With the resurgence of vampire films, Suck kicks the ball out of the stadium in a sizzling blend of rock’n’roll and comedy.  Add pop and shock rock pioneers Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper in his first film with his daughter Calico, musicians Henry Rollins, Moby, Dimitri Coats, Alex Lifeson and Carole Pope; the venerable actor Malcolm McDowell, and comedian Dave Foley. Juxtapose them to upcoming stars Rob Stefaniuk, Jessica Paré, Mike Lobel, Paul Anthony, Chris Ratz, Barbara Mamabolo and Nicole DeBoer, and you’ve got an unforgettable vampire rock’n’roll comedy which will blast any preconceived notions of vampire films into outer space.
 
Suck is a wild ride down a highway to hell, with a killer soundtrack that includes Iggy Pop’s, “TVeye” and “Success”; Alice Cooper’s, “I am a Spider”; Lou Reed’s Velvet Underground’s “Sweet Nuthin”; David Bowie’s, “Here Comes the Night” and The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil”.

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Mean Streets: Chip Lord, Lourdes Portillo, Konrad Steiner, and Graham Connah
Chip Lord, Lourdes Portillo, Konrad Steiner, filmmakers
Graham Connah, composer

In this shorts program, we feature works whose protagonists race and toggle through San Francisco's real and imagined streets. Lord's Movie Map runs iconic car chases in Bullitt and Vertigo against each other. Portillo's My McQueen tracks the influence Bullitt star Steve McQueen exerts on San Francisco's multiple identities, while Lord's Awakening from the Twentieth Century wonders if the virtual is edging out the actual spaces captured in these films. In an excerpt of Steiner's collaboration with Connah, Overdoing the Movies, foot and car chases from What's Up Doc, The Conversation, and other films are linked in an endless action loop, supported by a newly revised, live score.

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The whole universe knew that Pluto was bitter when he lost his planet status, but he went too far when he kidnapped the beloved, bespectacled host of the popular-amongst-pinkos show, Fresh Air. NPR soon unleashes the awesome power of the Public Radio Space Program and hires a band of losers with orders to bring Terry Gross back: alive, dead or not at all! Cap'n, Psycho and Princess embark upon a journey that will stretch the limits of their own sanity, as well as your expectation of sci-fi parodies, sketch
comedy and bad film-making. Look out, Ed Wood! This…is…Bitter Show.

By Melinda Bailey, Dave Chambers, David Cowey, Jody Handley and Mike Spiegelman. Bitter Show San Francisco 65 minutes
SKETCH, MATURE CONTENT, COARSE LANGUAGE, GUNSHOT, FOR PEOPLE OVER 13
Tickets: $ 10 ($12.99 online)

The story concerns the star-crossed love between Princess Yan (Charlene Choi) and General Cheng (Raymond Lam). Thanks to manufactured circumstances, the two initially hate one another, but love blossoms when Cheng escorts Yan and her entourage to her wedding in the Kingdom of Far Far Away. She's not marrying Shrek; her intended is instead some unimportant prince (Hiro Hayama) who handpicked her for an arranged marriage, and she's initially tickled to be chosen. However, there appears to be no deadline to get Princess Yan to Far Far Away because she and her entourage waste as much time as they possibly can on the open road.

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Mei Gui (Betty Sun), a fairy is travelling in a mini boat along a river when she stumbles upon a rope trap and later falls into the river. The rope trap is set up by a bandit called Qing Yi Se (Ronald Cheng). Qing later recovers a sword from Mei Gui's body and decides to sell it.

As Qing tries to escape Zhi Zun Bao (Lee Lik Chi) appears and tries to snatch the sword from him. Mei Gui then realizes Qing is the man that she has been waiting for long time. However, Qing knows he is in danger so he escapes and Mei Gui follows from behind.

Mei Gui then encounters soldiers at the bamboo grove where Qing is fighting with them. She then interferes to save Qing's life from danger. Later she continues to pursue him till Qing uncovers a magical treasure box that transports him back in time to China's ancient kingdoms...

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'Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work' takes the audience on a year long ride with Joan Rivers  in her 76th year of life; it peels away the mask of an iconic comedian, laying bare both the struggle and thrill of living life as a groundbreaking female performer. Filmmakers Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg ('The Devil Came on Horseback', 'The Trials of Darryl Hunt') expose the private dramas of this irreverent, legendary comedian as she fights to keep her career thriving in a business driven by youth and beauty. -IFC Films
Runtime: 85mins

  Mick LaSalle @ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE says,
"It's one of the best documentaries ever made about show business, about what it really consists of and what it demands."

WINTER'S BONE, an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's Dramatic Competition, was the recipient of the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award.
17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
-Roadside Attractions
 Runtime: 100mins

  Amy Biancoll @ SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE says it is
"the best American film of the year so far."

Based on Bryan Lee O'Malley's Oni Press comic book of the same name, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World follows the eponymous slacker rocker on his colorful quest to defeat his dream girl's seven evil ex-boyfriends. Twenty-two-year-old Scott Pilgrim (Michael Cera) may not have a job, but rocking the bass for his band, Sex Bob-omb, is a tough job unto itself. When Scott locks eyes with Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), he knows she's the girl he wants to grow old with. But Ramona has some serious baggage; her supercharged exes rue the thought of her being with another man, and they'll crush any guy who gives her a second glance. Now, in order to win Ramona's heart, Scott will do battle with everyone from vegan-powered rock gods to sinister skateboarders, never losing sight of his gorgeous goal as he pummels his way to victory. Shaun of the Dead's Edgar Wright directs the film from a script he penned with Michael Bacall. Superhero veterans Chris Evans and Brandon Routh co-star in the action comedy as two of the seven ex-boyfriends. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Runtime: 120mins

Pete Hammond @ BOX OFFICE MAGAZINE says,
"A total blast. A wild comic journey into the head of a true original."

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