Monday, if you wanted to catch indie darling Janet Planet, it plays at the New Parkway (repeats Wednesday) or for one more matinee at the Lark, Dune (1984) and The Wizard of Oz are at the Drafthouse New Mission, a Dennis Hopper double of Easy Rider and Out of the Blue is at the 4 Star, the Powell & Pressburger series continues with the new doc followed by The Red Shoes at the Roxie, where French vampire oddity The Vourdalak also continues this week, while Pom Poko is at the Lark and Force Majeure is at the Balboa. Tuesday, UHF is at the Balboa, Battle Royale at the Drafthouse, The Man from Hong Kong at the 4 Star, and Powell & Pressburger's A Matter Of Life And Death at the Roxie. Wednesday, the Odyssey Film Institute presents Apollo 13 (on 35mm) at the Balboa, The Brother from Another Planet and Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris's, not Richard Linklater's) are at the Drafthouse, a doc double feature about the SF housing crisis followed by a discussion is at the Roxie, A Quiet Place in the Country is at BAMPFA, The Line-Up (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, American Graffiti (repeats Saturday and Sunday) at the 4 Star, and Enter the Dragon at the New Parkway. Thursdsay, Cuckoo is on 35mm at Drafthouse for one night only, Stanley Kubrick's The Killing continues BAMPFA's noir classics series, this week's Stanford double feature is The Reluctant Debutante and Gigi (on 35mm, repeats through Sunday), the Balboa has Atomic Gods: Creations Myths of the Bomb with the director in person, the 4 Star has William S. Hart's silent western The Return of Draw Egan with a live score composed by Ennio Morricone (note: it sounds like title cards have been rewritten for the lulz, so earnest Hart fans, be prepared), and the Rialtos Elmwood and Cerrito have free matinees of The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Friday, the new restoration of Shinji Somai's Moving is at the Lark (repeats Sunday), BAMPFA's Hiroshi Shimizu series continues with Children in the Wind (on 35mm), Walter Hill's Streets of Fire is at the Drafthouse, Lyd (repeats Saturday) and Chronicles of a Wandering Saint continue at the Roxie, the new restoration of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai opens at the Roxie and the Smith Rafael, where you can also see a short doc about a 1971 oil tanker spill in the Bay, Planetwalker, with the directors and film subject in person (repeats through the weekend with Q&As after all 6PM showings), while The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (with a live score by Sleepbomb) is at the Balboa, Groove (repeats Saturday) at the Vogue, Chungking Express (plus pineapple cake!) at the 4 Star, and Pineapple Express (repeats through next week) at the Presidio. Saturday, The Boy and the Heron (at rush) and Vera Chytilová's Fruit of Paradise (on 35mm) are at BAMPFA, I Know Where I’m Going! plus another shot at Cuckoo on 35mm are at the Roxie, The Cotton Club Encore is at the Drafthouse, Castle in the Sky at the Lark, Barbarella at the Balboa, the Last Emperor at the Presidio (repeats through next week), and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens The Red Mark (on 35mm). Sunday, Catch Me If You Can (on 35mm) is at the Balboa, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at the Drafthouse, BAMPFA screens Hiroshi Shimizu's Four Seasons of Children: Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter (on 35mm) followed by Once Upon a Time in the West, the Roxie shows Dancing With the Dead: Red Pine and the Art of Translation with a conversation with director Ward Serrill and subject Red Pine moderated by May-lee Chai, A League of Their Own plays in the New Parkway's Queer Classics series, the Niles has matinees of vintage travelogue shorts form PanAm (on 16mm) as well as their monthly Laurel & Hardy talkie matinee, Lawrence of Arabia is at the Presidio, and our feature this week, at the 4 Star, is a surprise triple feature of episodes from the much beloved Shelley Duvall's much beloved Faerie Tale Theatre.
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