Monday, Paris, Texas and Winnie the Pooh are at the Lark, Persona is at the New Parkway, Ghost in the Shell is at the Balboa, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Blue Velvet, and Eraserhead (the latter two repeating through Wednesday) are at Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Daisies and Wild at Heart (repeats Saturday) are at the Roxie, and the Grand Lake celebrates the life of Gene Hackman with The Conversation and The Scarecrow.
Tuesday, the Grand Lake's Hackman celebration continues with The Quick and the Dead and Unforgiven, Slacker is at the Balboa, Game Night and The Pit (1981) are at the Drafthouse, and Eraserhead (on 35mm) and Blue Velvet are at the Roxie, along with Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932) (repeating Thursday), the latest entry in their pre-Code series.
Wednesday, Johnnie To's The Mission (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse, Hollywoodgate continues BAMPFA's long-running Documentary Voices series, David Lynch: The Art Life and Hungarian resistance doc Democracy Noir (repeats Sunday) are at the Roxie, Stranger than Paradise (repeats Thursday) and the Super Shangri-La Show, presenting a cult horror double feature of The Crawling Eye and The Master of the Flying Guillotine, are at the Balboa, Grease (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, and Fogcutter presents A Soldier's Story with Robert Townsend in person for a Q&A.
Thursday, SF Cinematheque presents Trace Elements: Remembering Gunvor Nelson at the Lab, BAMPFA's Mai Zetterling series continues with Night Games, Inland Empire and Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink are at the Roxie, Grand Theft Hamlet is at the 4 Star, the Stanford's first pairing of the week is an Ernst Lubitsch double of The Smiling Lieutenant and The Merry Widow (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), and the Smith Rafael presents There Is Another Way with director Stephen Apkon and Combatants for Peace members present.
Friday, this year's African Film Festival continutes at BAMPFA with Rungano Nyoni's On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, There is Another Way (with the director and CfP members in person, repeats Saturday without the director) is at the Roxie, who also screen Grand Theft Hamlet (repeats Saturday), Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me is at the Drafthouse, Total Recall (repeats Saturday) is at the Balboa, the Odyssey Film Institute presents Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934, on 16mm) at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum, the 4 Star begins a Julie Andrews mini-series with The Sound of Music (repeats Saturday), Gary Snyder doc O Mother Gaia has an encore at the Smith Rafael with director Colin Still in person, and our feature this week is Karel Doing in person to present Ruins & Resilience, a selection of 9 films (most on 16mm) at Shapeshifters.
Saturday, the Stanford's weekend Lubitsch double is Design for Living and Trouble in Paradise (which, if you've never seen it with a crowd, shouldn't be missed—both on 35mm, repeating Sunday), The Lady Eve, The Watermelon Woman, and Wild at Heart (repeating Sunday) are at the Drafthouse, Children of Men is at the Balboa, Mai Zetterling's The Girls is at BAMPFA, the Niles has its monthly comedy shorts night (on 16mm), with the usual suspects of Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and Laurel & Hardy, the 4 Star's Julie Andrews spotlight continues with Mary Poppins, Victor/Victoria, and The Princess Diaries (all three repeating Sunday), Other Cinema presents a night of expanded cinema, including a new piece by friend-of-the-newsletter Brian Darr, and at the Roxie, 3rd i presents a free short film program, Women Behind the Lens, Mission Love presents a selection of footage newly digitized by the Prelinger Archive documenting Mission Mediarts with Ray Balberan in person, plus a new restoration of Jean-Luc Godard's A Woman Is a Woman (repeats Sunday).
Sunday, BAMPFA screens a new restoration of Ousmane Sembène's Camp de Thiaroye and Zetterling's We Have Many Names alongside several of the director's short films, Westermann: Memorial to the Idea of Man If He Was An Idea and Lost Highway are at the Roxie, Last Year at Marienbad is at the Balboa, The Goonies is at the New Parkway, and Media Meltdown Movie Madness presents Fatal Deviation at the 4 Star.
