an on-stage conversation between Coppola and his longtime colleagues and
Arts & Entertainment <em>A Sea Change</em> Documentary at SF Int'l Film Festival Saturday A Sea Change is the first documentary about ocean acidification, "the underbelly of climate change, a little-known but potentially devastating threat to ocean life." The film is making its West Coast premiere at
Arts & Entertainment <em>Everything Strange and New</em> at SF Int'l Film Festival The San Francisco International Film Festival starts a week from Thursday. Get your tickets now! Everything Strange and New, which is set in Oakland, features a married protagonist (Jerry McDaniel) with two kids
SF News Porn Star Marilyn Chambers, Dead Following on the heels of gay porn star Jack Wrangler's death, (in)famous porn star Marilyn Chambers died Sunday. She was 56. According to reports, her 17-year-old daughter found her body at her
Arts & Entertainment <em>D tour</em> to Screen at SFIFF This May D Tour Trailer from dtour on Vimeo. The San Francisco International Film Festival starts in less than two weeks! SFist will highlight various films in the line-up during the days leading up to
SF News Anti-Gay Ad Auditions Uncovered Sure, it's preposterous. Amazing in its unbelievability. But the National Organization for Marriage (a truly vile organization) is something to take notice of, because people believe this shit -- powerful people; people you
Arts & Entertainment Perhaps Fearing Being Canned, <em>Chron</em> Film Critic Mick LaSalle Already Doing His Decade Best List It's April, the eve of 150 pink slips over the old Faded Floozy (a.k.a. The Chronicle), and film critic Mick LaSalle has decided to get a jump start on his critic
misc Film du Jour: Puppy Odysseus Puppies and Homer collide in this downright adorable Cliff Notes version of a Greek classic.
SF News SFist Tonight FILM: A pre-bloat Val Kilmer shines in 1980s teen comedy Real Genius. You remember, it's the one where (SPOILER ALERT) laser energy hi-jinks result in a massive volume of popcorn popping. Good stuff.
Arts & Entertainment Free Screening of <em>Milk</em> at The Independent on Monday Night FuncheapSF alerted us to a free screening of Milk on Monday night at 8 p.m. at the Independent. We just might go and swoon over James Franco and Emile Hirsch some more,
misc Film(s) du Jour: Grey Gardens Trailer You know how Grey Gardens -- the 1970s documentary about shut-ins Edith "Big Edie" Ewing Bouvier Beale and her daughter Edith "Little Edie" Bouvier Beale, who were the aunt and first cousin of
misc William Shatner 'Responds' to SF Trekkie Don't you just love the call-and-response aspect of op-ed YouTubery? After posting about the persnickety trekkie upset by the scale of buildings in the 24th Century version of San Francisco depicted in the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>Diamond Head</em> on Sunday This is our final SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre giveaway. Write a haiku using the word "interracial," and enter to win a pair of tickets to the epic Diamond Head on Sunday afternoon, which was
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi</em> on Sunday Night Here is our fourth SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre giveaway. Write a haiku using the word "Bollywood," and enter to win a pair of tickets to Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi on Sunday night, which
Arts & Entertainment Local Trekkie Upset About Scale of Buildings in Futuristic San Francisco This Star Trek fan is indignant over the CGI-inflated San Francisco in the 24th Century depicted in the trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie. As he rightly points out, any San Franciscan
Arts & Entertainment Call for Entries: Fourth Annual ATA Film & Video Festival Since most of you peeled the yellow wallpaper after American Apparel dared to open shop on Valencia Street, it's payback time. Artists Television Access is inviting experimental film and video artists to submit
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BEER/LIT: Beer blogger Brian Yaeger of Beerodyssey.com reads from his new latest effort about a cross-country brewery tour; Red, White and Brew, followed by a free beer tasting. Mmm. 7:30
SF News Film du Jour: Internet Famous Class These are the worst kind of people in the world, all together in one class. You will want to put your face through a window after watching this video. And then chew your
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>The Love of Siam</em> on Saturday And now for our third SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre ticket giveaway. Write a haiku using the words "gay," "teen," and "love," and enter to win a pair of tickets to The Love of Siam
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>The Equation Between Love and Death</em> Here's our second SFIAAFF/Castro Theatre ticket giveaway. Write a haiku with the words "love" and "death," and enter to win a pair of tickets to the Saturday afternoon screening of The Equation
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF Giveaway: Tickets to <em>Dirty Hands</em> on Saturday The San Francisco Int'l Asian American Film Festival starts tomorrow, and we have five pairs of tickets to give away to the Castro Theatre screenings this weekend. The first set of tickets is
misc Film du Jour: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, 'Zero' Karen O -- the skinny, tall, retarded kitten-ish frontlady of Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- is the main culprit behind the phenomenon that led most women to believe they could pull of bangs. Here
misc Film du Jour: <s>Pie</s> Shaving Cream Fight San Francisco played host to some sort of massive, public pie fight at the Powell Street cable car turnaround last week. Real pie, however, wasn't used. No filling, crust, or whipped cream was
misc Camera + Sushi Boat = Fun We know we're piling on the video clips today. Sorry. But since it's a stormy day, we figured why not. Also, some of you might have seen this already. To those of you
