Monday, A Poet and Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest continue at the Roxie, where Fiona Whelan Prine is person to present You Got Gold: A Celebration of John Prine, Jurassic Park is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, and Death Proof is at the New Parkway.
Tuesday, the Cinequest film festival kicks off in the South Bay, Life of Pi (in 3D) is at the Vogue, Idiotka is at the Lark, and Rewind presents Twilight Saga: Eclipse with live drag at the Roxie
Wednesday, BAMPFA's Rainer Werner Fassbinder and the New German Cinema continues with a matinee of Far from Home, Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless's tale of a Turkish migrant worker in Berlin, and Documentary Voices continues in the evening with Kill the Documentary, a trio of short films by Jill Godmilow, Harun Farocki, and Joyce Wieland, Only God Forgives is this month's staff pick at the Roxie, this month's Super Shangri-La Show at the Balboa is The Vengenace of She, The Outsiders (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Hoosiers is at the 4 Star, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams is a the Landmark Opera Plaza, and director Finn Taylor is in person to present The Optimist at the Landmark Piedmont.
Thursday, the SF Film Preserve celebrates St. Patrick's Day with a selection of early silent Irish films following by a Q&A with SFFP director Kathy Rose O'Regan, Zeinabu irene Davis is in person at BAMPFA to present her film Compensation as part of this year's African Film Festival, director Tony Benna is in person at the Smith Rafael to present André is an Idiot (repeats Sunday with Executive Produce Lee Einhorn), William Friedkin's Sorcerer continues at the Roxie, Chloe Zhao's The Rider is at the Balboa, and the SFAI Legacy Foundation and SF Cinematheque host the opening reception for their new exhibit, Ephemera Unearthed!: Anomalies from Craig Baldwin’s Other Cinema.
Friday, filmmaker and SFAI alum Mark Street visits Shapeshifters Cinema (who could use your support right now) from NYC to share some recent work alongside a selection of films from Canyon Cinema's catalogue, Cinequest's annual silent film pick this year is Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, at the California Theatre with Dennis James on the theater's Mighty Wurlitzer, the Stanford has yet more swords and sandals with Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (on 35mm, repeating Saturday and Sunday), BAMPFA has more Fassbinder with the director's most concentrated, rigorously elegant, poison pill, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's Talkie Friday pick this month is Some Like it Hot (on 16mm), Nigeria's Oscars submission, My Father's Shadow, opens at the Roxie, Everything Everywhere All at Once (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark, A Nightmare on Elm Street is at the Balboa, and The Long Goodbye (repeats Saturday) is at the 4 Star.
Saturday, BAMPFA's matinee is our feature this week, Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, paired with a lavish exploration of early 70s San Francisco's gender-bent anarchy, Luminous Procuress, and the evening screening is Last Year at Marienbad, the Niles screens Buster Keaton's The Three Ages, A Slide Show and Talk by Diane Arbus is at the Roxie, Lady Bird and Billy Preston: That's the Way God Planned are at the Smith Rafael, Double Indemnity is at the Balboa, Charlotte's Web and Three Days of the Condor (both repeating Sunday) are at the 4 Star, where Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse presents made-for-TV anthology movie Cosmic Slop, Other Cinema presents a Kingdom of Not retrospective at Artists' Television Access, and Touch of Evil is at the Orinda.
Sunday, Spike Lee's incomparable satire Bamboozled continues The Bush Years at Gray Area, BAMPFA screens Saless's Far from Home at a more reasonable hour, followed by Fassbinder's self-flagellating autofiction, Beware of a Holy Whore (on 35mm), and there's a movies-ball on, which you can watch at your favorite local theater, like the Balboa, the Lark, the New Parkway, the Rialto Cerrito, the Roxie, the Smith Rafael, and probably a few others.
