Monday, Pedro Almodovar's Law of Desire (on 35mm) returns once more to the Roxie alongside a free with RSVP screening of Bob Fosse's All That Jazz, Shunji Iwai's Love Letter (repeats Sunday), and the Roxie's Oscar-qualifying shorts program, Roxie First Looks #11 (through Thursday), Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? is at the Balboa, Arsenic & Old Lace is at the Lark, the Alamo Drafthouse New Misison (NM) and Mountain View (MV) have a mystery screening from the AGFA vaults, Elf is at the Drafthouse Valley Fair (repeats Tues. at MV and Thurs. at NM), and Mary Oliver: The Beauty of the World is at the Smith Rafael (also at the Roxie) along with Reading Lolita in Tehran.
Tuesday, Rewind presents Jawbreaker (with live drag) and Ross McElwee's Remake continues at the Roxie (the latter also at the Smith Rafael), the Vogue kicks off a week-long Cher-a-thon with Mermaids (repeats Wednesday), The Big Hit (on VHS) is at the Balboa, Rashomon is at the Drafthouses NM and MV, Brian De Palma's Snake Eyes is at all three Drafthouses, and WHAM!: 10 Days in China is at the Smith Rafael.
Wednesday, Leos Carax's The Lovers on the Bridge is at the Balboa, De Palma's Casulties of War is at all three Drafthouses, Irma Vep is at the 4 Star, BAMPFA's French Noir series continues with Julien Duvivier's Panique, BLKNWS: Terms and Conditions is at the Grand Lake, Reading Lolita in Tehran is at the Orinda, The Dark Knight Rises is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, and the Stanford's Summer of mostly Marilyn takes a bleached blonde detour for Veronica Lake in a double feature of Don't Bother to Knock and This Gun for Hire (both on 35mm, repeating Thursday).
Thursday, BAMPFA has more Monica Vitti with Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura, the Vogue screens Peter Bogdanovich's Cher-starring Mask (repeats Friday), The Princess Diaries is at the 4 Star, the Lark screens Sugar Island for Art House Theater Day and Sorry to Bother You, Spice World (with live drag) is at the Balboa, Once Upon a Time in a Cinema and Jimmy and the Demons are at the Smith Rafael, and Brokeback Mountain is at the New Parkway.
Friday, BAMPFA screens The Shining one more time (and it, surprisingly, is not already at rush at time of writing, but certainly will be by Friday), The Matrix is at the Balboa, MOViES for MANiACS presents Mariah Carey's Glitter (on 35mm) at the Castro, Bouchra opens at the Roxie, as does American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez with film subject Luis Valdez and filmmaker David Alvarado in person (also at the Smith Rafael on Sat. with Alvarado) and the BLUSH SF PornFilmFestival, Tommy (repeats Sat.) is at the Lark, the Stanford's weekend double feature continues the bleached blonde detour with Lake and Kim Novak in I Married a Witch and Bell, Book, and Candle, and Hirokazu Koreeda's Sheep in the Box opens at the Smith Rafael.
Saturday, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens The Hunchback of Notre Dame starring Lon Chaney, BAMPFA's Isao Takahata retrospective continues with My Neighbors the Yamadas before Vivien’s Wild Ride with the director (and titular) Vivien Hillgrove in person, the Vogue screens Moonstruck (repeats Sunday), the 4 Star has a Maggie Cheung trilogy of Police Story, Comrades: Almost a Love Story, and Days of Being Wild (the latter two repeating Sunday), Planet of the Apes is at the Orinda, The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie and Possession are at the Balboa, and Onda Nova and a new restoration of I Shot Andy Warhol (see our interview with director Mary Harron linked below) are at the Roxie.
Sunday, the essential new monthly series Vital Signs continues bringing under-the-radar indie oddities to Shapeshifters, this time with Patrick Wang's three-hour one man show, A. Rimbaud, BAMPFA screens Bertrand Tavernier's The Clockmaker of St. Paul as part of the French Noir series and Antonioni's La notte in the Vitti series, Sweet Smell of Success is at the Balboa, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Air Force One, and The Love Bug are at the Lark, and director Tasha Van Zandta presents her deep ocean doc A Life Illuminated at the Roxie, who also screen Princess Mononoke.
