Monday, Guy Maddin's newest, Rumours, is at the Landmark Opera Plaza, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Election at the Balboa, Black Box Diaries, The Fall, and La Cocina continue through the week at the Roxie, and a matinee of The Best Years of Our Lives and an evening show of Toy Story, the first film in a Pixar retrospective are at the Lark.
Tuesday, They Live (on 35mm) and Alan Rudolph's Bruce Willis-starring Kurt Vonnegut adaptation, Breakfast of Champions are at the Drafthouse.
Wednesday, San Francisco (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, Airplane! at the Balboa, 2046 and In the Mood for Love (both repeating Sunday) at the 4 Star, The Manchurian Candidate (1962) at the New Parkway, Death Wish 3 (on 35mm) at the Drafthouse, and a night of short films about climbing and the new Tamara de Lempicka doc (repeats Sunday) are at the Roxie.
Thursday, the legendary Jia Zhangke arrives at BAMPFA to premiere his latest film, Caught by the Tides, and present a pair of his films each day for the rest of the weekend (all of which are sold out, but BAMPFA usually has a rush line), the Smith Rafael presents Cold Refuge, a film about swimming in the Bay with the filmmaker, Judy Irving, and subjects in person, the Rialtos Elmwood and Cerrito have free matinees of Paul Newman's Nobody's Fool, the Stanford's second-to-last double feature in their Noir plus Val Lewton series is Lewton and Mark Robson's The Ghost Ship and Robert Siodmak's essential noir, The Phantom Lady (both on 35mm, repeating Friday), the Odyseey Film Institute presents Hitchcock's Frenzy (on 35mm—an IB Tech print!!) at the Balboa, and the 4 Star presents Rosa von Praunheim's I Am My Own Woman, with Caden Mark Gardner in person to introduce the film (see our conversation with Gardner and co-author Willow Catelyn Maclay about their new book, Corpses, Fools, and Monsters).
Friday, Mati Diop's Dahomey and moth doc Noctures open at the Roxie and Run Lola Run is at the Balboa.
Saturday, In Plain Sight: Films about Climate and Surveillance (some 16mm) is at Shapeshifters, the Roxie begins a run of Andrei Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice, welcomes Nocturnes filmmakers Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan in person after the evening show, and also launches Bay Visions, an afternoon of film and conversation with filmmakers with local ties, curated by Gina Basso, this time with Bill Basquin, Alison O'Daniel (The Tuba Thieves), and Rodrigo Reyes (499), while there's a matinee of California Split at the Drafthouse, 12 Monkeys (repeats Sunday) is at the Balboa, A Bug's Life at the Lark, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum shows an early Boris Karloff film, Dynamite Dan, and the Stanford's final noir double feature is The Postman Always Rings Twice and, our feature this week, Siodmak's Criss Cross (both on 35mm, repeating Sunday).
Sunday, the Nocturnes filmmakers present their film at the Smith Rafael, a matinee of The Color of Pomegranates is at BAMPFA, Ingmar Bergman's The Silence at the Balboa, Paddington 2 and Repo Man at the New Parkway, The Americanization of Emily at the Lark, and the Niles has its regular Sunday matinee of Laurel & Hardy/Our Gang talkies.
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