Monday, Cutting Through Rocks and its directors return to the Bay for a screening at the Smith Rafael, If... is at the Lark, Primary Knots at Artists' Television Access is the latest edition of Elle Vanderlip's ongoing live-scored multi-projector series, Rewards Program, Hou Hsiao Hsien's Millennium Mambo tours the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Valley Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV) (repeating Wednesday at MV and NM), Harold and Maude is at the Drafthouses NM and MV, Saving Face is at the Drafthouse VF (and Thursday at MV and NM), and Titanic floats through all three during the week, Some Like it Hot is at the New Parkway, and Showdown in Little Tokyo (on VHS) is at the Balboa.
Tuesday, Soda Jerk's Hello Dankness and WTO/99 are at the New Parkway, Ganja & Hess is this month's staff pick at the Roxie, Nadja, Star Trek IV, and I Live Here Now are at the Drafthouse NM, Mahogany is at the Balboa, and Blonde Venus is at the Orinda.
Wednesday, BAMPFA's long-running Documentary Voices series continues with Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a documentary constructed from Palestinian photojournalist and poet Fatma Hassona's video calls to Iranian filmmaker Sepideh Farsi about her life in Gaza before she was killed by Israeli airstrike in 2025, Birdemic: Shock and Terror and alt-comedy supergroup production Dance Freak are at the Drafthouse NM, Todd Haynes's The Velvet Underground is at the Balboa, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Petulia (on VHS) is at the 4 Star, and The Lovely Bones is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Thursday, The Voice of Hind Rajab director Ben Hania is at the Smith Rafael, it's probably your last chance to catch the first half of Russian resistance journalism doc My Undesirable Friends: Part 1—Last Air in Moscow: Crackdown Chapters 1–3 in theaters at BAMPFA, the Stanford's musical calendar continues with another Bob Hope double feature of Road to Utopia and My Favorite Blonde (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), A Useful Ghost and Arco continue at the Roxie, and Poirot stops by the Balboa in Evil Under the Sun.
Friday, MOViES FOR MANiACS brings Jon Moritsugu and co-writer Amy Davis in person to the 4 Star to present Moritsugu's latest film, the Jame Duval-starring Numbskull Revolution, Sinners returns on 70mm to Grand Lake, Interview with the Vampire is at the Drafthouse NM (repeating Sunday at all three Drafthouses), BAMPFA has an at rush show of Wong Kar Wai's 2046 and My Undesirable Friends: Part 1—Last Air in Moscow: First Week of War Chapters 4–5, Buster Keaton's The General is at the Balboa, and Pulp Fiction (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark.
Saturday, the Stanford's weekend double feature is 42nd Street and, our feature this week, W. S. Van Dyke's Clark Gable- and Spencer Tracy-starring 1936 disaster musical about the 1906 earthquake that struck "the wickedest, most corrupt, most godless city in America," San Francisco, Other Cinema's SF Psycho-Geo series continues at Artists' Television Access, Rob Nilsson is in person at the Roxie to present Signal 7, who also have a one-time-only screening of animated shorts from Arco director Ugo Bienvenu, at rush screenings of Wong's Chungking Express and François Truffaut's Confidentially Yours (on 35mm) and a non-at-rush screening of Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries (on 35mm) are at BAMPFA, To Kill a Mockingbird is at the Balboa, Hercules and Juno (repeating Sunday) and Casino Royale are at the 4 Star, the Niles Essanay Silent FIlm Museum presents The Gaucho, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez, and Farming While Black is at the Smith Rafael.
Sunday, BAMPFA's new season kicks off with a double feature in its new series, Psychedelia & Cinema, of John Lilly and the Earth Coincidence Control Office (at rush) and Ken Russell's Altered States (on 35mm), a new restoration of Sorcerer and The Secret Lives of Bill Bartell with Jennifer Schwartz, Ronnie Barnett, & filmmaker David Markey in person are at the Roxie, Mamma Mia! is at the New Parkway, The Maltese Falcon is at the Balboa, and the first SF screening of Ronald Bronstein's Frownland since it's debut continues The Bush Years at Gray Area (go get those zines, folks!).
