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Yes, by popular demand, San Francisco Film Society's SF360 Film will once again bring you the one, the only, "Trapped in a Closet" sing-along, the awesomest sing-along this side of the Buffy "Once More With Feeling" sing-along (sing it everyone: "Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes/They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses...") The show will be Friday, January 25, at 7:00 pm at Mezzanine.

And on to Mezzanine Thursday night for the SFIFF closing night party -- with a surprise performer . . . . but before the final sendoff, we headed over to the Castro Theater for what turned out to be one of the best films that we think we’ve ever seen, French or otherwise – (which means “little sparrow”). The “little sparrow” is Edith Piaf, and the film by director Olivier Dahan, is intended to present more of a portrait of Piaf’s life rather than a biography, according to Dahan.

As a Vans salesman recently told us, "Yo, Sis, this is fresh!" Maybe so.

First there was the Sound of Music Sing-Along. Then came a whole lotta other Sing-Alongs. But this Wednesday, there might be the awesomest Sing-Along of them all: a sing-along of R. Kelly's epic magnum opus, Trapped in a Closet.

One of the countless trends in the non-profit arts world that we run across during the course of our day job is new initiatives by august institutions to ply their wares to younger audiences, kinda like Pepsi's "Choice of a New Generation" Campaign years back. SF360 is an effort of said type by the San Francisco Film Society. Tonight the Society presents the latest SF360 Film+Club a once-a-month evening of film and clubbing, featuring selected highlights from the truly unique Wholphin DVD collection of rare and unseen short films, assembled by the McSweeney’s junta, at Mezzanine (444 Jessie St at Mint). Films feature John C Reilly, Miranda July, Dennis Hopper and squids. Free Peroni beer. (7:30 pm)

Total number of people pictured in this week's Swells society column: 56.

The opening night screening of a film festival is like having sex with a celebrity -- the experience itself is never that impressive, but it makes for a fun memory and it's nice to be able to say that you did it.

We have to admit, we weren't buying it two weeks ago when the San Francisco Film Society invited us to a pre-Sundance rally at the posh Adagio Hotel. The haute couture, the DJ, the tiny appetizers and free beer -- "surely," we thought, "this must be nothing more than an excuse to have one of those bourgeois parties we're always protesting alongside our Communist friends." But no! No! Just like when we famously predicted that Nixon would ride his troubles out, back in the 70s when SFist was an underground Russian-language zine, we were wrong. Man oh man, the SF Film Society is up to some really cool stuff, you betcha, and we can't wait to tell you what it is. But we promised them we'd wait until they made an official announcement next week. So until then, here's a hint: their announcement does not involve a 32-pound box of hair. OR DOES IT????????

The San Francisco Film Society is hosting a special screening of at the Clay this Sunday the 11th at 7:30 p.m., and we have passes to give away to you!

SFist usually experiences a frisson of excitement when we visit the Kabuki Theater, usually from the 38 that nearly hits us every time we cross Geary at Fillmore (apparently, red lights don't apply to busses). But this time our excitement wasn't the brush with death kind, it was the far more pleasant brush with celebrity type, as we were at the Kabuki to take in the red carpet arrival of several of the folks responsible for ,the Festival's Zoom! screening.

One of the many perks of SFist, (besides the private jet, sumptious office spaces, and Gavin calling round-the-clock "just to say 'hi'"), is that we are forced to get out of the house and go do awesomely cool stuff in the name of Web Journalism. The latest entry in this big-fun anti-hermit campaign is the San Francisco International Film Festival, which opens tonight and runs through Thursday May 5. You can see the entire calendar, buy tickets, and see the "scoop du jour" on the site for San Francisco Film Society, which presents the festival. Over the next week-and-a-half, 185 film representing 49 countries will be screened, with premieres, special events, and real live movie stars all over the place.

Peter Coyote (some stuff in the 60's that nobody remembers) have joined together to fight Proposition L. In the thirty-second trailer, Penn states that "proposition L claims to save our theaters. In fact, it would hijack $10 million a year from city funds and give it to a group that has never managed a theater and didn't exist until they wrote this proposition."