Arts & Entertainment Entrepreneur ... Filmmaker ... and Space Tourguide "Master of the Romantic Thriller -- that's what I'm known for," James tells us. And indeed, it is difficult to think of any cinematic peers to his films, including (tagline: "Can There be
Arts & Entertainment CineKink: <i>S/M at the Movies</i> and <i>The Best of CineKink</i> The crowd at was about 90% men, and of them, well more than half were in leather. Presenter Thor Stockman, himself a practicing sadist, described how Hollywood's attitude towards perverts has always been
Arts & Entertainment Film Arts Fest: Wellstone! KQED listeners and Howard Deaniacs patiently lined up in the on-again off-again drizzly evening outside the Roxie, reading complimentary copies of Mother Jones and blocking the entrance to Dalva, as a sodden and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend, Sexxxy Film Festival Edition There are a lot of film festivals underway this weekend -- and we're going to most of them! So, stay tuned all next week for SFist reports from the trenches, but that doesn't
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes To See: <i>Re-Animator of the Dead: The Tale of Herbert West</i> Going to see a Primitive Screwheads show at the Off-Market Theater is always weird -- you wait in one room, are ushered into an elevator, and eventually enter the theater itself. The theater
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes to See Shopgirl Enter to win a pair of passes to a sneak preview screening at the Landmark Embarcadero Cinema at 1 Embarcadero Center on Tuesday the 25th at 7:30pm. We've got several pairs of
Arts & Entertainment A Statement of Hope and Courage Tomorrow night sees the kick off of the the eighth annual United Nations Association Film Festival at Stanford University. With screenings in several buildings across campus (we love college campus maps, it makes
Arts & Entertainment Look Where Your Prom Footage Might Have Ended Up Have you ever been in the 9th Street Independent Film Center? We feel arty just walking in there, even before we visit the offices of the many local independent film organizations housed there.
SF News SFist Tech Roundup: Silence of the Blogs What's that? Did you say something, Apple? Sorry, we weren't paying attention; we were too busy watching full-length movies on our Sony PSP's 4.3-inch widescreen. All the tech news and gossip sites
Arts & Entertainment Please, Sir, Can We Have Some More Production Companies? Remember three years ago, when all your media-employed friends had to suddenly go from pulling down a dot-com salary to working retail and collecting unemployment? We spoke to a manager at a North
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco's Economy of Art Labors on A mute boy in love with a blind girl! Marionettes! Butoh dancing! A swordfight! Attempted acting! Minnesotan hip-hoppers! Relentless artistic integrity! Sounds like another San Francisco film festival to us. The Foggy Eye
Arts & Entertainment In Pursuit of <i>Pursuit of Happyness</i> The scuttlebutt discussed over coffee and corned beef hash at the St. Francis this morning was about the film crews amassed on York street between 23rd and 24th. The set designers had already
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches <i>Serenity</i> and <i>Mirrormask</i>; or: Why Weekends Were Invented Both are mandatory viewing, but we recommend ever-so-slightly higher, due to its having a bit more mass appeal. Romance! Intrigue! Stunning fight scenes! Sexy love scenes! Sparkly dialogue! Surprising fatalities! It's pretty much
Arts & Entertainment Serenity Now, Insanity Later "The screening is overbooked," hollered a media rep to a long line in the lobby. We'd estimate that about 200 people were waiting with free-sneak-peek passes; without blogger credentials, they were made to
Arts & Entertainment Condoms Suck. But They Keep You Safe. The film was introduced by Bridge manager Joshua, who told the audience, "If you find any of the gays to be tired, just stick with it. ...They all pay." Well, "tired" is putting
Arts & Entertainment Madcat Film Fest: City Nights Documentaries about San Francisco are always our favorite type of anything. So we bundled up for last night's outdoor screening of the Madcat Int'l Women's Film Festival's City Nights program at El Rio,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: TV This Week - Part Two Don't worry. We're confused too. Let's just look at what tonight has to offer. First off is NBC's "My Name is Earl," which premieres at 9 p.m. Despite Jason Lee's disturbing affiliation
Arts & Entertainment Artificial Hip Over 150 shorts, a restropective of the bizarre Tractor group's work, a Beck music video compilation, Jackson and His Computer Band, a Mike Mills (director of keynote, and tours of the very few
Arts & Entertainment Madcat Women's International Film Festival: Amok-imation Also good: "Small & Deep, Love Stories." High-falutin' title, but nevertheless humble and fun; our favorite image was as two coffeecups in love, smooching as their owners, themselves cooing lovebirds, batted eyelids at
Arts & Entertainment Ticket Giveaway to see <i>Hellbent</i> Having enjoyed several years' worth of legitimate real-life horror during Castro Halloweens, we can't wait to see what passes for a Halloween spookiness in that ludicrous city to the south. Ms. Christ herself
Arts & Entertainment A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek If you haven't bothered to click on the banner ad we've had running all this month for A Mighty Ruckus at Islais Creek, we will happily bring the scoop you you! Brought to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Movies This Weekend, Special Stuff We've Already Seen Edition Not a lot going on this weekend! Nothing interests us on the big budget front, that's for sure. Fine, we were considering . That was before we saw that Mick LaSalle liked it, so
misc SFist Raves: Kronos Quartet and Asha Bhosle Put a brimful of Asha on your iPod ride! The Asha Bhosle who's name-checked by the Brit band Cornershop and is renown as the voice of Bollywood, has released a CD with San
SF News Interview: Lila Yomtoob Lila happens to be two things SFist holds near and dear: film maker and blogger-- A dreamy, dreamy combination when it comes right down to it. When Lila isn’t racking up credit
SF News Interview: Matthew Leutwyler We realized that we were living our rock and roll fantasy when we started getting chances to write about zombie movies. (What can we say? We're a simple person, and we have simple
