SEPTEMBER 23 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY

Vertigo
September 23rd 2024

Monday, The Warriors (repeats Wednesday), The Muppet Movie (repeats through Wednesday), Deep in the Heart (aka Handgun), and Batman Forever are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, the BiCONIC short film fest is at the Roxie, The Masque of the Red Death is at the Balboa, Powell & Pressburger's The Small Back Room at the 4 Star, Adam's Rib at the Lark, and Logan's Run at the Presidio.

Tuesday, Dario Argento's Suspiria is at the Roxie, where a LeatherWeek series also commences in the run up to Folsom Street Fair, starting with William Friedkin's Cruising, the New Parkway has a selection of short films by formerly incarcerated filmmakers followed by a Q&A, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life In Four Chapters is at the Balboa, Jaws (repeats Thursday) at the Presidio, and Bad Lieutenant (repeats Wednesday) and this week's Terror Tuesday pick, Stripped to Kill, are at Drafthouse.

Wednesday, a silent matinee double feature of Cecil B. DeMille's The Cheat and Lois Weber's Where Are My Children? (both with live accompaniment by Judith Rosenberg) and an evening show of Pat O'Neill's Water and Powerare at BAMPFA, the Roxie screens Low Cut Connie doc Art Dealers with frontman Adam Weiner talking to Merrill Garbus and continues LeatherWeek with a doc about the history of the street fair, Folsom Forever, while Basic Instinctis at the Drafthouse, Le Samouraï at the Balboa, Marriage Italian Style (repeats Thursday) at the Vogue, The Presidio at the 4 Star, and Made in England: The FIlms of Powell & Pressburger at the Lark.

Thursday, Banel & Adama is at BAMPFA, Heavy Metal at the New Parkway, Dave Eggars is in person to present two short docs at the Roxie, where the last LeatherWeek show is a selection of recent short films, and the Stanford's noir and Val Lewton series continues with a double bill of our feature this week, The Body Snatcher, and The Glass Key (repeats Friday, on 35mm).

Friday, Nails from the Crypt returns to the New Parkway with a drag show and Final Destination, a new black and white restoration of Julian Schnabel's Basquiat open at the Roxie, where Eno returns for one final run (continuing through next week), BAMPFA has a matinee premiere of Waiting for Life with the director, film subjects, and others in person and an evening show of Agnes Varda's Lions Love ( . . . and Lies) continues their Los Angeles series, O Brother, Where Art Thou is at the 4 Star, Back to the Future is at the Balboa, and Back to the Future II (repeats all weekend) is at the Presidio.

Saturday, the Stanford's noir series continues with a classic double feature of Sunset Blvd. and Nightmare Alley, Hoop Dreams and a newly-struck 70mm print of Vertigo (repeats next week) screen at the Drafthouse, BAMPFA has a kid-friendly matinee of Microcosmos followed by the the first two films in Greg Araki's Teen Apocalypse Trilogy, Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation, with star James Duval in person, the Roxie hosts a benefit screening of 1990 leatherdyke doc BloodSisters, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum screens the Lon Chaney-starring While the City Sleeps, Other Cinema's recurring Psycho-Geo show goes local with Russell Howe on Scott Williams and Arlin Golden presenting his own and other short docs about the Bay, while My Neighbor Totoro, Toy Story 3 (repeats Sunday), and North by Northwest (repeats Sunday) are at the 4 Star, The Little Mermaid is at the Lark, and the Marin Italian Film Festival starts weekly Saturday screenings with A Hundred Sundays.

Sunday, Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog is at the Lark, Dazed & Confused at the 4 Star, Juliet Berto's Neige (aka Snow) at Drafthouse, Paris, Texas and The Time Masters are at the Roxie, Shapeshifters presents Jennifer Reevee's dual-projection 16mm When It Was Blue, and BAMPFA has Hito Hata: Raise the Banner and the third film in Araki's tirlogy, Nowhere. Lastly, Sunday is the annual Silent Movie Day, so you can catch Rin Tin Tin in Clash of the Wolves (1925) at the Drafthouse, a selection of early Laurel & Hardy shorts at the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood, and People On Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag), made by a murderer's row of soon-to-be legends, at the Roxie.