SF News Sarah Tucker, 1979-2006 We saw the saddest obituary last week in the Chron, for the death of Sarah Tucker, a 26-year-old Mission resident who was killed in a hit-and-run bicycle accident on Polk and Geary Street
Arts & Entertainment Dispatch from Noir City: NoirQuake! In 1950, the great mystery writer Raymond Chandler wrote of the contemporaneous critical response to his stories and those of James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett, et. al. that: It takes a very open
Arts & Entertainment SF360 Revealed! Part One: New News Because the Film Society's SF360 program is so multi-faceted, our coverage is going to be split into a five-part series over the course of this week. Today, we're be exploring a local film-news
Arts & Entertainment SFist Wishes It Could Watch: Takashi Miike's "Imprint" Miike's film was one of the most horrifying things we've ever seen. EVER. So we wonder what the producers of "Masters of Horror" could have possibly been expecting. Executive producer Mick Garris is
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival: <i>Sergeant Pepper</i> What distinguishes "Sergeant Pepper" from other Films About Children -- it would be a mistake to call it a Children's Film -- is its deft restraint. Sure, there are thrills like a crazy-inventor
Arts & Entertainment Berlin and Beyond Film Festival - No Terri Nunn, But Still Good Tonight's opening features (watch out for Flash), a film about the German passive resistance movement during World War II. We hear it's pretty good, and the director, Marc Rothemund, is expected to attend
Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Red Hot Cinema at the Red (Hot) Vic We're starting to think that the Haight's Red Vic Movie House, a worker-owned theater with comfy couches and yummy popcorn, is hitting that age (you know that age) when they think about sex
SF News Bob McLeod, R.I.P San Francisco seems a little darker this week, with the passing of former Chronicle photo editor Bob McLeod this Monday. This SFist only knew Bob a little bit. Our most vivid memory of
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog: In with the New and Old at the Curran Theatre Goths everywhere, rejoice! They finally made a musical based on Anne Rice's vampire novels. Now, our gut feeling is that this will either totally rock or totally suck, so
Arts & Entertainment SFisting: Reefer Madness On Demand The week between Xmas and New Year's always makes us into shut-ins. Plus, it's raining, like, all the time. We're broke. We're pervs. And there's nothing on TV. But wait: there is. Something
Arts & Entertainment Roxie Saved! -- the New College Roxie Film Center! Ending years of nail-biting and speculation, the Roxie Theater on 16th and Valencia has been saved from shuttering by its neighbors the New College. The New
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Weekend OK. We promise never to attempt lame rhyming ever again. But we DID want to let you know that there's a "Creature Comforts" marathon on BBC America tonight, starting at 7:30 p.
SF News All We Hear... Is Video Gaga ....video goo-goo, video blah-blah. Even as people continue to debate whether Officer Andrew Cohen's now-notorious film project, involving African-American officers eating out of dog bowls and Charlie's Angels parodies is racist/sexist, in
Arts & Entertainment Gays Love Cowboys? Who Knew! We hate to admit it, but all this modern mania for has simply passed us by. At this point, we're dreading the inevitable trip to the Embarcadero to watch the damn thing, borne
SF News SFPD Video Scandal We've never understood this phenomenon of encouraging disgruntled employees to film skits to screen before the whole office to "boost morale." The last time we were forced to do this, we filmed a
misc Win Passes To See <i>Hoodwinked</i>! The San Francisco Film Society is hosting a special screening of at the Clay this Sunday the 11th at 7:30 p.m., and we have passes to give away to you! Hoodwinked,
Arts & Entertainment We Love Dirty Laundry Step foot in the place where all the magic happens as the ALIVE @ 9th Street series continues with with “Don’t Ask, Do Tell”, "an examination of taboo cultural secrets that filmmakers both
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Tribe</i> First off, we have to give Ms. Shlain credit for wracking up the PR as the Herbst was almost sold out. She also managed to turn a fifteen minute movie into almost an
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to IndieFest's Rock N Roll Horror Show! Doors open at 7, screens at 8, and at 10 musical acts Stolen Babies and The Graves Brothers Deluxe hit the stage, with between sets by Church of Elvis DJs Bishop and Moonshine.
misc Win Passes To See <i>Going Shopping</i>! Our friends at Larsen Associates love SFist readers! They've given us passes for the run of engagement of , which opened yesterday at the Opera Plaza cinema. Holly (Victoria Foyt), is a successful clothing
Arts & Entertainment Shhhhh! The loud crass holidays impeding your Oprah-like search for your spirit? Perhaps some time spent without the distraction of dialogue would help you clear your mental palate. Until the gentlemen come along and
SF News It's Hammer -- And Pizza -- Time She sent us to this craigslist entry, which contains identical verbiage to the one we posted earlier, except that it lists an additional audition venue: Monday November 21st between 7 -9 Round Table
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads -- Or Listens to Others Read A couple literary events have made their way into our inbox lately, and we want to tell you about them. It's just that simple. Sometimes we like to watch people reading, it's like
Arts & Entertainment Truffaut or Not Truffaut? The work can be documentary, narrative or experimental, animated or live action, and can be of any length. The final deadline for submissions is Friday, December 9. To make things interesting, the festival
