Monday, if you missed it elsewhere, Catherine Breillat's Last Summer makes a brief return at the Lark, Point Break, The Terminator (both continuing through Wednesday), and Repo Man are at the Drafthouse New Mission, Eno continues (through its final show, Thursday) at the Roxie, Nacho Libre is at the Balboa, and Black Narcissus and Castle in the Sky are at the 4 Star. Tuesday, local filmmakers Jazmin Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross present their documentary Seeking Mavis Beacon at the New Parkway, Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player is at the Balboa, and the Drafthouse's Terror Tuesday this week is SOV horror anthology Tales from the Quadead Zone. Wednesday, Jones and Ross head to the Roxie to present Seeking Mavis Beacon, Melancholia is at the Balboa, Nic Cage deep cut Zandalee is at the Drafthouse for Weird Wednesday, The Maltese Falcon (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue, the 4 Star has a Robert Altman/Shelley Duvall double feature with Thieves Like Us (repeating Saturday) and Nashville (repeating Friday), and the Grand Lake celebrates Oakland Pride with Cinemama's Reel Queer Flix, a selection of LGBTQ+ films by local filmmakers followed by a Q&A. Thursday, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Pulse is at the Balboa and the Roxie's latest pre-code selection is the star-studded Three on a Match.
Friday, Kate Lain is at Shapeshifters to present a "somewhat chaotic assemblage" of her films, the Balboa celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre (continuing through next week), the latest iteration of Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of San Francisco mixes new discoveries with some greatest hits from 18 years of found footage at Duboce Park, Mad Max is at the Drafthouse, Chinatown opens BAMPFA's Los Angeles series, The Return of the Living Dead is at Opera Plaza, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (repeating through Sunday) is at the Presidio, the Stanford kicks off a two-month Noir ("plus Val Lewton") series with The Big Sleep and The Maltese Falcon, and at the Roxie, alongside a new restoration of Paris, Texas, The New Yorker Presents three short documentary films (repeating through next week). Saturday, Other Cinema begins its Fall season with Toons'n'Tunes, a selection of animated and musical premieres and oddities at Artists' Television Access, the new restoration of Seven Samurai is at BAMPFA, the 4 Star's Popcorn Palace selection this week is A Goofy Movie (repeating Sunday), the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood have free family matinees of French animated anthology The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales (repeating Sunday), the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum devotes a night to Essanay janitor-turned-comedy-star Ben Turpin, Doctor Zhivago (repeating Sunday) is at the Presidio, and the Roxie screens Journeys of Black Mathematicians with a post-screening panel, We Are Fugazi From Washington, D.C., and Ann Hui's July Rhapsody. Sunday, the New Parkways shows The Watermelon Woman plus a selection of local shorts, the Niles has their monthly Laurel & Hardy talkie matinee, Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's Tales of Hoffmann are at the 4 Star, local SRO doc Home Is a Hotel, Chungking Express, and 2001: A Space Odyssey (on 35mm) are at the Roxie, Jacques Demy's Model Shop is at BAMPFA, and Shapeshifters presents Analog Dreaming: Jon Behrens Revisited, a selection (and three world premieres) of some of the late Seattle filmmaker's work.
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