Monday, Reds and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert are at the Alamo Drafthouse Mountain View (MV), My Own Private Idaho is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM) and Valley Fair (VF), OBEX, Sound of Falling, and Resurrection continue at the Roxie alongside our feature this week, When The Wind Blows (repeating Sunday), and our feature last week, Wim Wenders's Notebook on Cities and Clothes is at the Balboa.
Tuesday, we ourselves, Screen Slate SF Bay, present Johnny Mnemonic on 35mm at the Balboa (who have a shiny new changeover system for 35mm projection, which means no more jarring intermission wherever reel 5 happens to end!), so come say hi (we'll have the last few copies of our Kill Yr Landlords zine), the Drafthouses' complete Twin Peaks run continues, Christiane F. is at the Drafthouses VF and MV, Magellan and The Secret Agent continue at the Roxie, where the Rewind folks present Twilight (with a live drag pre-show), and An American in Paris is at the Orinda.
Wednesday, The Chronology of Water and All That’s Left Of You continue at the Roxie, alongside a reprise of this month's staff pick, Betty Gordon's Variety (on 35mm) and one of, at the moment, only two screenings of WTO/99, about "the last great mobilization of the 20th Century left in the United States," Toshiaki Toyoda's Blue Spring is at the Balboa, Patty Hearst is at the Drafthouse NM, Drag Me to Hell is at the Drafthouse VF, Sir Arne’s Treasure continues BAMPFA's series of Swedish Silents, Mildred Pierce (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and The Basement presents Demolition Man (on VHS) at the 4 Star.
Thursday, 964 Pinocchio is at the 4 Star, The Soft Skin continues BAMPFA's already-completely-at-rush François Truffaut series with Laura Truffaut in person, Murder on the Orient Express is at the Balboa, and the Tenderloin Museum begins a 4-week series of Rob Nilsson's 9 @ Night films.
Friday, a In the Mood for Love matinee is at rush at BAMPFA, where Robert Beavers takes up residency for an extensive, two-week retrospective of the influential experimental filmmaker's five-decade career (read our interview with the filmmaker on the occasion of a 2024 retrospective), Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice gets a brief 35mm run at the Roxie, Blood for Dracula is at the Drafthouses NM and VF and Josie and the Pussycats is at all three Drafthouses, Sinners returns on 70mm at the Grand Lake, Nope is at the Balboa, 18th & Grand: The Olympic Auditorium Story makes its local premiere at the 4 Star with East Bay Ray, and the Lark has a double feature of Valley Girl and Repo Man (repeating Saturday).
Saturday, Robert Beavers continues his BAMPFA residency with two matinees (if you're just a little curious, From the Notebook of... is the one to see) before an at-rush evening screening of Wong Kar Wai's The Hand, SF-set 2026 Spirit Award Best First Screenplay nominee Outerlands is at the Roxie with a post-screening Q&A, the Stanford kicks off a month of musicals with James Whale's Show Boat and the third Astaire-Rogers pairing, Roberta (on 35mm, repeating Sunday), Harold Lloyd's For Heaven's Sake is at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, Mad Max: Fury Road is at the Balboa, and The Muppet Movie and Napoleon Dynamite (both repeating Sunday) are at the 4 Star.
Sunday, All You Need Is Kill continues at the Roxie, where flimmaker Brittany Shyne is in person for a screening of her Sundance-winning documentary Seeds and Craft Cinema presents When Harry Met Sally, For a Few Dollars More is at the Lark, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is at all three Drafthouses ,and Victor Sjöstrom's The Phantom Carriage, another Robert Beavers appearance, and an at-rush showing of 2046 are at BAMPFA.
