Monday, Quentin Dupieux's Daaaaaali! (repeats Tuesday and Wednesday) and The Americanization of Emily are at the Lark, Breakfast of Champions (repeats Wednesday) and Phase IV (repeats Tuesday) at Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice and Matti Diop's Dahomey continue at the Roxie, Batman and The Batman are at the Balboa, and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is at the 4 Star.
Tuesday, Blazing Saddles, Grave of the Fireflies (Subtitled), California Split, and Troll 2 (on 35mm) are at Drafthouse, The Blues Brothers at the Balboa, and Exhibiting Forgiveness (repeats Wednesday and Thursday) at the Lark.
Wednesday, come out and join Screen Slate SF Bay and Bay TANC for a 35mm double bill of Hal Ashby's Bill Gunn-scripted, Gordon Willis-lensed The Landlord and David Schmoeller's Klaus Kinski-starring Crawlspace at Drafthouse New Mission; elsewhere, BAMPFA's Jia Zhangke series continues with Jia's last in-person appearance for Ash Is Purest White, the 2024 SF Trans Film Fest starts at the Roxie and runs through Saturday, the Super Shangri-La Show presents a Mummy Mania double feature at the Balboa, SF Cinematheque and Gray Area present Old School: Video Art Against Nostalgia, an evening of films by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Gustavo Vazquez, Sounder with a performance by Taj Mahal is at the 4 Star, and Election is at the New Parkway.
Thursday, Cry-Baby is at the Vogue, La Cocina at the Roxie, Apocalypse Now at the Balboa, Rust Never Sleeps at the 4 Star, and Mandy at the New Parkway.
Friday, the Smith Rafael and Berkeley Film Foundation kick off a weekend-long Saul Zaentz Film Series, beginning with a screening of The English Patient, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus is at BAMPFA, who continue their Sergei Parajanov Centennial series with Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors, Andrea Arnold's latest, Bird, opens at the Roxie, The Faculty is at the Balboa, the Golden Gate Armenian Film Festival takes over the Vogue and continues through Sunday, and the Odyssey Film Institute continues their Talkie Fridays series at the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum with Francis Ford Coppola's Dementia 13.
Saturday, the Niles Essanay presents a Lillian Gish double of sorts with her unforgettable performance in Viktor Sjöström's legendary The Wind (on 16mm) and D. W. Griffith's short film, "The Mothering Heart", plus Disney's Puss-in-Boots, with live accompaniment by Jon Mirsalis, A Woman Under the Influence is at Drafthouse, BAMPFA's Jia series continues with 24 City and their contemporary Cuban cinema series continues with Mafifa, the Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon presents Like a Rolling Stone at the Roxie, Forbidden Planet (repeats Sunday) is at the Balboa, Bend it Like Beckham and Jumanji (repeats Sunday) at the 4 Star, Toy Story 2 (repeats Sunday) at the Lark, and the Smith Rafael's Saul Zaentz series continues with a virtual conversation with Michael Ondaatje and Davia Nelson, followed by a screening of The Unbearable Lightness of Being with an intro by editor Vivien Hillgrove and followed by a virtual Q&A with sound designer Walter Murch, then a screening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Sunday, Le samouraï and the penultimate Parajanov screening, The Legend of Suram Fortress, are at BAMPFA, the SF Black Film Festival presents Naked Acts at the Roxie, Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse present Draghoula at the 4 Star, American Gangster is at the Balboa, An Affair to Remember at the Lark, The Fifth Element at the Presidio, and Smith Rafael's Saul Zaentz series finishes with a screening of Amadeus, followed by a Q&A with sound designer and editor Mark Berger.
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