Monday, Maciej Drygas begins a local run for his new archival documentary Trains at the Rialto Elmwood, get your post-season Pitt fix with realtime German ER drama Late Shift opening at the Lark, Project Hail Mary continues on 70mm at the Grand Lake, The Big Lebowski and That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime The Movie: Scarlet Bond are at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Valley Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV) and PT Anderson's The Master is s the Drafthouse NM (repeats Wednesday, also at MV), DJ Ahmet continues at the Roxie, and The Big Lebowski is at the New Parkway.
Tuesday, our feature this week is SF Cinematheque's presentation of Constructions / Destructions / Instructions: The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark (on 16mm) at Gray Area, blackhole cinematheque's Newsreel Collective series continues at Bathers with a doc about the 1969 protests at People's Park, the Drafthouse NM has a double feature of Fuck My Son and Dance Freak, Michael Haneke's original Funny Games is at the Drafthouse NM, the Bob Dylan clipshow moves to the Roxie with Steven Jenkins in person to present Stepping Into the Unknown: Bob Dylan Center Films, Steal This Story, Please! continues (with Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman introducing on Wednesday) at the Roxie, Inferno (in 3D) is at the Vogue, and Shaun of the Dead is at the New Parkway.
Wednesday, Drygas pulls Trains in at the Roxie, where Mamoru Oshii's The Red Spectacles continues, Freaky Tales is at the Drafthouse NM, David Lowery's A Ghost Story screens at the Landmark Opera Plaza, BAMPFA's Iranian Cinema series winds down with the first of three films by Rakhshan Banietemad, All My Trees (NB: Banietemad was scheduled to visit BAMPFA but her visit has been canceled) and Arthur Jaffa's Dreams Are Colder Than Death (not to be confused with RW Fassbinder's debut feature, Love is Colder than Death) continues their Documentary Voices series, A Fistful of Dollars is at the Balboa, King of Hearts (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Liquid Sky is at the 4 Star, Baraka is at the Lark, and the Smith Rafael has an Earth Day screening of Fools Paradise (lost?) with director Alexandra Lexton in person.
Thursday, Banietemad's Under the Skin of the City and Gilaneh are at BAMPFA, UK Ska doc Dance Craze is at the Balboa, Rave Culture: A New Era is at the 4 Star, Radu Jude's Kontinental ’25 continues at the Roxie, who also screen Shaun of the Dead and Earth’s Greatest Enemy, a doc about the US military's environmental impact, Face/Off is at the three Drafthouses, The Animatrix is at the New Parkway, and Karyn Kusama's Girlfight is the next entry in the Orinda's women directors series, this time preceded by 16mm shorts from Paige Taul and Mary Beth Reed.
Friday, the 69th SFFILM festival kicks off—keep an eye out for our bonus review roundup later this week—at the Castro with a bicoastal double feature of New York poets—Kent Jones's Late Fame—and SF swingers—Olivia Wilde's The Invite (Jones and actor Greta Lee in person for the former, Wilde in person for the latter), blackhole's floating Newsreel series continues at 34 Trinity with Columbia Revolt, about the pivotal 1968 protests at the University, Drygas and his Trains depart from the Bay at the Lark, Terror of Mechagodzilla begins floating around all three Drafthouses for the weekend, the Roxie revives Walter Murch's Coup 53, about the US/UK-backed coup of Iranian PM Mohammad Mosaddegh, invites director Abby Miller to present her doc Cuba After Castro, and opens Gabriel Mascaro's latest, Silver Bear-winning film, The Blue Trail, The Big Lebowski is at the Balboa, and American Psycho (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark.
Saturday, Odyssey Film Institute presents A.I. Artificial Intelligence (on 35mm) at the Balboa, who also screen Blow, the Roxie screens a new restoration of Michael Almereyda's Nadja, the SF Dance Film Festival screens swing dance doc Alive and Kicking (with live swing performance and social dancing), Cinderella and The Royal Tenenbaums (both repeating Sunday) are at the 4 Star, The Secret of Kells and The Thief of Bagdad (with live orchestral accompaniment) are at the Lark, Apocalypse Now is at the Smith Rafael, and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Musem has its monthly comedy shorts night featuring Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Laurel & Hardy.
Sunday, Hit Factory pod hosts director Ian Bell for a screening of his doc, WTO/99, at the Balboa, who also screen Blade of the Immortal, Thierry Frémaux's Lumière, Le Cinema!, a compilation film of a hundred of the brothers' shorts, is at the Smith Rafael, the Roxie screens ChaO and Dykes, Camera, Action!, Big Mama Thornton: I Can't Be Anyone But Me is at the 4 Star, Little Shop of Horrors and Thoroughbreds are at the New Parkway, David Lowery's The Green Knight is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, and the Orinda screens Angela Lansbury- and Michale York-starring chaotic bisexual canon deep cut Something for Everyone.
