Monday, Mikey and Nicky is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM) and Mountain View (MV), Raising Cain is at the Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF) (also at NM and MV on Wed.), Drunken Noodles and American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (also at the Smith Rafael) continue at the Roxie, Whale Rider and Singin' in the Rain are at the Lark, and The Lunchbox is at the New Parkway.
Tuesday, 1970s cult-turned-Public Access TV sensation Unarius Academy of Science is back in Welcome Space Brothers alongside Roxie First Looks #12 at the Roxie, who also open Jeong Jae-eun's Take Care of my Cat, Michael Mann's latest iteration of Manhunter (repeats Sat.) and the original Practical Magic are at all three Drafthouses, Cries & Whispers is at the Balboa, Joe Dante's Explorers (repeats Thurs.) opens a weekend series of 80s space teens at the Vogue, and director Caron Creighton is in person to present her doc about residents of the demolished Wood Street homeless encampment at the New Parkway.
Wedesday, the Stanford's Summer of Marilyn continues with Monroe in Love Nest and a Monroe type in Billy Wilder's The Apartment, So I Married an Axe Murderer (on 35mm, repeats Sunday)) returns to the Roxie, who also have a free (first come, first served) preview of Union County, which opens Friday, Ringo Lam's Full Contact is at the Drafthouse NM, an at-rush screening of Full Metal Jacket continues BAMPFA's Stanley Kubrick series, the Balboa has a Van Damme double feature of Blood Sport and Hard Target, the Super Shangri-La show returns to the Balboa with The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Days of Thunder is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Thursday, Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert continues BAMPFA's Summer with Monica Vitti, The Handmaiden is at the Balboa, Flight of the Navigator is at the Vogue, and Sense & Sensibility is at the New Parkway.
Friday, the Castro has a 50th anniversary screening of a new restoration of Richard Lester's underseen gay bathhouse farce, The Ritz, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni continues Artists' Television Access's Guy Debord series, Hours for Jerome, Parts 1 & 2 opens a new BAMPFA series of films, Nathaniel Dorsky & Jerome Hiler: Film Offerings (see our interview with the filmmakers linked below), Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin is at the Drafthouses, the Roxie has a 10th Anniversary screening of Train to Busan (repeats Sunday) and open Olmo and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's The Samurai and the Prisoner, Slacker is at the Balboa, and Speed Racer (repeats Sun.) is at the Lark.
Saturday, director Sasha Waters is in person at the Smith Rafael to present her doc, Mary Oliver: Saved by the Beauty of the World and Kiss of the Spider Woman continues their Hector Babenco series, Guy Debord: His Art and His Time is at Artists' Television Access, co-director Justine Shapiro is in person for Promises at BAMPFA as part of their Saul Zeantz series, the Roxie screens Valley of the Dolls and, for this month's Almost Midnights pick, After Hours, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (repeats Sunday) is a the Vogue, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (repeats Sun.) is at the Lark, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens Harold Lloyd's Hot Water, and, our feature this week, Wet Hot American Summer returns to the Drafthouses for its 25th Anniversary.
Sunday, BAMPFA has a matinee of Five Films by Nathaniel Dorsky, The Piano is at the Smith Rafael, Radiograph of a Family introduced by Ahmad Kiarostami is at the Roxie, Bonnie & Clyde is at the Lark, and No Country for Old Men is at the New Parkway.
