APRIL 6, 2026 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Lazybones
April 6th 2026

Monday, A Body to Live In (repeats Thursday) continues at the Roxie, who also screen Hope Along the Wind: The Life of Harry Hay with director Eric Slade in person and celebrate their 50th Anniversary as an arthouse theater with a double feature of Arrebato and The Honeymoon Killers (on 35mm, repeating Saturday), both films introduced by the Roxie emereti who selected them, Odyssey Film Institute presents Jurassic Park (on 35mm) at the Balboa, William Wyler's Jezebel is at the Lark, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, and The Sapphires is this month's 50 Movies You May Not Have Seen, That You Should! pick at the Orinda.

Tuesday, blackhole cinematheque presents Palestine in the Eye: A tribute to Hani Jawharieh, 50 years a martyr at Bathers Library, Castration Movie Anthology i. traps is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Mountain View (MV), and Valley Fair (VF), Ringo Lam's City on Fire is at the Drafthouse MV (repeating Thursday at all three Drafthouses), the B&W version of Mike Flanagan's Hush is at the Drafthouse NM, Thief and the Kiyoshi Kurosawa double feature of Chime and Serpent's Path continue at the Roxie, who also have a one-off screening of Basque film Jone, Batzuetan, Hundreds of Beavers is at the Balboa (and the Lark), the Lark begins a three-day run of Kaizo Hayashi's Maiku Hama trilogy, starting with The Most Terrible Time of My Life, the Castro has a 50th anniversary screening of The Man Who Fell to Earth, and the Balboa has one more Stink-o-Vision screening of Dead Lover.

Wednesday, the Super Shangri-La Show presents Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls with director Michael Lucas in person and Switchblade Sisters at the Balboa, the Lark's Maiku Hama series continues with The Stairway to the Distant Past, the Landmark Opera Plaza screens Maps to the Stars one more time, Masaaki Yuasa's Mind Game is at the Drafthouse NM, Chungking Express is at the Drafthouse MV, Alice Maio Mackay's The Serpent's Skin screens one more time at the Roxie, a matinee of Bahram Bayzaie's Bashu, the Little Stranger continues BAMPFA's Iranian cinema series and Faya dayi continues Psychedelia & Cinema, Spcaeballs (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is at the 4 Star.

Thursday, MOViES FOR MANiACS invites Walter Murch to the Castro for a screening of Return to Oz (on 35mm), The Holy Girl (on 35mm) continues BAMPFA's Lucrecia Martel retrospective before the director arrives in person next week, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and The Shepherd and The Bear  with director Max Keegan in person are at the Roxie, Yasuhiro Aoki's ChaO and Francois Ozon's The Stranger open at the Roxie (the latter also at the Smith Rafael), director Adam Bhala Lough is in person with is doc Deepfaking Sam Altman at the Smith Rafael, Spring Breakers is at the Balboa, Mandy is at the New Parkway, and the Lark wraps up the Maiku Hama trilogy with The Trap

Friday, BAMPFA presents a selection of early films by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Ghost World screens at all three Drafthouses with Terry Zwigoff in person at the Drafthouse NM, Other Cinema presents a program of Electronica: Ghost in the Machine at Artists's Television Access, Shogun Assassin (on 16mm) is at the Balboa, the 4 Star has a Sissy Spacek weekend mini-series starting with Carrie, the Lark opens Gus Van Sant's Dead Man's Wire and screens Donnie Darko (repeats Saturday), the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's talkie Fridays pick this month is Reefer Madness (on 16mm), and the Stanford runs The Sound of Music all weekend.

Saturday, the Niles screens silent-era Frank Borzage deep cut Lazybones, Kouté vwa continues BAMPFA's African Film Festival and The Marriage of Maria Braun (on 35mm) continues their R. W. Fassbinder and the New German Cinema series, the Roxie has a big day with director Vincent Woo and BART Director Edward Wright presenting the retroactively authorized BART doc Tunnel Vision, Mark Duplass and Katie Aselton presenting their mumblecore classic The Puffy Chair in person, a kid-friendly Shaun the Sheep matinee, and Brandon Cronenberg's debut Antiviral for this month's Almost Midnights pick, Dark Entries records invites Mexican L.A.-based photographer Reynaldo Rivera for a documentary about his work, Fistful of Love, at the 4 Star, who also screen Badlands and 3 Women (both repeating Sunday), the Lark screens Nightmare Alley (1947) preceded by a live mentalist performance, a matinee of Something Wild is at all three Drafthouses, The Godfather is at the Smith Rafael, Grizzly Man is at the Balboa, Ghostbusters is at the New Parkway, and Boulevard Nights is at the Orinda.

Sunday, Shapeshifters (co-presented by Canyon) invite film archivist Autumn Armstrong to present Flow State, a selection of films from Canyon's archives, and to reflect on film archiving, our feature this week is The Shoes of the Fisherman at the Orinda, the Lark screens George Cukor's Judy Holliday-starring Born Yesterday and (the Bay Area premiere of?) Hong Sang Soo's What Does That Nature Say to You, Sam Peckinpah's The Getaway is at the Drafthouses VF and MV, Blake Edwards's SF-set classic Experiment in Terror is at the Balboa, BAMPFA has some of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's late works, Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest, and Freedom Way, director Heydn Reiss is in person at the Smith Rafael to present Robert Bly: A Thousand Years of Joy, the Roxie screens The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill in memory of the film's subject, Mark Bittner, and Jiang Wen's Hong Kong comedy western Let the Bullets Fly, the Castro has a matinee of The Princess Bride and invites director Joe Talbot for an evening screening of The Last Black Man in San Francisco, the Niles has its monthly talkie comedy shorts matinee, and the Landmark Opera Plaza screens the Safdie's Good Time.