Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Red Doors</i> Lee's first feature film, played on Saturday and after seeing Grain in the Ear boy were we ready for something completely different. Red Doors is the director's vaguely autobiographical story of a modern
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Sobhraj</i> As much as we were ready to love this slender (70 minutes) documentary, we bristled at the introducer's assertion that the reason for the inclusion of this film in the festival was because
Arts & Entertainment Get Out Of My Dreams And Onto My Couch cinematic superimpositions, symbolic imagery of razors and knives, and menacing shadows create a frightening world. A professor (Werner Krauss) is driven into a state of terror by strange intense nightmares accompanied by compulsive
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Achievers</i> In doing a little due diligence before writing this review, we turned up an entry on the Hyphen blog noting that reviewers are not supposed to reveal any of the plot to this
Arts & Entertainment <i>Black Panther Rank and File</i> Opens At Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Despite our WASPy, suburbanite background (which we go to great lengths to avoid acknowledging except when confronted with it like a speeding train at events such as these) – we walked through an exhibition
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Chinese Restaurants: Latin Passions</i> Long-time SFist readers will remember that we were so inspired at last year's SFIAAFF by "Chinese Restaurants: Three Continents" that we gave it our prestigious Best Film We Saw On SFist award for
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>No Sleep Til Shanghai</i> The crowd at the Kabuki Theater on Friday night had more hip-hoppers than usual, as SF Int'l Asian-American Film Fest attendees eagerly lined up three-deep for the sold-out showing of No Sleep Til
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Grain in the Ear</i> The film festival representative who introduced this movie described it as "challenging," which we think may just be a euphemism for slow--but not in a bad way. If you're used to the fast
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Americanese</i> Image from Americanese By contributing SFist MiHi Ahn
Arts & Entertainment Beyond Linkin Park Every Asian-American music listener has that list of Asian-American stars they whip out at a moment's notice: Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park, the half-Japanese violinist (of course he's a violinist) from Yellowcard, Karen
Arts & Entertainment We Want Freedom From 8-11 pm hit YBCA (701 Mission at 3rd Street) for short films about the Panthers and live music from Sok the Virgo, Mr. Rath & Descry (Subkrew), DJs Pink Panzer, Paul Paul
Arts & Entertainment SXSW: You Will Never Find a More Wretched Hive of Scum and Villany As far as we know, SFists Jackson and Krissy continue their tear though Austin, Texas at SXSW, but who the hell knows? We haven't heard from Krissy since yesterday (which might be an
Arts & Entertainment SXSW Keeps On Keeping On In music: Austinist got a hot tip that Morrissey is out and about. Mutaytor is playing two sets this Friday, "come creatively!" (hee) In film: Hotly anticipated is screening today at 4, we're
SF News SXSW Update We were wondering why it was so easy to get a parking place in the Mission last night when we remembered that all the cool people are at SXSW. Cool people like SFist
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Asian American Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered We're going to be seeing a ton of the movies, as well as hitting parties and other fun stuff like this Friday's and Saturday's Directions in Sound music events (we love Kero One!
SF News What's Going On At SXSW 2006? Our pals at Austinist have been busy with all sorts of fun at this year's South by Southwest conferences and festivals. Let's see what they'be been up to: In film, Austinist Bre went
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Tyrone Davies The Bay Area has its fair share of web celebrities, but sometimes something surfaces that stands out for its awesomeness. After both VH1’s Web Junk and BoingBoing featured this clip, we knew
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Unknown White Male</i>! (see the trailer here) is a documentary following Doug Bruce, a successful former stockbroker suddenlyand unexpectedly afflicted with a seemingly causeless form of retrograde amnesia. The filmmaker, Rupert Murray, is a longtime friend
Arts & Entertainment In Control Of All Things Returns No, this isn't the same thing as this one shot last year in SF and LA -- this one stars Grey's Anatomy's Justin Chambers, Prison Break's Robin Tunney, and Lost's William Mapother. (Are
Arts & Entertainment 2006 IndieFest Award Winners But while we've been recovering, the tireless IndieFest staff has tabulated all those little ballots y'all filled out, and determined the 2006 IndieFest award winners -- after all, what's a film festival without
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: S-T-A-G-E-F-O-G, Stage Fog at Post Street Theatre For those of us who have ever been terrorized and traumatized by school spelling bees, or who couldn't get a grip on "i before e except after c," this
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Yokai Daisenso</i> We acknowledge that it's a good movie, and that the violence isn't completely gratuitous. It makes a solid point about the objectification of women and the consequences of treating people as means to
Arts & Entertainment Krayg Burton from Film School But we digress. If you haven’t listened to Film School’s latest album, get it here (or maybe here, if you want to be the lucky billionth listener). It’s good. Normally
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: <i>Jimmy and Judy</i> High praise indeed! While we had hoped to see the film on the big screen at its IndieFest premiere on February 4, when we heard that Edward Furlong and Rachael Bella, the stars
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kang Je-gyu SFist contributor MiHi Ahn had an opportunity to correspond with Director Kang through an intrepeter, see their conversation after the jump! By SFist MiHi Ahn, contributing
