Monday, Angels with Dirty Faces is at the Lark, Before Sunrise (on 35mm) is back at the Roxie, where Arco, Thai afterlife romcom A Useful Ghost, and Kiristin Stewart's directorial debut The Chronology of Water all continue, Odyssey Film Institute presents Chasing Amy (on 35mm) at the Balboa, The Love that Remains continues at the Smith Rafael, In the Mood for Love is at the New Parkway, 13 Going on 30 is at the Alamo Drafthouse Mountain View (MV), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is at the Alamo Drafthouses Valley Fair (VF) & MV, and the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission goes into hibernation for renovations, in case you wonder why they'll be disappearing for some time.
Tuesday, friends-of-the-newsletter Rewind present Twilight: New Moon with live drag at the Roxie, Jimi Plays Monterey & Berkeley at the Balboa, House on Wax (in 3D) is at the Vogue, and a matinee of Waiting for Guffman is at the Lark.
Wednesday, SF Cinematheque presents Do You See What I See?, a program of films by Anthony McCall, Carolee Schneeman, Paul Sharits, and Hollis Frampton, at the Bayfront Theater, BAMPFA has a modern cowboy double feature set in Argentina and the American South, respectively, with Gaucho Gaucho and Kevin Jerome Everson's Ten Five in the Grass, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (on 35mm), Lovers of the Arctic Circle, and Wisdom of Happiness: A Heart-to-Heart with the Dalai Lama are at the Roxie, Odyssey Film Institute presents Blue Velvet (on 35mm) at the Balboa, The Doors (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Nekromantik 2 is at the 4 Star, The Frighteners is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, a matinee of A Mighty Wind is at the Lark, and Come See Me in the Good Light is at the New Parkway.
Thursday, our feature this week is the finale to BAMPFA's Fredrick Wiseman series, Meat, doing double duty as a part of Climate Journalism on Screen, a preview of Psycho Killer with the cast for a livestream Q&A is at the Drafthouse VF, cult sci-fi musical comedy The American Astronaut is at the Balboa, a matinee of Best in Show is at the Lark, the Stanford's Bob Hope double feature this week is Road to Morocco and My Favorite Brunette (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), and the Orinda has a free screening of When Harry Met Sally.
Friday, the Orinda hosts the Fear & Faith Horror Film Festival (which continues all day Saturday), the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's talkie Fridays continue with Howard Hughes's The Outlaw, two at-rush films are at BAMPFA, Yojimbo and Day for Night, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (repeats Saturday) is at the Vogue, Terminator 2 (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark, and Labyrinth is at Opera Plaza.
Saturday, Chan Hau Chun's TIFF Wavelengths selection Map of Traces opens at Cushion Works, 1970 Black labor doc Finally Got the News is at the Smith Rafael, BAMPFA has Three Films on Water and Tradition from Pakistan, Croatia, and Bolivia, Yousef Chahine's classic Egyptian noir Cairo Station, and an at-rush screening of Wong Kar-Wai's rarely-screened The Grandmaster, at the Roxie, Frameline co-presents Pedro Almodovar's What Have I Done to Deserve This? and this month's Almost Midnight screening is Brian De Palma's Body Double , The Wiz and Richard Pryor: Live on the Sunset Strip are at the Balboa, Erin Brockovich is at the New Parkway, the Niles has its monthly comedy shorts night featuring Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Laurel & Hardy, the Marina theater has a night of Georges Méliès' flims, and the Stanford has a Judy Garland double feature with the 1987 reconstruction of George Cukor's 1954 version of A Star is Born (screening on film [at all?] for the first time in a decade in the Bay, afaik, and, even butchered as it is, still the best version) and Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday).
Sunday, a new (almost) weekly series, The Bush Years, begins at Gray Area with a short film program featuring work by Ben Russell, Cauleen Smith, Peggy Ahwesh, Deborah Stratman, and Jem Cohen (and don't miss the series' accompanying zine, including new writing by previous Screen Slate contributors A. S. Hamrah, Del Holton, Carlos Valladares, Katherine Franco, and series programmer Rebbeca Turner), In the Heat of the Night and Inglorious Basterds (on 35mm) are at the Balboa, BAMPFA has Palisades fire doc All the Walls Came Down with the director in person and more at-rush Truffaut (Small Change) and Wong (Days of Being Wild), Alzheimers doc Walk with Me with filmmaker and subject in person is at the Smith Rafael, The Whitest Kids U' Know's Mars with some indeterminate number of cast members in person for a Q&A is at the Drafthouse MV, Hou Hsiao-hsien's Millenium Mambo at the Drafthouses MV and VF, Thelma & Louise is at the New Parkway, and Cabaret is at the Orinda.
