Monday, My Father’s Shadow continues at the Roxie, Cinequest continues in the South Bay, Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest (through Wednesday, and at the Roxie Wed.-Sun.) moves to the Smith Rafael, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III are at the Alamo Drafthouse Mountain View (MV), The Revenant (through Wednesday) is at the Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF), and This is Spinal Tap is at the Lark.
Tuesday, 1981 horror send-up Student Bodies is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), Sorcerer is back one more time at the Roxie, 2046 is at the Balboa, and A Few Good Men is at the Lark.
Wednesday, Odyssey Film Institute presents Meryl Streep and Roseanne Barr in Susan Seidelman's She-Devil (on 35mm), Dead Lover (in scratch-n-sniff Stink-O-Vision) is at the Drafthouse NM, a matinee of Dariush Mehrjui's Iranian-set adaptation of Woyzeck, The Postman continues Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics at BAMPFA, where Reid Davenport presents his new film Life After and gives the annual Les Blank lecture, 1980 wtf musical The Apple (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, The Basement presents Dünyayi Kurtaran Adam (The Man Who Saved the World) (on VHS), and Martin Scorsese's After Hours is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Thursday, Gorillaz present Britannia Hospital is at all three Drafthouses, Litquake invites author Rachel Walther to present her new book on Dog Day Afternoon alongside a screening, Finn Taylor is at the Smith Rafael to present his film, The Optimist, D.E.B.S. (with live drag) is at the Balboa,, Jim Jarmusch's Father Mother Sister Brother is at the Lark, and a free screening of Airplane! is at the Orinda.
Friday, Gianfranco Rosi's Pompei: Below the Clouds opens at the Smith Rafael, Odyssey presents Boogie Nights (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Volker Schlöndorff's Young Törless continues Fassbinder and the New German Cinema and Modes of Cinematic Sound: Short Films continues Impulses and Abstractions: Sound and Music in 1960s French Cinema at BAMPFA, My Big Fat Greek Wedding is at the New Parkway, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (repeats Sunday) is at the New Parkway , This is Spinal Tap is at the Landmark Opera Plaza (and NB: the big Roxie closes for a week for renovations, including motorized masking!!!!)
Saturday, BAMPFA has a Sun Ra double feature of Sun Ra: Do the Impossible and Space Is the Place as part of their series on Psychedelia & Cinema, the Roxie presents a field guide to the city's cable cars as seen on the silver screen, The Joy Luck Club is at the Smith Rafael, The Devil's Backbone is at the Balboa, the 4 Star has Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It and the latest questionable decision from Silents Synced, this time with the Pola Negri-starring A Woman of the World scored by Pearl Jam (both repeating Sunday), Forbidden Planet is at the New Parkway, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum has its monthly comedy shorts night, and Other Cinema invites Carl Diehl to present his film Painless Magic and more at Artists' Television Access.
Sunday, the SF Silent Film Festival returns to the bastardized Castro with Clara Bow in the original (clown-free) It, Cinequest wraps up with a closing film duel of Steven Soderbergh's The Christophers and John Early's Maddie's Secret, BAMPFA screens Agnes Varda's Cléo from 5 to 7 and Werner Herzog's breakthrough feature, Signs of Life, Detour is at the Balboa, Suzumi is at the New Parkway, and last but not least, our feature this week, is Brian De Palma's Redacted, screening as part of The Bush Years at Gray Area.
