AUGUST 19, 2024 THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Morvern Callar
August 19th 2024

MondayThe 400 Blows is at the Balboa, Footloose and a matinee of The Neverending Story are at the Drafthouse New Mission, The Red Shoes plays one more time at the Roxie, Shinji Somai's Moving (repeats Wednesday and Thursday) continues at the Lark, and Coraline (repeats through Thursday) is at the Presidio. TuesdaySeven Samurai (repeats Thursday and Saturday), Only The River Flows (repeats Sunday), and Moving (repeats Wednesday and Saturday) continue at the Roxie, Amityville: Dollhouse and Hot Fuzz are at the Drafthouse, Repo Man is at the Balboa, Wake in Fright at the 4 Star, and queer rodeo drama National Anthem at the New Parkway. Wednesday, SF-set 80s AI love triangle Electric Dreams (on 35mm) is this week's Weird Wednesday at the Drafthouse, Teorema is at BAMPFA, the Super Sangri-La Show presents a 1960s Filipino horror double feature at the Balboa, Jane Campion's The Piano(repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Basement presents Street Trash (on VHS) at the 4 Star, The Vourdalek and The Notebook are at the New Parkway, and Lyd continues (repeating Thursday) at the Roxie, who also have a new 35mm print of Medium Cool, Haskell Wexler's Robert Forster-starring lightning-strike of a docufiction drama built around the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention riots. Thursday, the Stanford's Vincente Minnelli series wraps up with its final double bill (repeating through the weekend), pairing the charming Bells are Ringing, starring Judy Holliday and Dean Martin, and Some Came Running, Minnelli's under-seen melodrama masterpiece starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, and Shirley MacLaine in her two finest, heart-rending hours (really though, do not miss this neon-hearted rarity on the big screen); BAMPFA's Lynne Ramsay retrospective kicks off with Ratcatcher (note that Ramsay was initially announced to be in person for these screenings, but unfortunately will not be); Drunken Master II (repeats Friday) is at the 4 Star, Jimi Hendrix doc Electric Lady Studios (repeats Sunday) at the Smith Rafael, and Tetsuo the Iron Man at the Balboa.

Friday, Eliot Noyes design doc Modernism Inc. opens at the Roxie with Director Jason Cohn & producer Camille Servan-Schreibe in person, Ramsay's Morvern Callar (on 35mm) is at BAMPFA, Blue Velvet (repeats Saturday) at the Lark, Between the Temples opens at the Smith Rafael and the Orinda, and Deliverance (repeats Saturday) is at the Presidio. Saturday, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and We Need to Talk About Kevin (on 35mm) are at BAMPFA, 2001: A Space Odyssey (on 35mm) and a new restoration of Vittorio De Sica's neorealist classic Shoeshine are at the Roxie, Them! (on 16mm) is at the Balboa, this week's Popcorn Palace at the 4 Star is The Princess Bride, Pola Negri-starring Barbed Wire (on 16mm) is at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, Dirty Harry (repeats Sunday) is at the Presidio, and The Clarion Performing Arts Center presents a selection of Dominic Angerame's experimental short filmsSunday, a Grease Sing-Along is at the Drafthouse, My Neighbor Totoro (on 35mm), You Were Never Really Here, and The Boy and the Heron are at BAMPFA, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is at the Balboa, Wet, Hot American Summer is at the 4 Star, and SFGAYMERS presents Twitch-doc Break the Game with director Jane M. Wagner in person for a Q&A at the Roxie, where you can also enjoy a selection of Animated Anarchy (on 16mm).