Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>Your Mommy Kills Animals</i> Watch the trailer for Your Mommy Kills Animals. We felt a little bad when the lady working the concession stand at the Roxie seemed so startled we were getting butter on our popcorn
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Film Fest This year's Noise Pop Film Fest runs from Feb. 28 through March 4, and is featuring movies like: a documentary about 924 Gilman, a Sonic Youth concert video shot by concertgoers, a Roky
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Substance Of Things Hoped For</i> We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For. Daphne
Arts & Entertainment Indiefest: Stalking Santa What, you don't believe in Santa Claus? Don't tell that to Dr.Lloyd Darrow, a self-proclaimed 'Santa-ologist', whose life's mission is to uncover the truth about the elusive fat man who visits us
Arts & Entertainment It's Time For the SF Asian-American Film Festival! This is the 25th SF Int'l Asian-American Film Festival, and they're celebrating their silver anniversary this year with a special focus on Chinese-American film, a retrospective of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>Manhattan, Kansas</i> And so began Tara's story about growing up in rural Kansas as an only child of a single mom who never quite grew up herself. The story beautifully unraveled and came back together
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <em>Rolling</em> and <em>Mojave Phone Booth</em> Though the plot is fully scripted and cast with actors, Rolling is produced in the style of as a documentary. As such, the film alternates between talking head interview footage of each of
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Ballad of Greenwich Village</i> and <i>Mischief at 16th and Florida</i> The two SF Indie Fest films we watched on Friday night at the Victoria Theatre made for a very thought-provoking juxtaposition. The short film Mischief at 16th and Florida captured the rich history
SF News And Here's a Sad Story Michael Keenan, a 43 year old artist is in critical condition after rushing into a fire to save a dog. The dog isn't doing much better. What makes the story particularly intriguing is
Arts & Entertainment History, Oh Damaged History: IndieFest '07 Showcases Films Inspired by the "Greats" Bookending 07’s SF IndieFest are two great pix promptly bound for distribution IndieFest’s opening night feature is David Lynch’s first self-distributed film: Inland Empire. A ghostly tale dealing with the
SF News The Day After the Day After So you're Alex Tourk. Everything is fine and honky dorky until your wife, out of the blue, admits to having a fling with not only your boss but one of your best buddies.
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Climates</em> What do we mean? Climates is the type of movie where there's not that much dialogue and there's not much action, but the simple act of smoking a cigarette is so fraught with
Arts & Entertainment A Veritable Cinema How DARE you suggest that independent movies are pretentious, self-satisfied, masturbatory, and heavy-handed? What an accusation. Just glance at the SF Indie Fest's puke-green website, which just struggled to life a few days
SF News Shorter Gavin in the Examiner As we all know, Gavin is up for re-election this year (and why 2007? Aren't big elections supposed to be in even-numbered years? Is this one more "only in SF" type of thing?
Arts & Entertainment SFist Christopher's Best From The Past 365 Days * Album Of The Year: Mogwai -- "Mr. Beast" The mostly-instrumental music of Glasgow's Mogwai has been described as big instrumental rock music for a soundtrack. The soundtrack of your whatever-you're-doing. If whatever-you're-doing really
Arts & Entertainment A Kite Doesn't Run Through Fremont No, we're just joking. It's not known why they're not filming in Fremont as they appear to be filming almost everywhere in the East Bay but Fremont. Scenes so far have been shot
Arts & Entertainment We Are So Doing This See, the way we see it is it'll be cold, the stores will be mayhem, we've already seen "A Christmas Story" over twenty times, and we have no life. What could be better
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV Yule Love Darlene Love performing the best Christmas song ever, "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" on Letterman tonight? Check. Twenty-four hours of on TBS starting on Christmas Eve? Check. It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews <em>Curse of the Golden Flower</em> Which brings us to Curse of the Golden Flower, Yimou's latest epic sword and kung fu flick. Will it blow us away or will it bore us? The answer, actually, is somewhere in
Arts & Entertainment And the Winner Is.... Anyhoo, the winner for best picture is Little Children and no, it's not the prequel to "Little Woman." It's a movie that was out for a bout a week, starring Kate Winslet about
Arts & Entertainment The Glide Red Carpet is based on the true story of a homeless man in San Francisco named Chris Gardner who turned his life around in the 1980s with the help of Glide Memorial and became a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes to the Movies Up first is the movie that's the talk of everything, Apocalypto. You know, we actually kind of want to see this movie. And yeah, we are fully aware of the fact Mel has
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Shearer It's difficult to categorize Shearer's art because he's done radio (KRCW), TV (Jack Benny, SNL, Politically Incorrect, Ellen, Friends, Murphy Brown), movies (This is Spinal Tap, For Your Consideration, Abbott and Costello, A
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews Wolfmother at the Fillmore SFist Chris: You're right on about the Zep II situation SFist Jon. Though I was not around to see Zep in 1968 when they broke out, last night was a definite Zeppelin '68
Arts & Entertainment The Philistine Goes To The Movies: Hilary Hahn Plays Symphony Hall It was a night of romantic movie themes and orchestral folk music (and one modern piece described in the program as "an aircraft revving for takeoff"), with violinist Hilary Hahn the main star.
