Monday, the Balboa screens a new restoration of Guy Maddin's Careful, the classic 1933 throuple comedy Design for Living continues the Roxie's Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films From Before the Code, Jane Schoenbrum's I Saw the TV Glow screens at the Alamo Drafthouses Mountain View (MV) and Valley Fair (VF), The Untouchables is at the Drafthouses New Mission (NM) and MV (repeats Wed. at all three and Thurs. at NM), American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez continues at the Smith Rafael and the Roxie and Hirokazu Koreeda's Sheep in the Box also continues at the Smith Rafael, The Love Bug and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre are at the Lark, and Chef is this month's pick for 50 Movies You May Not Have Seen, That You Should! at the Orinda.
Tuesday, Penny Lane's latest doc, Wild Inside, about Flaco the owl, screens at the Roxie and Smith Rafael for Owl Awareness Day (and repeats with Lane in person on Saturday at the Roxie and Sunday at the Smith Rafael), Bouchra continues and So I Married an Axe Murderer (on 35mm) is at the Roxie, Jane Schoenbrum's We're All Going to the Worlds Fair is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), MV, and VF, Richard Linklater's Boyhood is at the Drafthouse MV, Malignant is at the Drafthouse NM, and Under the Skin is at the Balboa.
Wednesday, Robert Townsend begins a residency at the Balboa (see our interview below) with a screening of his 1987 comedy, Hollywood Shuffle (on 35mm), The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (on 35mm) is this month's staff pick at the Roxie who also continue Love Letter, The Killing (on 35mm) continues BAMPFA's Stanley Kubrick series, the Stanford's Summer of Marilyn (and more) continues with Otto Preminger's River of No Return and Calamity Jane (both on 35mm, repeating Thursday), and The Hunger is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Thursday, the John Wilson-recommend The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces screens at SFMOMA, Robert Townsend's residency continues with In The Heat of the Night and James Earl Jones-starring The Great White Hope (on 35mm, with actress Jane Alexander joining virtually), Jacques Becker's procedural prison-break masterpiece Le trou continues BAMPFA's French Noir series, and I Shot Andy Warhol continues at the Roxie.
Friday, Artists' Television Access (ATA) along with City Lights and PM Press open a two-weekend series, The Cinema Must Be Destroyed: The Films of Guy Debord with a selection of the philosopher-filmmaker's short films, Steven Okazaki is in person at BAMPFA to present White Light/Black Rain, his documentary about the survivors and perpetrators of the Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, as part of a new series, Made in Berkeley: The House That Zaentz Built, the Roxie's next Oscar-qualifying shorts program, First Looks #12, opens alongside a new restoration of Luchino Visconti's White Nights, Lucio Castro's Drunken Noodles, and The Piano, Jurassic Park (on 35mm) is at the Balboa, Robert Townsend presnts A Face in the Crowd and Network at the 4 Star, Possession and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula are at the Lark, the Stanford's weekend double feature is How to Marry a Millionaire and Designing Woman (both on 35mm, repeating through Sunday), and the Castro screens Aliens.
Saturday, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens Josef von Sternberg's Underworld (on 16mm), DeBord's film-essay adaptation of his own 1967 essay, The Society of the Spectacle, is at ATA, Robert Townsend presents Claudine and his film The Five Heartbeats at the 4 Star, BAMPFA has a matinee of Kubrick's Spartacus and an evening show of Michelangelo Antonioni's L’eclisse continues their Monica Vitti series, American Psycho is a the Roxie, The Secret Of Kells is at the Balboa, and the Castro has a Little Mermaid sing-along.
Sunday, Robert Townsend presents his films B*A*P*S (with screenwriter Troy Byer in person) followed by The Meteor Man (followed by a conversation with Boots Riley), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (on 35mm) continues BAMPFA's Saul Zaentz series and depart from the well-trodden French Noir path for a rarity, Georges Lautner's The Seventh Juror, the Castro has a matinee of A League of Their Own (on 35mm), the Roxie screens cult-cum-public-access-TV-show doc Welcome Space Brothers, Doctor Zhivago is at the Orinda, the Balboa presents a Banderas double feature of Spy Kids and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!, Taxi Driver is at the New Parkway, Whale Rider and Singin' in the Rain are at the Lark, and the Niles has its monthly Sunday Talkie Matinee plus an evening screening of 1943 Hindi romantic drama Taqdeer with Noor Mohammed Charlie's grandaughter in person.
