It looks like I chose a particularly bad weekend to go home to L.A. The 8th Annual Asian Film Festival is going on in SF right now. While many of the films are available as DVD imports, many of them are premiering for the first time on the big screen in the United States. I have heard good things about the films selected from Hong Kong (Cat has recommended to me in the past the film "The Soong Sisters", a dramatization based on the true story of the lives of three women who end up with some fairly prominent men). I haven't heard of any of the other films from other countries except Ju-On 2 and Azumi, both of which I have heard are very good.
One thing I'd like to point out about film festivals: the people in the audience aren't usually obnoxious enough to bring crying babies or turned-on cell phones into the theater. It's the same with people who go to midnight showings the first day the film comes out: usually the people taking the trouble to go out of their way to see these shows are actually there to watch the movie. When I went to go see Troy, someone didn't just leave their cell phone on during the movie, but actually answered it and had a conversation with the person on the other end, not just once, but several times. I think cell-phone rage will probably be the next big thing. I mean seriously, all we need is one bad incident in the theater to get press coverage, and people'll start shutting off their cell phones.
Asian Cinema and movies not your thing? You can always try the Classic Gaming Expo in San Jose. Play all those arcade classics that haven't seen the light of day in years (which you can probably find and play on MAME)
Cat: Thanks! I'll have to find and rent "Lady General Hua Mulan" along with the 1961 version of "The Butterfly Lovers" one of these days.