Monday, black hole cinematheque's Newsreel series continues its West Bay screenings at 34 Trinity with Los Siete, about seven Latino teenagers who were framed in 1969 by one cop who shot another cop, The Spectacular Now is this month's 50 Movies You May Not Have Seen, That You Should! at the Orinda, the Roxie screens John Huston's Under the Volcano, introduced by Rodrigo Reyes, and Chan is Missing and Lucrecia Martel's Our Land/Nuestra Tierra continue, Sweet Smell of Success is at the Alamo Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF), Playtime (repeats Wednesday) is at the Drafthouse New Mission (NM), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (through Wednesday) and Flash Gordon are at the Drafthouse Mountain View (MV), and Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives is at the Balboa.
Tuesday, black hole's East Bay Newsreel screening at Bathers Library this week is Rompiendo Puertas/Break & Enter, about a 1970 squatters movement led by displaced residents in Manhattan's Upper West Side, Saw II (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse NM, For a Few Dollars More is at the Balboa, Final Destination 5 (in 3D) is at the Vogue, and Barbara Kopple's newly restored American Dream is at the Roxie.
Wednesday, this year's Silent Film Festival, featured below, kicks off at the Castro with a new reconstruction of Erich von Stroheim's Queen Kelly, BAMPFA returns to its regularly scheduled program with Werner Herzog's Aguirre, the Wrath of God continuing their New German Cinema series, The Maltese Falcon is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, The Principal (on VHS) is at the Balboa, The Lure is at the Drafthouse NM, Sister Act (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and Jade is at the 4 Star.
Thursday, CAAMFest kicks off with an opening night at the AMC Kabuki, Wim Wenders' doc about Anselm Kiefer, Anselm, screens free at SFMOMA, Nadja returns to the Roxie, where director Joel Alfonso Vargas is in person to present his breakout Sundance debut, Mad Bills to Pay, the Stanford's Hitchcock calendar continues with the underrated, Sylvia Sydney-starring deep cut Sabotage and Hitchcock's second proto-North by Northwest, Saboteur (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), the Silent Fest continue (see below for some thoughts on the day's screening of The Abyss), an at-rush screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Memoria is at BAMPFA, Katsuhito Ishii's The Taste of Tea (repeats Sat. and Sun.) is at the Balboa, Alejandro Jodorowsky's Santa Sangre (repeats Sat. and Sun.) is at the 4 Star, and Slash Art's latest exhibit, Virtual Crush, featuring video works curated by LaTurbo Avedon (which actually opened last weekend—whoops!).
Friday, the Odyssey Film Institute presents From Dusk Till Dawn (on 35mm) at the Balboa, more New German Cinema is at BAMPFA with Volker Schlöndorff's The Tin Drum, Sid and Nancy is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, Kopple's newly restored Harlan County USA and Martel's newly restored The Headless Woman continue at the Roxie, the Silent Film Festival continues with, among other screenings, one on the Japanese Paper Film Project, early sci-fi film High Treason (on 35mm), and F. W. Murnau's Tabu (on 35mm), and Koyaanisqatsi (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark.
Saturday, Lynne Sachs is in person at Other Cinema to present Every Contact Leaves a Trace, in case you missed it at SFFILM Fest, the Roxie hosts Sasha Stetler of CODEPINK, which recently led a brigade to deliver medical supplies through the ongoing US blockade, to present I Am Cuba, as well as filmmakers Oscar Boyson & Ricky Camilleri in conversation with the Hit Factory podcast hosts after a screening of their film, Our Hero, Balthazar, Holy Motors is at the Drafthouses NM and VF and Serial Mom is at all three Drafthouses, the Stanford's weekend Hitchcock double is Dial M for Murder and Rope (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday), Bouchra wraps up this year's African Film Festival at BAMPFA, where the new restoration of Satyajit Ray's Days and Nights in the Forest makes its probable last stop in the Bay, Mamma Mia! and Grey Gardens (both repeat Sun.) are at the 4 Star, The Searchers and American Graffiti are at the Smith Rafael, CAAMFest screens Patrick Tam's Love Massacre at the Kabuki, there's yet more Silent Film Fest with, among others, Gloria Swanson returning to the screen in The Humming Bird, a very early Marlene Dietrich appearance in stuntman/director Harry Piel's His Greatest Bluff, and two mid-length avant garde films, Jean Vigo and Boris Kaufman's A propos de Nice and Alberto Cavalcanti's Rien que les heures (about which, again, see below for more), and Billy Wilder's Irma la Douce (repeats Sunday) is at the Lark.
Sunday, BAMPFA has a one-off screening of the newly restored doc, Robert Wilson and the CIVIL warS following Wilson, Philip Glass, and David Byrne as they fail to mount Wilson's magnum opus, as well as Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain, CAAMFest continues with an SF Cinematheque co-presentation of Valerie Soe’s The Auntie Sewing Squad Resistance Playbook , Cece's Interlude (with filmmakers Tee Park and Alsea Diana in person) is at the 4 Star, the Roxie presents the 25th Annual City Shorts student film festival, All About My Mother is at the Balboa, Mamma Mia is at the Smith Rafael, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World is at the Orinda for its Widescreen Roadshow series, and the Silent Film Fest wraps up with a barnburner of a day featuring an early William Wyler western, Blazing Days, a rare silent directed by one of the few women directors in Germany at the time (see more below) about the despair of a worker made obsolete by technology, Bookkeeper Kremke, Ernst Lubitsch's So This is Paris (on 35mm), Carl Dreyer's Love One Another, and King Vidor's The Crowd.
