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Posted SFIFF: "Incendies" Was A Scorcher to Culture/Entertainment
The writing was all over the wall at the Kabuki theater last night that San Francisco's 2011 International Film Festival was coming to end....
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Posted SFIFF: "Circumstance" Brings It All to Culture/Entertainment
The Sundance audiences were right on the money with Circumstance, the audience award winner at that festival. Circumstance, brought to life by writer and...
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Posted SFIFF: Humor And Twists In "Living on Love Alone" to Culture/Entertainment
I brought along a couple girlfriends, including at least one other hopeless romantic, to check out Isabelle Czajka's "Living on Love Alone" at the...
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Posted SFIFF: Egyptian Artistic Uprising In "Microphone" to Culture/Entertainment
Microphone - Official Trailer from Ahmad on Vimeo. Headed to the San Francisco International Film Festival on Friday, I was really looking forward to...
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Posted SFIFF: Waiting for Superman to Culture/Entertainment
It may be that "Waiting for Superman" is for public education what "An Inconvenient Truth" was for global warming. This isn't a huge surprise...
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Posted SFIFF: Linha de Passe to Culture/Entertainment
Walter Salles' latest film, Linha de Passe, was absolutely brilliant, and without a doubt my favorite film of the SFIFF so far. I've seen...
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Posted SFIFF: Soul Kitchen to Culture/Entertainment
Another film, another celebrity sighting...This time it was Patricia Clarkson, who rocked her role as Aunt Sarah in Six Feet Under ("I had a...
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Posted SFIFF: My Dog Tulip to Culture/Entertainment
Unable to love each other, the English turn naturally to dogs -- "My Dog Tulip" introduction I arrived at the Kabuki yesterday afternoon, the...
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Posted SF IndieFest: City Island to Culture/Entertainment
Think The Corrections, but lighter. Put this on your calendar for this Wednesday Feb. 10 at 7:15 p.m. To do: fall out of my...
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Posted Indiefest/Winter Music Fest: Rykarda Parasol and Dave Smallen to Culture/Entertainment
We kicked off Indiefest's Winter Music Fest this Friday night at Bottom of the Hill with Rykarda Parasol and Dave Smallen, a couple of...
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Posted SFISAFF: Yes, Madam, Sir to Culture/Entertainment
The lines wove around the block again both Saturday and Sunday evenings with folks waiting to get into the Castro Theater for this year's...
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Posted SFJFF: A Matter of Size to Culture/Entertainment
At a time when it seems everyone could use it, A Matter of Size is such a feel-good movie. Described by the directors as...
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Posted SFIFF: A Week Alone to Culture/Entertainment
Can we just preface this with the fact that we LOVED the film festival and all of its staff this year, and we were...
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Posted SFIFF: Troubled Water to Culture/Entertainment
Back at the film festival last night, we saw a film that topped our list this year. We found Troubled Water (the Norwegian title...
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Posted SFIFF: 35 Shots of Rum to Culture/Entertainment
What better way to spend a rainy night than at the SF International Film Festival? In spite of its title, 35 Shots of Rum has...
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Posted SFIFF: Kisses to Culture/Entertainment
Last night we escaped again to the film festival at the Kabuki. Who hasn't dreamed of escaping? For most of us it's probably from the...
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Posted SFIFF: Tribute to Robert Redford/Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid to Culture/Entertainment
"What I'm saying is, if you want to go, I won't stop you." There was nothing stopping us from attending and enjoying last night's...
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Posted SFIAAFF: High Noon to Culture/Entertainment
I'm not a guy, so I can't say that I've been through it all before, but in a way I have given that I have...
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Posted SFIAAFF: Heaven on Earth to Culture/Entertainment
I kicked off my SFIAAFF festivities Saturday at the Castro with Heaven on Earth, and have been dreaming of cobras ever since. I was a...