Arts & Entertainment New Artwork Coincides With This Weekend's 'Vertigo' Screening To go along with this Labor Day weekend's screening of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo at the Castro Theatre, Spoke Art unveiled two new screen prints by artists Chuck Sperry and Sam Smith available for
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour: Woody Shot of Woody Allen filming in the Inner Richmond by Justin Beck.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Woody Allen Film Shooting At 14th And South Van Ness While we cannot see the visages of either Allen or Blanchett (though, omfg, white-hot foodie offal cupcake gossip: word is that the two dined together at Jardiniere last week), Jackson West snapped this
Arts & Entertainment Things That Should Horrify You: A 10-Year-Old's Stripping Schedule We tend to ignore Kickstarter-related missives as a general rule, but local filmmaker Hima B.'s recent email regarding funding for her new documentary took us by surprise. She features an actual fantasy
Arts & Entertainment Woody Allen's Next Movie Will Be Filmed In SF! Over the past few years, Woody Allen had all but abandoned shooting films in New York City. As Gothamist reported back in 2009, Allen explained his decision was due to financial constraints, saying,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oscar Watch: Controversial Hollywood Cocktails At Quince The Financial District's noted restaurant of glitz and glamour, Quince, just concocted several new cocktails to coincide with Oscar season. (Pst, the Academy Awards fall on Sunday, February 26th.) Most of the drinks
Arts & Entertainment Oscar Nominees Are In: Hugo Leads With 11, Melissa McCarthy Scores 1 We're into the final stretch of award show season, folks. The nominees for the 2012 Academy Awards (now hosted again by your grandmother's favorite, Billy Crystal, not Eddie Murphy) are out! If you've
Arts & Entertainment Indie Film Veteran Bingham Ray Dies At Sundance Sigh. San Francisco Film Society just announced that beloved Executive Director Bingham Ray died today, January 23, while attending the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. In addition to manning the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Carol Channing All Up In Your Face You know who's larger than life? Carol Channing. You know who attended Aptos Middle School and Lowell High School in San Francisco? Carol Channing. Do you know who, while distributing Christian Science Monitors
Arts & Entertainment SFist Gift Guide: 'The Joy Luck Club' (Film) You may have loudly professed your love for food trucks. You may tweet with the utmost convincing gravitas about Occupy SF. You may like to gnaw on a sourdough loaf while taking a
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey' Preview Peter Jackson's anticipated two-part prequel to his Lord of the Rings trilogy brings back a slew of your favorite Tolkien characters (and noted thespians) including Cate Blanchett, Ian Holm, Ian McKellen, Elijah Wood,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Beyond This Place' with Live Score by Sufjan Stevens and Ray Raposa (By Angela Zimmerman) A lot of people have fucked up parents. As cinematic subject matter, the emotionally resonant relationship between father or mother and son or daughter has been explored and dissected more
Arts & Entertainment Twentysomething: Susie Bright Welcome again to Twentysomething, SFist's nifty interview series. This week we have iconic sex writer/guru Susie Bright answering our twenty questions of insight and probe, with a few personal queries thrown in
SF News Schwarzenegger Cinematic Comeback to Be Filmed in New Mexico Disgraced former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger plans on making a return to the big screen. Sure to be as successful as Norma Desmond's Salome, his latest effort, titled, Last Stand, will be shot
Arts & Entertainment Red Vic to Close This Month After 31 Years After serving the stoned and extremely tripped out for three decades, Haight Street's Red Vic will officially close forever on July 25, the movie theater's 31st birthday. It was the kind of place
SF News Red Vic Set to Close This Summer The Red Vic Movie House will be holding their final screening this summer unless some generous patron of neighborhood theaters steps in to save the venerable Upper Haight institution. KQED reports that recent
SF News Paul Thomas Anderson, James Franco Shooting Movies In Bay Area This Summer A few notables will shoot movies in the Bay Area this summer. Valley kid Paul Thomas Anderson will start filming The Master in Vallejo mostly, with some shooting at sea. Anderson's latest flick
Arts & Entertainment Peaches Christ Talks 'Mommie Dearest,' Faye Dunaway, and Child Abuse High-glamour child abuse, anyone? You are in luck. On Saturday night, Peaches Christ (Midnight Mass creator, All About Evil writer/director) will once again screen Mommie Dearest, this time in honor of its
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Tonight's Cheap Booze: Tequila, Tecate, and Terror at Bender's Bender's, the Mission's favorite glamour trap, offers patrons $6 for a Tecate and a shot of tequila tonight from 10pm - 2 am. What's more, free horror films will play on the wall.
misc Scene From A Closing Blockbuster Video It's the end of an era, folks. The video store as we know it is doomed. Here's a shot from the Church Street Blockbuster Video set to close April 10. For those of
SF News Oscar Nominations Spew Forth Well, both Mila Kunis and Barbara Hershey were snubbed for their work in Black Swan, and Christopher Nolan was nixed from the Best Director category for Inception at this morning's Academy Award nominations
misc Jennifer Siebel-Newsom, Todd Traina Debut Cinematic Efforts at Sundance Once known a the framework for independent film to reach a wider audience, the Sundance FIlm Festival is now a showcase for the rich and famous to showcase stabs at cinema gold. More
Arts & Entertainment Here's Your Chance To Be A Porn Extra Have you always wanted to be an extra in a gay porn cinema? Well, call your parents and tell them the good news! On Tuesday, noted pornography thespian Chris Porter will perform with
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 2010: A Guide to the Gay Film Fest Film festivals, for all but the unemployed and the truly film-obsessed, can be overwhelming. Who has time to see like a hundred movies in a couple of weeks? We suppose it's never the
Arts & Entertainment Recapping the <em>All About Evil</em> World Premiere at the Castro Theatre For those just tuning in, the SF Int'l Film Fest is still happening and runs through this week. One of the centerpiece premieres at the festival, on Saturday at the Castro, was a
