Monday, Cure is at the Roxie, A Nightmare on Elm Street at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Shakes The Clown at the Balboa, and A Star is Born (1976) at the 4 Star.
Tuesday, Pulse (on 35mm) and the new restoration of Tarsem Singh's The Fall are at the Roxie, Rob Zombie's Halloween II (2009) (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse New Mission, and Cat People (1942) is at the Balboa.
Wednesday, Look Into My Eyes with director Lana Wilson in person is at the Roxie, Drew Barrymore in Doppelganger at Drafthouse, our feature this week, Shu Lea Cheang's UKI is at BAMPFA with Cheang in person, a at-time-of-press nondescript Super Shangri-La show is at the Balboa, Little Shop of Horrors is at the Vogue, The Thing at the New Parkway, and the SF Dance Film Festival opens at the Delancey Street Theater and moves around San Francisco through the Weekend.
Thursday, the 10th annual DocStories festival takes over the Vogue, kicking off with docs on Janis Joplin and John and Yoko and continuing through Sunday, and a SpookFest shorts selection, Donnie Darko and Dark Water are at the Roxie, BAMPFA's Hong Kong Cinema with Paul Fonoroff series kicks off with The Sea Is Calling, the Stanford's Lewton/Noir double feature this week is Isle of the Dead and The Spiral Staircase (on 35mm, repeats Friday), a 25th anniversary screening of The Cruise with director Bennett Miller in person is at the Smith Rafael, and both the SF Indie Short Film Fest and Green Film Fest kick off at the 4 Star and Balboa and run through next week.
Friday, DocStories presents Mistress Dispeller, Bennet Miller and The Cruise drop by the Drafthouse, this year's live-scored silent CineSpin screening at BAMPFA is The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari with music by Aidan Latham, Night of the Living Dead (on 16mm, repeats Sunday) is at the Balboa, The Craft at the New Parkway, and the 22nd annual 3rd i, the SF International South Asian Film Festival, opens at the Roxie with The Queen of My Dreams and continues through Sunday.
Saturday, DocStories screens a trio of hotly anticipated documentaries: Raoul Peck's latest on the nearly-lost work of a South African photographer, Ernest Cole: Lost and Found, Amazon warehouse worker organization doc Union, and Israeli/Palestinian doc No Other Land (NB: the latter two are self-distributed, so your chances to see them will likely be few and far between), Kirikou and the Sorceress and Once Upon a Time in China II are at BAMPFA, the Balboa has an all-day-long Super Shangri-La Supernatural Film Fest, the SF Dance Film Festival and SF Cinematheque co-present Obsessed with Light, a new doc about Loie Fuller, the early-20th century dance pioneer and creator of the serpentine dance, Cowboy Bebop: The Movie is at the New Parkway, the Niles Essanay has a spooky comedy shorts night, the Stanford has two noir classics for the weekend, Laura and Out of the Past (on 35mm, repeating Sunday), Back to the Future II is at the Presidio, Coraline at the Lark, Other Cinema's expanded cinema series, Optronica, returns to Artists' Television Access, and if you missed it at Mill Valley, Cannes Grand Prix winner All We Imagine As Light plays, among other titles, in 3rd i at the Roxie.
Sunday, DocStories wraps up with, among other titles, Suburban Fury, about the woman who attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford in Union Square in 1975, the Roxie has a giallo double feature of Blood and Black Lace and The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave, Agnieszka Holland's Green Border and the third film in their Hong Kong series, Alan and Eric: Between Hello and Goodbye, are at BAMPFA, Saw is at the Presidio, The Third Man at the Lark, and Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse presents the Grace Jones-starring Vamp at the 4 Star.
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