Arts & Entertainment Interview: Peaches Christ But when we got a release on This Year's Midnight Mass Film Series (which runs at midnights every Friday and Saturday from tonight until mid-August, see the complete schedule here), we knew we
Arts & Entertainment How Super? That's a pretty decent line for a weekday, morning screening that's over an hour away, huh? Is really worth an hour at 4th and Mission? Friend of SFist James Rocchi seems to think
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 30: <i>101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men</i> Saturday's screening of "101 Must-See Movies for Gay Men" was like a clip show of gayish movies -- presenter Alonso Duralde made a few quick introductions, and the rest was a whirlwind of
SF News All the Small Things So naturally, this morning, we checked out the Examiner's web site only to see that a court hearing has been set over the Bush administration wanting to put a biodefense lab at the
Arts & Entertainment Another Hole In The Head: Blood Deep and Room 6 The production values are great, but the pacing was a real challenge. There were some (intentional, we hope) funny moments, but not enough to get us through the slow bits. There's nothing wrong
Arts & Entertainment Vloggercon 2006 Video geeks are descending on San Francisco this weekend for Vloggercon 2006 (or 'video blogger conference' if you're not a fan of tech neologisms). It was inspired by Webzine and the original Vloggercon
Arts & Entertainment Another Hole In The Head: SFist Has You Covered Last year, we saw nearly every film at the fest, and have the post traumatic stress disorder to prove it. This year is no different, with SFist's crack film fest team at the
Arts & Entertainment Is It Hot In Here? Hey, time to fuel up that ol' SUV and drive with the freon-leaking A/C on to see local filmmaker Al Gore's , opening on Friday at the Embarcadero Center (and at the Sequoia
SF News Catching You Up With the Joneses -After Gavin vetoed the "Healthy Saturdays" initiative, the Board of Supervisors voted to see if they could override Gavin's veto but couldn't. Once again, the vote came down to a 7-4 vote, not
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Fired!</i> There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Pizza! The Movie</i> Whatever you do, don't go see hungry. Boy were we glad we'd had that burrito (but we must admit, that didn't prevent us from stopping off for a slice after the film). Even
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Diameter of a Bomb</i> And then, about three quarters of the way into the movie, we started to understand what the movie is about. In one sense, yes, it's about how awful terrorism is, but there's more
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Punk Like Me</i> This is such a brilliant idea. So the 36-year-old star (and writer) of this documentary, Rich Wilkes, had the genius idea to sneak his band onto a major national rock tour -- by
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Play</i> Here's a brief summary of the plot, so you can follow our dialogue: Lonely Cristina finds depressed Tristan's stolen briefcase at the beginning of the movie, takes his cool cigarette lighter and iPod,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Encounter Point</i> We are accustomed to the typical media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which generally emphasizes the violence and hatred. "Encounter Point," co-directed by Ronit Avni and Julie Bacha, also a co-director of "Control
Arts & Entertainment To Do Lists Wanted Local author Sasha Cagen, of the Quirkyalone movement, sent us the following request for her upcoming project, The To Do List book, which was so nice we said of course we'd ask our
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Favela Rising</i> Arriving at Baycat, the Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology, about forty minutes prior to the San Francisco premier of "Favela Rising," we hadn’t banked on the sellout crowd. Fortunately,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Drawing Restraint 9</i> While mainstream America's attention has been focused on TomKat's recent offspring and Brangelina's pending progeny, we joined San Francisco's arthouse hipster crowd at the Kabuki late Wednesday night for the local unveiling of
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Executive Koala</i> Um, we're still trying to figure out what we thought of the Japanese movie , which was screened as part of the SFIFF's Late Night series. Maybe if we'd had more of the Stella
Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: Take the Money and Run For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Seeds Of Doubt</i> "Papa, are you a terrorist?" We spent several very fun, yet dark weeks in Hamburg, Germany (when you don’t get up before noon in December there, you don’t see much light)
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Le Petit Lieutenant</i> We woke up again today with a strange kink in our neck, which we immediately recognized as the curse of our height challenge. Ahhhh . . . . It must be those darned subtitles we were straining
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>They Chose China</i> is the relatively forgotten story of a handful of American soldiers who were prisoners of war in Chinese camps during the Korean War. At the end of the conflict they chose to stay
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: We Stalk Matt Dillon We decided to while away the hours between the two movies in the press room watching a documentary on a personal monitor but through our headphones we could hear distressed SFIFF workers whispering
