Film & Photography

John Waters on The Year of FILTH, Punk, & Christmas
“I just made bad taste 1% more respectable and…Trump ruined it, this is not even bad taste.”

SFFILM’s Doc Stories 2023: #MeToo, Soccer, and More
Want to groove to the music of Little Richard and Jon Batiste? How about pumping your fist in the air as the predecessors of Brandi Chastain and Megan Rapinoe score goals? Or why not get your mind blown by the art of Germany’s greatest living contemporary artist? All these experiences

Bingo & Beers: A Night of FREE Fun at The New Parkway
WRITTEN BY: SANDWICH If you’re looking for free fun, as in the free-space-in-the-middle-of-the-bingo-card fun, enjoy Bingo and Beer every Tuesday at The New Parkway Theater in uptown Oakland, conveniently located a few blocks north of 19th Street BART. Do something different. Go on a fun date. Yell Bingo. It’s pretty

The Green Film Festival Of San Francisco is Here!
Who says the joy of shouting “Soylent Green is people” moments before Charlton Heston opens his mouth is a lost theater-going pleasure? Thanks to the folks at this year’s Green Film Festival Of San Francisco (hereafter “Green Film SF”), the Charlton Heston-starring science fiction tale set in the awful overpopulated

Your Preview Of The 46th Mill Valley Film Festival
Fall brings the return of one of the S.F. Bay Area’s biggest and best film festivals, the Mill Valley Film Festival (hereafter “MVFF”). Now in its 46th edition, MVFF runs theatrically from October 5-15, 2023 and streams online from October 16-22, 2023. The festival will show 148 films from 41

Finding Your Family at a Festival: Riot Fest Edition
Whether biological or logical, born or found, those who we hold onto and those we meet that we can genuinely call family is a beautiful, and sometimes, zany thing. New family, old family, family near, and far – finding the humans and creatures that get you, uplift you, and love

The Amazing Rockstar Photo Exhibit at CJM
On a warm night at the CJM, a crowd of Deadheads, hippies, music lovers, and photography fans gathered to hear a legend speak about a lifetime of documenting popular culture. Rockstar photographer Jay Blakesberg held a talk about capturing musicians in San Francisco since the late 70s, from Jerry Garcia

4-Star Theater To Host Martin Scorsese Non-Gangster Film Retrospective
Director Martin Scorsese has helmed such gangster films as “Goodfellas,” “The Departed,” and “The Irishman.” But just because he’s done films about organized crime does not mean he deserves to be known only as a director of gangster films. If the upcoming adaptation of “Killers Of The Flower Moon” does