Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Palindromes</i> Back on April 13, Gothamist published this great interview with director Todd Solondz. At the time, we wondered if he'd be screening his new film, , at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Sure
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Princess of Mount Ledang</i> The thing that amazed us was that it only cost $4M, as it was as lush, detailed, and beautiful as an American film of ten times the price. From the intricately beautiful credits
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Blackmail</i> The print of the film was scratchy and old, appropriately and wonderfully so. Nice cozy scratches, great hammy silent-film acting, old-timeish title card remarks about women's place in society. The music was wonderful,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Czech Dream</i> Vít Klusák and Filip Remunda can thank their lucky stars that at the same time that they were making their documentary about the power of advertising, the government of the Czech republic decided
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Youth Voices and Visions So far SFist has been covering the San Francisco International Film Festival as a spectator, but SFist Paolo has graciously agreed to offer his perspective as a festival participant. His short, "Elements" appears
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Film Society Awards Night Keep reading past the jump for bona-fide celebrities and how we almost lost our sh** with one of them!
Arts & Entertainment Now You, Too, can be a Gay Usher Just when you were starting to worry that The Castro Theater might've gone all ex-gay, along comes Frameline 29, the 29th annual San Francisco International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, or
Arts & Entertainment A Touch of Class At the SFIFF’s super-special ritzy glamorous hoi-palloi Brad-Bird-Meet-And-Greet last week, Brad was surrounded by such a large gaggle of pleased society-types, you could’ve been forgiven for not realizing he was there
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Beyond Our Ken</i> North American Premiere It’s the story of two girls -- Shirley, who’s dating a doofy firefighter named Ken, the other, Chan, his ex-girlfriend. Chan introduces herself one night to Shirley, explaining that Ken has
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>November</i> There we were with our litle digital camera that seemed so fancy when we bought it at Best Buy, surrounded by big bad shooters. OK, that's kind of a lie, all the photographers
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Brad Bird's State of Cinema Address Surprisingly, the bulk of his talk concerned the Business End of the industry – specifically, the crappy things that studios, exhibitors, the media, and moviegoers do that allow awful movies to be made and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: An Imposter This Week The movie in question is Murder at the Presidio, which premieres on USA Monday, May 2nd, at 9 p.m. Lou Diamond Phillips stars as a member of the "Criminal Investigation Division" investigating
Arts & Entertainment Ho U The classes are part of the 4th Annual Sex Worker Film & Arts Fest, Sex Worker, of course, being the nice, politically correct term for a hooker (SFist, being the essence of politically
Arts & Entertainment Stuff You Totally Missed Bonus: Overheard in the ladies room by some fans who were there for the headliner, Rooney: Where are you from? Canada, Yah, we’re here from Omaha. That’s right; people came to
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>Edgar G. Ulmer: The Man Off Screen</em> If this review were an Edgar G. Ulmer movie, it would be covered in fog, have a sweeping orchestral score (public domain of course), and SFist would be a nihilistic outsider desperate for
Arts & Entertainment SF International Film Festival: SFist Has You Covered One of the many perks of SFist, (besides the private jet, sumptious office spaces, and Gavin calling round-the-clock "just to say 'hi'"), is that we are forced to get out of the house
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week, While Wishing We Could Watch Ourselves We can't really explain why we get such a thrill out of seeing our beautiful town show up on prime time television, but we do. Maybe we're hoping to see someone we know
SF News SFist Blind Item: Hair Pulling Isn't Just For Girls So, say you're a major local publication, and you win a major award for work published in said publication. What else would one do but go out to one of EssEff's fancy local
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: The Bay Area Hog the Camera This Week Well, after checking out what goes on on some of these local programs, we don't think that'll really be an issue. First up is "Bay Area Focus", which airs Sundays at 8:30
Arts & Entertainment So Long, Logo We suspect that this may be related to the Indiefest's recent announcement that they're currently holding a Design-Our-New-Logo Contest in the hopes of replacing the old, somewhat worn, clearly mentally unstable one. According
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reads or Something SFist Rain makes a good point today when she reminds us that our friends at the San Francisco Public Library have more to offer us than just the printed word. You can also
Arts & Entertainment Dirty Laundry: Fab! Holy Cow, has San Francisco actually been able to get something done? A few months ago, everyone was hemming and hawwing about how nobody shoots films here anymore and that the city really
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Cutie Honey</i> For those of you not familiar with 70s comic book turned TV show turned movie , imagine a completely non-ironic present-day Wonder Woman film, and you'll be pretty close. (tangentially, we noted that is
