Arts & Entertainment The SF Black Film Festival One of the best things about living in San Francisco is all the film festivals! We thought we were on top of them, and then we just found out this weekend that the
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For Another Hole In The Head! ....and by "run," we mean, "run to the Roxie and start buying your tickets and passes now" for the Fourth Annual Another Hole In The Head Indiefest fantasy, sci-fi, and horror movie fest!
Arts & Entertainment Let's Go To The Movies: Big Fish The current contribution to the mass spoon-feeding that is the summer blockbuster schedule is . Not as strong as the first film and far stronger than the second (which stunk like dead kraken), World’
SF News Day Around The Bay --Carnaval went well! --Jack Daly for mayor! Quote of the day: "Daddy, this party is no fun. Let's go to another party." Don't the progressives say that? Bonus tidbit: Sarah Daly says there
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Local Virtues We are always going to tell you to see Other Cinema. You can set your watch to it, we promise. This week’s Incredibly Strange Music program is packed with punk rock/bad
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Michael J. Nelson of RiffTrax and MST3K RiffTrax is Mike Nelson's clever venture which allows him (and frequent contributors Murphy and Corbett) to make fun of more current films (and TV shows) without having to deal with annoying copyright issues.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Encore: <i>The Prodigy</i> Almost two years ago, an action movie fan who at that point went by the moniker "SFist Eve" gave a rave review to a little indie-noir film called The Prodigy and subsequently managed
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
Arts & Entertainment The ))<>(( on Miranda July's Book Reading At Modern Times ))<>((? Well, it's from her movie. Author/artist/director/performer/etc Miranda July came by Modern Times Bookstore in The Mission last night to read from her new collection of short stories,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>La Vie En Rose</i> And The Closing Night Party And on to Mezzanine Thursday night for the SFIFF closing night party -- with a surprise performer . . . . but before the final sendoff, we headed over to the Castro Theater for what turned out
Arts & Entertainment Jennifer Siebel Needs An Assistant Are you looking to get into the entertainment biz? Look what we got in our inbox! Stanford alum Jennifer Siebel would like to hire a full time assistant for her production company, Girl's
Arts & Entertainment Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
Arts & Entertainment Honorary Mention: Short Round you're surely familiar with; it's incredibly rare to find a screening of the disastrous Howard; and Troll 2 -- well, there simply aren't words for how appallingly, deliciously incompetent the film is. (Hint:
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Tom DiCillo’s <i>Delirious</i> " The Centerpiece film at the San Francisco International Film Festival was the satirical romantic comedy Delirious. Steve Buscemi is a down on his luck paparazzo who takes in a homeless wannabe actor played
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>On Fire</i> A few minutes before the movie started there was a strange buzzing coming from the front of the theatre and we noticed an older man fiddling with his hearing aid. That's when we
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Congorama</i> It's easy to make a heroic character lovable and the bad guy despicable, but it's much more of an accomplishment to turn a fallible, sweaty, chubby guy with real flaws, including a seriously
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Once</i> SFist Wendy's favorite SFIFF film fest movie yet! It doesn’t get any better than this. Really. We headed to the Clay Sunday night, very relaxed and content as it was, having spent
SF News Mystery Shelters Soon to be Glimpsed Muni's giving us the chance of a lifetime: come see the proposed new transit shelter designs! Y'see, we're going to be getting a revamp of our familiar domed-roof shelters, and Muni's in the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Peter Morgan and <i>The Deal</i> We'd been wanting to see ever since we saw The Queen, and it did not disappoint! We're grasping for analogies here! It's like the Godfather, only about politics! It's like Amadeus, if Salieri
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>7 Years</i> and <i>Dans Paris</i> This weekend we took in a couple of French dramas at the SFIFF, but because at least one of them is slated for distribution in the near future, we’ve been asked not
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cold Prey</i> We’ll start off this review by saying we love Stella Artois…or more specifically the free Stellas we had at the mini-beer garden before the midnight horror movie screening of at the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Family Ties After having watched and Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project on the very fancy SF Int'l Film Fest screener DVD machines this afternoon, we're thinking the theme of the afternoon was family obligations. (This
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Private Fears In Public Places</i> We knew very little about the SF Int'l Film Fest's Private Fears in Public Places but were intrigued by the title. Turns out the play is based on an English play by the
