Monday, at the Roxie, catch Roman Coppola is in person for Megadoc (repeating Sunday, sans in-person), animated Portuguese shorts program Animalusa SF 2025 (repeating through Thur.), and this year's Lithuanian Oscar pick Drowning Dry, while All That Heaven Allows is at the Drafthouse New Mission (NM), Wes Craven's New Nightmare is at the Drafthouse Valley Fair (VF), and Ping-Pong (2002) is at the Balboa.
Tuesday, Pascal Plante's sleeper horror hit Red Rooms is at the Drafthouse NM and Bring It On is at the Drafthouses NM, VF, and Mountain View (MV), grammarian-on-the-road doc Rebel with a Clause (with film subject Ellen Jovin & director Brandt Johnson in person) is at the Lark (and both are at the Roxie on Wednesday), Don Hertzfeldt’s Animation Mixtape (repeating Sunday) and The Matrix (on 35mm, repeating Saturday) are at the Roxie, The Reflecting Skin is at the New Parkway, and a matinee of Shinji Somai's The Friends (repeats Thursday) is at the Lark.
Wednesday, the Wattis Institute at CCA has our feature this week, a screening of three films by Ana Vaz, Mary Helena Clark, and Peng Zuqiang in conjunction with Viaje a la luna, an exhibit inspired by Federico García Lorca's unrealized film script, Bertrand Bonello's terrorism-as-heist/hangout masterpiece Nocturama is at the Drafthouse NM, Linda Linda Linda and the Quay Brothers' stop-motion feature Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass are at the Roxie, All That Heaven Allows is at the Drathouse MV, BAMPFA screens a selection of 16mm Notebooks and Diaries, films by and inspired by pioneers Marie Menken and Jonas Mekas, this month's Super Shangri-La Show is at the Balboa, Alain Guiraudie's Stranger by the Lake (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Rick Prelinger’s Lost Landscapes: Shipwreck Week Edition at the 4 Star, Dag Johan Haugerud's Sex is at the Lark, and Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another opens at the Grand Lake (on 70mm), the Drafthouse NM (on 70mm), and the AMC Metreon 16 (on 70mm IMAX).
Thursday, Dreams and Love complete Dag Johan Haugerud's Oslo trilogy at the Lark, The Man Who Saves the World? with film subject Patrick McCollum and director Gabe Polsky in person is at the Smith Rafael, You, the Living (on 35mm) continues BAMPFA's Roy Andersson series, Neo Saura's Happyend is enough of a sleeper hit to get the Big Roxie bump for it's final(?) screening, Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror is at the Balboa, Tampopo is at the New Parkway, and the Stanford's first double feature of the week is two essential Preston Sturges comedies, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek and Christmas in July (both on 35mm, repeating Friday).
Friday, Jordan Belson: COSMOGENESIS takes over Gray Area to present a three-day symposium on the legendary Bay Area artist's abstract films, music, paintings, sculptures, life, and contemporaries (co-presented by BAMPFA and SF Cinematheque), Megadoc moves to the Smith Rafael, this time with Zoetrope's official archivist and restoration supervisor James Mockoski in person, Re-Animator is at the Drafthouse MV (and at Drafthouse NM Saturday and Sunday), Cheryl Duney's Stranger Inside (free!) continues the director's Selects series at BAMPFA, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and TCM doc Chain Reactions are at the Roxie, Odyssey Film Institute presents Drive (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Reservoir Dogs is at the New Parkway, Suspiria (2018) is at the Lark, and the Proxy pop-up screenings at Patricia's Green return for the Fall with Becoming Led Zeppelin.
Saturday, The Sting and meta-true crime doc Predators with director David Osit in person are at the Smith Rafael (and also at the Drafthouse NM for a matinee), Ulrike Ottinger's Exile Shanghai continues BAMPFA's Cities & Cinema: Shanghai series alongside a new restoration of Kazakh New Wave historical epic The Fall of Otrar, a benefit screening of BloodSisters and a 25th anniversary screening of Artists in Exile: A Story of Modern Dance in San Francisco with Joanna Haigood and Dazaun Solyen is at the Roxie, Robot Dreams and Steve Buscemi-starring 1992 comedy In the Soup (repeats Sunday) is at the 4 Star, A Room with a View (repeating Sunday) is at the Drafthouse NM, Van Helsing is at the Drafthouse MV, Sleeping Beauty (repeats Sunday) is at the Lark, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens Captain January, Other Cinema's Psycho-Geo series returns with a presentation of Guatemalan short films restored by Alex Mejia, the Stanford's final double feature of their Summer calendar is a pair of Billy Wilder classics, The Apartment and Some Like It Hot (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday), and Shapeshifters presents Uncanny Cabaret, a fundraiser for beloved spooky Oakland puppet show Driveway Follies.
Sunday, Short Films & Commercials by Roy Andersson and Mikio Naruse's final film Scattered Clouds (on 35mm) are at BAMPFA, Shapeshifters presents the 11th program in their ongoing Gravitation Lensing series, Relative Positions, Ikiru and New Wave are at the Roxie, Ghost in the Shell (1995, Sub) is at the Balboa, 2001: A Space Odyssey is at the Lark, and Cinema Paradiso is at the Orinda.
