Arts & Entertainment Watch The Gorgeous Trailer For 'The Last Black Man In San Francisco', Which Premiered At The Castro Last Night Writer-director Joe Talbot's feature-film debut, The Last Black Man In San Francisco, made a splash at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and as it heads into wide release, it just had its official premiere at the Castro Theatre on Wednesday.
Arts & Entertainment Check Out The Full Frameline Schedule for 2017 The Frameline LGBTQ film festival, which serves as the unofficial kickoff of SF Pride proceedings when it begins its ten-day run from June 15-25, posted its full 2017 lineup of 147 films from
Arts & Entertainment 11 Of The Best Romance Films And Rom-Coms Set In SF San Francisco, a popular place to leave one's heart, has played the backdrop to many a romance and romantic comedy. Here, a roundup of 11 of them that are varying degrees of charming,
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Alamo Drafthouse Celebration Of SF Cinema From 'Mrs. Doubtfire' To 'The Last Waltz' Has there ever been a better time to escape into the soothing oblivion of a dark movie theater? Not to mention one where you can drink at your seat and where you're expressly
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Here's The Schedule For Hayes Valley's PROXY Outdoor Film Festival "[Moviegoing] brings people together," Douglas Burnham of the architecture firm Envelope A+D tells Hoodline. "With movies, it's dark, people are quiet, there's a little bit of an intimacy." So Burnham, who helped
Arts & Entertainment Don't Be Fooled By That Violent Outer Sunset Attack: It's Art, Not Crime If you see a woman getting attacked in the Outer Sunset Thursday night, check the address. If you're on Taraval Street near 30th Avenue, it's not a violent altercation — it's art. According to
SF News Day Around the Bay: A Memorial For The Beloved Red Vic Resident Cat Dashiell, the long-lived resident feline of the defunct Red Vic Theater, has died. Friends and admires are invited to a memorial that's being held at the Second Act Marketplace at 6 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Godzilla Set To Destroy San Francisco, As So Many Movies Do The first full length trailer for the most recent version of Godzilla was unleashed on the internet Tuesday, with predictably breathless results (An apparent 69,400 news reports at publication time, wow). We
Arts & Entertainment Photos: See Classic S.F. Movie Locations Then And Now The next time you're frustrated standing on the tourist-packed corner of Powell and Geary, take solace knowing you're in the same spot Tippi Hedren crossed in Hitchcock's The Birds. In fact, the next
Arts & Entertainment Lebowski Fest Is Coming: 5 Questions For The Dude In Charge Ah, The Big Lebowski. It's clocked miles of quotable moments, inspired a new generation of ironic bowling teams, and spawned a festival that's now over a decade old and rolling. With the Lebowski
Arts & Entertainment Meanwhile, At The Metreon: Metallica Metallica made a red carpet appearance at the Metreon on Monday night for the US premiere of Metallica Through The Never. What's it about, you ask? Described by Peter Travers of Rolling Stone
Arts & Entertainment Tim Burton Transforms North Beach Into 1950s San Francisco This morning crews on the set of Big Eyes, a forthcoming film from director Tim Burton, transformed Grant Avenue into a scene right out of 1950s San Francisco. The film, tentatively set to
Arts & Entertainment Historic Balboa Theater In Jeopardy The historic Balboa Theater is in danger of closing if it can't raise the funds to go digital. The Ocean Beach Bulletin reports that the 87-year-old theater is seeking money through a Kickstarter
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Zodiac Redux At The Old Mint By now 'Zodiac', the 2007 movie based on the events surrounding the Zodiac Killer's reign of terror in 1970's San Francisco, is a bit of a classic. From scenes depicting a Chronicle newsroom
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: '70s Horror Films At Vortex Room The Vortex Room's film screenings have been going on for a while, but there's still a secret, speakeasy-type feel to the little lounge, which doubles as movie theater when the lights go down
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: DocFest Local Shorts The 12th Annual SF DocFest has hit the Bay Area, and that means dozens of films providing "a manageable amount of truth" are screening for your enjoyment. (Side note: can you handle the
Arts & Entertainment Film Based On Michelle Tea's 'Valencia' Premiering At Frameline Mission-based literary types are all more than familiar with Valencia, the 2000 novel that put local writer Michelle Tea on the map, and which was republished in a paperback edition in 2008. It's
Arts & Entertainment Watch This: 5 SFIFF Weekend Movie Picks The San Francisco International Film Festival is here, and tickets to this year's films are going like hotcakes. If you're looking to soak up a little culture this weekend, here are our top
Arts & Entertainment Our 10 Picks From The SF Int'l Film Fest Lineup The San Francisco Film Society has released the lineup of their 56th annual International Film Festival, and with 200+ films on order, it's sure to be a cultural binge with the inevitable FOMO
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: 'Linsanity' At The Castro Theater Disclaimer: Tickets for tonight are available through RUSH only. Last year, NBA player Jeremy Lin became one of the world's most talked-about athletes in the world. His quick rise to fame, spurred by
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Frank Ocean Song Cut From 'Django Unchained' First off, if you haven't seen Django Unchained, run, don't walk. It's a terrific, shocking, beautifully crafted, wildly entertaining, Tarantino-esque fantasy about life in the pre-Civil War south. The soundtrack, like those from
Arts & Entertainment Netflix DVD Experiencing Outage [Update] Holy heck, people. Netflix is down again. Or rather it was. Following their Christmas Eve blackout, the movie rental service experienced an outage today. "We're Sorry. The Netflix site is temporarily unavailable. Our
Arts & Entertainment FYI, Larry Ellison's Daughter Put Up $45 Million for 'Zero Dark Thirty' So, Megan Ellison, daughter of Oracle billionaire Larry, is now a respected Hollywood producer. With millions of her dad's money to play with each year, she was the major funding source behind The
Arts & Entertainment Google Can Now Play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon In case you were wondering what they were paying all of those 22-year-old computer geniuses for, Google has announced a breakthrough in search technology. But don't get your credit card out for those
Arts & Entertainment Regarding the Secret Plot of the S.F.-Based Woody Allen Movie You may have caught wind of the fact that Woody Allen was in San Francisco this summer filming his newest, untitled project. Well, SF Mag has it on good authority that the super-secret
