Monday, the ongoing deep dive into the archives of SFAI's Studio 26 continues at Artists' Television Access, director Dan Watt is in person at the Balboa to present Bea Arthur: The Documentary, Chronovisor continues at the Roxie, where this month's staff pick is Michael Haneke's Isabelle Hupert-starring The Piano Teacher (on 35mm), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Valley Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV) (and Wed. at VF), the Lark starts a tribute to Super Panavision 70-shot movies with My Fair Lady (repeats Thurs.), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (repeats Wed.), and Lawrence of Arabia (repeats Tue.), and Mahershala Ali's latest movie Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother screens on 35mm at the Grand Lake.
Tuesday, Cindy Sherman's Office Killer opens a new series called Her Work is Never Done at the Roxie, whose Gialloween IV continues with The House with Laughing Windows, Ginger Snaps is at all three Drafthouses and Repo! The Genetic Opera is at the Drafthouse NM, Longlegs (on 35mm) is at the Balboa, the Lark screens Grand Prix (repeats Thurs.) and West Side Story (repeats Wed.), and Ian Cheney is at the Smith Rafael to present his film The Work in Progress.
Wednesday, BAMPFA welcomes Stefanie Schulte Strathaus, the artistic director of Berlin's Arsenal Filminstitut, to introduce Remembering Harun Farocki, the first of three programs chosen by her in a series called Modes of Archivism, Ken Russell's Lisztomania (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse NM, Canyon presents 49 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality: The City Envisioned by Canyon Cinema, a selection of films by Canyon staff past and present at the Roxie, where director Mohammed Ali Naqvi is in person for Pakistani suspense doc Hanging by a Wire, Event Horizon is at the Balboa, and Village of the Damned is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Thursday, Ken Russell's long-suppressed and legendary The Devils (on 35mm) opens at the Drafthouse NM, the Shaker Theater screens a 16mm print of Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King with director Jeff Feuerzeig, our feature this week is Stefanie Schulte Strathaus's selection of North African films preserved by Cairo's Cinematheque, including Atteyat Al Abnoudy's Sad Song of Touha and Hussein Shariffe's The Dislocation of Amber, Blood and Black Lace is at the Balboa, Some Like it Hot is at the Vogue, SF IndieFest takes over the 4 Star for concurent Short Film and Green Film Festivals (through next week), Possession and Liquid Sky are at the New Parkway, and a free screening of Psycho is at the Orinda.
Friday, Artists' Television Access hosts an evening with Mike Kuchar, the Roxie's takeover of Japantown's New People Cinema continues with Jigoku (through Sunday) and Hausu while the 3rd Annual Graveyard Shift all-night horror-thon is at the Roxie proper, where The Scout also opens, Hellbound: Hellraiser II is at the Drafthouse NM, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyr is at the Drafthouse MV, Stefanie Schulte Strathaus gives the annual Mosse Lecture at BAMPFA, who screen Raging Bull in the evening, Gummo is at the Balboa, They Live and Dr. Strangelove are at the New Parkway, Barbarella (repeats Sat.) is at the Lark, Odyssey Film Instittue presents Abbott & Costello meet Frankensteon at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, and Tucker & Dale VS. Evil is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Saturday, Shapeshifters once again brings a selection of experimental films from this year's Cosmic Rays festival out of North Carolina, the Super Shangri-La Show takes over the Balboa all day for the International Vampire Film Fest, BAMPFA screens the first three episodes of Maurice Pialat's 7-part miniseries, Le maison des bois and Luchino Visconti's White Nights, Nagisa Oshima's The Ceremony is at YBCA, the Roxie has Aki Kaursimais' The Match Factory Girl, Lost Highway kicking off a Barry Gifford celebration, and Zyzzyva's picks continuing with Amarcord (on 35mm), as well First They Came for My College at New People, the Orinda has an Ed Wood-o-rama with Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer Space, The Craft is at the Drafthouses MV and VF, Re-Animator is at the New Parkway, Casper (repeats Sunday) is at the Lark, The Mummy is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, along with Reed van Dyk presenting his film Atonement, the Niles has a matinee of Reginald Denny-starring Rolling Home with a Q&A by Laura Jerrolds, biographer of Denny's co-star Marian Nixon, and an evening show of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
Sunday, the Roxie has The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane (followed by a Q&A and concert at The Chapel), Roy’s World: Barry Gifford’s Chicago, and Carter Country with Q&A, K-Horror oughties classic A Tale of Two Sisters is at the Drafthouses VF and MV, BAMPFA screens Strathaus's final selection is Shaihu Umar, a once-lost film adapted from a novella by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, independent Nigeria's first PM, and Scorsese's The King of Comedy, A Nightmare on Elm Street and Versus are at the Balboa, Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse presents DellaMorte DellaMore, Saving Face and Nosferatu (1922) are at the New Parkway, The Pink Panther is at the Lark, the Niles screens Frankenstein (1931), and Reed Van Dyk migrates to the Smith Rafael for Atonement.
