Monday, Snowpiercer is at the Alamo Drafthouse Mountain View (MV), The Mummy Returns is at the Drafthouses MV and Valley Fair (VF), Colors (on VHS) is at the Balboa, and Mulholland Drive is at the New Parkway.
Tuesday, blackhole cinematheque begins a new floating series, this week at Bathers Library, presenting archival 16mm prints of documentaries from the Newsreel collective, a group of radical Leftist filmmakers who began documenting resistance and political organizing in the late 60s, eventually spawning chapters all around the US, femme-made shorts in the Divinity Film Festival, Fakir Musafar doc A Body to Live In, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978, repeats Thursday) are at the Roxie, Mad Max Beyond the Thunderdone is at the Drafthouse MV, Ju-On: The Grudge is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), a matinee of Hitchcock's Rope is at the Orinda, and Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist is at the Balboa.
Wednesday, SF Cinematheque invites Abigail Child in person to present Is This What You Were Born For? at Gray Area, Dušan Makavejev's The Coca-Cola Kid is at the Drafthouse NM, environmental justice and colonialism in Congo doc The Tree of Authenticity is at BAMPFA, Flower Drum Song (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and The Young Girls of Rochefort is at the Balboa
Thursday, Frameline invites prolific trans horror wunderkind Alice Maio Mackay to the Roxie to present her latest film, The Serpent's Skin (continuing through Saturday), BAMPA screens Carl Theodor Dreyer's essential silent, The Passion of Joan of Arc (on 35mm), with Judith Rosenberg on piano, the 4 Star has a Les Blank double feature with Maureen Gosling in person, the Ocean Film Festival is at the Smith Rafael, and Belly is at the Balboa.
Friday, Abigail Child migrates to Shapeshifters Cinema to present some of her Foreign Film Series, a Kiyoshi Kurosawa double feature of Serpent's Path and Chime opens at the Roxie, Yesterday Girl from Alexander Kluge (RIP) continues BAMPFA's New German Cinema series with the movie that kicked off the movement and Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly (on 35mm) continues their Psychedelia & Cinema series, the Stanford's sword and sandals picks continue with Quo Vadis (on 35mm, repeating through Sunday), the Landmark Piedmont has a late show of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jesus Christ Superstar is at the Orinda, MOViES FOR MANiACS brings Dead Lover (in Stink-O-Vision, through next week) to the Balboa, and David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch (reepats Saturday) is at the Lark.
Saturday, Sky Hopinka is in person at the Roxie to present his latest film, Powwow People, in conjunction with Sonic Transmissions, Slash Art's ongoing solo exhibition of his films, Vital Signs—a new floating series that we've on good authority you should keep an eye on—presents Teddy, Out of Tune with a live score, Q&A with the director, and animated shorts by Anna Firth, at BAMPFA, Fatou Cissé's Furu continues the African Film Festival and Lucrecia Martel's La ciénaga (on 35mm) kicks off a near-complete retrospective of the Argentinian director's features and short films—see our new interview with Martel below as our feature this week—M.A.S.H. is at the Smith Rafael, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens Saves of the Sea (alongside René Clair's Entr'acte), Other Cinema brings its Optronica program to Artists' Television Access, Who Framed Roger Rabbit is at the Orinda, Natchez, a doc about plantation tours in Mississippi and how their history is presented (or diminished), runs for one weekend only at the 4 Star and the Roxie, James and the Giant Peach and True Stories (repeats Sunday) are at the 4 Star, and Terminator 2 is at the New Parkway.
Sunday, at BAMPFA, filmmaker Annie MacDonell is in person for Communicating Vessels, a selection of short films to continue Psychedelia & Cinema, and R W. Fassbinder's Chinese Roulette screens on 35mm, Bette Davis stars in William Wyler's Jezebel at the Lark, Michael Mann's Collateral continues The Bush Years at Gray Area, and David Cronenberg's Maps to the Stars is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
