Monday, Dementia 13 (on 16mm) and Christiane F. are at the Roxie, where the Hong Kong Cinema Classics series begins reprises with A Better Tomorrow (repeating Thursday), the Orinda opens the Romanian tragicomedy The New Year That Never Came, Jaws is at the Alamo Drafthouses Mountain View (MV) and Valley Fair (VF) (repeating through Wednesday at both), A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge is at the Drafthouse MV (Tuesday at VF), and Immortal Beloved is at the New Parkway.
Tuesday, Come and See is at the Balboa, Spree and The Phantom of the Opera (1925) (with live score) are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), Peking Opera Blues and Yojimbo are at the Roxie, and Pan's Labyrinth is at the New Parkway.
Wednesday, Stormy Weather is at the 4 Star, Night of the Juggler is at the Drafthouse NM, Clueless with Elisa Donovan (Amber) in person at the Balboa, Hard Boiled (repeats Saturday) and Night Moves (on 35mm) are at the Roxie, an already at-rush screening of Sergei Eisenstein's Strike (on 35mm) is at BAMPFA, and The Goonies (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue.
Thursday, the Stanford has a Marx Bros. double feature with Animal Crackers and Horse Feathers (on 35mm, repeats Friday), the Rialtos Elmwood and Cerrito have free matinees of Amadeus, A Better Tomorrow and The Killer are at the Roxie, where record producer Joe Boyd is in person with a globe-hopping music clipshow, The Motorcycle Diaries is at the Balboa, Earth Girls are Easy (repeats Sunay) is at the 4 Star, and I Like Killing Flies is at the New Parkway.
Friday, MOViES FOR MANiACS presents the otherwise impossible to see unrated director's cut of Ken Russell's legendary The Devils, Neo Saura's (excellent!) dystopic near-future bildungsroman, Happyend, and a new restoration of Leos Carax's Denis Lavant and Juliette Binoche-starring The Lovers On The Bridge (both continuing through the weekend) open at the Roxie, the Mikio Naruse season continues at BAMPFA with Flowing (on 35mm), A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master is at all three Drafthouses, The Fly (repeats Sunay) is at the 4 Star, the Odyssey Film Institute presents a night of 16mm back-to-school shorts at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, and Shapeshifters has our feature this week, Rotating Signals, a selection of recent Korean avant-garde films.
Saturday, at Artists' Television Access, Other Cinema presents a selection of experimental films of, about, and featuring animals, Roman Holiday, The Hidden Fortress (repeating Sunday), and the latest round of SFNeon's Prelinger Archive-sourced local neon clipshow are at the Roxie, Roy Andersson's second feature Giliap continues BAMPFA's new series on the Swedish director and Jia Zhangke's I Wish I Knew kicks off Cities & Cinema: Shanghai, the Balboa has a Fishbone/Bad Brains doc double feature, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child is at all three Drafthouses, Inside Out (repeats Sunday) is at the 4 Star, Streets of Fire is at the Orinda, the Niles has its monthly comedy shorts night, Cabaret is at the New Parkway, Once Upon a Time in China is at the Lark, and the Stanford's weekend double feature is The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Wizard of Oz (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday).
Sunday, Taxi zum Klo is at the Roxie, Naruse's Floating Clouds (on 35mm) and Akira Kurosawa's Ran are at BAMPFA, Citizen Kane is at the Balboa, the Western Neighborhoods Project presents Surf City, a selection of local surf films, at the 4 Star, The Addams Family, Labyrinth, and Spirited Away are at the New Parkway, Shapeshifters presents Intermodal, an expanded cinema and live music performance from Robert Blatt and Madison Brookshire, and the Niles has its monthly Laurel & Hardy/Our Gang talkie matinee.
