Monday, Party Girl and The Outsiders are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) (also at Valley Fair [VF], and Tuesday at Mountain View [MV]) and Lady Snowblood is at all three Drafthouses variously through Wednesday, the Balboa has Nana, and Dr. No is at the Lark.
Tuesday, Love, one part of Dag Johan Haugerud's Oslo Trilogy, screens at the Roxie, The Cell and Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse are at the Drafthouse NM, and Warped VHS presents The Hills Have Eyes at the Balboa.
Wednesday, this month's Super Shangri-La Show at the Balboa is a disembodied hand double feature of The Beast With Five Fingers and And Now the Screaming Starts, more Swedish auteurs are at BAMPFA with Ingmar Bergman's Through a Glass Darkly, Apocalypse Now (Roadshow Version) and the SF premiere of the new Dirty Work cut are at the Drafthouse NM, John Waters' Polyester (in Odorama!, repeating Thursday) is at the Vogue, Revenge of the Nerds is at the 4 Star, and The Rolling Stones: Shine a Light is at 3Below.
Thursday, an already entirely at rush series of the Taiwan-based master of slow cinema Tsai Ming-Liang begins with King Hu's Dragon Inn, Ethan Coen's Honey Don't! (with a livestreamed Q&A) is at the Drafthouses NM and MV, a new restoration of Brazil opens and Deitrich returns in Morocco at the Roxie, the Stanford has a Ronald Colman double feature of A Tale of Two Cities and the Cary Grant and Jean Arthur-starring The Talk of the Town (repeating Friday, both on 35mm), and SF-set noir The Man Who Cheated Himself is at the 4 Star.
Friday, BAMPFA's Mikio Naruse series continues with Yearning, Spike Lee's Malcolm X and Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins are at the various Drafthouses, Shall We Dance?'s slow roll through the Bay continues at the Roxie, where Together (on 35mm) and Akira Kurosawa's High and Low (both repeating through Sunday) screen while Spike Lee's remake of the latter, Highest 2 Lowest, opens at the Grand Lake and the Drafthouse NM, the Balboa opens the new animated film Boys Go to Jupiter (see our interview with director Julian Glander) and screens The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (on 35mm), Showgirls (repeats Saturday) is at the Vogue, Woodstock 55th Anniversary (repeats Saturday) at 3 Below, The Iron Giant at The New Parkway, The Matrix, at the Lark, and The Muppets Take Manhattan is at Opera Plaza.
Saturday, BAMPFA has Andrei Trakovsky's Solaris, a free outdoor screening of Desert Hearts, and our feature this week, Robert Altman's wonderful clusterfuck disasterpiece, Popeye (on 35mm), Spirited Away is at the Roxie, the Stanford's weekend is a Gene Kelly double feature of Singin' in the Rain and Cover Girl, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum has its monthly comedy shorts night with Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Laurel & Hardy, The Lion King (1994) (repeats Sunday) is at the 4 Star, Grease (sing-a-long, repeats Sunday) at 3Below, and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home at the New Parkway.
Sunday, the Balboa has a 16mm Bergman fest presented by Odyssey Film Institute, screening Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, and Persona, Tarkovsky's Mirror (on 35mm) and Naruse's 1935 Wife! Be Like a Rose! (on 35mm), the first Japanese sound film to ever screen in the US, is introduced by friend-of-the-newsletter Jonathan Mackris) are at BAMPFA, Iranian drama Sea Boys is at the Roxie with director Afshin Hashemi in person, ACT UP doc How to Survive a Plague is at 3 Below, Some Like it Hot and Iranian film Me, Maryam, the Children and 26 Others are at the New Parkway, and Ninotchka is at the Lark.
