Monday, A Poet continues, the 35mm print of No Other Choice gets one more showing, and the second part of My Undesirable Friends: Chapters returns to the Roxie, whose Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films From Before the Code continues with The Divorcee, Richard Linklater's Bernie is at the Orinda, The Worst Person in the World is at the Alamo Drafthouse Mountain View (MV), Blood for Dracula is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) (repeats Wednesday at the Drafthouse MV), Clean, Shaven is at the Balboa, Fritz Lang's M is at The New Parkway, For a Few Dollars More is at the Lark, and Sinners continues a 70mm reprise at the Grand Lake.
Tuesday, Josie and the Pussycats is at the Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF) (repeats Wednesday at the Drafthouse NM), the 1991 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? remake starring the Redgrave sisters Lynn and Vanessa is at the Drafthouses VF and MV (repeats Wednesday at the Drafthouse VF), Mr. Nobody Against Putin opens and WTO/99 gets one more showing at the Roxie, It Came From Outer Space (in 3D) is at the Vogue, and Fela Kuti: Music is the Weapon is at the Balboa.
Wednesday, Narrow Margin magazine co-presents Paul Vechialli's Rosa la Rose Fille Publique at Artists' Television Access, Amy Reid is in person to present her film Long Haulers at BAMPFA in their long-running Documentary Voices series, Joseph Losey's Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and Noël Coward-starring camp classic Boom! (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse NM, The Chronology of Water and Seeds continue at the Roxie, who also have Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (on 35mm), Tampopo is at the 4 Star, Monty Python and the Holy Grail is at the Vogue, Poetic Justice is at the Balboa, and the Berkeley Film Foundation presents Keeper of the Fire and From Here/From There at the New Parkway.
Thursday, Robert Beavers continues his residency at BAMPFA, OBEX continues at the Roxie, where SF IndieFest takes over the for the rest of the weekend, kicking off with a doc about the West Bay-born plague of Santacon, the Western Neighborhoods Project presents What's Up, Doc? at the 4 Star, the Mostly British film festival kicks off at the Vogue with Richard Burton biopoc Mr. Burton, Love & Basketball is at the Balboa, Clue is at the New Parkway, and the Stanford's season of musicals continues with a Bob Hope double feature of The Road to Singapore and The Cat and the Canary (both on 35mm, repeating Friday).
Friday, Look Back In Anger is at the Vogue as part of Mostly British, Robert Beavers gives the annual Mosse Lecture (free) before the final three films in his "My Hand Outstretched..." cycle in the evening at BAMPFA, Ciao! Manhattan is at the Drafthouses VF and MV, and Clue (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark.
Saturday, at BAMPFA, Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss are in person to present a matinee of their teenage environmental muckraker doc, Teenage Wasteland, before an matinee of our feature this week, François Truffaut's The Wild Child and the final screening in Robert Beavers residency, Tom Jones is at the Vogue as part of Mostly British, Breathless is at the Balboa, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum presents some anti-communist propaganda from the original Red Scare, Dangerous Hours, andthe Stanford's musical a biopic double feature, one about Rodgers & Hart biopic, Words and Music, and the other, Deep in my Heart, directed by Stanley Donen about the composer of "Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise".
Sunday, the 4 Star has a Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight marathon, Greta Garbo's breakout film, Gösta Berling’s Saga (Parts 1 & 2), continues BAMPFA's Swedish Silent Cinema series, Brief Encounter is at the Drafthouse MV, Girl with Green Eyes is at the Vogue as part of Mostly British, the Niles has a Sunday talkie matinee, and My Fair Lady is at the Orinda.
