Monday, the Roxie continues S/HE IS STILL HER/E: The Official Genesis P-Orridge Documentary and offers one more chance at Being John Malkovich (on 35mm) and New Wave, the Grateful Dead take over the 4 Star with The Closing of Winterland, and the Lark has matinees of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Monsters, Inc.
Tuesday, classic dutch thriller The Vanishing is this week's Terror Tuesday pick at Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Anora (on 35mm) and Mars Volta/At the Drive-In doc Omar and Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird (repeats Wednesday) continue and La Cocina ends its run at the Roxie, and Exit Through the Gift Shop is at the Balboa.
Wednesday, Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (repeats Thursday) is at the Balboa, Blood Feast is this week's Weird Wednesday pick at the Drafthouse, Charlie Wilson's War is at the New Parkway, and the 4 Star kicks off a weekend-long Wes Anderson miniseries with The Fantastic Mr. Fox (repeats Friday).
Thursday is light on rep fare, but, of your local indies, Alamo Drafthouse, the Balboa, the Lark, and the Smith Rafael are open, so give them a visit if you're looking for a theater.
Friday, the final iteration of The French Had a Name For It, Don Malcolm's long-running, beloved series of deep cut French noir, begins at the Roxie with a look at director Erich von Stroheim's French acting career in a double feature of The Dance of Death and The World Will Shake, Ryuichi Sakamoto: Opus and Le samouraï are at BAMPFA, Foxy Brown is at the Drafthouse, Nails from the Crypt presents Drop Dead Gorgeous at the New Parkway, the Stanford continues its four-a-day showtimes of The Wizard of Oz (on 35mm, of course) all weekend, the 4 Star's Wes Anderson-athon continues with Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Rushmore, and The Life Aquatic (all four repeating through the weekend), and Odyssey Film Institute presents Back to the Future 2 (on 35mm) at the Balboa.
Saturday, the Balboa presents a San Francisco noir double feature with Dark Passage and, our feature this week, The Lady from Shanghai (both repeating Sunday), Finnish heavy metal comedy follow-up Heavier Trip (repeats Sunday) is at the Drafthouse, BAMPFA has a family matinee of The Wizard of Oz and the end of their Jia Zhangke series, Mountains May Depart, the Roxie screens Fantastic Mr. Fox and The French Had a Name For It continues with five films spread over a double and a triple feature, the Lark screens Finding Nemo (repeats Sunday), and the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum presents Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail (on 16mm).
Sunday, the Roxie screens Sujo, Mexico's Oscar submissions, with co-director Astrid Rondero in person, the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center presents a free (with RSVP) screening of The Lost Holliday at the Grand Lake, An Officer and a Gentleman is at the Lark, and The French Had a Name For It continues at the Roxie with a second von Stroheim-as-actor double feature, an André Cayatte double feature, and a Jeanne Moreau double feature.
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