Monday, director Daniel Glick is in person to present his Lily Gladstone-narrated buffalo doc Bring Them Home (repeats Thursday and Saturday, also at the Rialto Elmwood on Tuesday)) and Raoul Peck's Orwell: 2 + 2=5 continues at the Roxie, Canadian Indigenous revenge thriller Clearcut is at the Balboa, the Lark screens The Cat and the Canary (through Wednesday) and continues Robert Redford memorial series with All The President's Men, One Battle After Another continues on 70mm and director Abby martin is in person to present environmental doc Earth's Greatest Enemy at the Grand Lake, Night of the Living Dead (1990, Director's Cut) is at the Alamo Drafthouses New MIssion (NM) and Mountain View (MV), The Craft is at the Drafthouse MV, The Mummy (1999) is at the Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF) and all three float around the other Drafthouses through the week, A Matter of Life and Death is at Drafthouse VF, Sullivan's Travels is at the Drafthouse MV (and at VF Tuesday).
Tuesday, cult French body horror Baby Blood is at the Drafthouse NM, the Roxie has Paul Morrissey's Mixed Blood, and Litquake and ZYZZYVA present Blindspotting, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure is at the Balboa, and SFFILM invites Rebecca Miller to present the first episode of her new TV series, Mr. Scorsese, at the Premiere Theater .
Wednesday, original The Cure member Lol Tolhurst in person to sign books and present The Cure: In Orange at the 4 Star, Hirokazu Kore-eda's After Life and Battle Royale: 25th Anniversary return and Guillermo del Toro's Cronos continues Noche Oscura: Mexican Gothic Terror Tales at the Roxie, a selection of Cheryl Dunye’s Short Work is at rush already at BAMPFA, Teknolust is at the Drafthouse NM, Halloween III: Season of the Witch (on VHS) is at the Balboa, The Craft (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is at the Lark.
Thursday, the Stanford's Classic Westerns calendar continues with their first double feature of the week, The Ox-Bow Incident and My Darling Clementine (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), the SpookFest 2025 short film selection is at the Roxie, BAMPFA's Roy Andersson series continues with A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence, director Justin Shein is in person to present Death & Taxes at the Drafthouse VF, Lake Mungo is at the Balboa, Hereditary is at the New Parkway, The Way We Were is at the Lark, and Silence of the Lambs is at the Orinda.
Friday, SFGATE's Amanda Bartlett presents John Carpenter's Village of the Damned (1995) at the Balboa, ProxySF presents Lesbian Space Princess on the outdoor screen at Patricia's Green, SFFILM brings TIFF documentary programmer Thom Powers to town to talk about his new book, Mondo Documentary, No. 89 Shimen Road continues BAMPFA's Shanghai series, Harris Dickinson's directorial debut Urchin opens at the Roxie before the Roxie's 2nd Annual Graveyard Shift: Horror Movie Marathon opens with Carrie, Corpse Bride is at the Drafthouses VF and MV (through the weekend), Frankenhooker (repeats Saturday) is at the Vogue, the Lark has John Carpenter's The Thing (repeats Saturday), and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's Talkie Fridays has The Little Shop of Horrors (on 16mm).
Saturday, BAMPFA screens a brand new print of an radical Blaxpoitation classic that was abruptly pulled from circulation shortly after its 1973 release, The Spook Who Sat by the Door (on newly struck 35mm), with director Ivan Dixon's daughter in attendance, and Ex Libris: The New York Public Library launches their new series, Frederick Wiseman: America at Work (featuring 10 films that did not screen at the Roxie's Wiseman series earlier this year, and two classics that did, in case you missed the absolutely essential Welfare or Model back in the Spring), the Stanford's weekend western picks are an ingeniue-torn-between-brothers double feature of Duel in the Sun and Pursued (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday), the Roxie has our feature this week, El Barón del Terror (The Brainiac), GhostFest takes over the Balboa with a weekend-long, twelve-film haunted house marathon, Ponyo and vampire short My Condition are at the 4 Star, the Niles has its monthly comedy shorts night, and Other Cinema presents Annie Sprinkle's and Beth Stephens's Playing with Fire with the filmmakers in person at Artists' Television Access.
Sunday, the Roxie has a pair of in-person presentations with director Dr. Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian (with a Cherl Dunye-moderated Q&A) presenting Doppelgängers³ and director Göran Hugo Olsson presenting Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989, BAMPFA has more Mikio Naruse with Traveling Actors (on 35mm), a look at Freud as Jewish outsider in Austria with Outsider. Freud, and the end of their Roy Andersson series with About Endlessness, Fright Night is at the Drafthouse VF and Creepshow is at the Drafthosues VF and NM, Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse present Graveyard Disturbance at the 4 Star, Bell, Book, and Candle is at the Lark, and the Niles has a Monster Medley Double Feature featuring The Bride of Frankenstein and two films about its making.
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