Monday, the Odyssey Film Institute presents Top Gun (on 35mm) at the Balboa, the Roxie has a final matinee screening of the new 35mm print of 8 1/2 and a new restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo continues their Kurosawa Restored series, the Orinda's selection of hidden gems continues with Mary & Max, Ran (1985) (repeating Wednesday) is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM) and Mountain View (MV) (and Tuesday at the Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF), Jaws 50th Anniversary is at the Drafthouses VF and MV (through Wednesday), A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) is at the Drafthouse VF (and Tuesday at MV), and After Hours is at the Drafthouse NM.
Tuesday, Julia Ducournau’s Raw (2016) is at the Drafthouse NM Michael Haneke’s The White Ribbon is at the Balboa, Hidden Figures is at 3Below, and at the Roxie, the Sex entry in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Love-Sex-Dreams: Oslo Trilogy, the latest Popcorn List selection of acclaimed but undistributed films, If That Mockingbird Don’t Sing, and a new 4k restoration of Taxi zum Klo (repeats Friday and Sunday), Frank Riploh’s legendary, autofictional exploration of his compulsive cruising in a pre-AIDS-era West Berlin.
Wednesday, Poltergeist (on 35mm, repeats Thursday) is at the Balboa, PT Anderson's The Master is at the Roxie, the latest iteration of Alternative Visions, BAMPFA’s long-running experimental film series, continues with two legendary early avant-garde films, The Seashell and the Clergyman and The Blood of a Poet (NB: the experimental cinema course that attends this series as part of coursework is, reportedly, especially large this year—don’t fret, we’re assured cinema is still dead—so if you find any of the future programs enticing, you might get your tickets sooner rather than later), Paprika is at the Drafthouse NM and Casino is at all three Drafthouses, Peter Bogdanovich’s classic SF-set screwball What's Up, Doc? (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and the Grand Lake celebrates Oakland Pride with Reel Queer Flix, a selection of local filmmakers’ short films.
Thursday, the Stanford’s weekday show is a George Cukor and Judy Holliday double feature with Holliday’s break-out role in the Tracy & Hepburn-starring Adam’s Rib and Jack Lemmon’s big-screen debut in the proto-influencer comedy It Should Happen to You (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), the New Parkway screens Pig, and Drugs in the Tenderloin and High and Low (both repeat Sunday) return to the Roxie.
Friday, the Roxie begins a weekend miniseries of Hong Kong Cinema Classics with a John Woo double feature of A Better Tomorrow and Bullet in the Head, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is at the three Drafthouses, BAMPFA resumes its Mikio Naruse series with the Setusko Hara-starring Repast, the Lark screens Lawrence of Arabia (repeats Sunday) and Creepshow (repeats Saturday), and the 4 Star presents some local filmmaker premieres with Reel Friends.
Saturday, Apocalypse Now: Final Cut is at BAMPFA, who also kick off a new series on Swedish oddball comedian Roy Andersson with his atypical debut, A Swedish Love Story, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors is at the three Drafthouses, The Breakfast Club is at the Drafthouses MV and VF, All About Eve (repeats Sunday) is at 3Below, Forbidden Planet is at the Balboa, The Wiz and The Lost World (with live orchestra) are at the Orinda, the Stanford has a classic Howard Hawks and Cary Grant screwball double feature for the weekend with Bringing Up Baby and His Girl Friday, the Niles screens the only known surviving print of the silent/sound cusp Western The Fighting Legion, and the Roxie has more Hong Kong Classics with City on Fire, The Killer, and A Chinese Ghost Story, director Joe Hill in person to present his Ukrainian dance doc Match In A Haystack, continues Shall We Dance?, and co-presents The Earrings of Madame de … (on 35mm) with ZYZZYVA, with Alexander Chee and Ingrid Rojas Contreras in person for a discussion.
Sunday, Jia Zhangke’s latest, Caught by the Tides, and Naruse’s Late Chrysanthemums are at BAMPFA, Three Colors: White is at the Balboa, the 4 Star celebrates Sonny Rollins with a screening of Alfie and live music, the Orinda has a presentation on the history of dogs in Hollywood, Sudan, Remember Us returns to the Roxie, and their Hong Kong series continues with Peking Opera Blues and Hard Boiled.
