Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Audience Of One</i> A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>The Road To San Diego</i> The Road to San Diego, at the SFIFF, is the story of Tati, from Pozo Azul, a small town in the Northeast Argentinian Misiones province (between Paraguay and Brazil), who embarks on a
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Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: All The <i>Rage</i> The film that followed Capelito, though, turned out to be one of the most disturbing, provocative films we’ve seen at this year’s festival thus far. , a made-for-television German thriller/drama by
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>Notes From The Toon Underground!</i> If the lines outside the Kabuki this weekend are any indication, everyone and their cousin knows that the SF Int'l Film Festival is the place to BE for the latest and greatest in
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <em>The Old, Weird America: Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music</em> We're not unique in becoming slightly obsessed with The Anthology, and this film, which combines talking head interviews with live performances from a series of tribute concerts, is proof of that. And yet,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Parker Posey Pictures! Drew Altizer is on ! He passed along these adorable pictures of adorable Parker Posey, who was in town yesterday for the screenings of her two (count 'em, two) indie movie extravaganzas last night
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>A Few Days Later...</i> Okay, we're not going to lie. When we read the description of the Iranian movie in the SF Int'l Film Fest guide as "a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision,
Arts & Entertainment Roadtripping At The SFIFF This Weekend Who needs Coachella when there’s Oppikoppi, a rock music festival held in South Africa every year? Really, we would have loved to have been at Coachella this weekend, but if you couldn’
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Win Tickets To <i>The Unforeseen</i>! Want to check out some film this Sunday afternoon? , a documentary set in one of our sister -ist cities, Austin, Texas, is about the battle between developers and environmentalists as a sweet-sounding but
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Youth Films Yes, we’ll admit we went to the ‘youth shorts’ with some preconceptions about youth films (maybe we were picturing our own painful camcorder films from years ago). But what we saw from
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Documentary Shorts We got to a classroom-sized room and settled into a folding chair just as people were starting to trickle in and, more importantly, right as the Trader Joe's snacks were being unpacked. Clearly
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go to the Movies Also, a major highlight in the local wisdom section: The Ken Anger Restorations. That will be one wicked great screening! LOCAL WISDOM Artist Television Access (922 Valencia St.) has the SF Premiere of
Arts & Entertainment SFWFF: Opening Night (LGBTQ Short Films) Yesterday was the opening night party of the Women’s Film Festival ! The night kicked off with LGBTQ films and included acoustic band Trusting Lucy performing before the show, trailers for movies on
Arts & Entertainment Gearing Up For the SF International Film Festival To celebrate their gold anniversary, the SFIFF is not only presenting the always-dazzling film festival itself, but hosting a huge array of events as well: from tributes to Spike Lee (and a screening
misc Local Gays Make Good, But Stay Local "Are SF days as a gay mecca over? Or is the list biased to LA, DC and NY media types?" Cedric asks. Excellent questions! The answers are no and yes, respectively. Readers, of
SF News Alms, Alms, Alms for the Poor As a result of these problems, the MTA is doing some brainstorming and coming up with a whole bunch of ideas. Some of these we've heard of before (raising the amount of parking
Arts & Entertainment The SF Women's Film Festival's On Its Way! The Women's Film Fest has put together an eclectic group of movie screenings, running from April 11 through Sunday the 15th, and organized into intriguing categories like LGBTQ short film (honoring Guinevere Turner
SF News Death Race 2007 Today, they're back in the news as a new story of wild behavior is making the rounds. The story comes from today's Matier & Ross and, to make a long story short, a
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Snoozing Through The <i>Century</i> Recipe for a nice nap: A beer and a whopping bbq turkey sandwich from Tommy’s Joynt followed by last night’s SFIAAFF film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, actually titled Syndromes and a Century.
Arts & Entertainment Craftwork We just saw The Science of Sleep, please don't fault us for it. Please don't tell us how we're oh so late in mentioning this brillant movie. You'll just ruin the high we
Arts & Entertainment SFIAFF: <em>Air Guitar Nation</em> Long-time readers of SFist will know that we love (love!) all things Air Guitar, both for its obvious silliness and its devotion to the rawk. So when we heard that Air Guitar Nation
SF News Pedestrian Killed on Valencia Street by Asshole Driver From what we understand, the Quentin Tarantino portion of his Grindhouse movie is about a stunt driver who goes a little crazy and starts running over people. Which sounds kind of dumb and
