Monday, The Tale of Zatoichi and Tales from the Hood are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) (and at Valley Fair [VF] and Mountain View [MV], respectively, on following days), Liquid Sky is back at the Roxie, Reservoir Dogs is at the Balboa, The Joy Luck Club at the Lark, Amadeus (with a pre-show musical performance) at the New Parkway, and The Spitfire Grill is at the Orinda.
Tuesday, My Own Private Idaho (on 35mm, repeats Saturday) continues at the Roxie, From Dusk Till Dawn (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse NM, Didi at the Balboa, and The Big Lebowski at the Presidio.
Wednesday, Marlene Dietrich's bisexual apotheosis in Josef von Sternberg's Morocco (1930) is the latest entry in the Roxie's Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films from Before the Code series, Robert Altman's The Player continues the Altman centennary at the BAMPFA, Vice Squad is at the Drafthouse NM, Wild at Heart is at the Balboa, and Harold and Maude is at the Vogue.
Thursday, the Odyssey Film Institute presents The Departed (on 35mm) at the Balboa, director Justin Schein is in person at the Vogue to present his wealth inequality doc Death & Taxes, Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night continues BAMPFA's Swedish auteurs series, the Rialtos Elmwood and Cerrito have free matinees of The Untouchables, the Stanford's first double feature of the the week is classic noir In a Lonely Place and noir send-up Beat the Devil (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), and Bonni Cohen and Jon Shenk present their psychedelic PTSD therapy doc In Waves and War at the Smith Rafael.
Friday, MOViES FOR MANiACS has a double feature of the Brooke Shields-starring pinball odyssey Tilt and save-the-arcade B-movie Joystick (both on 35mm!) at the Balboa, Mo' Better Blues starts a brief series of Spike Lee joints starring Denzel Washington at the Drafthouse NM, Daughters, Wives, and a Mother (on 35mm) continues BAMPFA's Mikio Naruse series, It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley opens (with Buckley's mother in person for the at-rush opening night) at the Roxie, The City of Lost Children (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark, and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum has a free (with RSVP) screening of Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (on 16mm, repeats Sunday).
Saturday, Emergent City gets a reprise and Stray Dog (repeats Sunday) opens a new series, Kurosawa Restored, at the Roxie, The 400 Blows (on 35mm) and Andrei Rublev are at BAMPFA, Lady Snowblood (also at Drafthouse VF) and Ebony & Ivory (with actor Sky Elobar in person) are at the Drafthouse NM, Castle in the Sky and Pee-wee's Big Adventure (both repeat Sunday) are at the 4 Star, David Lynch's Dune is at the New Parkway, the Niles has Raymond Griffith comedy The Night Club, Shaft is at the Orinda, and the Stanford has a George Cukor double feature of The Philadelphia Story and Dinner at Eight.
Sunday, Reid Davenport's Sundance award-winning laest film, Life After, is at the Roxie with Davenport in person for a Q&A, Lee's Denzel-starring Inside Man is at the Drafthouse, Naruse's A Wanderer’s Notebook (on 35mm) and, our feature this week, Altman' rarely-screened Vincent & Theo (on 35mm) are at BAMPFA, The Big Heat is at the Balboa, Dr. No is at the Lark, and the Niles has a matinee of PanAm travelogues (on 16mm) and their monthly Laurel & Hardy/Our Gang talkie matinee.
