Monday, blackhole cinematheque's floating Newsreel Collective series continues, this week at 34 Trinity, with People's War (on 16mm), the collective's 1969 document from on the ground in Vietnam, the Balboa Theatre Centennary celebration kicks off with Pee-wee's Big Adventure and Fruitvale Station, beginning a week-long celebration of the work of costume designer Aggie Rodgers, Doris Day stars as Calamity Jane (on 35mm) in this month's staff pick at the Roxie, where François Ozon's The Stranger, Yasuhiro Aoki's ChaO, and the Kiyoshi Kurosawa double feature of Chime and Serpent's Path continue, Pride & Prejudice (2005) is at the Alamo Drafthosues Valley Fair (VF) and Mountain View (MV), Something Wild is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) (repeats Tuesday at the Drafthouse MV), Project Hail Mary (on 70mm) is at the Grand Lake, Christian Petzold's Miroirs No. 3 and Gianfranco Rosi's Pompeii: Below the Clouds continue at the Smith Rafael, and Steven Soderbergh's The Informant! is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Tuesday, a screening of On Strike and We Are the Palestinian People (both on 16mm) from SF-based Newsreel Collective-descendent Single Spark is at the Roxie, who also repeat Thief and invite Rewind Presents back for The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part 1) (with live drag), Titane and Titane director Julia Ducourneau's latest, Alpha, are at the New Parkway, The Witches of Eastwick and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension are at the Balboa, Jackie Chan's Police Story is at the Drafthouses NM and MV (repeats Thursday at all three Drafthouses), and It Doesn't Get Any Better Than This is Terror Tuesday at all three Drafthouses.
Wednesday, Lucrecia Martel arrives at BAMPFA to present her new film Our Land/Nuestra Tierra as the first of a residency through the weekend, Arrebato continues the Roxie's 50th Arthouseversary, Madonna: Truth or Dare (with back-up singers Niki Haris and Donna De Lory in person) is at the Castro, Artists's Television Access presents a selection of video works by Copper Giloth, The Brood (on VHS) is at the 4 Star, The Color Purple (1985) and La Mission are at the Balboa, Jet Li's Fist of Legend is at the Drafthouse MV, City Wide Fever is this week's Weird Wednesday pick at all three Drafthouses, Good Time is at the Landmark Opera Plaza., and Funny Girl (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue.
Thursday, Natchez gets one more matinee screening at the Roxie, where Lucrecia Martel visits for screenings of Our Land and The Headless Woman, Coal Miner's Daughter (with live music) is at the 4 Star, Beetlejuice and Pig Hunt (on 35mm, with stuntman Jason Sundquist and writer Robert Mailer Anderson in person), BAMPFA presents Aurora's Sunrise, an animated and archival documentary about an Armenian refugee who became a star in silent-era Hollywood, and Floating Weeds as part of a series programmed alongside their Theresa Hak Kyung Cha exhibit, and Dial M for Murder is at the Orinda.
Friday, Shapeshifters presents Speculative Histories, the fourteenth program in their extended feminist film series, Gravitational Lensing, at BAMPFA, anthology film Germany in Autumn continues their Fassbinder and the New German Cinema series and Lucrecia Martel presents Ariel Kuaray Ortega and Ernesto de Carvalho's Canuto’s Transformation as part of her residency, the Roxie opens Sundance audience award winner DJ Ahmet and Radu Jude's latest film Kontinental ’25 and invites filmmaker Tia Lessin to present her new documentary, Steal This Story, Please!, about Democracy Now! and its founder Amy Goodman (repeating Saturday and Sunday with Goodman also in person), Artists's Television Access presents three recent works by Olga Niekrasova, a 25th Anniversary screening of Josie and the Pussycats (with live music and drag) is at the 4 Star, Cocoon, The Conversation, and The Fugitive are at the Balboa, P. T. Anderson's The Master is at the Drafthouse NM (repeats Sunday at all three Drafthouses), Moonstruck is at the New Parkway, The Lost Boys is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, The Shining is at the Landmark Piedmont, Proxy presents Little Amélie or the Character of Rain, and the Stanford opens their annual Alfred Hitchcock season with a double feature of North by Northwest and (the proto-NxNW) 39 Steps (both on 35mm and repeating through Sunday).
Saturday, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum has its annual 1906 Earthquake anniversary show and screens the Sessue Hayakawa-starring The Tong Man, Lucrecia Martel presents a selection of her own short films at BAMPFA followed by The Headless Woman, John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office is at the 4 Star (repeating Sunday), Other Cinema invites JT Leroy-creator Laura Albert and editor and motion designer Lucas Celler for a night of World Buliding, at The Lab, Dark Entries presents The Coil Sex Tapes, featuring the two purely educational videos about safe sex and sensual massage scored by legendary British music group Coil, and Slash Art's exhibition of Sky Hopinka's film work, Sonic Transmissions, closes, the Balboa celebrates 100 years and awards the inaugural Balboa Award to costume designer Aggie Rodgers, Johnnie To's Romancing in Thin Air is at the Drafthouses, the Roxie reprises Hong Kong comedy western Let The Bullets Fly and screens Ghost in the Shell-director Mamoru Oshii's live action debut, The Red Spectacles (4K Restoration), Robocop is at the New Parkway, The Godfather: Part II is at the Smith Rafael, Bob Dylan clipshow Stepping Into the Unknown with Dylan Center director Steve Jenkins is at the Smith Rafael, and Frameline presents a new monthly series pairing a New Queer Cinema classic with a Trans New Weird soon-to-be-classic at YBCA, this month featuring Todd Haynes's Poison with Vera Drew's The People's Joker.
Sunday, at the 4 Star, SF Cinematheque co-presents what may be your only chance to see Alexandre Koberidze's Dry Leaf (see our interview with Koberidze linked below) and Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse presents a 1980s Brazilian cihdlren's show movie, Super Xuxa contra Baixo Astral, at BAMPFA, Chantal Akerman's News From Home and Mona Hatoum’s Measures of Distance screens as part of the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha series and Lucrecia Martel wraps up her residency with Zama, the Roxie screens our feature this week, Showgirls of Pakistan, with director Saad Khaan in person for a Q&A with friend-of-the-newsletter Delaney Chieyen Holton, the Niles screens Garbo's first talkie, Anna Christie, Face/Off is at the Drafthouse NM and Bridesmaids is at all three Drafthouses, David Lowery's A Ghost Story is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, and Tia Lessin and Amy Goodman move to the Smith Rafael to present Steal This Story, Please!.
