Monday, the SF Jewish Film Festival continues all week, Time Masters is at the Balboa, Flow is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Valley Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV), Orlando at the Drafthouse MV (and Wed. at all three Drafthouses), Tiny Furniture is at the Drafthouses VF and MV (through Wednesday at MV), and Labyrinth and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence are at the Lark.
Tuesday, Being Liminal Being, a selection of recent experimental works, and Princess Mononoke are at the Roxie, the Vogue starts a weekend-long Jacques Tati-thon with PlayTime (repeats Sunday), Thief is at the Balboa, Eyes Without a Face is at the Drafthouse NM, and Steel Magnolias is at the Drafthouse MV (repeats Wed. at MV and VF).
Wednesday, the Vogue screens Tati's under-seen, under-appreciated final film Parade (repeats Sunday), the New Parkway presents The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with a live score by Sleepbomb, Zoot Suit opens the RoxCine-presented Chicano Visions series at the Roxie, where North by Northwest (on 35mm) and Shunji Iwai's Love Letter return, Teresa the Thief continue BAMPFA's Summer with Monica Vitti, Pather Panchali is at the Balboa, Moonage Daydream is at the Lark, The Dark Knight is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, and the Stanford's weekday double is There's No Business Like Show Business and The Princess and the Pirate (both on 35mm, repeating Thursday).
Thursday, the Orinda's women directors series, Certain Women, continues with Lizzie Borden's essential Born in Flames (with a 16mm short from Abigail Child), SF Cinematheque presents our feature this week, A Thing Brilliant and Powerful: Films on Gesture, Paint and Painting, with films by Cauleen Smith, Stan Brakhage, and others screening at SFMOMA, By Hook or by Crook, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Remaining Native, and Persona return to the Roxie, the Vogue screens Tati's Mon Oncle (repeats Sunday), the 4 Star's Philip Seymour Hoffman series continues with God's Pocket and A Most Wanted Man, The Vanishing is at the Balboa, The Birdcage is at the Castro, an at-rush screening of an imported 35mm print of Eyes Wide Shut continues BAMPFA's complete Kubrick, Myster Science Theater 3000: The Movie is at the Lark, and Jack Johnson and others are in person for SURFILMUSIC at the Smith Rafael.
Friday, the Paramount Oakland's summer classics series continues with The Maltese Falcon (on 35mm), the Vogue invites director Greg Harrison to present his SF-set rave classic Groove, the Stanford's weekend double is Niagara and Leave Her to Heaven (both on 35mm, repeating through Sunday), the Roxie opens Ross McElwee's Remake (also at the Smith Rafael) and the first of this year's Oscar-Qualifying shorts programs, The Fog is at the Balboa, BAMPFA has an at-rush screening of François Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid with Laura Truffuat, the SF Jewish Film Festival takes over the Roxie for the weekend, The Blues Brothers (repeats Sunday) is at the Lark, and Reading Lolita in Tehran (repeats Sat.) is at the Orinda.
Saturday, BAMPFA continues its Isao Takahata series with his documentary (and Studio Ghibli’s only live-action film) The Story of Yanagawa Waterways and its Vitti series with I Know That You Know That I Know, The Last Unicorn is at the Balboa, Macho Dancer is at the Drafthouse NM, The Thing Called Love is at the Drafthouse VF, the 4 Star has The Princess Bride, The Princess Diaries, and David Hockney docu-fiction A Bigger Splash (all three repeating Sunday), the New Parkway has a lights-up crafting matinee of Dirty Dancing (1987), The Plague Dogs is at the Smith Rafael, and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum has its monthly comedy shorts night.
Sunday, Boots Riley is in person at the New Parkway to present I Love Boosters, the Roxie has a special ADA Celebration double feature of Vivien's Wild Ride and Sign 504 Now! alongside a panel discussion between VWR's director, Vivien Hillgrove, Crip Camp director Jim LeBrecht, and others, a 30th anniversary screening of Olivier Assayas's Irma Vep is at the 4 Star, Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril is at the Balboa, BAMPFA has Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le corbeau and an at-rush screening of The Shining with author and editor Lee Unkrich in person, Rashomon is at all three Drafthouses, But I'm a Cheerleader is at the Castro, the Vogue has a three-film Jacques Tati-thon, Suddenly, Last Summer is at the Orinda, Arsenic & Old Lace and A Silent Voice are at the Lark, the Niles has a free screening of SF-set AIDS doc We Were Here, and Joseph McBride presents his new book I Loved Movies, But... at the Golden Gate Valley library.
