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Who should play Dianne Feinstein in Gus Van Sant’s upcoming movie about Harvey Milk’s assassination? My vote is for this actress:

Why?

The Bicycle Film Festival comes to San Francisco this Wednesday, kicking off with the FREE Bikes Rock Opening Night party at Thee Parkside with:

Dirty Laundry
Sicalps
Thee Ohsees
Tussle
In addition to the films, all of which are showing at the Victoria Theatre Victoria Theatre, (2961 - 16th Street near Mission), are many other events, which you can check out on the festival’s Web site. Unfortunately, the classic featured below will, inexplicably, not be screened.

SF Indie Fest kicks off tonight and runs through February 20th. If you can’t afford the $195 Festival Pass (good for all fims and parties), this year the festival is offering five & 10 film passes at $45 & $80, respectively, which you can purchase here. You can also just show up and buy tickets to individual shows (but good luck getting into David Lynch’s Inland Empire, which opens the festival tonight.

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The Roxie Cinema (3117 - 16th Street @ Valencia) is getting a facelift. The sign has looked pretty beat up in the time I’ve lived in San Francisco. Can’t wait to see the finished product.

The Goethe-Institut San Francisco’s Berlin and Beyond Film Festival begins this Thursday, 1/11 at The Castro. The festival runs until the 17th and features new films from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. For schedules and more info, click the icon above.

Last night I went into the neighborhood video rental store Lost Weekend Video and I noticed they had new buttons for sale illustrated by local artist Maria Forde. I missed out on her “Actors I think are Good” buttons the last time (I really wanted the Harry Dean Stanton one), but there were now 10 new awesome designs. This time the buttons were “10 Movies I think are Good” depicting famous scenes from said movies.

I was so excited because there were ones that had scenes from A Knife in the Water (one of my favorite movies EVAR):

…and Scanners!

I bought the Scanners button because it allows me to convey my Pro-Cronenberg position to strangers (It’s now attached to my purse), but when I return my video I plan to get the Knife one as well as The Jerk:

Maria will be selling sticker packets at the 10th Annual “Post-Postcard Show” tonight at The Lab from 6-9PM.

You should also poke around on her website because there is a lot of fun artwork on there. her Marlon Brando Comic is especially awesome.

Tonight you have the opportunity to celebrate Election Day (or to drown your sorrows) at a showing of The Pixies documentary, loudQUIETloud, at Doc’s Clock (2575 Mission Street) for FREE. Covering the band’s recent reunion tours, the press release promises this is a document of the not-so-glamorous side of rock ‘n’ roll touring as old tensions rise up again. 21 and up.
View the trailer here. (Quicktime)