Monday, Ira Sachs is in person to present a sneak preview of the sublime Peter Hujar's Day (repeats Tuesday with Sachs back in person), the Arab Film Festival floats around the Bay Area all week (mostly at the AMC Kabuki and the New Parkway), Mistress Dispeller continues, and one last show of Perfect Blue are at the Roxie, the last 35mm screenings of Nouvelle Vague, Train Dreams, and Frankenstein are at the Rialto Cerrito, PT Anderson's One Battle After Another begins its last week on 70mm at the Grand Lake, Three Colors Red is at the Balboa, A Night at the Opera is at the Lark, and floating around the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Valley Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV) this week are To Live and Die in L.A. and Desperately Seeking Susan.
Tuesday, Odyssey Film Institute presents Welcome to the Dollhouse on 35mm at the Balboa, the Arab Film Festival presents The Voice of Hind Rajab (with director Kaouther Ben Hania in person), Virgin Machine continues Seduction: 3 Cruel, Yet Fair Films by Monika Treut at the Roxie, Lynne Sachs is in person for a screening and reading at Shapeshifters, the Grand Lake screens Remaining Native (with director Q&A), Basque film Bidean Jarraituz (Following the Path) is at the Roxie, Dial M for Murder (in 3D!) is at the Vogue, Rushmore is at the 4 Star, The Descent is at the Drafthouse NM, and the New Parkway has a Billy Wilder noir double feature of Sunset Boulevard and Double Indemnity.
Wednesday, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (SFSFF) opens its weekend run of live scored screenings with a brand new restoration of the original 1925 version of Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush , the Arab Film and Media Institute presents a new restoration of Youssef Chahine's classic Cairo Station, BAMPFA has the first of three programs this month featuring films by Gunvor Nelson, Hung Up On A Dream: The Zombies Documentary (with the director in person for a Q&A) is at the 4 Star, prison doc The Alabama Solution is at the Grand Lake, Looking for Mr. Goodbar is at the Balboa, Stand By Me (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Millennium Actress continues at the Roxie, and Doris Wishman's Dildo Heaven is at the Drafthouse NM.
Thursday, BAMPFA welcomes Portuguese director Marta Mateus to present her latest film, Fire of Wind, the Stanford's first Western double feature of the week is George Stevens's Shane and Henry King's The Gunfighter (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), the SFSFF continues with highlights like the all-Black cast fighter pilot adventure The Flying Ace and the first version of Beau Geste, The Hitcher (on VHS) is at the Balboa, and the SF Transgender Film Fest kicks off a weekend of short film screenings at the Roxie.
Friday, SFSFF continues with highlights including the last silent pairing of Gloria Swanson and Cecil B. DeMille, The Affairs of Anatol, and the first American film from Häxan director Benjamin Christensen, The Devil's Circus (which I'm told has both atheists and lions), Marta Mateus present her debut, Barbs, Wasteland, alongside a selection of short films at BAMPFA, Noah Baumbach's George Clooney-starring Jay Kelly opens an exclusive 35mm run at the Grand Lake, BlackMaria Microcinema presents a screening and reading by Shantré Pinkney at the African American Art & Culture Complex, Coexistence My Ass! continues at the Roxie, They Live is at the Balboa, My Neighbor Totoro (repeats all weekend) is at the 4 Star, where Media Meltdown begins a weekend Underground Short Film Fest, Glass Onion is at the Drafthouses, childcare doc Make a Circle is at the Smith Rafael, and the Lark has John Waters's Hairspray (repeats Saturday).
Saturday, the Stanford's weekend Westerns pair is a Gary Cooper double feature of Oscar-winning High Noon and our feature of the week, Anthony Mann's Man of the West, Marta Mateus presents the first of a pair of Portuguese classics from António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro, Trás-os-Montes, at BAMPFAthe Roxie has The Tallest Dwarf (with director Julie Wyman in person) and two of a trio of weekend screenings in the series Colombia on Film: resistencia en tránsito (resistance in motion) , The Dawn of Justice and Amores, mujeres y flores/Love, Women, and Flowers, SFSFF has a packed day, with a morning of Fleischer Studio's Koko the Clown cartoons, followed by Anna May Wong-starring Song, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Master of the House, a Gold Rush disaster spectacular The Trail of '98 from best-kept-secret director Clarence Brown, a German flapper comedy, Todd Browning's Joan Crawford and Lon Chaney-starring The Unknown (and the Niles is taking the night off, if you were wondering), Lost Highway is at the Balboa, a morning screening of Gumby is at the Drafhouses, and Other Cinema presents Avant to Live, an assortment of new experimental work by many filmmakers at Artists' Television Access.
Sunday, the SFSFF wraps with another full day, including a Tom Mix western, an Ernst Lubitsch rarity, a Swedish melodrama (and advance taste of BAMPFA's forthcoming series), a German proto-noir blockbuster, and a Buster Keaton finale, the Roxie has Looking For Mr. Goodbar, Come See Me In The Good Light, and the third Colombia on Film series screening Alma del desierto, BAMPFA has the second Gunvor Nelson program, Mikio Naruse's Husband and Wife (on 35mm), and Marta Mateus presenting Cordeiro and Reis's Ana, Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground is at the Balboa, North by Northwest is at the Lark, and Clarissa's Battle is at the Smith Rafael.
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