Monday, Creature from the Black Lagoon (in 3D on 35mm) is at the Balboa onre more time, Star Trek IV is at the Alamo Drafthouses New Mission (NM), Valley Fair (VF), and Mountain View (MV), Filipiñana continues at the Roxie, Frankenweenie is at the Orinda, and a Film Noir fest continues at the Lark with a day of classics and obscurities, including the Lucille Ball-starring Douglas Sirk rarity Lured.
Tuesday, German shocker Der Fan is at the Drafthouse NM, Anatomy of a Fall is at the Balboa, Exorcist II: The Heretic (on VHS) is at the Balboa, one more screening of Tsai Ming-Liang's The Hole on a newly-struck 35mm print is at the Roxie, and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas is at the Lark.
Wednesday, BAMPFA's long-running experimental film series Alternative Visions returns with Push Buttons and AI, Paul Morrissey's Spike of Bensonhurst is at the Drafthouse NM, Joseph McBride talks to G. Allen Johnson about Boorman and the Devil at the Balboa, Cycle of Love opens with director Orlando von Einsiedel in person and Freewayscreens as part of Arthouse 50 at the Roxie, the Castro screens Legend in memory of Tim Curry, and To Die For is at the Landmark Opera Plaza.
Thursday, local filmmaker Caron Creighton returns to the New Parkway for a screening of Wood Street, her doc about unhoused community leaders organizing in the wake of street sweeps (repeats Sat. without Q&A), Odyssey Film Institute presents The Mummy (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Alice Diop is back in person for On Call at BAMPFA, Fugs Film! is at the 4 Star with director Chuck Smith in person, Barrio triste continues at the Roxie, and the Castro screens The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Steel Magnolias is at the Lark in memory of Dolly Parton.
Friday, Shapeshifters Cinema's Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues series continues with Family Portraits/Relational Exercises, a Twin Peaks Fest kicks off at the Balboa, the Stanford opens a three-week run of rare Fox musicals, beginning with an Alice Faye double feature of Henry King's Tyrone Power-starring Irving Berlin showcase, Alexander's Ragtime Band, and Walter Lang's Tin Pan Alley (featuring a Nicholas Brothers appearance), a new restoration of René Laloux's Gandahar opens at the Roxie alongside the next entry in their First Looks series of Oscar-qualifying shorts programs, Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie is at BAMPFA, and Shatara Michelle Ford's second feature, Dreams in Nightmares, is at the Lark (repeats Sunday, also at the Drafthouse NM).
Saturday, our feature this week is Cliff Roquemoore's supernatural Blaxploitation cult classic, Petey Wheatstraw, at the Orinda, Pandora and Flying Dutchman is at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as part of Through an Open Window, Lake Tahoe is at the Smith Rafael, Other Cinema returns to Artists's Television Access with Incredibly Strange Religion, Tijuanan women factory workers doc MAQUILÁPOLIS with filmmakers Vicky Funari and Sergio De La Torre and protagonists Lourdes Luján and Yesenia Palomares is at the Roxie, where a new restoration of Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin opens, First Blood is at the Drafthouses, a matinee of Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times and an evening show of Taxi Driver are at BAMPFA, and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens the Douglas Fairbanks-starring Allen Dwan silent film Robin Hood.
Sunday, Alice Diop's final in-person appearance at BAMPFA is for Danton’s Death before an evening screening of Martin Scorsese's overstuffed, coke-fueled, maximalist homage to the classic Hollywood musical, New York, New York, cheesemonger doc The Big Cheese is at the Roxie, Camelot is at the Orinda as part of their Widescreen Roadshow Series, and the Niles has its Sunday Talkie comedy shorts matinee.
