Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: <i>Arahan</i> You can tell we were excited to see the SFAFF movie Arahan Friday night, because we crossed the Tordesillas Line of Market Street and actually ventured up to the (gasp!) Marina -- where
Arts & Entertainment SFAFF: Rice Rhapsody (<i>Hainan Ji Fan</i>) Dang, it was cold waiting outside the Four Star for the doors to open for the San Francisco Asian Film Festival's premiere of ! And can we just say, the movie that screened right
Arts & Entertainment Asian Film Fanatics Unite! We're so happy to see that the San Francisco Asian Film Festival has returned for yet another year. When we wrote about last year's festival, there was some doubt that the 8 year
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Campfire</i> What we got instead was the story of an Israeli woman, Rachel (Michaela Eshet), who is somewhat in mourning a year after her husband's death from cancer. Rachel tries to uproot her daughters,
Arts & Entertainment Stage Fog the Musical at the Orpheum Theatre Based on the best-selling book Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire, Wicked makes its triumphant return to San Francisco, where
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Odessa . . . Odessa!</i> (with <i>Yelena's Story</i>) is a beautiful piece of film -- it takes you to places that are haunting, joyful, and wistful. Mostly, though, this journey from Odessa, Ukraine to Brighton Beach, N.Y. to Ashdod, Israel
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>The Talent Given Us</I> Image of Al, Judy and Emily Wagner from the movie The Talent Given Us
Arts & Entertainment Trouble In Paradise: <em>Baby Face</em> Look, SFist is covering the Pacific Film Archive's Trouble In Paradise: Pre-Code Hollywood series because we think you should know about it and because (disclosure) it means we can walk past a "Sold
Arts & Entertainment Three... Is The Magic Number 22 movies were screened in total, with Adam Davis' Runner taking the first place trophy. Jeff Cleary's Searching For Billy Ocean Volume One finished second, and Jen Hoenigsberg's Slinky rounded out the top
Arts & Entertainment Mekka-Lekka Hi, Mekka-Heine-Ho Have a grey suit? How about some cake make up? A red bow tie? If you do, then we recommend you turn out for tomorrow's Paul Reubens Day celebrations. That's right, fourteen years
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Jewish Film Festival 25th Anniversary 26 years ago there wasn't a single Film Festival celebrating the Jewish experience -- 25 years later, there are hundreds of them! As with so many things, San Francisco's was one of the
Arts & Entertainment Like Cannes For People With A.D.D. Admission will be a suggested donation of $6-$10, which, when you consider what you get ( 20 or 30 films, the booty-shakin' sounds of Hush Hush resident DJ Swayzee, a bar for drinkin',
Arts & Entertainment Movie Review: <em>Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus</em> Seeing Searching for the Wrong-Eyed Jesus is like watching a documentary, attending a concert, seeing a feature film and reading a short story all at the same time. Beautifully shot and featuring gorgeous
Arts & Entertainment Trouble In Paradise: I'm No Angel Of I'm No Angel (1933), which screened Sunday at the Pacific Film Archive, film critics like to write that if star Mae West had spoken only one line in her career--"Beulah, peel
SF News Hey, Navy: Leave Our Kids Alone The resolution, natch is non-binding and merely puts the city on record as opposing military recruitment. Schools merely have a choice on whether or not to follow it but as federal funds are
Arts & Entertainment Wednesday: The New Thursday Arlene Ackerman's BFF Wade Randlett and SFSOS are hosting the "San Francisco Homeownership Summit" [PDF] tonight. Panels include "How to Protect Yourself from the Board of Supervisors," and "Why Thurgood Marshall's Legacy is
Arts & Entertainment Movietime with Debra Saunders This might get us in a bit of trouble, but we actually like the Chron's token conservative columnist Debra Saunders. Yes, we don't usually agree with her, but we like the fact that
Arts & Entertainment They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: Trouble in Paradise at the Pacific Film Archive 1. No picture shall be produced that will lower the moral standards of those who see it. Hence the sympathy of the audience should never be thrown to the side of crime, wrongdoing,
SF News Jan Wahl, Mad as a Hatter Oh man, is this rich. Eric over at Rangelife recounts the following tale of impassioned activism against the evil movie studios who are scared shitless that someone might make a crappy copy of
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Jeffrey Anderson Worst movie of all time: Too many people dump too much abuse on horror and sci-fi movies when the real horror comes in the form of "Forrest Gump" -- truly the most monstrous
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Tammy Faye: Death Defying Tammy Faye was present for Frameline's screening of the new documentary, and the audience ate her up. She got a standing ovation just for walking into the house before the movie started (is
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: <i>Who's the Top</i> and <i>Paris is Burning</i> What is there for us to point out about , a 1990 documentary about Harlem drag balls, that hasn't already been said by far greater minds than our own? Between 1987 and 1989, filmmaker
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: TransGeneration It would be easy to associate the subjects of the documentary with the people in other docs about self-reinvention -- the realness-craving drag kids of Paris is Burning, for example, or the folks
Arts & Entertainment Frameline 29: Kiki and Herb on the Rocks Hey, you know that cabaret-drag performance duo, Kiki and Herb? Oh, you don't? Well, then, you might not really care for , which comes off feeling like a tribute mockumentary laden with in-jokes. Kiki
