DECEMBER 9, 2024 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Batman Returns
December 9th 2024

Monday, Female Trouble is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Interstellar returns to theaters on 70mm IMAX at the Metreon (through Wednesday), Salad Days: A Decade Of Punk In Washington, DC (1980-90) is at the Roxie, Basement presents Santa's Slay (on VHS) at the 4 Star, the New Parkway premieres a new short documentary, The Land Around Us, Another Hole in the Head festival continues at the Balboa and 4 Star, and the latest iteration of Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco is at the Herbst (repeating Tuesday).

Tuesday, Batman Returns and, our feature this week, Inside (2007) are at Drafthouse, Another Hole in the Head fest presents The Terminator on 16mm at the Balboa, Soundtrack to a Coup d’État continues at the Roxie, Dark Entries Records presents New Wave with director Elizabeth Ai in person, the New Parkway has an evening of documentary shorts co-presented with the Berkeley Film Foundation plus the Blood & Popcorn Film Festival, and at the Lark, catch Hong Sang-soo's latest, with Isabelle Huppert, A Traveler's Needs (matinees repeat through Thursday).

Wednesday, Trancers is at the Drafthouse, new French courtroom drama The Goldman Case is at BAMPFA, you've got one more shot at Anora on 35mm at the Roxie, the Super Shangri-La Show returns to the Balboa for a 60s pirates double feature, Don't Tell Mom, The Babysitter Is Dead (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Meet Me In St. Louis (plus gramophone concert) at the 4 Star, Videodrome at the New Parkway, and Jonathan Rosenbaum comes to UC Berkeley to talk about his latest collection (RSVP required).

Thursday, a currently sold-out screening of Dream Team is at the Drafthouse, Mississippi records founder Eric Isaacson presents A People's History of North American Music at the 4 Star, BAMPFA's G. W. Pabst series continues with The Love of Jeanne Ney, The Mask is at the New Parkway, and the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood have free matinees of The Bishop's Wife.

Friday, Henri-Georges Clouzot's masterpiece of suspense, The Wages of Fear, is at BAMPFA, The Black Sea opens at the Roxie, with co-directors Crystal Moselle & Derrick Harden in person for the Saturday screening, Suburbia (Spheeris, not Linklater, repeats Saturday) is at the Vogue, Friday the 13th at the New Parkway, talkie Fridays continues at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum with an Odyssey Films Institute 16mm screening of Preston Sturges's The Sins of Harold Diddlebick, Shapeshifters Cinema presents the sixth screening in their ongoing series, Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, this time with a focus on reproductive health and justice, and the Stanford screens a double feature of Mary Poppins and Sitting Pretty (on 35mm) all weekend.

Saturday, new restorations of Seven Samurai and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg are at BAMPFA, Batman Returns is at the New Parkway, Cars (repeats Sunday and Monday) is at the Lark, the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood have free family matinees of Elf, and Robert J. Flaherty's foundational docudrama, Nanook of the North, is at the Niles.

Sunday, Odyssey Film Institute presents Batman Returns (on 35mm, repeats Monday)  at the Balboa, Blast of Silence is at the Drafthouse, the NY Dog Film Festival and anime A Silent Voice at the Roxie, Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse has a Christmas double feature at the 4 Star, Love, Actually is at the Lark, White Christmas at the Preisido, and at BAMPFA, painter Agnes Martin's only film, Gabriel, continues a series in parallel to their current exhibition, To Exalt the Ephemeral, and Luchino Viscontis' White Nights kicks off Marcello Mastroianni at 100.