Monday, Odyssey Film Institute presents Reefer Madness (on 16mm) at the Roxie, where Sorcerer continues and SF Public Press presents two short films about Crossing State Lines for Abortion Access, Interview with the Vampire is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM) and Mountain View (MV), Sinners on 70mm continues its reprise run at the Grand Lake, The Substance is at the New Parkway, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is at the Lark, and St. Vincent is this month's pick for 50 Movies You May Not Have Seen, That You Should at the Orinda.
Tuesday, Park Chan Wook's Cannes Jury prize-winning vampire romance Thirst is at the Drafthouse NM.
Wednesday, Jeffrey Skoller is in person at BAMPFA presenting Occupation Diaries: Three Portraits, including two of his own films of WWII recollections alongside a film from Yugosloav Black Wave docufiction pioneer Želimir Žilnik, followed by an interview led by friend-of-the-newsletter Jonathan Mackris, Mamoru Oshii's live-action The Red Spectacles is at the Drafthouse NM, a reprise of What Have I Done to Deserve This? is at the Roxie, the Grand Lake celebrates its 100th anniversary with several, free kid-friendly classics, The Wizard of Oz, Singin' in the Rain, Fantasia, and Snow White, Lynne Ramsay's You Were Never Really Here is at the Balboa, Mrs. Doubtfire (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, The Lady from Shanghai is at the 4 Star, the Lark pays homage to Robert Duvall with a weekend miniseries that starts with Tender Mercies, and Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Thursday, a newly struck 35mm print of Roger Corman's Jack Nicholson-scripted and Dennis Hopper-starring acid-delving The Trip continues Psychedelia & Cinema and BAMPFA the Stanford's Bob Hope season's final week begins with a double feature of Road to Rio and The Paleface (on 35mm, repeating Friday), the Duvall-starring Secondhand Lions is at the Lark, and ATA has its monthly OpenScreeening.
Friday, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (on 35mm) commences a new BAMPFA series, Fassbinder and the New German Cinema, director Michel Franco is in person to present his SF-set Dreams at the Roxie where our feature this week, a new restoration of Satyajit Ray's lesser-known Days and Nights in the Forest, opens, Shapeshifters Cinema's ongoing Gravitational Lensing series continues, this 13th program focusing on Memory, Archives & Reclaiming History, Daisies is at the Balboa, They Live (repeating Saturday) and a one-off screening of Idiotka at the Lark, and the Grand Lake is giving theater tours all weekend in celebration of its 100th.
Saturday, Other Cinema's show this week is the latest entry in its Archive Fever series with a visit from David Sherman and Rebecca Barten, the Orinda invites the director of the Walt Disney Motion Pictures Restoration and Library Management Department, Kevin Schaeffer, to present a screening of a new restoration of Rouben Mamoulian's Blood and Sand, Dariush Mehrjui's The Postman kicks off Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics, another new series at BAMPFA, who also have another psychedelia-related screening in the evening with Embrace of the Serpent, the Stanford's weekend double feature is The Big Broadcast of 1938 and Never Say Die , Odyssey Film Institute presents A League of Their Own (on 35mm) at the Balboa, and Goldfinger and Live and Let Die (both repeating Sunday) are at the 4 Star, where Dark Entries Records also presents Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus.
Sunday, BAMPFA has more Fassbinder with The Merchant of Four Seasons, as well as After the Long Rains, which start's this year's African Film Festival, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and one final screening of A Useful Ghost are at the Roxie, Seven Samurai is at the Balboa, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom and A Fantastic Woman are at the Lark, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is at the Orinda, and Ayana Pressley doc She Dared to Dream is at the Grand Lake.
