JULY 28, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Liquid Sky
July 28th 2025

Monday, Dior & I is at the Balboa, Mothra (repeats thru Wednesday) is at the Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF), and Wild Strawberries is at the Lark.

Tuesday, Emergent City is at the Roxie with a Q&A, In My Skin at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), Summer Wars is at the Drafthouses NM and VF,  The Thief and the Cobbler (Recobbled Cut) is at the Balboa, the SF Jewish Film Festival continues at the Landmark Piedmont and the Vogue, and the Orinda has a matinee of The Asphalt Jungle.

Wednesday, My Own Private Idaho (35mm, repeats Sunday) and a reprise of Badlands are at the Roxie, The Rubber Gun is at the Drafthouse NM, Luis Buñeul's Él is at BAMPFA, and, our feature this week, Demons (on 35mm) is at the Balboa.

Thursday, at BAMPFA, Mikio Naruse and Hideko Takaine reunite for Untamed (on 35mm), Chase Strangio doc Heightened Scrutiny with the director in person for two screenings is at the Roxie, along with Ang Lee's The Wedding Banquet (1993) (repeats Saturday) and Memoria (NB: DCP now), Ashes and Diamonds is at the Balboa, The Shawshank Redemption at the Vogue, and the Stanford's running Gone with the Wind (on 35mm) all weekend long.

Friday, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's talkie Fridays continue with Beyond Tomorrow (on 35mm!), a new documentary about futurist Roy Scarfo by friend-of-the-newsletter Brett Ryan Bonowicz of Odyssey Film Institute with the director in person for a Q&A (and to project the film!), Tales from the Hood is at the Drafthouse VF, BAMPFA's Andrei Tarkovsky series continues with A Cinema Prayer, an archival documentary about his life by the director's son, Shaft (repeats Saturday) is at the lark, Smokey and the Bandit at the Presidio, the Orinda opens Belgian drama Amal, and Artists' Television Access's anti-fascist film series wraps up with Argentina 1985.

Saturday, 2000 Meters to Andriivka is at the Roxie with director Mstyslav Chernov in person (and he travels to the Rialto Elmwood and Smith Rafael to present the film on Sunday), the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood have free matinees of Babe, the Roxie's Almost Midnights series continues with Liquid Sky (repeats Monday), The Tale of Zatoichi is at the Drafthouses NM and MV (and at VF Sunday), BAMPFA's Robert Altman centenary continues with Gosford Park (on 35mm) and their Swedish auteurs series continues with Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika, a double feature of Going Ape and Roger Corman's Wild Angels is at the Balboa, because why not,  Wolf Children (repeats Sunday) and the 1925 Phantom of the Opera with live score are at the 4 Star, 2001: A Space Odyssey is at the New Parkway, and the Niles screens Theda Bara-starring A Fool There Was.

Sunday, BAMPFA has more Tarkovsky with Ivan’s Childhood (on 35mm) and more Altman with 3 Women, In Bruges and Rosemary's Baby are at the New Parkway, and Shapeshifters offers Cel Jam, a handmade animation workshop with experimental animator Anna Firth.