Arts & Entertainment Interview: Greg Whiteley SFist is thankful for many things this time of year. We are especially thankful for independent movies and the independent theaters that show them. SFist has been lucky to attend the Sundance Film
misc Please Hammer, Do Hire Us Tuesday, November 22nd between 7pm - 9 pm Film Arts Foundation 145 Ninth Street #102 San Francisco, CA We are holding an audition for two Hammer music videos, which will have national distribution.
misc Win a DVD of <i>Saving Face</i>! Not only did we see local director Alice Wu's fantastic film , but we got to meether and later interview her. We even gave away passes to see the movie when it played in
Arts & Entertainment SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival: <i>It's My Country Too</i> As we settled into our seats at the Castro for the world premiere of documentary , part of the SF Int'l South Asian Film Festival, there was a generalized hubbub as a tall man
misc Win Passes to Sing Along <i>Truth or Dare</i> Our summer camp drama club fantasies were finally realized the day new friend of SFist Peaches Christ, (she of the infamous Midnight Mass series at The Bridge), offered us tickets to the Sing
misc Topless Tidbits Need topless model 18-30 to stomp my grapes for tastefull [sic] documentary film. Pay is negotiable. Will require about 2 hours of time. Please send pic and resume.Hmmm. SFist Derrick tells us
Arts & Entertainment Entrepreneur ... Filmmaker ... and Space Tourguide "Master of the Romantic Thriller -- that's what I'm known for," James tells us. And indeed, it is difficult to think of any cinematic peers to his films, including (tagline: "Can There be
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: <i>Women in Love</i> As we waited in line to enter the Roxie for last Friday's screening of , we were very excited to see this film. A documentary on the "sexually radical lesbian community of San Francisco"
misc Win Passes To <i>One Bright Shining Moment</i>! Well, the Film Arts Festival may be at its end, but that doesn't mean we're done giving away passes quite yet! Enter by midnight tonight to get passes for you and your guest
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: Wellstone! KQED listeners and Howard Deaniacs patiently lined up in the on-again off-again drizzly evening outside the Roxie, reading complimentary copies of Mother Jones and blocking the entrance to Dalva, as a sodden and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend, Sexxxy Film Festival Edition There are a lot of film festivals underway this weekend -- and we're going to most of them! So, stay tuned all next week for SFist reports from the trenches, but that doesn't
misc Win Passes to <i>Blood, Sweat, and Glitter</i>! One of the highlights of Frameline 29 (and winner of The Frameline Audience Award for Best Documentary), , returns to to Roxie tomorrow night at 11:30. The story of several competitors in 2004's
misc Win Passes to See <i>Scared New World </i>! Thanks to all of you who entered yesterday's contest for passes to see , and congratulations to the lucky winners! As we told you yesterday, The Film Arts Foundation and Larsen Associates are offering
Arts & Entertainment SFist Makes You A Star It's probably an everyday thing for our pals at LAist -- you open an email and it's a request for folks to come staff a shoot. Well, we don't want to sound like
misc Win Passes to see <i>Come Fly With Me Nude</i> We here at SFist are looking forward to the The 21st Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, which runs from Nov 3-9 at the Kanbar Hall and the Roxie Cinema in San Francisco,
Arts & Entertainment The Art of Advertising Once, a long time ago, we worked at a film production office in New York City. The crappy part was labelling tapes, getting coffee for people and waking up at 5am to assist
SF News Who is Kaiser Soze? On Wednesday we relished reading Matier and Ross's column about a brouhaha involving the San Francisco Film Commission. Seems that while shooting days in The City are up, all is not well between
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to See Shopgirl Enter to win a pair of passes to a sneak preview screening at the Landmark Embarcadero Cinema at 1 Embarcadero Center on Tuesday the 25th at 7:30pm. We've got several pairs of
Arts & Entertainment A Statement of Hope and Courage Tomorrow night sees the kick off of the the eighth annual United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University. With screenings in several buildings across campus (we love college campus maps, it makes
Arts & Entertainment Look Where Your Prom Footage Might Have Ended Up Have you ever been in the 9th Street Independent Film Center? We feel arty just walking in there, even before we visit the offices of the many local independent film organizations housed there.
misc Win Passes to <i>Quality Of Life</i>! Bay Area filmmaker Benjamin Morgan shot , his cutting-edge directorial debut film in our very own Mission district. The story of two young graffiti artists arrested for vandalism, this film has gotten a lot
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Cut Copy at Popscene Cut Copy's CD Bright Like Neon Love makes us smile and dance like no other CD we own. We haven't taken a shine to an upbeat electro-pop band like this since Tahiti 80.
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Economy of Art Labors on A mute boy in love with a blind girl! Marionettes! Butoh dancing! A swordfight! Attempted acting! Minnesotan hip-hoppers! Relentless artistic integrity! Sounds like another San Francisco film festival to us. The Foggy Eye
Arts & Entertainment In Pursuit of <i>Pursuit of Happyness</i> The scuttlebutt discussed over coffee and corned beef hash at the St. Francis this morning was about the film crews amassed on York street between 23rd and 24th. The set designers had already
Arts & Entertainment Howl Turns Fifty It's almost exactly fifty years later, and it still smacks you upside your beret-wearing cool-cat bongo-beating head, man -- Allan Ginsberg debuted his classic poem "Howl" on Friday, October 7, 1955, at a
