Arts & Entertainment Etiquette Week: How To Go To The Movies It's Etiquette Week at SFist, in which SFist's editors dole out some prescriptive advice for how to behave in this city we all share in order not to overly annoy, offend, or otherwise
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What's The Best Depiction Of SF In A Movie? (Part Two) Last time in Ask a San Francisco Native, I answered a question about the best depiction of San Francisco in a movie, and I decided to go decade by decade, starting with 1940s,
Arts & Entertainment Ask A San Francisco Native: What's The Best Depiction Of SF In A Movie? (Part One) Dear Rain, What is the best depiction of SF in a movie? Signed, J Dear J, Hollywood loves San Francisco, which shouldn't come as a surprise. It's the definition of photogenic and provides
Arts & Entertainment What To Watch At The SF International Film Festival, Kicking Off Thursday The 59th Annual San Francisco International Film Festival, or SFIFF for those in a hurry, kicks off this Thursday and runs through May 5th. The festival's made a big change this year, moving
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: <em>Everybody Wants Some!!</em>, <em>Born To Be Blue</em>, <em>I Saw The Light</em>, <em>Midnight Special</em> Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! is being billed as a "spiritual sequel" to his breakout 1993 movie Dazed and Confused, and that makes sense. Both take place in a Texas of days-gone-by, and
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Witch, Race, IndieFest The Witch - Alamo Drafhouse and the AMC Theaters The Witch is a tough sell. While it has both the creepiest and most beautiful imagery I've seen in a horror movie in many
SF News Historic El Rey Theatre Threatened As Property Gets Sold At Auction Though it hasn't been a grand movie palace or even a crumbling but in-use movie house for more than a generation, residents in the Ingleside and Balboa Park neighborhoods have long hoped and
Arts & Entertainment James Franco, Helena Bonham Carter, Kristen Stewart Sign On For JT LeRoy Film The story of JT LeRoy, the fictional persona and nom de plume of San Francisco kook Laura Albert, feels vaguely embarrassing now, even more than it did when local writer Stephen Beachy first
Arts & Entertainment Lost Weekend Video Actually Closing On Valencia, Moving In With Alamo Drafthouse Well, once again: This is sad. But perhaps not as sad as previous tales of the demise of video stores beloved by local cinephiles. It turns out that part of the deal struck
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: The Revenant, Anomalisa, The Forest, Censored Voices The Revenant - Everywhere The Revenant is one of the most violent, grueling, and gory movies I've ever seen, and this is coming from someone who regularly watches The Walking Dead while eating
Arts & Entertainment Photos: <em>Star Wars</em> Premiere Awakens Stellar Cosplay Unless you’ve been living in a $500-a-month crawlspace, you know that Star Wars: Episode VII opens nationwide today and had West Coast premieres last night. Though we were denied access to press
Arts & Entertainment Peek Inside The Alamo Drafthouse New Mission Theater, Open Next Week When the New Mission Theater opened 99 years ago as the Idyll Hour theater, the films were silent. The location at 2550 Mission has — save for the occasional illegal rave and a stint
Arts & Entertainment Oh Lorrrd: Janis Joplin Documentary Arrives In SF Today A lot of you have likely never seen Janis Joplin perform a number onstage, live or on video, because most of you are under the age of 70 and have little use for
Arts & Entertainment Sorry, Apple Fanatics: The 'Steve Jobs' Movie Is A Box-Office Bomb In a refreshing reminder that the rest of the world is not up Steve Jobs' ass the way many folks here are, the much-lauded Aaron Sorkin film about the Apple founder has reportedly
Arts & Entertainment The Roxie To Pay Tribute To The Late Wes Craven With 'A Nightmare On Elm Street' Screenings Wes Craven was doubtless a visionary, and what he envisioned scared (and titillated) pretty much everybody. The Last House on the Left (1972), The Hills Have Eyes(1977), and Scream (1996), which gave
Arts & Entertainment Nice To See You: Terminator Genisys Terminator Genisys is not the best Terminator movie. It's not even the second-best Terminator movie. But, in a franchise with (so far) two great movies and two terrible ones, to come in in
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Infinitely Polar Bear, Ted 2, The Overnight Infinitely Polar Bear - Embarcadero Mark Ruffalo stars as Cam, the bi-polar father of two young girls in 1970's Boston, who must take on full-time fathering when his wife, Maggie, (Zoe Saldana), goes
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Jurassic World, Live From New York!, 7 Minutes Jurassic World - Everywhere This month's Jessica Chastain movie doesn't star Jessica Chastain, it stars Bryce Dallas Howard, but same diff. Remember all the death and disaster the dinosaurs caused in the first
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrowland: A Cold And Bloated Mess Imagine a world filled with only geniuses, inventors, dreamers, and thinkers, who are allowed to be awesome and fulfill their potential without the constraints of societal laws or expectations. That is the world
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Cab Driver Releases Documentary On What It's Like To Compete With Uber And Lyft People who follow San Francisco's transit industry are likely familiar with the name John Han — he's written, on and off, about the cab business for years on his blog, and he's a frequent
Arts & Entertainment SFist At The Movies: Avengers, Adult Beginners, And The End of the Tour Avengers: Age of Ultron — Everywhere By the time you finish reading this sentence, this sequel will have made another million dollars. Far From the Madding Crowd — Embarcadero Latest adaption of the classic Thomas
Arts & Entertainment Video: How Accurate Were Former SF Mayor Willie Brown's Oscar Picks? Willie Brown, San Francisco's Assembly speaker-turned-mayor-turned-lobbyist-turned-columnist, has been wrong about a lot of things in his column for the San Francisco Chronicle: that Bill Cosby's accusers are liars, that anti-eviction protesters should target
Arts & Entertainment 50 Adult Stars And Professional Fetishists On Why They Hate 'Fifty Shades Of Grey' The blockbuster mom-porn franchise Fifty Shades of Grey debuts its Hollywood movie version this weekend, moving the needle of public discussion of BDSM. So SFist sought out 50 accomplished pornographers, porn stars, sex-positive
Arts & Entertainment A Batkid Movie Starring Julia Roberts Is On The Way With the debut of the Batkid Begins documentary at the Slamdance Film Festival on Saturday came the news that Julia Roberts is going to star in a feature film adaptation of the young
Arts & Entertainment DreamWorks To Close Redwood City Studio, Cut 500 Jobs And Movie Output Facing declining profits, DreamWorks Animation is shutting down their Redwood City office and cutting 500 jobs reports The Verge. CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg wrote in a letter to investors earlier this week, "I am
