Arts & Entertainment Gaviffer Do Cinequest Big G took a break from his busy thunder-stealing schedule on Sunday to watch his lady friend, Jennifer Siebel, act her heart out at the Cinequest Film Festival in San Jose. The movie
Arts & Entertainment NoisePop Film Fest: <i>You're Gonna Miss Me</i> The crowd inside was raucous, befitting a man who's an icon not only to 60s psychedelic fans but also 70s horror-metal ones -- a woman stood up and started shouting something about making
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Face-Off: Michael Pollan v. John Mackey The talk, held at Zellerbach Hall on the Berkeley campus, was supposed to be at a smaller venue but so many people wanted to watch Pollan and Mackey go head to head that
Arts & Entertainment Wanna Be in the Pictures? Curator Ariella Ben-Dov organizes the festival’s accepted submissions by subject, as opposed to genre; the result in an eclectic mix that can feature documentaries, experiments and short narratives all in one screening.
Arts & Entertainment Hail Fellow Well Met Check out the hailstone that SFist Jim captured on film at around 9:07 p.m. in the Haight! In his poetic phrasing, "bigger than a bb, smaller than a lemon drop." This
SF News Treasure Hunt: Claymate of the Month Tucked away in the Yerba Buena Gardens, the multimedia arts and technology museum with the sweet name of Zeum (pronounced "Zee-uhm") is a heaven of creativity and fun. Its digital studio, music production
Arts & Entertainment Many People Died. It was about a year and a half ago when we interviewed a colorful local eccentric about his plans to rip off The Birds and then go to the moon. Since then, things
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Film Fest This year's Noise Pop Film Fest runs from Feb. 28 through March 4, and is featuring movies like: a documentary about 924 Gilman, a Sonic Youth concert video shot by concertgoers, a Roky
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Substance Of Things Hoped For</i> We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For. Daphne
Arts & Entertainment Indiefest: Stalking Santa What, you don't believe in Santa Claus? Don't tell that to Dr.Lloyd Darrow, a self-proclaimed 'Santa-ologist', whose life's mission is to uncover the truth about the elusive fat man who visits us
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>Manhattan, Kansas</i> And so began Tara's story about growing up in rural Kansas as an only child of a single mom who never quite grew up herself. The story beautifully unraveled and came back together
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <em>Rolling</em> and <em>Mojave Phone Booth</em> Though the plot is fully scripted and cast with actors, Rolling is produced in the style of as a documentary. As such, the film alternates between talking head interview footage of each of
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: VIVA Viva--a campy stylized soft porn movie played at the Roxie Theatre for the San Francisco Independent Film Festival last week and our plus-one was running late. The theatre seemed freakishly well-lit and we
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Ballad of Greenwich Village</i> and <i>Mischief at 16th and Florida</i> The two SF Indie Fest films we watched on Friday night at the Victoria Theatre made for a very thought-provoking juxtaposition. The short film Mischief at 16th and Florida captured the rich history
Arts & Entertainment History, Oh Damaged History: IndieFest '07 Showcases Films Inspired by the "Greats" Bookending 07’s SF IndieFest are two great pix promptly bound for distribution IndieFest’s opening night feature is David Lynch’s first self-distributed film: Inland Empire. A ghostly tale dealing with the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Climates</em> What do we mean? Climates is the type of movie where there's not that much dialogue and there's not much action, but the simple act of smoking a cigarette is so fraught with
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to SF Sketchfest's First Annual Filmed Sketch Night Why gather with strangers in a theater to stare at funny films on a screen when you could . . . sit at home on your couch and stare at funny films (even these most of
Arts & Entertainment A Veritable Cinema How DARE you suggest that independent movies are pretentious, self-satisfied, masturbatory, and heavy-handed? What an accusation. Just glance at the SF Indie Fest's puke-green website, which just struggled to life a few days
misc Interview: JL Aronson What is the best thing about the Danielson movie? It’s done. No, just kidding. But seriously, it took a long time and I’m still shocked that it’s completed. The best
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Ask Me, Don't Tell Me Boing Boing tips us off to this awesome short 1961 film about juvenile delinquency, and how gangs can help curb the trend towards teenage lawlessness. And by "gangs" we mean "clubs," as that's
misc Week in -Ists Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by
SF News You Had To Be There The problem was that before there was no way of tracking who was attending and who wasn't. Besides the fact nobody really saw the records as they sat in the commission offices, the
Arts & Entertainment A Kite Doesn't Run Through Fremont No, we're just joking. It's not known why they're not filming in Fremont as they appear to be filming almost everywhere in the East Bay but Fremont. Scenes so far have been shot
Arts & Entertainment And the Winner Is.... Anyhoo, the winner for best picture is Little Children and no, it's not the prequel to "Little Woman." It's a movie that was out for a bout a week, starring Kate Winslet about
