Monday, Secret Mall Apartment (continues through Wednesday at least) is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (also at the New Parkway, repeats Thursday), Misericordia (continues through Thursday) is at the Roxie, and Harriet the Spy is at the Balboa.
Tuesday, Jenni Olson presents The Joy of Life (2005) + Blue Diary (1998) as part of the the Roxie's 40 Years of Queer, Tremors and Demons are at the Drafthouse, and Drugstore Cowboy is at the Balboa.
Wednesday, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is at the Balboa, Janis Ian: Breaking Silence, with Janis Ian in person, and Videodrome are at the Roxie, Tiger on the Beat is at the Drafthouse, Elizabeth Ai presents New Wave at BAMPFA, Reality Bites (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Planet of the Apes at the 4 Star, and Gray Area presents Destructionist International: Machines in Flames + Breached with director Andrew Culp in person.
Thursday, Odyssey Film Institute presents Ocean's Eleven (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Sergei Parajanov's Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors kicks off a weekend-long focus on Ukrianian film at BAMPFA, Rewind presents Muriel’s Wedding (with a live drag show) at the Roxie, the Stanford's first double feature of the week is a Rouben Mamoulien double feature of The Gay Desperado and the very first three strip Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, the Rialtos Elmwood and Cerrito have a free matinee of Lawrence of Arabia, and Janis Ian arrives at the Smith Rafael for Janis Ian: Breaking Silence with director Varda Bar-Kar (repeating Sunday with director Bar-Kar in person).
Friday, the Light Field film festival returns with the first two of 7 programs throughout the weekend, Prometheus and A Spring for the Thirsty (on 35mm) continue the Ukrainian weekend and The Velvet Underground continues the Todd Haynes series at BAMPFA, Thank You Very Much: Andy Kaufman and Miguel Gomes' Palme d'Or winning Grand Tour open at the Roxie, Rise of the Super Tromettes is at the Balboa, Elliot Smith doc Heaven Adores You at the 4 Star, and Secret Mall Apartment opens at the Smith Rafael.
Saturday, Aspen continues THIS IS AMERICA: Frederick Wiseman – 7 Dispatches alongside Hideaki Anno's Love & Pop and How to Have an American Baby at the Roxie, the Stanford's weekend double feature is a pair of Ernst Lubitsch classics, To Be or Not To Be and Ninotchka, Other Cinema presents Media Archeology2: Re-Mediation at Artists' Television Access, Little Shop of Horrors is at the New Parkway, May December wraps up BAMPFA's Todd Haynes series alongside his short film, Image Book (which has only been shown a handful of times worldwide), and the Ukrainian Film Symposium continues the series, Descent is at the Balboa, and our feature this week is The Shock at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum.
Sunday, the New Parkway has The Fall and an SF-set movie marathon with Star Trek IV, Harold and Maude, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Game, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in celebration of Thank You Very Much: Andy Kaufman, the Roxie also screen My Breakfast with Blassie, Creed is at the Drafthouse, All We Imagine as Light and two more Ukrainian films, The Stone Cross (on 35mm) and Arsenal (on 35mm) are at BAMPFA, His Girl Friday is at the Balboa, the Niles has its monthly Laurel & Hardy/Our Gang talkie matinee, and Blow Up (in celebration of Herbie Hancock) and The Sandlot are at the 4 Star.
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