Monday, Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha and Ernest Dickerson's Juice are at the Balboa, the Fraenkel Fest continues at the Roxie with Tokyo Story (repeats Saturday) and A New Leaf, while the Drafthouse New Mission has Cloak & Dagger (1984), Gremlins, and Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (repeating Tuesday and Wednesday), the Lark has Janet Planet, and the Presidio has Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and There Will Be Blood (repeating through Thursday). Tuesday, The Gleaners and I and The Idiots are at the Roxie and Night of the Comet (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse. Wednesday, Kwaidan (on 35mm) and Akio Jissoji's Art Theatre Guild production This Transient Life are at the Roxie, Fast & Furious and a delinquent teen 16mm double feature of The Violent Years and Teen-Age Crime Wave at the Balboa, Black Caesar (on 35mm) and Purple Rain at the Drafthouse, Laura is at BAMPFA, Lars von Trier's Björk-starring Dancer in the Dark (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, Enter the Dragon at the 4 Star, and Purple Rain at the New Parkway. Thursday, Sunset Blvd. is at BAMPFA and Sunset Blvd. is also at the 4 Star, paired with The Day of the Locust, Paths of Glory (on 35mm) and The Cranes are Flying are at the Roxie, the Jewish Film Festival opening night film is Shari & Lamb Chop with director Lisa D'Apolito and Lamb Chop in person and... in sock-puppet?, the Stanford's Vincente Minnelli season continues with a double feature of The Pirate and Undercurrent (repeating Friday), and Porco Rosso (subtitled) and Summer of '42 are at the Balboa.
Friday, BAMPFA's highly anticipated Hiroshi Shimizu series (see our feature this week, below) kicks off with Ornamental Hairpin, Blade Runner (Final Cut) and Ghost in the Shell are at the Roxie, which also opens Argentine comedy Chronicles of a Wandering Saint and West African drama Banel & Adama, Godzillafest takes over the Balboa again, Friday night and all day Saturday and Sunday, while Waiting for Guffman is at the 4 Star, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum's talkie Fridays presented by Odyssey Film Institute continue with 1950's Rocketship XM, and a new restoration of Ann Hui's July Rhapsody opens at the Presidio. Saturday, All in This Tea continues BAMPFA's Les Blank series, with co-director Gina Leibrecht and film subject and tea importer David Lea Hoffman in person, and Sergeio Leone's For a Few Dollars More continues their Ennio Morricone series; Fraenkel Fest continues with The Truman Show (on 35mm) and The Right Stuff, preceded by a conversation between director Philip Kaufman and photographer Richard Misrach; the Jewish Film Festival presents the Carol Kane and Jason Schwartzman-starring Sundance hit Between The Temples at the Palace of Fine Arts; the Stanford's Minnelli season has a Kirk Douglas double of The Bad and the Beautiful and Two Weeks in Another Town; Toy Story (repeats Sunday) and Speed are at the 4 Star; the Lark has Studio Ghibli feature The Cat Returns (repeats Sunday and Monday), the Niles has their monthly comedy shorts night, and Shapeshifters Cinema has the second entry in their Gravitational Lensing series, Self as Social Construct. Sunday, a John Hughes double feature of The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles is at the Vogue, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar at the New Parkway, The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension at the Drafthouse, the Lark has a matinee (naturally) of Belle De Jour (repeats Monday) and an evening show of The Sandlot, Media Meltdown presents Mil Máscaras vs. the Aztec Mummy at the 4 Star, Kiki’s Delivery Service continues BAMPFA's Miyazaki series and their Shimizu series continues with one of its anticipated highlights, Mr. Thank You, while Casablanca (on 35mm), Ghost in the Shell, and Wings of Desire repeat at the Roxie, where you can also catch a sneak preview of Chinese police procedural and Cannes selection Only The River Flows, followed by a Q&A with the director.
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