Monday, a Gena Rowlands tribute screening of A Woman Under the Influence and an Odyssey Film Institute presentation of Interview with the Vampire (on 35mm) are at the Balboa, Look Into My Eyes, René Laloux's The Time Masters, and Paris, Texas continue (repeating throughout the week) at the Roxie, Heavenly Bodies, Rango, and Clue(repeating Tuesday) are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, Kind Hearts and Coronets and Lady and the Tramp at the Lark, and Peeping Tom is at the 4 Star.
Tuesday, The Witchmaker (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse, Battleship Potemkin and a second Gena Rowlands tribute, John Cassavetes's Faces, are at the Balboa, Basement presents Gummo (on VHS) at the 4 Star, French Canadian horror thriller Red Rooms is at the Lark, and We Are Fugazi From Washington, D.C. gets another show at the Roxie, where Rewind presents Twilight with a drag show and Victor Erice's Close Your Eyes continues (also at the Orinda).
Wednesday, BAMPFA has a Silent Cinema Pioneers matinee of shorts by Alice Guy-Blaché and two episodes of Louis Feuillade's Les vampires (some on 35mm, live accompaniment by Judith Rosenberg) and an evening screening of Lewis Klahr's The Blue Rose of Forgetfulness with Klahr in person, the Balboa has The Philadelphia Story and a British Basement Monster double feature from the Super Shangri-La Show, Detroit Rock City (on 35mm) is at the Drafthouse, Chungking Express (repeats Friday) at the Roxie, Monterey Pop (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, Blazing Saddles at the Presidio, and Once Upon a Time in China II at the 4 Star.
Thursday, this month's staff pick at the Roxie is the Brothers Quay's Institute Benjamenta (on 35mm, repeats Sunday), the Stanford screens a horror double bill of Val Lewton and Jacques Tourneur's The Leopard Man and deep-cut oddity The Red House (both on 35mm, repeats Friday), 10th anniversary shows of The Babadook are at Drafthouse and the Balboa, who also show Step Brothers, Agnieszka Holland's Green Border is at BAMPFA, The Matrix (repeats Sunday) at the Presidio, and Face/Off at the New Parkway.
Friday, Philip Hoffman, Canadian experimental filmmaker and founder of the Independent Imaging Retreat (a.k.a. Film Farm, or vice versa), begins a weekend tour of the Bay at 16 Sherman Street with a screening of his feature, vulture, the Roxie opens Girls Will Be Girls, with director Shuchi Talati in person (who returns for the Saturday show as well), Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché is at BAMPFA in the afternoon and La La Land continues their LA-focused series in the evening, and the Balboa screens The Shawshank Redemption.
Saturday, the Roxie has matinees of Hummingbirds with director Estefanía “Beba” Contreras and The Matches documentary Bleeding Audio with director Chelsea Christer and others in person, and a late show of Dario Argentos' Suspiria, Phil Hoffman's local visit continues at Other Cinema/ATA, screening his own films alongside those of several Film Farm alumni to celebrate Film Farm's 30th Anniversary, the Stanford screens Joseph H Lewis's B-movie extraordinaire Gun Crazy and Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street, the Balboa has a Van Damme double of Sudden Death and Street Fighter, this week's Popcorn Palace at the 4 Star is Raiders of the Lost Ark, Batman: The Movie (repeating Sunday) is at the Lark, Deep in the Heart (aka Handgun) is at Drafthouse, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum has its monthly comedy shorts night, and Banel & Adama and our feature this week, The Stranger and the Fog, are at BAMPFA.
Sunday, Hoffman's tour wraps up at Shapeshifters Cinema with Phil Hoffman Shorts: Of Memory & Association, Seven Samurai and Charles Burnett's essential Killer of Sheep (on 35mm) are at BAMPFA, Adam's Rib is at the Lark, Belladonna of Sadness is at the Balboa, a double feature of Fast Times At Ridgemont High and Valley Girl are at the Vogue, and The Last Waltz and Powell & Pressburger's The Small Back Room are at the 4 Star.
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