Monday, 35 Milli-murder presents Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (on 35mm) at the Balboa, the SF Dance Film Festival presents The Prix, oops we overlooked Berlin and Beyond last week, but the last few festival screenings are today at the Rialto Elmwood, Daisies is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Mountain View (MV), and Valley Fair (VF) (repeats Tuesday at VF), Melancholia (repeats Wednesday at the Drafthouse NM) and Waterworld are at the Drafthouse MV , the Big Roxie remains closed for a few more days but My Father’s Shadow continues in the Little, Pompei: Below the Clouds and Days and Nights in the Forest continue at the Smith Rafael, and Serial Mom is at the New Parkway.
Tuesday, Ida Lupino's The Bigamist is at the Balboa, blackhole cinematheque continues its Palestine film series at Bathers with Cinema Fouad, Mohamed Soueid's doc about a Syrian trans woman living in Beirut (free, donations accepted for mutual aid orgs in Gaza and Lebanon), The Martian (in 3D) is at the Vogue, Ti West's The Sacrament is at the Drafthouse NM, and My Father's Shadow continues at the Smith Rafael.
Wednesday, Martin Scorsese's The Departed is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, Terry Zwigoff's Crumb is at the Drafthouse NM, Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain continues BAMPFA's Psychedelia & Cinema series, Everything Everywhere All at Once is at the Balboa, Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and Barbarella (repeats Saturday and Sunday) is at the 4 Star.
Thursday, the Orinda kicks off Certain Women, a new monthly series of films by women directors, each feature paired with some 16mm shorts, this month's picks being by Greta Snider and Barbara Hammer.
Friday, Christian Petzold's Miroirs No. 3 opens at the Vogue, Artist's Television Access's celebrates its successful emergency fundraiser (see our write-up from December) with ¡ata LIVES! featuring films from the Canyon Cinema archive (including films by Will Hindle, Greta Snider, and Lynn Marie Kirby) (and I will remind you one more time: go help Shapeshifters do the same!), the upgraded Big Roxie reopens with a screening Invasion of the Body Snatchers (repeats Saturday) and also begins runs of Palestine 36 and Sergei Loznitsa's Two Prosecutors (the latter also at the Smith Rafael), Fassbinder and the New German Cinema continues at BAMPFA with Volker Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta's The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, the Orinda theater kicks off a fundraising weekend and Joe Dante marathon with Gremlins, Midwinter Break and The Fifth Element (both repeat Saturday) are at the Lark, and William Wyler's Ben-Hur (on 35mm) is at the Stanford through Sunday.
Saturday, director Joe Dante and actor Robert Picardo are in person at the Orinda for a double feature of Gremlins 2 and Inner Space, BAMPFA presents Grains of Perception, a psychedelic pairing of Nathaniel Dorsky's Pneuma (with Dorsky in person) and Bruce Baillie's Quick Billy, followed by an evening showing of R. W. Fassbinder's excellent, underseen, rarely screened study of postpartum depression, Fear of Fear (on 35mm), the Niles Essanay Silent FIlm Museum screens Ernst Lubitsch's Lady Windermere's Fan, Frameline invites director Angelo Madsen to present his Fakir Musafar doc, A Body to Live In, at the Roxie, Mike Mills's 20th Century Women is at the Smith Rafael, Muppet Treasure Island (repeats Sunday) and Zardoz (repeats Sunday) are at the 4 Star, and Other Cinema presents Archive Fever: Soviet Silver at ATA.
Sunday, Dante and Picardo return to the Orinda for a screening of our feature this week, a matinee of Matinee, and the Orinda also screens John Huston's Beat the Devil (NB: the restored preview cut, that is actually good!), CiNEOLA presents Fútbol on film at the Roxie, who also screen of Farewell My Concubine, at BAMPFA, Bashu, the Little Stranger continues Iranian Cinema: From Aesthetics to Politics and Jacques Rivette's Paris Belongs to Us continues Impulses and Abstractions: Sound and Music in 1960s French Cinema, Rob Nilsson is in person at the Smith Rafael to present The Way Things Seem to Be, a new doc about his career, Andrej Zulawski's On the Silver Globe is at the 4 Star, The Velocipastor and Scooby-Doo are at the New Parkway, Lindsay Anderson's O Lucky Man! is at the Lark, and The Bush Years continues at Gray Area with Jia Zhangke's The World.
