DECEMBER 16, 2024 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
December 16th 2024

Monday, Odyssey Film Institute once again presents Batman Returns (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Another Hole in the Head continues through Wednesday at the Balboa and the 4 Star, Blast of Silence and The Conversation (both repeating through Wednesday) and R.W. Fassbinder's Querelle are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, the Genesis P-Orridge doc, New Wave, High Tide (repeats Wednesday and Sunday), and Soundtrack to a Coup d’État (repeats Tuesday and Sunday), at the Roxie, Love, Actually, Cars, and Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (repeats Wednesday and Thursday) are at the Lark, and White Christmas is at the Presidio.

Tuesday, The Black Sea, Fantastic Mr. Fox, and RoCine presentation Nothing Like the Holidays are at the Roxie, Jaws: The Revenge is at Drafthouse, and Krampus is at the Balboa.

Wednesday, David Cronenberg's Scanners is at the New Parkway, Guy Madden's Vertigo remake-of-a-sort The Green Fog at Drafthouse, Claire Denis' No Fear, No Die at BAMPFA, Anora (on 35mm) at the Roxie, Black Christmas at the Balboa, A Christmas Story (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, Home Alone and Little Women (1994) (both repeat Thursday) are at the 4 Star, and Noir City's annual Xmas show presents Who Killed Santa Claus? (L'Assassinat du père Noël) at the Grand Lake.

Thursday, Divorce Italian Style (on 35mm) continues BAMPFA Marcello Mastroianni Centennary, Chantal Akerman's Toute une nuit (repeats Saturday) and your last chances at the new restoration of The Fall (repeats Sunday) are at the Roxie, and Eyes Wide Shut (on 35mm) is at the Balboa.

Friday, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (on 35mm, repeats Sunday) and 2046 are at the Roxie, A Charlie Brown Christmas and The Muppet Christmas Carol (both repeating Saturday and Sunday) at the 4 Star Elf and Meet Me in St. Louis at the Orinda, G.W. Pabst's The Joyless Street is at BAMPFA, Tokyo Godfathers (dubbed, repeats subbed on Saturday) at the Balboa, Anna and the Apocalypse at the New Parkway, and the Stanford's double feature this weekend is Miracle on 34th Street and Ernst Lubtich's The Shop Around the Corner (both on 35mm, repeating all weekend).

Saturday, the 1925 Ben-Hur is at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, Carol and Eyes Wide Shut (repeats Sunday) are at the Drafthouse, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (on 35mm) and La dolce vita at BAMPFA, The Sacrifice, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Carol, and Brazil (director’s cut, on 35mm) at the Roxie, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is at the Balboa, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) and A Christmas Story are at the Orinda.

Sunday, a documentary on Eva Hesse and Pabst's The Devious Path are at BAMPFA, A Mighty Wind and Best In Show at the Vogue, Elf and Gremlins at the New Parkway, A Christmas Carol (1938), Scrooged, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation at the Orinda, Elf is at the Drafthouse, It's a Wonderful Life at the Balboa, and Ratatouille and Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander (theatrical cut) are at the Lark.