Monday, Demonlover (on 35mm) is this month's Staff Pick at the Roxie, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang floats around the Drafthouses Mountain View (MV), Valley Fair (VF), and New Mission (NM), and The Wiz is at the New Parkway.
Tuesday, if you missed them Sunday at the Roxie, Cutting through Rocks filmmakers Sara Khaki And Mohammadreza Eyni are at the Smith Rafael to present their doc about a divorced, motorcycle-riding, ex-midwife councilwoman in small-town Iran, a nearly sold-out show of Maniac Cop 2 with Bill Lustig in person is at the Drafthouse NM, Odyssey Film Institute presents Life is Beautiful (on 35mm) at the Balboa, and Kiss Me Kate (in 3D) is at the Vogue.
Wednesday, Akira Kurosawa's High and Low kicks off a series of recent Kurosawa restorations at BAMPFA, a one-off screening of The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is at the Roxie, and banned book doc The Librarians (with intro by director Kim Snyder) is at the Smith Rafael.
Thursday, BAMPFA's Jerry Ross Barrish series continues with Recent Sorrows and the Stanford's first Western double feature of the week is Henry King's The Bravados and Sam Peckinpagh's Ride the High Country (both on 35mm, repeating Friday).
Friday, Eyes Wide Shut (on 35mm) is at the Balboa, BAMPFA's Mikio Naruse series continues with the noir-ish The Stranger within a Woman, gay Indian drama and Sundance World Cinema winner Cactus Pears opens at the Roxie, The Tale of Silyan opens at the Roxie and Smith Rafael (see our write-up from Amy Taubin), the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's Friday night talkie this month is Wild Strawberries (on 16mm), Shapeshifters presents You Don't Know Me: A selection of films from the 7th Cosmic Rays Film Festival, and Anyabwile Love is in person to present a free screening of his short Speakn' Trane at the BlackMaria Microcinema.
Saturday, My Undesirable Friends, Chapters 1-3: Crackdown and a new restoration of Todd Haynes' Safe (intro'd by the Hit Factory podcast folks) open at the Roxie, where you can also catch one last screening of Paprika on 35mm and see the directors of Teenage Wasteland present their teenage muckraking doc, Frederick Wiseman's Central Park and Luis Buñuel's Viridiana are at BAMPFA, Anyabwile Love presents two of his films at the BlackMaria, the Niles screens Buster Keaton's The General, the Stanford's weekend Western double feature is Marlon Brando's One-Eyed Jacks and John Ford's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, We're No Angels is at the Orinda, Female Trouble (repeats Sunday) is at the 4 Star, and at Artists' Television Access, Other Cinema presents Cacophony Claus, an evening of SantaCon films with John law in person.
Sunday, Naruse's penultimate film and his final film with Hideko Takemine, Hit and Run, and Jerry Ross Barrish's North Bay-set, Rohmer-esque Shuttlecock are at BAMPFA, 35mm trailer show Unbecoming Attractions returns for its seventh raucous volume at the Roxie, where you can also catch Viridiana, Brazil is at the Lark, and the Niles has its monthly Laurel & Hardy/Our Gang talkie matinee.
NB: Christmas staples are making the circuit. For the sake of your rounder-uppers' sanity, movies that are likely to play several times at several theaters won't be listed unless the screening is otherwise noteworthy.
