It's somewhere on the wrong side of 4 a.m., John Hawkes is casually smoking cigarettes on an outdoor couch, the German actor Udo Kier just went back to the coffin he likely sleeps in, and Cinefamily's back patio looks like the early morning lull after a biker-gang Christmas party. There are beercans ... More >>
Everything Is...Krebstar! There are all too few synonyms for "awesome" to describe the radical redux of The Adventures of Pete and Pete reunion that went down last night at the Orpheum. Capping off the past eleven days of their annual Everything Is Festival, Cinefamily pulled together another Kre ... More >>
The chaotic, nostalgic Everything Is Festival comes of age
The best movie of 2011, at Cinefamily
Remember Margaret? The Anna Paquin-starring drama was written in 2003, shot in 2005 and then given only a token release last September: on screen for just two weeks, with almost no marketing or promotion. After that, it was virtually impossible to see. The good news is, you soon will be able to se ... More >>
Courtesy of CinefamilySpace Ghost voice actor Andy Merrill playing ukelele "This show would have been impossible to do two years earlier," Jay Edwards told the sold-out theater at Cinefamily for Saturday's Space Ghost Coast-to-Coast reunion panel. Edwards was responding to a question posed a ... More >>
The kids you made fun of in high school: All grown up, and richer than you. When you hear the name Conan O'Brien, you probably picture the man who single-handedly rallied America's youth against Jay Leno, revenge after Leno took back the Tonight Show gig that, only nine months earlier, he'd l ... More >>
Liz OhanesianIf you spend as much time on Tumblr as we do, then you might have noticed that your dashboard has been looking pretty spooky lately with gifs from vintage horror movies and electronic music with a decidedly creepy edge. So, when we heard about Cinefamily's Erotique Fantastique Ma ... More >>
The young and the sexy writhing out their witch house tunes for skeletons of extinct species! Forbidden French photographs hidden inside a giant "experiential installation"! Werner fucking Herzog live and in person presenting a 3D documentary about the origins of the modern human! Tomorrow ni ... More >>
So-bad-it's-good movies are back in vogue
In the capital of cinema, specialty films are losing ground (but there are glimmers of hope)
If we were to make a list of the ultimate '90s goth movies, The Craft would be near the top of it. After all, what Fairuza Balk's character, Nancy Downs, did to her uniform was downright inspiring for spooky teenagers forced to wear the same thing as everyone else in high school. With that in mind, ... More >>
"It's like 'Iron Chef' meets 'Kung Fu Hustle'," says Cinefamily' manager Hadrian Belove of Hong Kong director Stephen Chow's "The God of Cookery." Tonight at midnight, Cinefamily at the Silent Movie Theater will host a rare screening o ... More >>
Silent Movie Theatre’s Cinefamily is a gym for the mind
An enigmatic independent auteur may have made the world’s next great midnight movie
