Monday, The Brutalist on 70mm continues at Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Nickel Boys continues on 35mm at the Grand Lake, and Toy Story 3 is at the Lark.
Tuesday, the Roxie's pre-code highlights series returns with William Wellman's Safe in Hell, a matinee of Paul Schrader's Oh, Canada (repeats Thursday) at the Lark, and Basket Case 2 is this week's Terror Tuesday pick at Drafthouse.
Wednesday, the Balboa has a 60s Mexican B&W horror double feature of 100 Cries of Terror & Curse of The Doll People (on 16mm), the Roxie has its latest iteration of their 35mm trailer show, Unbecoming Attractions V plus The Beaches of Agnès, our feature this week is Alexander Sokurov's latest film, Fairytale, in its Bay Area premiere at BAMPFA, biker gang Mexploitation Intrépidos Punks is at Drafthouse, Ralph Bakshi's American Pop (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, and Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst at the 4 Star.
Thursday, the Odyssey Film Institute presents Blue Velvet (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Il bell’Antonio continues BAMPFA's Marcello Mastroianni centenary series, Oh, Canada is at the Roxie, and the Stanford's latest calendar is a Frank Capra retrospective, announced, unfortunately, too late for us to include the opening weekend in last week's newsletter, but continuing this week with a Barbara Stanwyck double of Ladies of Leisure and The Miracle Woman for the weekday double feature (repeating Friday).
Friday, the Smith Rafael's For Your Consideration series kicks off after being bumped a week due to the theater's temporary closure this past weekend, The Sacrifice (repeats Saturday) at Drafthouse, Werner Herzog's latest documentary, Theater of Thought (followed by an expert Q&A), and Vermiglio, Italy's Oscar submission, open at the Roxie, Orlando, My Political Biography kicks off round two of Jenni Olson's hit series from BAMPFA's last winter program, Masc II: Mascs plus Muchachas, with Olson, Susan Stryker, and Ellis Martin in conversation, early-aughts SciFi musical comedy The American Astronaut (repeats Saturday) is at the Vogue, Ugetsu at the Balboa, a Schrader double of The Yakuza and Taxi Driver at the 4 Star, the Niles's Friday Night Talkies continue with the Marx Brothers in The Cocoanuts (on 16mm), and Dominic Angerame presents 17 new films in person at Shapeshifters.
Saturday, the Stanford has Capra's Lady for a Day (repeating Sunday afternoon) and an evening show of That Certain Thing with Dennis James providing live Wurlitzer accompaniment, BAMPFA has an all-ages matinee of Singin’ in the Rain and Glaubor Rocha's Antonio das Mortes (on 35mm) continues guest curator Leila Weefur's Landscapes of Myth: Westerns After The Searchers series, legendary ex-local film programmer Elliot Lavine visits from Portland for the weekend to present two anti-fascist double features in the Resistance Film Festival at the Roxie, starting with Michael Curtiz's Casablanca and Andre DeToth's None Shall Escape, a Van Damme double feature of Cyborg and Bloodsport is at the Balboa, a Schrader triple of Rolling Thunder, The Last Temptation of Christ, and American Gigolo at the 4 Star, Citizen Kane is at Drafthouse, The Wizard of Oz (repeats Sunday) at the Lark, and the Niles presents Clara Bow in Dancing Mothers.
Sunday, at BAMPFA, Pandora’s Box continues their G. W. Pabst series and Cheryl Dunye talks to Allegra Madsen to present her 2001 feature Stranger Inside, the Roxie's Resistance Film Festival continues with Frank Borzage's The Mortal Storm and Ernst Lubitsch's To Be or Not to Be, the Stanford has another live Wurlitzer performance accompanying a matinee of Capra's Power of the Press and an as-of-yet unannounced evening feature, the 4 Star has Ratatouille as this week's Popcorn Palace, one more Schrader with Light Sleeper, and Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse presenting Lizzire Borden's essential Born in Flames, and Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. is at Drafthouse, Wim Wenders' director's cut of Until the Wend of the World at the Lark, a Batman/The Batman double feature at the Balboa, and Coming to America at the New Parkway.
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