Monday, the 50th anniversary celebration of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre continues (through Thursday) at the Balboa (go full grindhouse with screenings of a 16mm print on Monday and Tuesday), Chris Petit's Radio On (repeats Tuesday) is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission, The Tales of Hoffman at the 4 Star, Doctor Zhivago (repeats Wednesday) at the Presidio, Punk Kids followed by a Q&A with the director at the Grand Lake, Chungking Express(repeats Friday) and three short docs from the New Yorker (continuing through Thursday) are at the Roxie, and On the Town and Ukrainian doc Rule of Two Walls (continuing through the week) are at the Lark.
Tuesday, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (on 35mm) is this week's Terror Tuesday pick at the Drafthouse, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (repeats Thursday) is at the Presidio, Last Summer continues at the Lark, and Paris, Texas (repeats Thursday) and Destination Moon (on 16mm) are at the Roxie.
Wednesday, Round Midnight screens at the 4 Star with a pre-show performance from Ethan Iverson, who joins Robert Mailer Anderson for a post-film discussion, Brian De Palma's early black comedy Hi, Mom! (on 35mm) and Stalker are at Drafthouse, Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray is at BAMPFA, and Jawbreaker (repeats Thursday) is at the Vogue.
Thursday, local archival record label Dark Entries presents gay porn classic Turned On on VHS at the 4 Star, the Rialtos Cerrito and Elmwood present free matinees of Giant, the Oakland International Film Festival opens at the Grand Lake with The Bridge, Agnieszka Holland's latest, Green Border, is at BAMPFA, and a new restoration of Rene Laloux's follow-up to Fantastic Planet, The Time Masters (repeats Saturday and next week), is at the Roxie.
Friday, the Balboa inaugurates the first annual Ocean Beach Surf Film Festival with an original 16mm Technicolor print of Bruce Brown's influential surf doc, The Endless Summer, and continues through the weekend with film premieres, archival discoveries, local short films, live music, and more; Kent Mackenzie's early 1960s night-in-the-life doc The Exiles screens in BAMPFA's Los Angeles series, with an introduction by May HaDuong, director of the UCLA Film & Television Archive; the 4 Star presents Joan Chen-starring lesbian romcom Saving Face with director Alice Wu in person; the Roxie opens Close Your Eyes, Spanish master Victor Erice's first feature in three decades (as does the Orinda), and Lana Wilson's new psychic doc, Look Into My Eyes (both continuing through next week), and also screens From Russia with Lev, with producers Rachel Maddow and Alfred Spellman and director Billy Corben in person, Caligula: The Ultimate Cut is at the Vogue, Friday the 13th is at the New Parkway, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum continues its foray into talkies with an Odyssey Film Institute presentation of Frank Capra's Meet John Doe (on 16mm), and the Val Lewton part of the Stanford's new "Film Noir (plus Val Lewton)" season commences with the essential horror classic, Cat People, plus Fritz Lang's The Woman in the Window (both on 35mm, as always at the Stanford, and repeating Friday).
Saturday, the Stanford has an all-timer double of Double Indemnity and Mildred Pierce (on 35mm, repeating Sunday), the 4 Star has a Godzilla double feature with Megumi Odaka in person, Smog continues the LA series and Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché kicks off a short series on silent cinema pioneers at BAMPFA, The Deer Hunter is at Drafthouse, The Lady and the Tramp is at the Lark, the Niles presents a silent Capra deep cut, The Strong Man (on 16mm, with shorts and live accompaniment), the Orinda presents Jack Pierce: The Maker of Monsters with director Strephon Taylor in person, One From the Heart: Reprise and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest are at the Roxie, and Other Cinema presents Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, an elemental curation of small-gauge short films, at Artists' Television Access.
Sunday, Star Trek: The Motion Picture - Director's Edition is at Drafthouse, Join or Die is at the Roxie, Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse presents anti-D&D Satanic Panic TV movie (and Tom Hanks's first lead role!), Mazes & Monsters, at the 4 Star, and our featured screening this week is The Early Days of the Pacific Film Archive & Double Suicide at BAMPFA, which is followed by Larry Clark's ultra-rare jazz drama, Passing Through, with Clark in person and May HaDuong returning to join him in conversation.
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