misc Jennifer Siebel-Newsom, Todd Traina Debut Cinematic Efforts at Sundance Once known a the framework for independent film to reach a wider audience, the Sundance FIlm Festival is now a showcase for the rich and famous to showcase stabs at cinema gold. More
Arts & Entertainment Be an Extra in a Movie Starring Jude Law! (and Matt Damon.) Hollywood is coming to town again, with director Steven Soderbergh descending next month to shoot Contagion, an action-thriller starring Jude Law(!) involving disease and the CDC that's being shot in San Francisco. It
misc James Franco To Direct Himself As <em>The Night Stalker</em> Locally-born and widely-loved actor/writer/artist/scholar James Franco will be adding "director" to his resume when he shoots his himself (with a camera, we mean) in an adaptation of Philip Carlo's true-crime
SF News S.F. Film Critics Circle Awards 'Social Network' Speaking of Facebook accolades, the San Francisco Critics Circle Awards bestowed The Social Network, the non-gritty Harvard drama about barely-legal college kids, lawsuits and social media, with three awards Monday night, including best
Arts & Entertainment Here's Your Chance To Be A Porn Extra Have you always wanted to be an extra in a gay porn cinema? Well, call your parents and tell them the good news! On Tuesday, noted pornography thespian Chris Porter will perform with
Arts & Entertainment Halloween Events We're not short on choices for this weekend's Halloween festivities. Let's get to it! PARTIES Trannyshack Halloween: For everyone who misses the Castro Halloween street party, the 4th Annual Trannyshack Halloween, featuring best
SF News Bradley Cooper and Ryan Reynolds Play Buddies In New S.F. Film Gawker (via Hollywood Reporter) brings us a morsel of tempting celebrity news. Ryan Reynolds and Bradley Cooper will star in an untitled action-comedy written by Sheldon Turner (Up in the Air) that takes
Arts & Entertainment Upcoming Film Nights in the Park The Grease Sing-Along and Dirty Dancing have come and gone, but there are still a few more Film Nights in the Park this month and next. So, bundle up and head to the
misc Midnight Movie Sign-Off: Slaughter In San Francisco Welcome to our first installment of Midnight Movie Sign-Off. Similar to Afternoon Palate Cleanser, SFist will now feature one blithe clip at the midnight hour. It could be, say, something bizarre, borderline chortle-worthy,
misc Gremlins' Gizmo Visits Central Market Corridor SFist reader (and Editorial Director of Frommers.com) David Lytle snapped these pics of Gizmo (the lovable, hungry-after-dark star of Gremlins) dotting a boarded building along the Central Market Corridor. Lytle explains: A
Arts & Entertainment Benjamin Bratt and His Brother Take Promotional Cruise Through the Mission Benjamin Bratt and his filmmaker brother Peter Bratt toured around the Mission with a NYT reporter for a Style section piece this weekend. They're pimping Peter's film La Mission which premiered here last
Arts & Entertainment Alice In Wonderland @ the Castro by Rachel Brodsky It's the event you've all been waiting for--another Tim Burton feature presentation! And maybe this one will actually work! Burton, the master of fairy tale reinterpretation topped with a haunting
SF News Avatar: the Book by Amy Crocker In case you missed the message of conservation and peace in theaters, James Cameron confirmed that he will write an Avatar novel. The novel will closely follow the plot of
Arts & Entertainment Romantic Movies Set In San Francisco by Amy Crocker While San Francisco may not have the reputation for romance as, say, Paris or a beach in Hawaii, plenty of great love stories have unfolded here. To help you celebrate
misc Netflix Mashups Reveal Lack Of Good Taste In South Bay Last week, The New York Times published a series of interesting mashups showing Netflix rental patterns among different neighborhoods in 12 different cities across this diverse land of ours. Among those cities is
Arts & Entertainment SF This Weekend:The Good Old Naughty Days by Rachel Brodsky This weekend for your viewing pleasure, alternative movie house Red Vic is opening up the vault containing a plethora of early 1900's girly shows. Playing this Friday-Monday, "The Good Old
Arts & Entertainment Hitch for the Holidays by Rachel Brodsky For those of us born in the post-baby boomer age, a chance to check out the pre-1970 moving pictures on the big screen is all too rare. And like a
SF News 2012 and <em>2012</em>: Real Sticker Graffiti or Clever Movie Marketing This sticker was spotted on a bus stop at Union and Van Ness this morning on a 2012, advertising what seems like a site with a serious discussion of Mayan mysticism, Maya-Portal.net.
Arts & Entertainment Julia Child, Noted Homophobe, Once Blackballed Gay San Franciscan In honor of the opening of Julie & Julia today (a movie which Robert Wilonsky calls "half of a great movie" in the Weekly), gay blogger JoeMyGod points to a 2007 Boston magazine
SF News John Hughes Died Creator of Sixteen Candles, Pretty In Pink, and The Breakfast Club, director/writer John Hughes, died today. According to TMZ, "Hughes suffered [a] heart attack while taking a morning walk during a trip
Arts & Entertainment Keep an Eye Out For Cut and Run on Muni Metro Tomorrow Muni Metro riders might encounter some extra special entertainment on their commutes tomorrow. The traveling Cut and Run tour will be projecting films on the N, L, and J lines randomly throughout the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: There are still tickets available for the epic Sonic Youth show at the lovely Fox Theater tonight (in case you weren't lucky enough to score tickets to their surprise show at the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Closing this weekend's Silent Film Festival is Lady of the Pavements, D.W. Griffith's last silent film -- a splendid romantic drama set in 19th century Paris. There will be piano accompaniment
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight SPORTS: The San Francisco ShEvil Dead duke it out with the Richmond Wrecking Belles at the B.ay A.rea D.erby Girls' Duel on the Docks, a full contact, all female, flat-track
Arts & Entertainment SF Frozen Film and Music Festival This Weekend, Opening Party Tonight The annual San Francisco Frozen Film and Music Festival, which was founded in 2006 and was named after the famous (and alleged) Mark Twain quote, "The coldest winter I ever spent was my
