Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Wiener Takes All</i> There's nothing like a celebrity appearance at a film festival, and Sunday night at the Roxie Theatre, the crowd went wild when it was announced that two of the wiener dogs who star
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>So Long Are You Young</i> Judith Schaefer's movie, , screened at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Tuesday and when the lights went back up, the crowd of mostly senior citizens were on their feet wildly applauding the filmmaker.
Arts & Entertainment SFJFF: <i>Sidewalk</i> SFist Mihi warns you that this preview clip above may be dull. Sidewalk, the documentary we saw at the Roda Theatre in Berkeley on Sunday for the SF Jewish Film Festival, was billed
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 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 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 SFIFF: <i>On Fire</i> A few minutes before the movie started there was a strange buzzing coming from the front of the theatre and we noticed an older man fiddling with his hearing aid. That's when we
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Congorama</i> It's easy to make a heroic character lovable and the bad guy despicable, but it's much more of an accomplishment to turn a fallible, sweaty, chubby guy with real flaws, including a seriously
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Heavenly Kings</i> The North American debut of Heavenly Kings for the SF Int'l Film Festival premiered at the Castro Theatre Friday night and it must have been a sweet moment for Berkeley-born, Bay Area-raised, local
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales Of An Osaka Love Thief</i> As SFist Mihi so wisely put it in her review, "Don't hate the player, hate the game." As we got totally caught up in the -like mind games between the host men and
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Girl Who Leapt Through Time</i> This is why we go to film festivals. Once in a while you get to see a movie that you probably would have missed if it weren't for film festivals, but has made
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>The Year Of The Fish</i> We love a good Cinderella story and apparently so do a bunch of people on dates. Year of the Fish, a modern interpretation of a 9th century Chinese folk tale played at the
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: <i>Shanghai Kiss</i> The world premiere of played on Saturday night at the Castro Theatre and the house was packed. One of the themes running through the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival last year
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: VIVA Viva--a campy stylized soft porn movie played at the Roxie Theatre for the San Francisco Independent Film Festival last week and our plus-one was running late. The theatre seemed freakishly well-lit and we
Arts & Entertainment Another Hole In The Head: <i>The Beast</i> is good old-fashioned B grade camp and the audience for the almost-midnight showing of this soft-porn "monster" movie came with the right attitude. We were tipped off that this wasn't your average scary
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>The Great Happiness Space: Tales of an Osaka Love Thief</i> goes inside a popular "host boy café" in Japan to examine the lives of both the patrons and the employees. Think of these cafes as kind of like strip clubs but the roles
Arts & Entertainment Win Passes To <i>Art School Confidential</i>! That's right: SFist MiHi, denied entrance to ! Given that we always want what we can't get, that makes this movie hott hott hott in our eyes. Enrage MiHi and enter below to win
