Mission Mission

Girl Walk // All Day is a super cute and life-affirming dance music video, featuring a bunch of people improv-dancing their way across New York to the entirety of Girl Talk’s album All Day. It’ll be closing off SF IndieFest tomorrow night at the Roxie Theater with a screening and accompanying dance party.

Here’s a little more about the film, plus a trailer:

A young dancer finds herself bored with her ballet rehearsal. One day, she impulsively quits, then takes a ferry to the city. Feeling incredibly inspired by what she sees, Anne dances her way across New York, using the city as her stage. Throughout her journey, she meets characters of all types, including a series of like-minded dancers, who’ll inspire new movements, engage her in small battles, and teach her to fear, love, laugh and live anew. From the ferry to museums, subways, ball games, bridges, bodegas, graveyards, flower shops, and more, Anne’s journey will bring her far and wide as the city explodes with dance!

SFist has the scoop:

Medjool owner Gus Murad, who we know has been sitting on and contemplating a use for the historic New Mission Theater for several years, has finally made his plans known via an agenda item at tomorrow’s Historic Preservation Commission hearing. He’s planning to restore and reuse the theater as a five-screen cinema to be operated by Texas-based, beer-slinging movie chain Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas.

Woohoo! Those rule! Read on.

[Photo by Paul Lowry]

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Congrats to Lost Weekend on funding their community screening room! Seems like a smart move to provide an experience you can’t get on Netflix, and a good place to meet babes. Follow the link for a quick video explaining the project, in case you missed it.

HT: Katie C. [Photo]

Spooky, man.

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Whether you’re a fan of the band or not, whether you’re a fan of rock docs or not, whether you’ve got better things to do or not, you should see Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone this week at the Roxie. It’s an artfully constructed film from beginning to end, full of laughs and interesting stories, great advice from Flea, epic narration by Laurence Fishburne, great music, great Fat Albert-style animated bits — and tons more. You’ll learn tons about the punk scene in the ’70s, the new wave scene in the ’80s and the alt-rock scene in the ’90s. And you’ll fall in love with this band.

And if you see it tonight or this weekend, the band and the filmmakers will be in attendance, and they’re a fun bunch. You can get your picture taken with Angelo, like Jocelyn here did.

View showtimes and buy tickets here.

It’s called It Came From Detroit and it promises to cover the Gories, the Dirtbombs and everything in between (including the rise of the White Stripes). The Roxie explains:

IT CAME FROM DETROIT is the ultimate fan’s look at the city’s internationally renowned “garage rock” scene. Produced over five years, the documentary chronicles the scene that spawned the likes of The Dirtbombs, The Hentchmen, Detroit Cobras, Demolition Doll Rods and The Von Bondies, both before and after the spotlight that came to town as the White Stripes rose to fame.

I’m there. Here’s the trailer:

Buy tickets here.

The Roxie explains:

SAN FRANCISCO THEATRICAL PREMIERE! Exploding out of South Central LA with a previously unthinkable and utterly undeniable funk-thrash swing and a joyously chaotic stage show, Fishbone quickly ascended to the top of the hyper-competitive heap of Hollywood club bands in the 1980s. But selling something so awesome and unusual to the American public? That’s where the trouble began. EVERYDAY SUNSHINE ecstatically traces the tangled threads, simultaneously shooting straight about Angelo Moore and Norwood Fisher’s dogged persistence in continuing the band amidst innumerable setbacks. Dirs: Lev Anderson & Chris Meltzer. Interviews with past and present members of Fishbone, Flea, No Doubt, George Clinton, Mike Watt, Tim Robbins & ?uestlove. 2010. Digital. 103 mins.

Both Friday night shows include acoustic performances by the band and Q&A with the band and the film makers! See a week’s worth of showtimes and buy tickets here.

To win a pair of tickets to the Friday night show of your choice, leave a comment below explaining why you deserve to win. Contest ends at 5PM on Wednesday, January 4, 2012. Winner will be chosen based on merit.

Now let’s rock:

As one of the oldest independent video stores in the city, Lost Weekend has not only served as one of best places to find the perfect esoteric film to take home for the night, but also as a community hub for cinema enthusiasts to meet and mingle, find some of the raddest shirts around, and even see screenings of classic favorites.  In the interest of expanding their capacity for this last point, the crew at Lost Weekend have revealed their ambitous plans to install a Cinecave in the basement which will serve as an underground screening room and community space for film!  With the demise of places like the Red Vic, we definitely need more places like this.

Check out the Kickstarter here!

Previously:

Let’s Not Lose Lost Weekend Video