Monday, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure continues the Roxie's Keanu Summer and this month's staff pick is Cube, Familiar Touch opens at the Lark, Andrei Rublev is at the Balboa, Lurker at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), and Mamoru Hosoda’s The Boy and The Beast (one night only) and Takashi Miike's 13 Assassins (through Wednesday, also at the Balboa on Sunday) are at the Drafthouses NM, Valley Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV).
Tuesday, Spike Lee's The Original Kings of Comedy, Malcolm X, and Jess Franco's Bloody Moon are at the Drafthouse NM (Wednesday at MV), and Masayuki Suo’s Shall We Dance? and Cold War frightmare doc Television Event (free with RSVP) are at the Roxie.
Wednesday, Robert Zagone presents his rarely-screened 1966 documentary Drugs in the Tenderloin at the Roxie, Santa Rosa-set cult classic beauty pageant satire Smile (1975) and a preview of Splitsville (with live Q&A) are at the Drafthouse NM, Ingmar Bergman's Persona is at BAMPFA, Three Colors: Blue is at the Balboa, and Oliver! (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue.
Thursday, the Stanford's weekday double this week is a Claudette Colbert special, with Preston Sturges's The Palm Beach Story and, our feature this week, Mitchell Leisen's Midnight (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker is at BAMPFA, Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog and a free screening of El Mariachi are at the Roxie, Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! is at the Balboa, and Alfred Hitchcock's Marnie is (free!) at the Orinda.
Friday, George A. Romero's horror anthology Creepshow (on 35mm) is at the Balboa, Shapeshifters Cinema has the 10th program in their series, Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, this time focusing on Craft, Tradition, and Ritual, Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues (repeats through the weekend) is at the 4 Star, Pink Flamingos (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark, The Doom Generation is at the Drafthouse NM, Hackers is at the Drafthouse VF, The 40-Year-Old Virgin (repeats through Sunday) is at the Drafthouse MV, Tsai Ming-Liang's Rebels of the Neon God continues BAMPFA's already at-rush Tsai Ming-Liang series, and the San Francisco Queer Film Fest takes over the Roxie for the weekend.
Saturday, the Niles has a comedy shorts matinee followed by an evening screening of Dziga Vertov's The Man with a Movie Camera (on 16mm), the Stanford's weekend double feature is Citizen Kane and Gilda, Mikio Naruse's Three Sisters with Maiden Hearts (on 35mm) continues BAMPFA's series on the director and Roy Andersson's A Swedish Love Story continues their Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs (and preview their forthcoming series, The Signature Cinema of Roy Andersson), Clue (with a surprise ending at each screening) is at the Drafthouses NM (repeats Sunday) and VF, Trainwreck is at the Drafthouse MV, Creepy Koffee Movie Time: Last Call (with filmmaker Q&A) at the Balboa, Fantastic Planet is at the New Parkway, and local Bay-swimming doc The Dolphins is at Artists' Television Access.
Sunday, Tarkovsky's Nostalghia is at BAMPFA, Canyon Cinema and the MoAD present a free-with-RSVP matinee screening of local legend painter-musician-filmmaker Mike Henderson's short films with the filmmmaker in person (followed by a !&A and a performance with his band) at SFMOMA, a Wayner Shorter-celebrating screening of Glengary Glen Ross is at the 4 Star, Close Encounters of the Third Kind is at the New Parkway, High Society is at the Lark, and Bangladeshi women's surfing doc Nasima is at the Smith Rafael with the filmmaker in person.
