Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win, Still Remember when we were nagging you to get off the couch and make some damn art, already? Well, we have a couple more shots at the big auteur target in the sky for
Arts & Entertainment You Gotta Play To Win To live in the Bay Area is (frequently) to be able to count more than one aspiring filmmaker in one's circle of acquaintance. The next time you're at some dinner party/Zeitgeist get-together/
Arts & Entertainment Condoms Suck. But They Keep You Safe. The film was introduced by Bridge manager Joshua, who told the audience, "If you find any of the gays to be tired, just stick with it. ...They all pay." Well, "tired" is putting
misc Win Passes to Cut and Paste at ResFest Congratulations to all our lucky ResFest pass winners! Today we're giving away passes to see Cut and Paste at 6 pm Sunday, September 25 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. It's described
Arts & Entertainment Madcat Film Fest: City Nights Documentaries about San Francisco are always our favorite type of anything. So we bundled up for last night's outdoor screening of the Madcat Int'l Women's Film Festival's City Nights program at El Rio,
misc Win a Pass to Shorts Three at ResFest Today's awesome ResFest giveaway is for the Shorts Three program at 4 pm this Saturday, September 24 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre. According to the ResFest site, in this program "hidden
misc Win Passes to Cinema Electronica at ResFest! You already know that ResFest opens tomorrow at the Palace of Fine Arts. But, did you know that SFist, in conjunction with Larsen Associates (thanks, Chris!), will be giving away passes to the
Arts & Entertainment Artificial Hip Over 150 shorts, a restropective of the bizarre Tractor group's work, a Beck music video compilation, Jackson and His Computer Band, a Mike Mills (director of keynote, and tours of the very few
Arts & Entertainment Madcat Women's International Film Festival: Amok-imation Also good: "Small & Deep, Love Stories." High-falutin' title, but nevertheless humble and fun; our favorite image was as two coffeecups in love, smooching as their owners, themselves cooing lovebirds, batted eyelids at
misc Still Time For <i>Hellbent</i> Time is running out, but we still have some free passes to give away for tomorrow's screening of . Reviews have been mixed for this film, so we're looking forward to going tomorrow night
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes To The Opera: Rodelinda The few times we've gone to the opera previously, we've only been able to afford the seats that are so high up in the building that Jon Krakauer is writing a book about
SF News Last Week in SFist Last week, on As The 'Fist Turns..." Rescued animals arrive in SF, and you can help. Beloved Menlo Park bookstore may be saved from disaster by outside investors. Watch what you're saying, because
SF News I'm Not Bronstein If we haven't given you enough ideas on what to do this weekend, how about hanging out at the Chronicle looking for famous people? From an email sent to Chronicle staff earlier this
Arts & Entertainment Ticket Giveaway to see <i>Hellbent</i> Having enjoyed several years' worth of legitimate real-life horror during Castro Halloweens, we can't wait to see what passes for a Halloween spookiness in that ludicrous city to the south. Ms. Christ herself
SF News The SchwarzenWatcher's Running For Reelection The LA Times reports that American Media tried to pay off the guy who shot a movie of Arnie in Brazil for Playboy, called "Carnival in Rio" to stop him from screening it.
Arts & Entertainment MadCat Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered Starting tonight and running until September 27 in SF venues including El Rio, Artist's Television Access, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, with two additional programs at Berkeley's Pacific Film Archive, Oct 6
misc SFist Rants: Emergency Kits Was anyone else a little unnerved to see that "major earthquake in San Francisco" is listed as the number 2 scenario for FEMA practice, right below "terrorist attack on New York" and right
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>The Overcoat</i> Nope. It's all done by with dance-like movements, set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich. The result is that it's kind of like a silent film, kind of mime-y, and kind of a
SF News Interview: Lila Yomtoob Lila happens to be two things SFist holds near and dear: film maker and blogger-- A dreamy, dreamy combination when it comes right down to it. When Lila isn’t racking up credit
misc Win tickets to <i>Reel Paradise</i>! Our pals at Larsen Associates have come through again, giving us run of engagement passes for , which opens tomorrow at the Lumiere in here in the city, the Act in Berkeley and the
SF News Interview: Matthew Leutwyler We realized that we were living our rock and roll fantasy when we started getting chances to write about zombie movies. (What can we say? We're a simple person, and we have simple
SF News Haggling With Comcast The concerns over The City's new franchise agreement with Comcast have been bubbling under the surface for a while now, but things are just starting to get nasty. Gerardo Sandoval, in a Bay
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: <i>Arahan</i> You can tell we were excited to see the SFAFF movie Arahan Friday night, because we crossed the Tordesillas Line of Market Street and actually ventured up to the (gasp!) Marina -- where
Arts & Entertainment <em>Graffiti: Urban Scrawl or Artistic Freedom?</em> Discuss Amongst Yourselves. We visited the Commonwealth Club for their most recent session of Inforum, a division of the Club that aims to “inspire debate around civic issues” for people in their 20’s and 30’
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: Rice Rhapsody (<i>Hainan Ji Fan</i>) Dang, it was cold waiting outside the Four Star for the doors to open for the San Francisco Asian Film Festival's premiere of ! And can we just say, the movie that screened right
