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  • June 14, 2011

    Another Hole in the Head Film Festival

    Jun 16, 2011

    SF IndieFest's annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, which features 16 entertaining, inexplicable days of contemporary, comedic, sci-fi and dark fantasy horror films, continues for another week. The event is hosted by Roxie Theater. More at sfindie.com.

  • June 7, 2011

    Another Hole in the Head Film Festival

    Jun 16, 2011

    SF IndieFest's annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, which features 16 entertaining, inexplicable days of contemporary, comedic, sci-fi and dark fantasy horror films, continues for another week. The event is hosted by Roxie Theater. More at sfindie.com.

  • May 31, 2011

    Another Hole in the Head Film Festival

    Jun 16, 2011

    SF IndieFest's annual Another Hole in the Head Film Festival, which features 16 entertaining, inexplicable days of contemporary, comedic, sci-fi and dark fantasy horror films, continues for another week. The event is hosted by Roxie Theater. More at sfindie.com.

  • Festivals

    Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 2, 2011

    The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.

  • Home

    Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 2, 2011

    The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.

  • June 2, 2011

    Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 2, 2011

    The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.

  • June 9, 2011

    Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 2, 2011

    The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.

  • Festivals

    Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 2, 2011

    The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.

  • Home

    Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 2, 2011

    The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.

  • June 2, 2011

    Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 2, 2011

    The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.

  • June 9, 2011

    Another Hole in the Head Scares Up New Round

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 2, 2011

    The adventure of Another Hole in the Head Film Festival requires you risk seeing the occasional dud to seek out the gems.

  • Home

    ‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite

    Michael Fox
    Jun 1, 2011

    Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.

  • In Production

    ‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite

    Michael Fox
    Jun 1, 2011

    Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.

  • June 2, 2011

    ‘Kiss the Cook’ Sparks Weidlinger’s Appetite

    Michael Fox
    Jun 1, 2011

    Tom Weidlinger creates a cooking show that offers surprises for the slow-foodie.

  • 03.31.11

    SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 29, 2011

    SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

  • Festivals

    SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 29, 2011

    SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

  • Home

    SFFS Announces 2011 SF International Film Festival Titles, Events

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 29, 2011

    SF International's 54th wide-ranging program is announced.

  • Home

    Arctic 'Summer' Story Chills Screen

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 25, 2011

    SFFS Screen's 'How I Ended This Summer' is a taut drama set in the Arctic.

  • Reviews

    Arctic 'Summer' Story Chills Screen

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 25, 2011

    SFFS Screen's 'How I Ended This Summer' is a taut drama set in the Arctic.

  • December 7, 2010

    ‘Meat Grinder’

    Dec 11, 2010

    YBCA’s ‘Go To Hell For The Holidays: Horror in December’ series continues with Kiwa Moethaisong’s ‘Meat Grinder,’ the story of a disturbed chef who increases her noodle soup sales by adding a simple and grotesque ingredient. More at ybca.org.

  • November 30, 2010

    'Red White & Blue'

    Dec 2, 2010

    Simon Rumley’s low budget Texas-set horror film tells the story of a disconnected, promiscuous young woman who finds friendship in a mysterious Iraq veteran. ‘Red White & Blue’ kicks off YBCA’s Go To Hell For The Holidays: Horror in December series. More at ybca.org.

  • Funding

    Going Guerrilla with Zombies

    Holly Million
    Nov 23, 2010

    Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."

  • Home

    Going Guerrilla with Zombies

    Holly Million
    Nov 23, 2010

    Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."

  • November 24, 2010

    Going Guerrilla with Zombies

    Holly Million
    Nov 23, 2010

    Horror legend George Romero offers fundraising advice to first-timers: "Just make the movie. Don’t worry about the money."

  • October 26, 2010

    ‘Poltergeist’ with JoBeth Williams in Person

    Oct 30, 2010

    Marc Huestis presents the '80s horror classic at the Castro Theatre with a tribute to star JoBeth Williams preceding the screening. This special event includes (of course) a live performance, and it's titled ‘Poltergayest, A Horrific Fashion Show.’ An autograph signing concludes the night’s otherworldly celebration. More at castrotheatre.com.

  • Home

    A Family Implodes in Biting 'Dogtooth'

    Dennis Harvey
    Sep 3, 2010

    A Greek film incriminates the viewer.

  • Reviews

    A Family Implodes in Biting 'Dogtooth'

    Dennis Harvey
    Sep 3, 2010

    A Greek film incriminates the viewer.

  • August 24, 2010

    One Last Rocky Horror Picture Show

    Aug 28, 2010

    The San Francisco movie theater landmark Clay Theatre hosts one last screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show along with the Bawdy Caste before closing its doors for good this weekend.

  • August 26 ,2010

    A Vampire Weekend at YBCA

    Max Goldberg
    Aug 26, 2010

    Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .

  • Home

    A Vampire Weekend at YBCA

    Max Goldberg
    Aug 26, 2010

    Three vampire films capture more than the imagination. That the vogue for vampire melodramas may have run its course is clear enough from the appearance of Vampires Suck (in theaters as of this writing, though not likely much past it) and the news that the American redo of the 2008 Swedish indie hit, Let the Right One In, will be titled "Let Me In." Just like that, a lovely slice of pop-baroque gets reprocessed as a pathetic whine. No matter: as long there is cinema, the vampire will reemerge. Ever since the twin pinnacles of Nosferatu (1922) and Vampyr (1932), in which two of early cinema’s. . .

  • August 19 2010

    Noirish New Lavine Series Hits the Roxie

    Sura Wood
    Aug 19, 2010

    Elliot Lavine speaks of noir, noirishness, and the series of potent, paranoid, and often genre-busting classics he brings to the Roxie.

  • Home

    Noirish New Lavine Series Hits the Roxie

    Sura Wood
    Aug 19, 2010

    Elliot Lavine speaks of noir, noirishness, and the series of potent, paranoid, and often genre-busting classics he brings to the Roxie.

  • Q & A

    Noirish New Lavine Series Hits the Roxie

    Sura Wood
    Aug 19, 2010

    Elliot Lavine speaks of noir, noirishness, and the series of potent, paranoid, and often genre-busting classics he brings to the Roxie.

  • 08-05-2010

    Looking to the Skies for Cinema

    Gianmaria Franchini
    Aug 5, 2010

    Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.

  • Festivals

    Looking to the Skies for Cinema

    Gianmaria Franchini
    Aug 5, 2010

    Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.

  • Home

    Looking to the Skies for Cinema

    Gianmaria Franchini
    Aug 5, 2010

    Think summer's almost over? In the Bay Area, think again: Outdoor screenings are just getting started.

  • Festivals

    7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head

    Matt Sussman
    Jul 7, 2010

    SF Indiefest unveils its 7th annual showcase of the wildest and weirdest in independently produced sci-fi, horror and fantasy.

  • Home

    7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head

    Matt Sussman
    Jul 7, 2010

    SF Indiefest unveils its 7th annual showcase of the wildest and weirdest in independently produced sci-fi, horror and fantasy.

  • Festivals

    7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head

    Matt Sussman
    Jul 7, 2010

    SF Indiefest unveils its 7th annual showcase of the wildest and weirdest in independently produced sci-fi, horror and fantasy.

  • Home

    7th Heaven: Another Hole in the Head

    Matt Sussman
    Jul 7, 2010

    SF Indiefest unveils its 7th annual showcase of the wildest and weirdest in independently produced sci-fi, horror and fantasy.

  • Home

    Kore-eda Breathes Life into 'Air Doll'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 25, 2010

    Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll is a conceptual gamble pulled off with a master’s grace and subtlety.

  • Reviews

    Kore-eda Breathes Life into 'Air Doll'

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 25, 2010

    Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll is a conceptual gamble pulled off with a master’s grace and subtlety.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF53 Reports: Divine Madness at 'All About Evil' Premiere

    Dennis Harvey
    May 4, 2010

    Judging from Saturday night s festivities, half the capacity Castro Theatre audience had worked on or otherwise invested in Joshua Grannell a.k.a. Peaches Christ s debut feature.

  • Festivals

    SFIFF53 Reports: The Butcher Block; Opening Night

    SF360
    Apr 24, 2010

    To be from the Bay Area and called The Butcher Brothers might mean you get mixed up with purveyors of grass fed meats.

  • Reviews

    Beyond 'Berlin,' Eggers' New German Gems

    Michael Fox
    Feb 26, 2010

    The moving arrow anoints a new hot spot of contemporary cinema every few years, and then moves on. Yet Germany never makes the cool list.

  • Reviews

    Val Lewton's Brooding Mood, Chilling Themes

    Dennis Harvey
    Jan 21, 2010

    Horror movies were once dismissed by most grownups (and nearly all critics) as juvenile, silly, even offensive. Val Lewton seriously challenged that thinking,

  • Q & A

    Butchers Chop Shop at Sundance

    Glen Helfand
    Jan 21, 2010

    The Butcher Brothers The Violent Kind is a nightmare-with-bikers-in-the-woods fantasy shot in Petaluma and Cotati, and it fits their collaborative moniker.

  • Q & A

    Robert Mailer Anderson on Mendo Madness of 'Pig Hunt'

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 26, 2009

    After ripping it up at various genre fests, the Bay Area indie horror flick settles in for a theatrical run at the Red Vic.

  • Q & A

    Robert Mailer Anderson on Mendo Madness of 'Pig Hunt'

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 26, 2009

    After ripping it up at various genre fests, the Bay Area indie horror flick settles in for a theatrical run at the Red Vic.

  • In Production

    The horror, the horror: 'Tweaker With an Axe'

    Michael Fox
    Jul 1, 2009

    An interview with Flynn Witmeyer about his debut feature Tweaker With an Axe, and the desire to make genre films—horror or sci-fi or fantasy—that incorporate gay and lesbian characters.

  • In Production

    The horror, the horror: 'Tweaker With an Axe'

    Michael Fox
    Jul 1, 2009

    An interview with Flynn Witmeyer about his debut feature Tweaker With an Axe, and the desire to make genre films—horror or sci-fi or fantasy—that incorporate gay and lesbian characters.

  • Festivals

    Frameline33: Something Old, Something New

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 17, 2009

    A dose of self-affirmation arrives with Frameline33 (or, if you prefer, the multiple-breath-intake-requiring San Francisco International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Film Festival.)

  • In Production

    'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post

    Michael Fox
    Jun 17, 2009

    Blood-soaked, darkly comic All About Evil has writer-director Joshua Grannell and editor Rick LeCompte on an express-train schedule rare for an independent feature.

  • Popular

    'All About Evil'-doer Joshua Grannell in post

    Michael Fox
    Jun 17, 2009

    Blood-soaked, darkly comic All About Evil has writer-director Joshua Grannell and editor Rick LeCompte on an express-train schedule rare for an independent feature.

  • Festivals

    Another Hole in the Head

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 4, 2009

    At a film festival called Another Hole in the Head, dedicated to sci-fi, horror and fantasy, catastrophic carnage meets comedy more often than not.

  • Festivals

    Another Hole in the Head

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 4, 2009

    At a film festival called Another Hole in the Head, dedicated to sci-fi, horror and fantasy, catastrophic carnage meets comedy more often than not.

  • Reviews

    Raimi's Return to Horror: Drag Me to Hell

    Dennis Harvey
    May 29, 2009

    Despite a few flaws in story and continuity, Drag Me to Hell offers the pleasures of a first-class entertainer thoroughly enjoying himself.

  • Reviews

    Raimi's Return to Horror: Drag Me to Hell

    Dennis Harvey
    May 29, 2009

    Despite a few flaws in story and continuity, Drag Me to Hell offers the pleasures of a first-class entertainer thoroughly enjoying himself.

  • Reviews

    Back to Nature with Ben Rivers

    Dennis Harvey
    Mar 27, 2009

    Ben Rivers makes his Bay Area debut this week presenting in person two programs, both providing a slightly dislocative experience at once tranquil and sinister.

  • Festivals

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa and a Cinema of Disaster

    Matt Sussman
    Mar 11, 2009

    The retrospective offers fascinating, if not always exemplary, viewing of what could be called a cinema of disaster: characters face the worst, or are living in its aftermath, and like the audience, they are provided with no easy answers.

  • Festivals

    SF Indiefest 2009

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 5, 2009

    With a roster that sprawls from horror to softcore to verite-style drama and documentary, the only constant is that you won't be bored.

  • Festivals

    SF Indiefest 2009

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 5, 2009

    With a roster that sprawls from horror to softcore to verite-style drama and documentary, the only constant is that you won't be bored.

  • Reviews

    Autobio-Animation and the Horrors of War

    Dennis Harvey
    Jan 6, 2009

    Waltz with Bashir is another animated feature that embraces a more grown-up story and audience than anything in the long history of "cartoons."

  • Reviews

    Supernaturalism with 'Let the Right One In'

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 4, 2008

    Based on John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, Let the Right One In is a poignant, nuanced, original addition to the cinematic vampire canon.

  • Q & A

    Documenting the Lyme Epidemic

    Michael Fox
    Oct 9, 2008

    Andy Abrahams Wilson talks about Under Our Skin, his elegantly crafted film on the underreported epidemic of Lyme disease.

  • Q & A

    Documenting the Lyme Epidemic

    Michael Fox
    Oct 9, 2008

    Andy Abrahams Wilson talks about Under Our Skin, his elegantly crafted film on the underreported epidemic of Lyme disease.

  • Festivals

    Dead Channels 2008 Comes Alive

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 3, 2008

    Those inclined toward healthy doses of sleaze, gore, and retro-shlock can rejoice that it's time for the second annual edition of Dead Channels.

  • Festivals

    Dead Channels 2008 Comes Alive

    Dennis Harvey
    Oct 3, 2008

    Those inclined toward healthy doses of sleaze, gore, and retro-shlock can rejoice that it's time for the second annual edition of Dead Channels.

  • Reviews

    Baloney Sandwiches With No Cheese: Ted V. Mikels' Wild World

    Matt Sussman
    Sep 18, 2008

    'It takes your guts and your entrails and your soul to make a film,' Mikels once proclaimed. 'It takes everything you possess within you!'

  • In Production

    Mendocino's Swine Country

    Michael Fox
    Sep 17, 2008

    "Horror films can hold a lot of crazy ideas and political ideas and no one blinks," says Pig Hunt writer and producer Robert Mailer Anderson, "and that serves our purposes."

  • In Production

    Mendocino's Swine Country

    Michael Fox
    Sep 17, 2008

    "Horror films can hold a lot of crazy ideas and political ideas and no one blinks," says Pig Hunt writer and producer Robert Mailer Anderson, "and that serves our purposes."

  • Q & A

    Hard Look at China in 'Blind Mountain'

    Judy Stone
    Jul 11, 2008

    Li Yang speaks about commercial pressures in Chinese film and the story behind Blind Mountain.

  • Reviews

    Critic's Notebook: Hole Head, Week One

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 17, 2008

    Dennis Harvey covers the first week of low-budget geeks, weirdos and gore on display at the Another Hole in the Head Festival.

  • Reviews

    Critic's Notebook: Hole Head, Week One

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 17, 2008

    Dennis Harvey covers the first week of low-budget geeks, weirdos and gore on display at the Another Hole in the Head Festival.

  • Reviews

    Travel Guide Through Another Hole in the Head Film Festival

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 5, 2008

    The Hole Head Festival takes audiences back to terrifying locales and dangerous situations that should be pleasantly familiar to horror aficionados.

  • Reviews

    Travel Guide Through Another Hole in the Head Film Festival

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 5, 2008

    The Hole Head Festival takes audiences back to terrifying locales and dangerous situations that should be pleasantly familiar to horror aficionados.

  • Festivals

    Asia Argento, In Full Flower

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 23, 2008

    Motherhood has supposedly had a slowing-down effect on Asia Argento, though at present evidence points rather wildly to the contrary. Not only does she star in this week’s San Francisco International Film Festival official opener, Catherine Breillat’s costume intrigue The Last Mistress, she also figures heavily in two other SFIFF features. Both are programmed in the culty "Late Show" section: Go Go Tales, Abel Ferrara’s most acclaimed film in years, and The Mother of Tears, a latest horror opus directed by her own fan-idolized gorehound dad Dario Argento. A couple weeks ago yet another vehicle opened commercially, Olivier Assayas’ Boarding Gate, which is entirely dominated by her feverish and highly physical performance.

    Conventional logic might suggest all this visibility means it’s "breakthrough" time for Asia Argento, that moment when an actor goes from being a familiar face to a marquee name that can singlehandedly draw folks into the multiplex, or at least the arthouse. (In Europe she’s already quite well-known.) But as her project choices among other things bear out, Argento probably isn’t very interested in becoming a "star" in the conventional sense. In fact, she seems the girl most likely to run from any such fate.

  • Festivals

    Asia Argento, In Full Flower

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 23, 2008

    Motherhood has supposedly had a slowing-down effect on Asia Argento, though at present evidence points rather wildly to the contrary. Not only does she star in this week’s San Francisco International Film Festival official opener, Catherine Breillat’s costume intrigue The Last Mistress, she also figures heavily in two other SFIFF features. Both are programmed in the culty "Late Show" section: Go Go Tales, Abel Ferrara’s most acclaimed film in years, and The Mother of Tears, a latest horror opus directed by her own fan-idolized gorehound dad Dario Argento. A couple weeks ago yet another vehicle opened commercially, Olivier Assayas’ Boarding Gate, which is entirely dominated by her feverish and highly physical performance.

    Conventional logic might suggest all this visibility means it’s "breakthrough" time for Asia Argento, that moment when an actor goes from being a familiar face to a marquee name that can singlehandedly draw folks into the multiplex, or at least the arthouse. (In Europe she’s already quite well-known.) But as her project choices among other things bear out, Argento probably isn’t very interested in becoming a "star" in the conventional sense. In fact, she seems the girl most likely to run from any such fate.

  • Reviews

    Review: "The Signal"

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 19, 2008

    An idea so vivid yet simple you've got to wonder why more movies haven't used it: Something happens that turns the populace into irrational maniacs.

  • Reviews

    Review: "The Signal"

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 19, 2008

    An idea so vivid yet simple you've got to wonder why more movies haven't used it: Something happens that turns the populace into irrational maniacs.

  • Reviews

    Undying Love for George A. Romero

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 14, 2008

    It probably wasn't Romero's original dream to become semi-famous for movies about the flesh-eating undead.

  • Reviews

    Undying Love for George A. Romero

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 14, 2008

    It probably wasn't Romero's original dream to become semi-famous for movies about the flesh-eating undead.

  • Reviews

    "Shrooms" Screams Bloody Horror

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 8, 2008

    The Irish flick might put the leper back in leprechaun, but it's still at heart a reassuringly formulaic hunk of bloody commercial horror.

  • Reviews

    "Shrooms" Screams Bloody Horror

    Dennis Harvey
    Feb 8, 2008

    The Irish flick might put the leper back in leprechaun, but it's still at heart a reassuringly formulaic hunk of bloody commercial horror.

  • News & Blogs

    SF-Based Distributor Viz Pictures

    Erika Young
    Jan 9, 2008

    The live-action film division of Viz Media has just marked its second year of bringing a broader range of Japanese film to the growing audience for Japanese pop culture.

  • Q & A

    Jesse Hawthorne Ficks's Midnight Movie Empire

    Dennis Harvey
    Dec 3, 2007

    Midnites for Maniacs unearths populist yet esoteric genre and exploitation flicks that have mostly disappeared into the netherworld of discarded VHS rental tapes.

  • Q & A

    Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Culture" war

    Michael Fox
    Sep 20, 2007

    Lynn Hershman Leeson discusses her new project, ÔStrange Culture'.

  • Q & A

    Bruce Fletcher, Dead Channels and the Living

    Dennis Harvey
    Aug 6, 2007

    Fletcher explains what will hopefully be an annual event that encompasses all kinds of worldwide cult-skewing fun.

  • Q & A

    'Joshua's' George Ratliff

    indieWIRE
    Jul 11, 2007

    George Ratliff talks about his first feature narrative Joshua, described by Sundance as a "horror story disguised as a sophisticated family drama."

  • Q & A

    'Joshua's' George Ratliff

    indieWIRE
    Jul 11, 2007

    George Ratliff talks about his first feature narrative Joshua, described by Sundance as a "horror story disguised as a sophisticated family drama."

  • Reviews

    "The Prodigy," The Roxie, Delirium, God

    Michael Guillen
    May 30, 2007

    San Franciscans have a poignant symbiotic relationship with William Kaufman's freshman feature, The Prodigy, which returns to the city this week.

  • Reviews

    Guillen's Top Five from Another Hole in the Head

    Michael Guillen
    May 25, 2007

    Five recommendations chosen from among the gore, ghouls, ghosts, gags, and animation at Indiefest's Holehead festival.

  • Reviews

    Guillen's Top Five from Another Hole in the Head

    Michael Guillen
    May 25, 2007

    Five recommendations chosen from among the gore, ghouls, ghosts, gags, and animation at Indiefest's Holehead festival.

  • Reviews

    Dead Channels : The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film

    Dennis Harvey
    Apr 19, 2007

    Taste a bit of the vintage grindhouse experience at the last of Dead Channels' Month of Sleazy Sundays triple bill of under-the-radar movies.

  • Q & A

    Grace Lee on the Zombie in You and Me

    Miljenko Skoknic
    Mar 23, 2007

    Director Grace Lee talks about the personal horror movie genre in American Zombie and the ethical dilemmas documentary filmmakers face.

  • Q & A

    Cheryl Eddy, Behind the New "SF360 Movie Scene"

    Susan Gerhard
    Feb 5, 2007

    The latest launch under the SF Film Society's SF360 banner premieres this week on ComcastSF, Channel 11.

  • Festivals

    Indiefest Lineup Announcement

    Miljenko Skoknic
    Jan 19, 2007

    SF IndieFest's founder/director Jeff Ross announced the ninth edition of the Bay Area's indie showcase festival

  • Festivals

    SF to Sundance

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 8, 2006

    At least three Bay Area-based filmmakers will be making the trek to Park City this year, Jon Else, Steven Okazaki, and Jay Rosenblatt.

  • Reviews

    Cheryl Eddy's Badder Santas

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 1, 2006

    You can't imagine a critic like Cheryl Eddy,with her dazzlingly caustic skepticism, ever believed in Santa Claus.

  • Reviews

    Cheryl Eddy's Badder Santas

    Susan Gerhard
    Dec 1, 2006

    You can't imagine a critic like Cheryl Eddy,with her dazzlingly caustic skepticism, ever believed in Santa Claus.

  • Reviews

    Otto Motives, A Preminger Perspective

    Dennis Harvey
    Nov 30, 2006

    The director, producer and sometime actor enjoyed a painless ride from well-off circumstances to well-connected beginnings to one of Hollywood's biggest names for decades.

  • Reviews

    Pacific Film Archive's "A Theater Near You"

    Max Goldberg
    Aug 31, 2006

    This 2006 series of recent releases and restorations that played theaters for only a day or, at most, a week is exceptionally varied.

  • Q & A

    Preteens on Surprise Endings

    Susan Gerhard
    Jul 21, 2006

    A California Film Institute-procured class of 13somethings needed no help deciding their top ten list of surprise movie endings.

  • Festivals

    Rare Horror

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 8, 2006

    Highlights from the 4th year ofAnother Hole in the Head, the S.F. Indiefest-produced celebration of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and just plain sick cinema.

  • Festivals

    Rare Horror

    Dennis Harvey
    Jun 8, 2006

    Highlights from the 4th year ofAnother Hole in the Head, the S.F. Indiefest-produced celebration of horror, sci-fi, fantasy and just plain sick cinema.

  • Festivals

    A Talk with SFIAAFF Directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto

    Susan Gerhard
    Mar 14, 2006

    Asian America everywhere: A talk with San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival directors Chi-hui Yang and Taro Goto.

  • Reviews

    'Il Divo' outdoes himself

    Paolo Sorrentino takes on the notorious Italian Prime Minister, Giulio Andreotti, in Il Divo.

  • In Production

    Delicious 'All About Evil' In Production

    Michael Fox goes behind the scenes on Peaches Christs' slice-'em-up.


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