Monday, co-op doc Works For All is at the New Parkway with a post-film Q&A, Lars Von Trier's Europa is at the Balboa, Phantasm is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, the Mill Valley Film Festival and Drunken Film Festival continue, and the Roxie wraps up The French Had a Name For It.
Tuesday, this week's Terror Tuesday pick at the Drafthouse is Basket Case, BAMPFA presents a selection of films from Syrian film collective, Abounaddara, as part of its long-running Alternative Visions series, the New Parkway presents a doc double of Si Pudiera Quedarme + jardines, the 4 Star brings you last year's Pavement doc about the band's original drummer Gary Young, Louder Than You Think (repeats Saturday and Sunday), Feild of Dreams is at the Balboa, and at the Roxie, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse (on 35mm) continues their J-Horror Classics series, the San Francisco Black Film Fest presents Black Boys Don't Talk and Bottled Spirits, plus The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (repeats Saturday) and The Time Masters.
Wednesday, the 4 Star screens Zoot Suit with star Daniel Valdez in person for a Q&A (wear your own zoot suit to get in free), Chungking Express is at the Roxie, where INDECLINE invites Broke-Ass Stuart, John Law, and Winston Smith to present The Art of Protest, The Baby (on 35mm) and Paul Schrader's Hardcore are at the Drafthouse, The Babadook is at the New Parkway, Elvira Mistress of the Dark (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, and The Gleaners and I at the Balboa.
Thursday, Val Lewton and Mark Robson's The Seventh Victim and Otto Preminger's Angel Face (on 35mm, repeating Friday) are at the Stanford, Bong Joon Ho's The Host is at the New Parkway, Basquiat, Audition, and Borderland: The Line Within with director Pamela Yates in person are at the Roxie, Burn After Reading is at the Balboa, and the 4 Star celebrates Thelonious Monk with live music and three films about the jazz legend.
Friday, MOViES FOR MANiACS presents a 16mm Double Bill Tribute to Rod Serling (including a 1970s TV movie rarity with James Earl Jones as the first black president), the SF Latino Film Festival runs all weekend at the Roxie, where you can also settle in for a Graveyard Shift all-night horror movie marathon, commencing with Donnie Darko, Beetlejuice is at the New Parkway, and House of 1000 Corpses (repeats Saturday) at the Vogue.
Saturday, the Roxie screens Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cure and Shu Lea Cheang is in person to present the newly restored 30th anniversary 35mm print of "Scifi New Queer Cinema" underground classic Fresh Kill (see our interview with Cheang excerpted below), the Niles Essenay Silent Film Museum screens F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu (on 35mm, with live piano accompaniment), the Stanford screens Raul Walsh's Lupino/Bogart pairing High Sierra and another Alan Ladd/Veronica Lake paring with This Gun for Hire (on 35mm, repeating Sunday), the 4 Star screens Circles: An Ode to Shredding on 16mm and their Popcorn Palace selection this week is Hocus Pocus, Bride of Frankenstein and What We Do in the Shadows are at the New Parkway, Bullitt is at the Balboa, Albert Brook's Real Life is at the Drafthouse, and Other Cinema continues this season's round of Psycho-Geo shows at Artists' Televsision Access.
Sunday, SF Cinematheque returns to Counterpulse to present In the Shadow of Forward Motion: Films by David Wojnarowicz, the Niles has its monthly Laurel & Hardy/Our Gang talkie matinee, the 4 Star and Litquake teems up for a screening at the crossroads of film noir and comics, the SF Dance Film Festival presents Written on the Body, a program of experimental shorts, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula are at the New Parkway, Chinatown is at the Balboa, and Dark Water is at the Roxie.
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