Arts & Entertainment Reel SF: Take the Money and Run For those not up on their Woody oeuvre, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary about notorious criminal master mind Virgil Starkwell (he, unfortunately, never made the FBI's Most Wanted List because, as
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Seeds Of Doubt</i> "Papa, are you a terrorist?" We spent several very fun, yet dark weeks in Hamburg, Germany (when you don’t get up before noon in December there, you don’t see much light)
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela</i> Faithful readers, you've probably noticed that this SFist watches the same types of movies over and over again: So we figured we'd mix it up a little bit and go watch something a
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Le Petit Lieutenant</i> We woke up again today with a strange kink in our neck, which we immediately recognized as the curse of our height challenge. Ahhhh . . . . It must be those darned subtitles we were straining
Arts & Entertainment The Miniature Adventures of the Superfisters We're suckers for any story about the Monkey King, and we also love the cozy art and fierce personality of Oakland-resident Gene Yang's "American Born Chinese." The six-book series explores Asianness, whatever that
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cockbyte: Masters of Machinima</i> Sorry to be crude. "Red vs Blue," if you're not familiar, is sort of sketch-comedy series made by dubbing dialogue on top of pre-scripted game footage. We'd estimate that Sunday night's screening was
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Lower City</i> We were thankful that our friend, a native of Salvador, Brazil, quickly agreed to see "Lower City" with us. We never doubted the raw beauty of her hometown, and the film confirmed what
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cartography Of Ashes</i> It is to tell people that an outdoor movie screening at the fire station on 19th and Folsom, begins at 8:00 p.m. and to get there early to ensure a seat,
Arts & Entertainment The Dominating Adventures of the Superfisters After the jump: snide world domination, and smarmy citywide domination.
Arts & Entertainment <i>Top Chef</i>: At the Pork End Of The Street Yes, folks, that is literally the worst headline ever -- at least until next week. Our horrible headlines are the latest in SFist's effort to induce you to watch what is possibly the
Arts & Entertainment The Slightly Tardy Adventures of the Superfisters starts off with an argument between Knightbat and his teen sidekick, Nightbird, both of whom bear a blinding resemblance to another superhero duo (and we're not referring to Superhorse and Supermonkey). Like many
Arts & Entertainment The Doe-Eyed Adventures of the Superfisters Glenn's adventures are unremarkable -- throwing a rotten apple out for the squirrels, catching a bug in the basement, watching a pigeon wander through traffic -- but the quiet, meditative patience of the
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Trainwreck Riders You may have seen that we described Friday night's Noise Pop headliner Jason Collett as "rainy Sunday afternoon music." Ironic, then, that on the actual rainy Sunday afternoon, we went to see a
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Jason Collett San Francisco grups were in full effect Friday night, as the hot demographic of 30-something indie-yuppies swept into the Cafe Du Nord Noise Pop event of the evening. For the record, it was
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop Review: Rogue Wave But first, SFist was sad that we missed two of the openers: Scrabbel, who we’ve only heard great things about, and THe Octopus Project whose album "One Ten Hundred Thousand" has made
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Feist John Vanderslice may well own the hearts of the San Francisco crowds he plays to, at least it seems that way. Taking the stage at 9:20 (SFist isn’t at all ashamed
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Bing Ji Ling Bing Ji Ling is a San Francisco musician with the best pedigree we've come across: His dad was a musician who met and married his mother here in the '60's. ahhhhhh. This may
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: John Vanderslice Hopefully you're the lucky winner of the Feist tickets tonight so that you can catch John Vanderslice opening. This interview first ran last August, and SFist is republishing it to enhance your Noisepop
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Wim Wenders Written by and starring Sam Shepard, tells the story of fallen Western star "Howard Spence" (Shepard), who sort of blurilly bails on his current film in an effort to reconnect with estranged family
Arts & Entertainment Y to Zed Y is for Yuppy Marina which is where four girlfriends travelled to check out a fairly new sushi bar that we had read good things about . Yuzu is a modern, minimalist and sleek
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Colma: The Musical</i> Colma is the BART stop between Daly City and South San Francisco. Not exactly a bustling place, until now. Colma: The Musical takes the sleepiness and between-ness of the town and explores how
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Memories In The Mist</i> Hey, we scored a free fan! NBC 11 was giving out free handheld fans to SFIAAFF-goers attending last night's screening of Bengali movie . We're not really sure what the fan had to do
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Achievers</i> In doing a little due diligence before writing this review, we turned up an entry on the Hyphen blog noting that reviewers are not supposed to reveal any of the plot to this
Arts & Entertainment The Obedient Adventures of the Superfisters is unpretentious and sweet-hearted -- in one scene, during a calm stroll Noémie hears a click, looks up to a bridge to see a familiar-looking boy taking her picture, then chases him until
