Monday, Odyssey Film Institute presents Titanic on 35mm at the Balboa, the Mostly British film fest continues at the Vogue, SF IndieFest continues at the Roxie, Brief Encounter, Moonstruck and Crime 101 (followed by a livestream Q&A with director and stars) are at the Alamo Drafthouse Mountain View (MV), Repo Man is at the Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF), Carol and Obex are at the New Parkway, The Lion in Winter is at the Lark, and we missed the opening over the weekend, but Harman Projects opened a show of hand-painted movie posters from Ghana that continues through the end of the month.
Tuesday, Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse is at the Balboa, Ciao! Manhattan is at the Drafthouse New Mission (NM), Brief Encounter is at the Drafthouse MV, and Ernest Dickeron's Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight is at all three Dreafthouses, and the Roxie screens a doc about an Amazonian Yawanawá elder, The Spirit of Tatá, and holds over the 35mm print of No Other Choice (repeats Friday).
Wednesday, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (on 35mm) is at the Roxie, All Jacked Up and Full of Worms director Alex Phillips' latest, Anything That Moves, is on 35mm at the Drafthouse NM, the Super Shangri-La Show presents the John Huston-penned, Jean Negulesco-directed Three Strangers and an episode of 1960s supernatural anthology show One Step Beyond at the Balboa, who also invite Ericka Knudson, author of Nouvelle Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave, to introduce a screening of Pierrot le Fou, Frederick Wiseman's Model is the penultimate film in BAMPFA's series on the legendary documentarian, The Alabama Solution (followed by a Q&A) is at the Grand Lake, and Diner is at the 4 Star.
Thursday, Paying for It is at the 4 Star, Harold and Maude is at the Roxie, where Alex Cox is in person to wrap up IndieFest and present his purported last film, Dead Souls, an at-rush screening of François Truffaut's Two English Girls is at BAMPFA, In the Mood for Love is at the Balboa, and the Stanford's Bob Hope double feature is The Road to Zanzibar and The Ghost Breakers (both on 35mm, repeating Friday).
Friday, the Roxie opens Cannes Critics' Week Grand Prize winner A Useful Ghost, SF-set Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home is at the Drafthouse NM, High and Low and Happy Together (both at rush) are at BAMPFA, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (repeats Sunday) is at the Lark, and Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin presents a short dance film at the Black Maria Microcinema (free with RSVP).
Saturday, join Mike Kuchar at the opening of Other Cinema's 40th season for a screening of his The Secret of Wendel Samson and Jack Smith's Normal Love, But I'm a Cheerleader, Roman Holiday, Amelie, and Dirty Dancing are at the New Parkway, If Beale Street Could Talk and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me are at the Drafthouse MV, Before Sunrise (on 35mm) and Chicken Run are at the Roxie, and the Roxie folks revive the New People cinema in Japantown for one weekend with screenings of your name. and Kokuho, the Stanford has a Doris Day double feature of Love Me or Leave Me and Young at Heart (on 35mm, repeating Sunday), Harold and Maude is at the Balboa (and at the New Parkway), Sixteen Candles is at the Vogue, The Joy Luck Club and Always Be My Maybe (both repeating Sunday) are at the 4 Star, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum presents Valentino on Valentines with Cobra, The Princess Bride and The Killing Floor are at the Smith Rafael, The Last Dragon is at the Orinda, and for the ultimate Valentines Day date, BAMPFA has Julia Loktev's My Undesirable Friends: Part 1, Last Air in Moscow, screening all five and three-quarter hours of both Crackdown, Chapters 1–3 and First Week of War, Chapters 4–5 (or you could stand in the rush line for In the Mood for Love I guess).
Sunday, the Roxie has a fundraise for local filmmaker Kevin Epps featuring a screening of his film, Straight Outta Hunters Point, Mr. Nobody Against Putin is at the Smith Rafael with the filmmakers in person (who then migrate to the Roxie in the evening), and the Roxies' reactivation of New People continues with the OG Godzilla and our feature this week, Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse presents Flesh Gordon at the 4 Star, Stardust is at the Balboa, and at BAMPFA, Climate Journalism on Screen series continues with Robin Petré's wild horses and wildfires doc, Only on Earth, the Swedish Silents series continues with a Victor Sjöström double feature of A Man There Was and The Wind (the latter on 35mm, with Judith Rosenberg accompanying both), and Wong Kar Wai rarity My Blueberry Nights on 35mm is possibly the only screening in their Wong Kar Wai series not sold out weeks in advance.
