In 2006 a video of a Hawaiian musician playing a ukulele rendition of “While My Guitar Gently Weeps,” was posted online and launched the career…
Korean love stories have a reputation for high melodrama and “Always,” which played at the 30th annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival on…
Despite the glorious summer heat, the Castro Theatre was filled to capacity on Sunday afternoon for the San Francisco International Film (SFIFF) screening of the…
Japanese Director Hirokazu Koreeda‘s film, Air Doll, screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival (SFIFF) on Friday night. At the screening, director Koreeda said…
The fatality at the Castro Muni Station and the subsequent three-hour, rush hour closure of all the underground stations on Thursday night delayed many of…
How’s this for a no-brainer way to sell out a movie–take thousands of horny college students, plus a sultry Bay Area evening, plus a movie…
Love Aaj Kal screened as part of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival (SFIAAFF) at the Castro Theatre last night. I was a…
Spring weather arrived in San Francisco this past weekend along with the 28th annual San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. Despite the glorious weather,…
WAH DO DEM trailer from Ben Chace on Vimeo. If the Mission District had a sister neighborhood it would probably be Brooklyn. So it seemed…
Aussie surfer gal, Poppy Stockwell trained a camera on herself as her long-distance romance with Sandeep Virdi began to blossom first online, and then by…
Nursery University, a documentary about the competitive admissions process for spots at exclusive nursery schools in Manhattan, played at the Roxie Theatre on Saturday as…
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Over the weekend, I saw Jews in Shorts. Relax those angry typing fingers people! That’s what the showing of short films at the San Francisco…
About 20 minutes into the movie Dare, which played at the Castro Theatre on Saturday night as part of the Frameline33 Film Festival, I had…
It was definitely ladies’ night at the Castro Theatre on Friday, as the Frameline Film Fest played host to the world premiere of the sexy…
When I realized that the French filmmaker Catherine Breillat, director of the voluptuous The Last Mistress which opened SFIFF last year, was also behind Bluebeard,…
La Mission is a family affair: it’s the second feature film by director Peter Bratt, and stars his brother, Benjamin Bratt. It opened the 52nd…
It was standing room only for the SFIAAFF panel with Alex Tse, one of the screenwriters of the Hollywood blockbuster, Watchmen. The graphic novel fanboys…
The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival panel on Multiracial/Multimedia took place at the Hotel Kabuki on Saturday. What is multiracial multimedia? It’s stuff…
