Monday, Alucarda continues the Roxie's series, Noche Oscura: Mexican Gothic Terror Tales, One Battle After Another continues its 70mm run at the Grand lake, Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein continues its exclusive 35mm run at the Rialto Cerrito, The Lost Boys and 28 Days Later and a Fleischer Halloween Party screen at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Vallery Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV), Todd Browning's Dracula is at the Balboa, and the Green Film Fest and SF Short Film Fest continue their takeover of the 4 Star through Thursday.
Tuesday, SFFILM presents Nia DaCosta's take on Henrik Ibsen, Hedda, with the director in person at the Roxie, Odyssey Film Institute presents Scream (on 35mm, repeats Wednesday) at the Balboa, Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dream House is at the New Parkway, Lucio Fulci's The Beyond is at the Drafthouse NM, and our feature this week, Bell, Book and Candle is a matinee at the Orinda.
Wednesday, BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions continues Alternative Visions at BAMPFA, The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein is this week's Weird Wednesday pick at the Drafthouse NM, where you can also catch a one-night-only screening of Yorgos Lanthimos's Bugonia on 35mm, The Nightmare Before Christmas is at the Roxie, The Lost Boys (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and the SF Dance Film Festival continues.
Thursday, Hollywood goes woke—at least for the early 1950s—with the Stanford's mid-week Western double feature of Robert Aldrich's Burt Lancaster-starring Apache and Anthony Mann's Devil's Doorway, a film so bleak that, after test screenings, MGM shelved it entirely until Broken Arrow, screening next weekend, showed a few months later that the movie-going masses had some appetite for sympathetic portrayals of Native Americans (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), Crows and Sparrows continues BAMPFA's series on Shanghai in cinema, Sinners returns on 70mm IMAX at the AMC Metreon, Trick 'r Treat is at the Balboa, and Train to Busan is a the 4 Star.
Friday, Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague starts an exclusive 35mm run at the Rialto Cerrito, director Elizabeth Lo in person to present her doc Mistress Dispeller (and back in person for Saturday's screening) at the Roxie, who also have present the dance horror short film program Dance Thrill Fest V, a new restoration of Robert Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer and Apocalypse Now: Final Cut are at BAMPFA, the Vogue has a Halloween horror-thon with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Halloween, and Friday the 13th Part III (in 3D), the New Parkways has a horror-thon that includes The Witches, Psycho, The Craft, The Exorcist, and Paranormal Activity, The Omen (1976) is at the 4 Star, Talkie Fridays continues at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum where Odyssey Film Institute presents Night of the Living Dead (on 16mm), and the Grand Lake screens Back to the Future for its 40th Anniversary.
Saturday, the Stanford's weekend double feature is in the running for one of the greatest double features you may ever see in a theater: Howard Hawks's Red River (the pre-release "book version" for those that care) and Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday), Hit Factory Podcast presents Björk-bomber found-footage doc The Best of Me at the 4 Star, who also screen Coco (repeats Sunday) and the DropoutTV-adjacent D(e)ad, Frederick Wiseman's State Legislature and Tsui Hark's Shanghai Blues are at BAMPFA, the Roxie has a trio of director-in-person screenings, with director Emily Mkrtichian presenting There Was, There Was Not, Rosanna Xia presenting Out of Plain Sight, and Yasha Levine & Rowan Wernham presenting Pistachio Wars, Mean Girls is at the New Parkway, F. W. Murnau's Faust (on 16mm) is at the Niles, and Other Cinema welcomes Rodney Ascher (Room 237) in person to screen some of his short films.
Sunday, BAMPFA has an at-rush screening of Ang Lee's Lust, Caution (on 35mm) and Cheryl Dunye's latest pick, the Julian Schnabel-directed, Javier Bardem-starring Before Night Falls (on 35mm) and Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 screens one more time at the Roxie.
