Monday, Odyssey Film Institute presents The Exorcist on 35mm at the Balboa, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors and a reprise of The Cruise (repeats Tuesday) are at Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, The Third Man is at the Lark, Back to the Future II at the Presidio, Beyond the Bridge is at the Grand Lake with the filmmakers in person, and the Roxie has Ratified, about the final push to pass the Equal Rights Amendment with film subject Kati Hornung in person, the Delphine Seyrig-starring Daughters of Darkness as part of queer film series Slanted Lens, and the new restoration of The Fall continues all week.
Tuesday, Drafthouse has Sean Baker's Cannes Palme d'Or-winning Anora plays on 35mm with Baker on live-stream (continuing on 35mm sans-livestream later in the week) and over-looked Kiyoshi Kurosawa curio Seance, the Roxie has a 16mm screening of the very first zombie film, White Zombie and a selection of AAPI-focused short films, and at the Vogue, TOTALSF hosts Peter Hartlaub and Tony Bravo present The Birds.
Wednesday, A Nightmare on Elm Street is at the New Parkway, Saw at the Presidio, Ringu at the Balboa, Space Is the Place at Drafthouse, our feature this week is Lucio Fulci's The Beyond (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, French Premiere presents Sweet Little Things at the Théâtre du Lycée Française as tribute to the late French actor Michel Blanc, The Strike is at the Grand lake with filmmakers in person, and BAMPFA commences their Cuban Cinema without Borders series with a doc about the near-loss and restoration of the work of Afro-Cuban filmmaker Nicolás Guillén Landrián.
Thursday, BAMPFA screens the restored short films of Nicolás Guillén Landrián, Music for Mushrooms opens at the Smith Rafael with film subject and musician East Forest in person, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust is at the New Parkway, Phantasm at the Balboa, Teenagers From Outer Space (repeating Sunday, with Scent-O-Vision(??)) is at the Marina, SF Cinematheque presents You Light Up My Life, a selection of Stephanie Barber's 16mm films at The Lab with Barber in person, the Stanford's first double feature of the week is Curse of the Cat People and Night of the Hunter(on 35mm, repeating Friday), the Roxie has one last show of K. Kurosawa's Cure and the filmmakers of The Strike in person for two shows, and the Arab Film Festival opens at the Palace of Fine Arts with Mahamad Jabaly's Life is Beautiful: A Love Letter to Gaza
Friday, the Balboa has a horror triple feature of Ti West's X and Pearl plus Hollywood 90028 with lead actress Jeannette Dilger in person, Nails from the Crypt presents Bride of Chucky at the New Parkway, the Niles Essanay's talkie Fridays continue with Odyssey Film Institute presenting Night of the Living Dead on 16mm, the Arab Film Festival continues Friday (and Saturday) at the AMC Kabuki, BAMPFA's Hong Kong Cinema with Paul Fonoroffcontinues with Chow Yun-fat-starring screwball comedy Now You See Love, Now You Don’t, Shapeshifters Cinema presents the fourth program in their Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues series, and at the Roxie Lisando Alonso's latest, Eureka, opens, Frameline presents Flashdance, and East Forest comes by to present Music for Mushrooms.
Saturday, the Niles Essanay has an afternoon presentation by Julian David Stone on Bela Lugosi and Boris Karlofffollowed by an evening screening of The Man Who Laughs with live accompaniment, the Roxie presents a selection of local short films in Dance Thrill Fest IV as well as The True Story of Tamara de Lempicka with filmmaker Julie Rubio in conversation with G. Allen Johnson, Japanese silent horror classic A Page of Madness screens with live music by Ryan Huber at the Clarion Performing Arts Center, Other Cinema continues its expanded cinema series with Optronica2 at Artists' Television Access, BAMPFA screens contemporary Cuban short films, classic Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake noir The Blue Dahlia and Robert Siodmak's The Killers are at the Stanford (on 35mm, repeating Sunday), Nosferatu is at the Balboa, Peter Jackson's Braindead a.k.a. Dead Alive (repeats Sunday) at the Vogue, Scream at the New Parkway, Gremlins plus a selection of Looney Tunes (repeating Sunday) at the Lark, and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown and Paranorman are this week's Popcorn Palace at the 4 Star.
Sunday, Creature from the Black Lagoon is at Drafthouse, BAMPFA has another Hong Kong screwball, this time with Stephen Chow in Lawyer Lawyer and more contemporary Cuban cinema with Wild Woman, with director Alán González in person, the Arab Film Festival moves to the Roxie, who also screen Onibaba, Sleepy Hollow is at the Balboa, Evil Dead 2 and Return Of The Living Dead at the Vogue, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night and The Shiningare at the New Parkway, and LitQuake brings director Christine Angot to present her new film, Un Famille, at the 4 Star.
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