Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Living Goddesses</i> It only takes 32 perfections to become a goddess in Nepal -- sounds simple, right? Hardly. But Sajani, the eight year-old goddess who stole our heart in the movie Living Goddess at DocFest
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Off The Grid: Life On The Mesa</i> SFist Wendy goes off the grid, and then comes back to the land of electricity to tell us all about it! We welcomed the return of DocFest, your local indie documentary festival, last
Arts & Entertainment <i>American Fusion</i> Even though there's no film fests in town, we stopped by the movie theater and checked out American Fusion, which opened this past weekend at the Sundance Kabuki. This film totally reminded us
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 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 Quenching our <i>Thirst</i> at Another Hole in the Head Well, it was no or Lost Boys, but we did get a few laughs out of The Thirst this week at the Another Hole in the Head Indiefest film festival. The Thirst thrust
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>La Vie En Rose</i> And The Closing Night Party And on to Mezzanine Thursday night for the SFIFF closing night party -- with a surprise performer . . . . but before the final sendoff, we headed over to the Castro Theater for what turned out
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Halou and Greenworld Part 1 of 2 of SFist Wendy's hard-partying midweek SFIFF musical adventures! At the SFIFF, we waited out the line on Wednesday to “go green” with local bands Halou (video above) and Tarentel
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Once</i> SFist Wendy's favorite SFIFF film fest movie yet! It doesn’t get any better than this. Really. We headed to the Clay Sunday night, very relaxed and content as it was, having spent
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>7 Years</i> and <i>Dans Paris</i> This weekend we took in a couple of French dramas at the SFIFF, but because at least one of them is slated for distribution in the near future, we’ve been asked not
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Cold Prey</i> We’ll start off this review by saying we love Stella Artois…or more specifically the free Stellas we had at the mini-beer garden before the midnight horror movie screening of at the
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>The Road To San Diego</i> The Road to San Diego, at the SFIFF, is the story of Tati, from Pozo Azul, a small town in the Northeast Argentinian Misiones province (between Paraguay and Brazil), who embarks on a
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>The Twelve Labours</i> We were pumped to be headed to the SFIFF again this year with our friend, Liana, who’s from Brazil. We’ve seen several Brazilian films together at the festival over the years,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: All The <i>Rage</i> The film that followed Capelito, though, turned out to be one of the most disturbing, provocative films we’ve seen at this year’s festival thus far. , a made-for-television German thriller/drama by
Arts & Entertainment Roadtripping At The SFIFF This Weekend Who needs Coachella when there’s Oppikoppi, a rock music festival held in South Africa every year? Really, we would have loved to have been at Coachella this weekend, but if you couldn’
Arts & Entertainment We Read The Weeklies (A Little Late) Sorry for the delay in reading your alt-weeklies this week; there was a comical mixup in our attempts to implement the weekly switchoff between us and SFist Sarah L. We'll try again in
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Snoozing Through The <i>Century</i> Recipe for a nice nap: A beer and a whopping bbq turkey sandwich from Tommy’s Joynt followed by last night’s SFIAAFF film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, actually titled Syndromes and a Century.
Arts & Entertainment SFIAAFF: Looking For Love at <i>Summer Palace</i> and <i>Mistress of Spices</i> This was a good weekend, thanks in large part to the Asian-American film festival. We spent part of the past two days at the Castro checking out a couple of remarkably different films:
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest: <i>The Substance Of Things Hoped For</i> We’re sure there are a lot of great films at Indiefest, but we screened one of the best on Wednesday night at the Roxie - The Substance of Things Hoped For. Daphne
Arts & Entertainment Not Our Usual Type Of Bar Last week we attended the premiere of Lunafest, a festival of films “by, for, about women” at the Herbst Theater. Lunafest proceeds went to the Breast Cancer Fund. The nine shorts were a
Arts & Entertainment You Are What You Eat There really aren’t that many better ways to spend an evening. The show posed the question: which is better, words or music? We aren’t any closer to answering that for you
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: <i>Russian Dolls</i> The 20somethings have progressed (or regressed depending on your take) into nearly 30somethings for , and are now somewhat spread out among Paris, London, and St. Petersburg. It opens with Xavier (Romain Duris), the
Arts & Entertainment Another Hole in the Head: <i>Broken</i> and <i>The Gravedancers</i> Nothing a couple drinks can’t handle, we thought. It turns out the drinks, while appreciated, were complete unnecessary. We think there was maybe one scene, in which the typical horror movie blond
Arts & Entertainment DocFest: <i>Fired!</i> There's no question that getting fired, canned, axed, rif'ed, or booted SUCKS. We were back at one of our favorite SF theaters, the Roxie, for the SF debut of Annabelle Gurwitch's at Docfest
