Monday, Odyssey Film Institute presents The Cable Guy (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Shall We Dance is at the Smith Rafael, Attack the Block is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), A.I. Artificial Intelligence (repeats Wednesday) and WarGames (repeats thru Wednesday) are at the Alamo Drafthouse Mountain View (MV), Dawn of the Dead (2004) and Destroy All Monsters (repeats thru Wednesday) are at the Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF), the Orinda screens Rob Reiner's Flipped, and Animation Celebration! Part 7!, Dogtooth (repeats Wednesday), and In the Mood for Love (repeats throughout the week) are at the Roxie.
Tuesday, Shapeshifters Cinema presents the international premiere of post-apocalyptic found footage acid trip Gut Instinct with creator Doug Dillaman and composer Kyle Bruckman in person, Slither (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse NM, Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues (thru Thursday) is at 3Below (see our recent interview with Tusi Hark on the occasion of the film's rerelease), Mermaids (with a live drag show) is at the Roxie, and Queen of the Damned is at the Balboa.
Wednesday, Russ Meyer's Up! (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse NM, this year's Fraenkel Film Festival commences at the Roxie with 21 artist-selected films, beginning with The Last Picture Show, featuring a new, recorded conversation between photographer Richard Misrach and star Jeff Bridges, Stalker continues BAMPFA's Andrei Tarkvosky series, A Cavalcade of Classic Cartoons is at the Balboa, the Stanford's first Hitchcock double feature of the week is I Confess and The Wrong Man (both on 35mm, repeats Thursday), Party Girl (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and Whiplash (with live jazz) is at the 4 Star.
Thursday, Merrily We Go to Hell, Dorothy Arzner's 1932 answer to that age-old proposition, "maybe opening our dysfunctional marriage can save it," and Mad Max: Fury Road (on 35mm) continue the Fraenkel Film Fest at the Roxie, Hideko the Bus Conductor (preceded by The Whole Family Works, both on 35mm) continue BAMPFA's Mikio Naruse series, The Hate U Give is at 3Below, Midsommar is at the Balboa, the Rialtos Elmwood and Cerrito have a free matinee of Arsenic and Old Lace, and the SF Art Book Fair begins at Minnesota Street Project, including a rotating selection of multi-channel film and video work programmed by SF Cinematheque every day through Sunday.
Friday, MOViES FOR MANiACS presents a 35mm double bill of the not-available on home video original cut of Rich Kids and The Garbage Pail Kids Movie, Miss Julie begins Smiles of a Summer Night: Swedish Auteurs, the second installment of BAMPFA's Swedish Cinema Project, In the Mood for Love is at the Drafthouse MV (as well as the Drafthouse VF), Jon Favreau's Chef is at 3Below, the Roxie has the latest iteration of its Oscar-qualifying shorts program, Roxie First Looks #7 (repeats thru next week), plus The Conversation and The Silence of the Lambs continue the Fraenkel Film Fest, Boogie Nights (repeats Saturday) is at the Vogue, Little Miss Sunshine (repeats thru Sunday) at the 4 Star, Artists' Television Access continues its Anti-Fascist Film Series with Pablo Larrain's No, Shapeshifters has the latest labor-focused entry in Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, and the Stanford's weekend Hitchcock double bill is Psycho and Strangers on a Train.
Saturday, Naruse's Lightning (on 35mm) and the 1998 re-edit of Touch of Evil are at BAMPFA, Alphaville and Unforgiven at the Drafthouse MV, Godzilla vs. Hedorah and Shrek (both repeating Sunday) at the Drafthouse VF, The Little Mermaid, Memoria (on 35mm), and The Great Dictator (on 35mm) continue the Fraenkel Film Fest at the Roxie, The Killing is at the Balboa, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens the 1913 The Count of Monte Cristo, Kiki's Delivery Service (repeats Sunday) is at the 4 Star, Bikini Planet is at the Orinda, and The First Wives Club is at the New Parkway.
Sunday, BAMPFA screens our feature this week, Intermezzo, as well as Robert Altman's horror thriller, Images, Blade Runner: The Final Cut and No Country For Old Men are at the Drafthouse MV, Still Alice and The Eternal Memory are at 3Below, a free screening of Robot Dreams and a selection of horror short films (I think?) are at the Roxie, the Niles has their monthly Laurel & Hardy/Our Gang talkie matinee, and The Lost Boys is at the New Parkway
