Did you climb up on your chair? We did. The above footage was taken today at the CAS, which opens at the end of September. Here's just a taste of what they'll have to offer: an albino alligator. Enjoy! UPDATE: Boo! Clip pulled by CAS PR person. Alas.......

Photo by Exxonvaldez According to Flickr user Exxonvaldez, the film crew for the shoot above demanded all passersby not to snap any images of the filming procress. Of course, we then had to post the above. Exxonvaldez says: So they're filming something, ostensibly a Bollywood film whose title they will not disclose, in plain sight off the Embarcadero on Battery, in front of Fog City Diner. The people working near the perimeter will say......

Since there's no reason every other blog and MSM outlet out there gets to milk yesterday's 5.4 LA earthquake and not us, check out these two pieces of caught-on-tape footage fun. First we have Judy Judy, showing God's unmitigated gall by interfereing with Ms. Sheindlin's ruling. Then, after the jump, the Big Brother hamsters save themselves (and their cocktails!) for certain doom!......

MUSIC: The "heart-melting" Watson Twins (minus Jenny Lewis) headline a night a pretty ditties over on Potrero Hill. Tim Fite and Okay on Monday open for the two 9 p.m. // Bottom of the Hill (1233 - 17th Street) // $10 FILM: Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired screens in the Mission tonight. This documentary turns its lens on the (in)famous director of Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby, dipping into his marriage with Manson Family murder......

(By SFist MiHi Ahn) The Kinsey Sicks is one of those San Francisco acts we've been hearing about for years, but never managed to see in-person. Alas. But much to our delight, The Kinsey Sicks: Almost Infamous gave us the opportunity to see them on the big screen, and made us regret not seeing them sooner. Let's back up a bit: back in 1993, five friends--mostly lawyers and buttoned-up, white-collar, professionals--dressed in drag for......

(By SFist MiHi Ahn) Eleven Minutes follows Project Runway--season one winner Jay McCarroll for an entire year as he attempts to become a real fashion designer and not just a reality TV star. A difficult feat to say the least. (McCarroll reportedly declined the Project Runway cash prize of $100,000 and a mentorship opportunity at Banana Republic because the contract required him to sign away 10% of his professional earning in perpetuity. You go......

Well, sort of. Method actor and mentally-challenged San Francisco icon Frank Chu will appear in the upcoming flick Less -- brought to you by Gabriel Diamond, who brought you such household-name classics as Start to Finish (2007) and The Sex Movie (2006) -- as "12 Galaxies Guy." Less is "an independent narrative film about a man who has chosen to live on the streets in San Francisco," which is currently in post production and......

(By Joe Kukura) Ready? OK! Hey! Is that Michael Emerson up there on the right, who plays the sinister creep cult leader Ben Linus on LOST? And is that Carrie Preston on the left, whom we recognize from Transamerica and Desperate Housewives? And is that Chester in the middle, the lovable sexual predator of the burlesque cheerleading troupe The COCK-Ts? “Like, totally for reals!” on all three counts… as Frameline 2008 had an enormous......

(By SFist MiHi Ahn) XXY We're suckers for coming-of-age movies, so we hunkered down with a cup of coffee and bag of popcorn last night at the Castro Theatre to see back to back Frameline Festival movies about young adults. The first movie, XXY by first time director Lucia Puenzo is a quietly riveting film about an intersex teenager going through puberty in a small seaside town in Uruguay. Fifteen-year-old Alex has lived life......

We can't wait to meet the unintentionally hilarious (audio NSFW) "World's Angriest R.V. Salesman" Jack Rebney at the 7:15 Saturday screening of the fourth annual Found Footage Festival! We are promised answers to the following questions: "What does he think of his unintentional cult status? Where has he been? Why was he so angry? And is he going to go off on us?" We'll let you know what happens. All weekend, the festival will......

SFist TV writer, SFGate Culture Blogger (and, for those of you who like dead trees, her weekly TV picks on on the cover of the Chron's TV section Sunday) Rain Jokinen has a great chronicle of her relationship with the Indiana Jones movies on her Musty TV blog:...

Were you snoring next to SFist Wendy at the movies the other night? Our fellow SFisters weren’t alone in the lyrical department this week. We signed on for the SFIFF's In the City of Sylvia, a film described as “simple” and “classical.” More importantly for us – since we love all things French (or almost) – the film was set in Strasbourg. It wasn’t until we already had our ticket and were ready to......

Every time we see an Errol Morris film, we're always astonished by his subjects' self-incrimination and displays of delusion. We had suspected that Morris is drawn to delusional people as subjects, or at least, the unusually obsessed. With Standard Operating Procedure, screened at the SFIFF on Tuesday, April 29th, Errol Morris once again attempts to answer the question that recurs in many of his movies, "What were they thinking?" In a pre-screening chat with......

What we love most about watching films at SFIFF is being able to experience something different than your own life. Take for instance, Just Like Home. How else can one know what it's like to live in a small Danish town consumed by the mystery of whom, exactly, is wandering the streets naked? That is the central premise of Just Like Home. A man is seen walking around at night nude and the repercussions this......

Psst! Anyone out there holding onto one of the sacred 1000 journals? If so, add to it already and pass it on! Or send it back to Someguy. Inquiring minds across the world want to see these 1000 journals! SF Int'l Film Fest's screening of 1000 Journals at Kabuki on Saturday was very warmly received by a large audience, and questions abounded at the Q&A with filmmaker Andrea Kreuzhage and Someguy, the creator of The......

You know that movie we're not talking about whose marketing campaign sucks? And the fine folks of SF parodied on 24th Street? That we reported on over a week or so ago? Well, now, in addition to Fametracker and Hollywood Elsewhere, Berkeley is getting in on the act. And in typical fashion, a week later. ...

The photographer being manhandled at around 20-25 seconds in is Luke Thomas of Fog City Journal. (Or so we're told.) Then, at the end, the camera operator receives a serious (and seriously questionable) smackdown by an SFPD officer. ...

The title of Nobuhiro Yamashita's A Gentle Breeze in the Village poignantly conveys the tone of this film. Witnessing the gentle coming of age of young Soyo (played by Kaho), the oldest of the students in her small, combined elementary and middle school, personifies for the viewer the lush yet gentle breeze that reverberates throughout the beautiful landscape shots of the Japanese countryside. Oh, to be young and going to the beach and playing with......

Last night's screening of Wayne Wang's A Thousand Years of Good Prayers on opening night of the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival was a sheer delight. The film is based on Bay Area author Yiyun Li’s book of short stories. Wayne Wang was there to present the film to us, and then he and star Henry O answered questions after the film. Afterwards, everyone headed over to the Asian American Art Museum for......

Mills High School English teacher David Lista, 35, of Belmont has admitted to filming underage girls using the bathroom at the high school where he taught. it seems he was arrested yesterday afternoon after a Mills technology coordinator came across Lista's cinematic restroom work while checking the school computer server. Police then searched Lista's home, which turned up a "small amount" of methamphetamine as well. Ouch. But this wasn't the first time Lista's alleged......

Well, it's been fun. The trailers, the megawatt celebrity sightings, the lights, the cameras, the not being invited to cast/crew parties -- SFist will miss it all. As most of you know, Gus Van Sant's biopic Milk -- the story of assassinated San Francisco Supervisor and gay rights advocate, Harvey Milk -- started shooting in January. This past Sunday, the production came to an end. Alas. For those of you who weren't able to......

*CLUB: San Francisco's 6th annual DJ Dreamteam lineup -- which consists of local legends Miguel Migs, Mark Farina, David Harness, Julius Papp, Taj, Rooz, Icon, Dirtyhertz, a-tn-nae, Smoove, Mancub, Kapt'n Kirk, M3, Aaron Jae, Shooy, and Motion Potion -- will have you up off your ass and busting out your choicest vogue moves on the dance floor. 10 p.m. // 1015 [1015 Folsom] // $15-$25 FILM: Cringe-worthy cult film heralded as "one of the......

Bay Area filmmakers Arne Johnson and Shane King present Girls Rock! The Movie, a highly moving documentary about Portland's Rock 'n' Roll Camp for Girls, a place for girls ages eight to eighteen to learn an instrument, form their own bands, write songs, make friends, and then perform in front of 700 people -- all in a week's time. The film is opening in seven cities today -- San Francisco, Berkeley, Portland, New York,......

We just got word that Gustaf Van Sant needs more extras this Sunday for Milk. You know what that means, don't you? Time to throw on your hippest and tightest '70s duds revealing the most chest hair possible in order to help the poor Palme d'Or winner out. You will help him out this coming Sunday, won't you? Good. According to event organizers: WE ARE INVITING PEOPLE BACK TO BE IN THE MOVIE ONE......

*FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Irish Film Festival kicks things off with Garage by director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran. This is followed by a reception with the Consul General of Ireland, Emer Deane. According to LS, "other highlights include Speed Dating, a romantic comedy about a lovelorn amnesiac; the award winning Irish-language feature film Kings, and finally The Undertaking, a documentary about Irish American undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch, who is......

*MUSIC: Hotel Utah launches a brand spanking new party, YEAR. The night is being labeled as an "innovative branded concept," hosted by KUSF radio personality and creative director for the Mill Valley Film Festival, Dennis "The Menace" Scheyer. Each month at YEAR, one year will be celebrated -- ranging from 1956 to 2006 -- and the playlist for that month's event will be the top hits from that year. Which year will be the......

Ooooh!!! You know we love the Asian-American Film Festival! We love the feature films by the young ambitious Asian-American directors, we love Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, we love the KQED-ready documentaries about identity and history, we love the beautifully shot foreign films, and we loooooooooove Music Video Asia! MAN, do we love Music Video Asia. (Plus -- a sing-along Colma The Musical!) The film festival starts in two weeks and runs......

*FILM: She Done Him Wrong (1933) screens at the Castro Tonight. What's is about? Well, according to CinemaSource, "Lady Lou works as a singer at the Gay Nineties saloon of Gus Jordan, who plays her with diamonds to keep her by his side. She runs afoul of stalwart Salvation Army captain Cummings, who warns her that she''s on the road to perdition. Though Lou herself steers clear of criminal activities, Gus Jordan runs a......

Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny shielding themselves from your gaze. By Gordon Elgart (based on his Twitter entries) Every year, we spend Saturday at WonderCon in Hall A, watching panels of filmmakers and actors prattle on about upcoming films, and show exclusive clips and trailers. This year, we kept a running diary. Ahem: 11:12 AM – We’re in a gigantic line for WonderCon. In the pre-registration line, which is significantly longer than the pay-at-the-door......

While we can't agree with Grandma Joy on her dismissive review of There Will Be Blood, because our love for self-indulgent vanity pieces knows no limits, we can agree that "Movies With Grandma Joy" is adorably informative, addictive. She even reenacts a violent scene from the PT Anderson gem, so be sure to check it out. While you're at it, Joy also reviews Juno and No Country For Old Men -- perfect viewing before......