Monday, the Orinda screens Kenneth Lonnergan's You Can Count on Me, One Battle After Another continues on 70mm at the Grand Lake, Sinners on 70mm IMAX continues at the AMC Metreon, Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague and Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein continue their exclusive 35mm runs at the Rialto Cerrito, The Return of Godzilla (repeating Tuesday) is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Valley Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV), Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and The Goonies float around all three Drafthouses throughout the week, the Roxie has APAture Festival 2025, continues Mistress Dispeller, and closes the new restoration of Perfect Blue, and Pistachio Wars is at the New Parkway.
Tuesday, the Roxie screens Marielle Heller's SF-set The Diary of a Teenage Girl (followed by a Q&A with several people involved in the production) and Seduction: The Cruel Woman, the first in a series of three newly restored flims by Monika Treut, the Super Shangri-La Show presents 70s oddity Alabama's Ghost at the Balboa, the New Parkway has a Fritz Lang double feature of The Big Heat & Ministry of Fear, and Thir13en Ghosts (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse NM.
Wednesday, the SF Dance Film Festival truly takes off, beginning with an art/experimental shorts program and continuing with full days through Sunday, a KPFA benefit screening of Maureen Gosling's The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane is at the Grand Lake with live music, F*** My Son! (on 35mm) preceded by Mike Kuchar's "The Stranger in Apartment F" is at the Drafthouse NM with director Todd Rohal and Kuchar in person, BAMPFA has a memorial screening of films by SFAI alum Tomonari Nishikawa (on 16mm) as part of their long-running Alternative Visions series, the Roxie has the first night of our feature this week, Larry Gottheim: The Red Thread, The Battle of Algiers is at the Balboa, and The Maltese Falcon is at the Vogue.
Thursday, the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood have free matinees of The Sting, the Stanford's first Western double feature of the week is Raoul Walsh's self-remake of High Sierra, Colorado Territory, and Sam Fuller's Run of the Arrow (both on 35mm, repeating Friday) SFFILM's Doc Stories festival takes over the Vogue with an opening day of My Mom Jayne with director Mariska Hargitay in person and Cover-Up with directors Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus and film-subject Seymour Hersh in person, at BAMPFA, Rice People begins a weekend of films by Cambodian flimmaker Rithy Panh and Lightning continues Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman, the Roxie screens a double feature of The Disinvited with director Devin Lawrence and writer Matthew Mourgides in a Q&A led by Joshua Grannell a.k.a. Peaches Christ who will then introduce his film All About Evil, Joy Division biopic Control is at the Balboa, Some Like it Hot is at the Lark, and SFMOMA presents Reclaiming Culture, a selection of short films programmed by Auttrianna Ward in conjunction with the new exhibit on Suzanne Jackson.
Friday, MOViES FOR MANiACS presents a "creepy kid flick" Disney double feature of Bette Davis-starring The Watcher in the Woods and Something Wicked This Way Comes at the 4 Star, Doc Stories continues at the Vogue with a shorts program, Newport & the Great Folk Dream, and The Eyes of Ghana, Train Dreams begins an exclusive 35mm run at the Rialto Cerrito, Knives Out screens at all three Drafthouses (repeating Sunday), BAMPFA has a Rithy Panh double feature of The Missing Picture and Meeting with Pol Pot, the Roxie's Satoshi Kon series continues with Millennium Actress, Blade Runner: The FInal Cut (repeats Saturday) is at the Lark, and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's talkie Friday pick is Rashomon (on 16mm).
Saturday, Doc Stories continues with Sky Hopinka's Powwow People, The Tale of Silyan, and The Bend in the River, the Stanford's weekend picks are a Jimmy Stewart double feature of Anthony Mann's Winchester '73 and Delmer Daves's Broken Arrow, the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood have free matinees of Matin Scorsese's Hugo (repeating Sunday), Alan Rudolph's sublime Choose Me is at the Drafthouse NM, BAMPFA has another Panh double feature of The Burnt Theatre and One Evening After the War (on 35mm), the Roxie has a benefit screening of Beyond the Rainbow, a new short documentary about SF Pride, Dalai Lama doc Wisdom of Happiness (also at the Smith Rafael on Sunday), and continues their Animation Obsession series with Little Amélie or the Character of Rain (repeating Sunday), the Smith Rafael has perimenopause doc Balance with the filmmakers in person, Harakiri is at the Balboa, Addams Family Values is at the New Parkway, the Niles screens white slaver proto-exploitation flick Traffic in Souls, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Rushmore are at the 4 Star (both repeating Sunday), and Rosemary's Baby is at the Orinda.
Sunday, BAMPFA screens Panh's Everything Will Be OK, Naruse's Wife, and continues their Frederick Wiseman series with Juvenile Court, Shapeshifters has another night of Punk Rock Docs with In the Red and She's a Punk Rocker UK, Doc Stories wraps up with another shorts program, Ask E. Jean, and Put Your Soul In Your Hand and Walk, and A Life Illuminated, Desperately Seeking Susan is at the Drafthouses, Chicken Run is at the Drafthouse VF, To Live and Die in L.A. is at the Drafthouse NM, the Roxie has homelessness doc Crushing Wheelchairs and standup comedy doc Coexistence My Ass! with director Amber Fares and others in person, Pink Flamingos is at the Balboa, Zurawski v. Texas is at the New Parkway, A Night at the Opera is at the Lark, the Niles has an Our Gang/Laurel & Hardy talkie matinee, and McCabe & Mrs. Miller is at the 4 Star.
