Arts & Entertainment San Francisco Has Lost Its Bid for the Sundance Film Festival Sorry, movie star fans, but the exceedingly glamorous Sundance Film Festival will not be held in San Francisco in 2027, as our bid to be the festival’s new home was rejected.
SF News Uber Will Continue To Land Helicopters At Sundance Against Sheriff's Orders Despite being issued a cease-and-desist from a Utah Sheriff's Department, Uber will continue to use their helicopter service at the Sundance Film Festival. As reported earlier this week, Uber has teamed up with
Arts & Entertainment Indie Film Veteran Bingham Ray Dies At Sundance Sigh. San Francisco Film Society just announced that beloved Executive Director Bingham Ray died today, January 23, while attending the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. In addition to manning the
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
misc It's The Asian-Am Film Fest! Ooooh!!! You know we love the Asian-American Film Festival! We love the feature films by the young ambitious Asian-American directors, we love , we love the KQED-ready documentaries about identity and history, we love
misc It's Got to be the Morning After Timberwolves 109 Warriors 108- And how did the Warriors celebrate not only MLK Day but the official start of George Bush's last year in office? They lost to the worst team in the
Arts & Entertainment Tales of Mere Existence "HOW I PLANNED TO GET REVENGE ON THE KIDS THAT PICKED ON ME AT SCHOOL" Part 1 "Tales of Mere Existence" By Levni R. Yilmaz Esq VOTE LEV!!! TOME is in this competition that Delta Airlines is running to play short films between features on the plane. The 'Tales' episode
misc Sofia Coppola's Dad /Jason Schwartzman's Uncle Makes Movies? When Francis Ford Coppola isn't looking lovingly over his cineaste dynastic family, running a cafe, publishing fiction, or distilling making wine [sorry! we're not a vintner!], we understand that sometimes he makes movies
SF News New Kabuki Theater to Save Planet Earth, Or Something Like That Japantown's new Sundance Cinemas Kabuki will offer the more discerning moviegoer (i.e.. people who self-consciously laugh out loud during Shakespeare comedies) something, well, more. Curbed SF has the full rundown on the
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>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 Win Passes To <i>Eve And The Fire Horse</i>! Passes! Passes! We got movie passes! Wanna see , a movie about a high-spirited Asian-Canadian girl whose older sister is going through a Christian religious conversion, and whose family is learning to assimilate in
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 Alexandra Lipsitz, Director of Air Guitar Nation If you’re hoping to get into the competitive side of air guitar, or just prove to your partner that your moves really are totally solid, you should check out “Air Guitar Nation”
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: Family Ties After having watched and Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project on the very fancy SF Int'l Film Fest screener DVD machines this afternoon, we're thinking the theme of the afternoon was family obligations. (This
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Audience Of One</i> A movie about local filmmakers wrangling with local politicians? We are so there! The SF Int'l premiered the documentary Thursday night in one of the big newly-renovated theaters in the Kabuki Sundance. Audience
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Fog City Mavericks</i> -- Can You Feel The Love Tonight? Sunday night, the SF International screened the world premiere of the film Fog City Mavericks at the Castro Theater. There were shades of Sundance as many of the films featured filmmakers and actors,
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: <i>Stories From The SF Film Frontiers</i> The SF Int'l Film Festival isn't just about great national and international movies -- they've got music events, gala events, talks about the state of cinema, an online presence through SF360.com, and
Arts & Entertainment History, Oh Damaged History: IndieFest '07 Showcases Films Inspired by the "Greats" Bookending 07’s SF IndieFest are two great pix promptly bound for distribution IndieFest’s opening night feature is David Lynch’s first self-distributed film: Inland Empire. A ghostly tale dealing with the
Arts & Entertainment Henry Rosenthal, producer of "The Devil and Daniel Johnston" Enter director Jeff Feuerzeig whose film “The Devil and Daniel Johnston” played at Sundance 2005 and won Feuerzeig the best direction award. SFist was lucky enough to catch the film at the San
SF News Kabuki Theatre Sold to Sundance Cinemas Expected to become "a state-of-the-art independent movie house", Sundance plans on beginning renovations to the theatre in early May, following the San Francisco International Film Festival. This fall it'll reopen as the "Sundance
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Greg Whiteley SFist is thankful for many things this time of year. We are especially thankful for independent movies and the independent theaters that show them. SFist has been lucky to attend the Sundance Film
misc Win tickets to <i>Reel Paradise</i>! Our pals at Larsen Associates have come through again, giving us run of engagement passes for , which opens tomorrow at the Lumiere in here in the city, the Act in Berkeley and the
