Monday, the Roxie hosts the Fringegrass Film Festival: Tales from the Strings alongside Seven Samurai (repeating throughout the week), the Drafthouse New Missions screens Firestarter (1984), Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (repeats Tuesday) and The Cotton Club Encore (repeats through Wednesday), while The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is at the Balboa and Pineapple Express (repeats Thursday), The Last Emperor (repeats through Thursday) and Lawrence of Arabia are at the Presidio. Tuesday, Phantasm II (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse, Off the Charts: The Song-Poem Story and a Staff Pick reprise of Melvin and Howard (on 35mm) are at the Roxie, The Wild Bunch at the Balboa, Picnic at Hanging Rock at the 4 Star, Janet Planet (repeats Thursday) at the New Parkway, and Seven Samurai at the Smith Rafael. Wednesday, Creature From the Black Lagoon (on 35mm in 3D!, repeats Thursday) is at the Balboa, Supergirl, Streets of Fire, and On Deadly Ground (on 35mm) are at the Drafthouse, The Short Films of Vera Chytilová (some 35mm) is at BAMPFA, Caddyshack (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, and the Smith Rafael has a 20th anniversary screening of Sideways with a wine tasting and book signing by "based on the book by" author Rex Pickett. Thursday, the Stanford's first Vincente Minnelli double feature this week is Tea & Sympathy and Designing Woman (both repeat Friday, on 35mm), For a Few Dollars More continues BAMPFA's Ennio Morricone series, Midnight Cowboy is at the 4 Star, Coraline at the Presidio, and the Smith Rafael screens Getting It Back: The Story of Cymande.
Friday, Good One opens at AMC Kabuki and Smith Rafael (with the director in person Friday at Kabuki and Saturday afternoon at Smith Rafael), Children of the Beehive continues BAMPFA's Hiroshi Shimizu series, the Odyssey Film Institute returns to the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum with their Friday night talkies series to screen Beat the Devil (on 16mm), Michael Mann's Miami Vice is at the Balboa, Shinji Somai's Moving opens at the Roxie, who also bring back The Red Shoes and The Vourdalak and open our feature this week, Only The River Flows, which also plays at the Lark for the weekend, alongside Harold & Maude. Saturday, Spirited Away (on 35mm) and Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion are at BAMPFA, the Niles has its monthly comedy shorts night featuring two-reelers from Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Laurel & Hardy, Vincent Van Gogh biopic Lust for Life and Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton melodrama The Sandpiper make up the second Minnelli double feature of the week at the Stanford (both repeat Sunday, on 35mm), the Grand Lake screens horror anthology Welcome Week with the filmmakers in person to introduce, and the Roxie screens Juggalo road-trip flick Off Ramp and gives you a few more chances at the generative Eno doc (repeats Sunday). Sunday, the Vogue has a double feature of Clerks and Slacker, BAMPFA screens Panelstory (on 35mm) as part of their Vera Chytilová series for the afternoon, followed by another Shimizu, Mr. Shosuke Ohara (on 16mm), in the evening, the Niles has a Sunday matinee of Alfred Hitchcock's The Lodger (on 16mm, with, as always at the Niles, live piano accompaniment), the Slanted Lens presents drag queen slasher Death Drop Gorgeous at the Roxie, The Goonies is at the New Parkway, and the Smith Rafael screens Sugarcane, a doc about the unmarked Canadian Indian residential school grave scandal, with directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie in person.
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