Monday, our feature this week, black hole cinematheque's Newsreel: Collective Fragments of Living Struggle, continues at 34 Trinity with Redevelopment: A Marxist Analysis, the SFFILM festival continues (check out our highlights, all but one of which still have upcoming screenings), the Roxie screens Sun Ra: Do The Impossible and continues Steal This Story, Please! (also at the Smith Rafael and New Parkway) and The Blue Trail, the Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Mountain View (MV) and Valley Fair (VF) screen Céline and Julie Go Boating and Terror of Mechagodzilla (repeating through Wednesday), while In a Lonely Place is at the Drafthouse VF, Miss Congeniality and Irma Vep (1996) are at the Drafthouse MV, and Boys Go To Jupiter is at the Drafthouse NM (repeats at all three Drafthouses on Tuesday), Max Ernst: My Vagabonds - My Restlessness is at the Balboa, The Matrix is at the New Parkway, and The Secret of Kells is at the Lark.
Tuesday, Wayne Wang is in person at the Roxie to present Chan is Missing, who also continue Radu Jude's Kontinental ’25 and host co-director Travis Wood for a screening of The Travel Companion, Is God is with a livestream Q&A is at the Drafthouse MV, The Driller Killer and Tomorrow Never Dies (repeats Thursday at all three Drafthosues) is at the Drafthouse NM, Agnes Varda's Le bonheur is at the Balboa, and a free matinee of The Magnificent Ambersons is at the Orinda.
Wednesday, Lewis Milestone's All Quiet on the Western Front is at the Lark, of note among SFFILM's many screenings is Lynne Sachs in person at BAMPFA to present her new film Every Contact Leaves a Trace, Watler Murch's COUP 53, Francois Ozon's The Stranger (L’Étranger), and Michael Almereyda's Nadja continue at the Roxie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and The Green Knight is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Thursday, Mike Kuchar makes an appearance at SFMOMA for Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: Planet Mike, a select of very early films by the brothers and later films by Mike, DocLands kicks off at the Smith Rafael Film Center, the Stanford's Hitchock season continues with a double of the Cary Grant-starring Suspicion and the Marlene Dietrich-strarring Stage Fright (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), A Late Quartet (with a live chamber quartet performance) is at the 4 Star, Videodrome is at the Balboa, and Spice World is a the New Parkway.
Friday, Newsreel: Collective Fragments of Living Struggle returns to 34 Trinity with Richmond Oil Strike and May Day introduced by labor historian Gifford Hartman, a new restoration of Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning labor strike doc American Dream and Lucrecia Martel's Our Land (Nuestra Tierra) open at the Roxie, the Landmark Piedmont has a late showing of Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior, Monkey Man is at the Balboa, a free screening of Fritz Lang's Metropolis is at the New Parkway, and the Lark begins a weekend-long Sci-Fi Fest.
Saturday, there's more Kuchar—this time George—at SFMOMA with Reflections from a Cinematic Cesspool: George’s Sphere, the Stanford's weekend Hitchcock double is Strangers on a Train and Foreign Correspondent (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday), if you missed his SFFILM appearance, Sam Green is in person to present The Oldest Person in the World at Other Cinema, alongside some of Green's SF-centric short films, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum presents Ernst Lubitsch's The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, 48 Hrs. is at the Balboa, Clueless is at the New Parkway, Space Is The Place is at the Roxie, and the Orinda screens Hitchcock's Lifeboat.
Sunday, Vital Signs' second screening is Hong Sangsoo's What Does the Nature Say to You at Shapeshifters Cinema, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters is at the Drafthouses MV and VF, the Roxie screens new docs No One Cares About Crazy People with director Gail Freeman in person and Everyone Is Lying to You for Money with director Ben McKenzie in person (who then migrates to the Landmark Opera Plaza for an evening screening), and The Maltese Falcon is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
