APRIL 28, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Paris Blues
April 28th 2025

Monday, From Dusk Til Dawn (on 35mm) is at the Balboa, Suzume (Subtitled) at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, the Smith Rafael has François Ozon's latest, When Fall is Coming, Sinners continues its 70mm run at the Grand Lake (and the 70mm IMAX screenings at the AMC Metreon end on Tuesday), and Sylvain George's The Outbursts (My mouth, my revolt, my name) (free with RSVP) continues No Border, a brief retrospective on the director, with the director in-person at the Roxie (see our feature interview below).

Tuesday, The Cartoons of Max Fleischer, Michael Mann's The Keep, and The Brides of Dracula (1960) (on 35mm) are at the Drafthouse, Tank Girl (on 35mm) and Obscure Night – Wild Leaves (The Burning Ones, the Obstinate) (with Sylvain Georges in person again) are at the Roxie, A Single Man is at the Balboa, Paris Blues is at the 4 Star, and a matinee of John Huston's Moby Dick is at the Orinda.

Wednesday, Luis Buñuel's Él (repeats Sunday) is at the Roxie, Heartworn Highways and Cosmopolis are at the Drafthouse, Sylvain Geroges' Obscure Night—Goodbye Here, Anywhere is at BAMPFA, Hoosiers at the Balboa, Fatal Attraction (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, Troll 2  at the New Parkway, and this year's Doclands Festival opens at the Smith Rafael with Starman, about engineer and author Gentry Lee.

Thursday, Inside Llewyn Davis is at the 4 Star, All Rise Fest is at the Roxie, where Constance Tsang's Lee Kang-Sheng-starring debut Blue Sun Palace and Magic Farm open, the Rialto Elmwood screens Eno, and Durga Chew-Bose's new adaptation of Bonjour Tristesse opens at the Smith Rafael.

Friday, A Woman Under the Influence (on 35mm) begins Love Streams, Gena Rowlands & John Cassavetes, a new memorial series in honor of on the best actors of her—or any—era at BAMPFA, Odyssey Film Institute presents a medley of 16mm cartoons at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, and the Stanford's Audrey Hepburn series continues with My Fair Lady (on 35mm, repeating through Sunday).

Saturday, Frederick Wiseman's Canal Zone continues THIS IS AMERICA: Frederick Wiseman – 7 Dispatches at the Roxie, who also screen The Inventor with director Jim Capobianco, composer Alex Mandel, and producer Kat Alioshin in person, Night Games continues BAMPFA's ongoing series on Swedish multi-hyphenate Mai Zetterling, the Niles screens German sci-fi silent Algol, the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood have free matinees of Hook, Other Cinema premieres new work from Jeffrey Skoller at Artists' Television Access, and Encanto (repeats Sunday) and The Graduate are at the 4 Star.

Sunday, Nashville a the Drafthouse, BAMPFA presents Mai Zetterling's Amorosa and John Cassavetes's Faces (on 35mm), and 3rd i presents 7 Days at the Roxie, where a brief Charles Burnett series also begins with the new restoration of Killer of Sheep.