Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Hot House</i> Filmmaker Shimon Dotan spent about a year interviewing various imprisoned Palestinian political terrorists about their lives and their crimes. We were a little startled that even people serving multiple life sentences in a
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>My Fuhrer -- The Truly Truest Truth About Adolf Hitler</i> The premise of the movie is that a famous Jewish acting professor, Adolf Grunwald, sent to a concentration camp in World War II, is summoned by Joseph Goebbels to coach a depressed and
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>The Chosen Ones</i> No, not these Chosen Ones (white Christian gospel choir) or these (psychic powers): this Chosen Ones is a documentary about the Jewish music scene in New York by a German filmmaker/tourist, which
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Slint Every tale about the band Slint begins with retrospect. A couple guys who’d known each other a long time got together in Loo--ville, KY, to make a band named after a goldfish.
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Gorgeous! (Comme T'y Es Belle!)</i> We headed to the Castro on Sunday evening for the SFJFF's Gorgeous! (exclamation included in the title), sort of a Desperate Housewives meets Sex and the City, featuring four women, some single, some
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Bad Faith (Mauvaise Foi)</i> Who woulda thought. . . . we weren’t the only ones not completely immersed in isolation with the final Harry Potter book this weekend... although we did see a couple books neatly tucked under the
Arts & Entertainment SF Jewish Film Fest: <i>Sweet Mud (Adama Me'shuga'at)</i> The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (SFJFF) is the first and only Jewish film festival in the world. At least that's what the President of the SFJFF said at the Castro Theatre last
Arts & Entertainment Industry And Horror At The Movies Did you love and its idyllic aesthetic view of the world? Well, take that and give it a twist of despair -- famous art photographer Edward Burtynsky went to China to take some
Arts & Entertainment Review: Band of Horses If you’re not familiar with Band of Horses, its time to check them out. We originally heard about them in an interview with Molly Sims (mock all you will, but InStyle occasionally
Arts & Entertainment SFist Eats: Mission Pie Yay, everyone wins! Students get good job skills, the owners give back, and we get some yummy organic pies in the neighborhood. Plus -- Mission Pie stays open late! (until 10 p.m.
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Eats: Can't Stop Eating Those Free-Range Burgers Another stop on our East Bay tour of the best burgers made from "naturally-raised" meat: Luka's Taproom & Lounge. Just look at the picture. Need we say more? Note the little cup of
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Itty Bitty Titty Committee</i> is a tongue-in-cheek portrayal of the fun and frustrations of radical feminist politics, and an affectionate exploration of its inherent hypocrisies. Whether it's adorable baby dykes who have no clue about women's history,
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Homos By The Bay</i> The shorts, as shorts tend to do, varied wildly in length, subject matter, and quality -- but we did enjoy Samara Halperin's , a stop-motion Lego animation of a risque construction site (pictured above,
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Nina's Heavenly Delights</i> We were forced to sit in the low-oxygen, nose-bleed section of the Castro Theatre last night because the place was packed to the rafters for Frameline's screening of Nina's Heavenly Delights. The plot
Arts & Entertainment Cycling: Reviewing the Soul of Cycling Let's face it, the great American cycling novel has yet to be written (not lately, anyway). And what cycling-related literature there is falls into one of three categories: inspiration, celebration, or perspiration. If
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Bears</i> We were surprised when we saw the documentary at the Castro on Saturday at the Frameline film fest. A pageant for big hairy gay men is basically like any conventional beauty contest, only
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Spider Lilies</i> After seeing two women-centered movies at the Frameline LGBT Film Festival on Friday night, we've determined that you can tell the difference between a lesbian movie made for a mainstream audience and a
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Superfreak</i> After the soft focus melancholy of , we trotted over to The Victoria on 16th Street for some hard core lesbian porn at the Frameline film fest. We though we were all bad-ass but
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Red Without Blue</i> Mark and Alex grew up as extremely close brothers in Missoula, Montana. As they entered adolescence, both realized they were gay, and in struggling to come to terms with that, both entered into
Arts & Entertainment Frameline: <i>Eternal Summer</i> We know commenter Lilly is dying to know what we thought of , the Taiwanese movie we were watching this afternoon in the Frameline GLBT film festival! Thanks for asking, Lilly -- though we
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Frameline SFist Sara gives you the lowdown on what to expect from the Frameline GLBT film fest, which starts up TODAY! Starting today, The Frameline LGBT Film Festival will be rolling out its rainbow
Arts & Entertainment Let's All Go To The Movies: Big <i>Knocked</i> How can mainstream comedy be dead when is all about inventive delivery? (Get it? "Delivery?") Stronger than Judd Apatow’s last bluntly-titled summer comedy (The 40-Year-Old Virgin), Knocked Up stands up to both
Arts & Entertainment The Genius Of Mike Daisey We have some bad news for you. Unless you see all four of Mike Daisey's "Great Men of Genius" monologues (and see them IN ORDER), you might miss the point. While none of
Arts & Entertainment Hole/Head: <i>Man From Earth</i> & Interview We headed back to the Roxie this week for a little sci-fi at the Indiefest Another Hole in the Head festival, courtesy of director Richard Schenkman and writer Jerome Bixby, who’s known
Arts & Entertainment Indiefest Hole/Head: <i>Simon Says</i> Simon Says premiered at the Another Hole in the Head horrorfest on Friday June 1st at a midnight showing. Well, an 11:45 p.m. showing. Whatever, it was late for old fogeys
