Monday, at the Roxie, The French Had a Name For It's final series's penultimate night is a Jean Gabin triple feature, All We Imagine as Light continues (also at the Smith Rafael), and Bird ends, while Silent Night, Deadly Night and Gremlins are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Shanghai Express is at the Balboa, and a matinee of An Officer and a Gentleman is at the Lark.
Tuesday, McQueen is at the Balboa, Black Christmas (1974) at Drafthouse, and the final The French Had a Name For It wraps with a reprise of the opening show of its first, 2014 series, a Henri-Georges Clouzot double feature of Manon and La Vérité, preceded by Don Malcolm signing his new book covering the vein he's been mining for the past decade.
Wednesday, See it on 16mm presents Tales From The Crypt (on 16mm, naturally) at the Balboa, Fantastic Mr. Fox and one more chance at Anora on 35mm are at the Roxie, Runaway Train is at Drafthouse, The House Of Telegraph Hill (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, The Revenant at the 4 Star, and David Cronenberg's Rabid at the New Parkway.
Thursday, The Sacrifice and Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird close and Johan Grimonprez's jazz and politics documentary Soundtrack to a Coup d’État opens at the Roxie, and French Premiere presents Le Deluge at the 4 Star.
Friday, Victor Erice's Close Your Eyes is at BAMPFA, High Tide with lead actor Marco Pigossi in person (on Saturday as well) is at the Roxie, Gimme Shelter at the Vogue, the Stanford's double feature this week is Mary Poppins and Sitting Pretty (both on 35mm, repeating all weekend), and Another Hole in the Head kicks off at the Balboa with Sleepbomb performing a live score to Night of the Living Dead before continuing through next week.
Saturday, at BAMPFA, Maureen Gosling presents her latest film, The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane, and Secrets of a Soul (on 35mm, with live piano accompaniment by Judith Rosenberg) opens a new series on G.W. Pabst (see this week's featured article surveying the series below), this month's staff pick at the Roxie is Kiss Me Deadly, Another Hold in the Head presents The Toxic Avenger uncut (on 35mm) at the Balboa, this week's Popcorn Palace at the 4 Star is Frozen (repeats Sunday), and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens Harold Lloyd's The Freshman.
Sunday, SF Cinematheque returns to Counterpulse to present The Lonely City (on 16mm), a program of two films by Peter Hutton and Amie Siegel, the Niles screens new restorations of George Pal's Puppetoons followed by a Q&A with George Pal historian Arnold Leibovit, then has its usual monthly Laurel & Hardy/Our Gang talkie matinee, BAMPFA brings co-directors Kelly Duane de la Vega and Jessica Anthony to present In the Bones, their documentary about life and politics in Mississippi, and also begins a short companion series for their current gallery show, To Exalt the Ephemeral: Artists on Screen, with Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter, the Roxie has a CCSF student showcase with Festival of the Moving Image 2024 and two recent films with directors in person, Michael Dweck & Gregory Kershaw presenting their Argentinian western Gaucho Gaucho (co-presented with RoxCine) and Rachel Elizabeth Seed presenting her doc A Photographic Memory, The Incredibles and Before Sunrise are at the Lark, Steven Spielberg's debut film The Sugarland Express is at the Drafthouse, and Dark Entires records returns to the 4 Star with Panoramic Colorsound, a visual companion to the new album from Creative Technology Consortium.
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