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I assume we’ll be here again next year 9/11 Truth Film Festival, Grand Lake Theater, 9/11

Essential vibe reporting by @oaklandreviewofbooks.org from the annual 9/11 Truther festival at the Grand Lake: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/i-assume-wel...

SEPTEMBER 15, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, the Roxie screens the debut feature of Lithuanian filmmaker Laurynas Bareiša, Pilgrims, Akira Kurosawa's The Hidden Fortress, and continues Hong Kong Cinema Classics with A Better Tomorrow, No...

And here's the week's roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/sep...

Rituals in Transfigured Time: Maya Deren, Sidney Peterson, and Kenneth Anger Cinematic choreography and bodies in motion are central to the films in this program. Maya Deren’s iconic psychodramas are elevated by the specificity of gesture and movement in the films, while cinem...

Coincidentally, on Wednedsay, @bampfa.bsky.social is screening—alongside works by Maya Deren and Kenneth Anger—a selection of films by Sidney Peterson, founder of the hugely influential film program at the CA School of Fine Arts, which would eventually become SFAI: bampfa.org/event/ritual...

The Studio 8 Film Festival 2025 From September 19-21, the Studio 8 Film Festival will celebrate the visionary spirit of the film department at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), a core part of the development of experimental fi...

This week, Cat Beckstrand on Studio 8, the black box studio at now-shuttered SF Art Institute where generations of filmmakers learned their craft and developed their vision, celebrated Fri-Sun at Shapeshifters, the Roxie, & SFMOMA with @sfartistsalumni.org: www.screenslate.com/articles/stu...

SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 – THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, the Odyssey Film Institute presents Top Gun (on 35mm) at the Balboa, the Roxie has a final matinee screening of the new 35mm print of 8 1/2 and a new restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo co...

And here’s the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/sep...

This week, @jlalibs.com beat me to the punch posting his write-up of City on Fire, screening Saturday in the Roxie’s weekend-long Hong Kong Classics mini-series:

STUDIO 8 Film Festival - 2025 The Studio 8 Film Festival is a three-day celebration of bold and innovative short films by SFAI alumni, former faculty, and staff. Showcasing experimental works across generations, the festival honor...

SFAA is proud to present the 2nd Annual Studio 8 Film Festival, taking place September 19–21 at multiple Bay Area venues — a celebration of bold, original, and experimental filmmaking rooted in the enduring legacy of the San Francisco Art Institute. Get your tickets!!

Also, don't miss Crossroads 2025 this weekend! Eight programs of 47 film, video, and performance works by 47 artists, Friday through Sunday at @grayarea.org www.sfcinematheque.org/crossroads/c...

AUGUST 25, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, the Roxie has a selection of four recent documentaries from Bay Area women filmmakers, Olas de Recuerdo, a new documentary about young activists in the wake of the 2019 Sudanese revolution and...

And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

Vive l'amour This past New Year’s Eve, thousands gathered in Da’an Park to watch Tsai Ming-liang’s Vive L’amour (1994) and reenact Yang Kuei-mei’s relentlessly desolate final scene. Marking the film’s thirtieth an...

This week, Delaney Holton on Tsai Ming-liang's masterpiece of isolation and longing, Vive l'amour, screening Wednesday at @bampfa.bsky.social with Tsai and actor Lee Kang-sheng in person www.screenslate.com/articles/viv...

AUGUST 18, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure continues the Roxie's Keanu Summer and this month's staff pick is Cube, Familiar Touch opens at the Lark, Andrei Rublev is at the Balboa,

And here's the weekly roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

Midnight If 1939 was “Hollywood's Greatest Year," it was a year of extravagance, spectacle, romance—and a little light on laughs. Of the outright, through-and-through comedies, only Ninotchka breaks into the y...

This week, we highlight one of the unsung wonders of 1939 from the one of the most underappreciated directors of the studio era: Mitchell Leisen's Midnight, screening on 35mm Thursday and Friday at the Stanford on a double bill with The Palm Beach Story www.screenslate.com/articles/mid...

Jupiter Ascending: Julian Glander on Boys Go to Jupiter Artist Julian Glander’s first feature, Boys Go to Jupiter, follows a group of Florida teenagers during a languid summer in which they hang out talking about Big Ideas between gig economy shifts and lo...

And we've also got an interview with Julian Glander, director of Boys Go to Jupiter, the animated coming-of-age film chock full of characters voiced by alt-comedy stars, opening Friday at the Balboa theater: www.screenslate.com/articles/jup...

AUGUST 11, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, Party Girl and The Outsiders are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) (also at Valley Fair [VF], and Tuesday at Mountain View [MV]) and Lady Snowblood is at all three Drafthouses variously...

And here's this week's roundup: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

Popeye Unwell in the head in all the right ways, the 1980 Popeye movie was the brainchild of storied Paramount producer Robert Evans, who tapped satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer to write the adaptation ...

This week, Steve Macfarlane on Popeye, Robert Altman's sublime clusterfuck disasterpiece starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall in roles they were born for, screening on 35mm Saturday afternoon at @bampfa.bsky.social www.screenslate.com/articles/pop...

San Francisco Cinematheque proudly announces…
CROSSROADS 2025, August 29–31
full festival line-up at: bit.ly/4nKvitY

8 Programs / 47 Artists
47 Works of Film and Video
All programs presented at
Gray Area, San Francisco

#XRDS25 #CROSSROADSFESTIVAL #sfcinematheque #experimentalfilm #filmfestival

San Francisco Cinematheque (@sfcinematheque.bsky.social) www.sfcinematheque.org Cinematheque is one of the most respected showcases of experimental film & video in the world, including our CROSSROADS festival.

Everybody go welcome @sfcinematheque.bsky.social to the neighborhood with a follow!

AUGUST 4, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, The Tale of Zatoichi and Tales from the Hood are at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM) (and at Valley Fair [VF] and Mountain View [MV], respectively, on following days), Liquid Sky is back ...

And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/aug...

Vincent & Theo After selling his production company in the early 1980s and trading Hollywood’s precarious refuge for a string of low-budget chamber pieces, Robert Altman slogged for a decade before his comeback with...

This week, Saffron Maeve on Robert Altman's Van Gogh biopic, Vincent & Theo, made immediately before his late-career renaissance began, screening Sunday evening at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/vin...

Tsui Hark on Shanghai Blues When Shanghai Blues was released in 1984, it marked a rebirth for Tsui Hark, the enfant terrible of the Hong Kong New Wave, who was on the verge of quitting filmmaking altogether. The film launched Ts...

And in case you missed it, see our recent interview with Tsui Hark on the occasion of Shanghai Blues returning to theaters, currently at 3Below: www.screenslate.com/articles/tsu...

JULY 7, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, Odyssey Film Institute presents The Cable Guy (on 35mm) at the Balboa, Shall We Dance is at the Smith Rafael, Attack the Block is at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), A.I.

And here's the round-up: www.screenslate.com/articles/jul...

Intermezzo Gustaf Molander can’t be credited with discovering Ingrid Bergman, but he may be most responsible for shaping her star image. Across their six films together, she moved from supporting player (Swedenh...

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on Gustaf Molander's Intermezzo, the movie that convinced David O. Selznick to bring Ingrid Bergman to Hollywood and which was remade for her first American film, screening Sunday, July 13, at @bampfa.bsky.social: www.screenslate.com/articles/int...

JUNE 30, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, Damián Szifron's Wild Tales (Relatos Salvajes) (repeats Saturday) is at the Roxie, Artists' Television Access has a night of live music and expanded cinema, graffiti doc Style Wars is at the B...

And here's the round-up for the week: www.screenslate.com/articles/jun...

Mikio Naruse: The Auteur as Salaryman One of the descriptions that seems to follow wherever the name of Mikio Naruse is mentioned is that, after Akira Kurosawa, Yasujirō Ozu, and Kenji Mizoguchi, he is the “fourth great” master of Japanes...

This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on @bampfa.bsky.social's sprawling Mikio Naruse retrospective, The Auteur as Salaryman, which opens Thursday, July 3 with his best-known film, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, on 35mm: www.screenslate.com/articles/mik...

Whoops–missed this in the roundup!

Castration Movie: Pt. I Castration Movie: Pt. 1 (2025) should be required viewing for anyone who claims to be human these days. The first completed part of actor, writer, and director Louise Weard’s intended series is a four...

And don't forget, last weeks' feature, Castration Movie Pt. 1, screens tonight at the New Parkway: www.screenslate.com/articles/cas...

JUNE 23, 2025 — THE WEEK IN THE BAY Monday, Frameline 49 continues at the Roxie, Vogue, New Parkway and elsewhere throughout the week, The Hunger (repeats Tuesday) at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission (NM), The Terminator and Terminator ...

And here's the weekly round-up: www.screenslate.com/articles/jun...

Pink Narcissus Fifty years ago, Cosmopolitan interviewed a group of women about the pros and cons of sleeping with gay men. “They educated me,” said the Warhol superstar Cherry Vanilla. “I didn’t know what an avocad...

This week, Matt Weinstock on Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood's DIY erotic fantasia, screening in a new restoration Wednesday at the Roxie as part of Frameline 49 (and again at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission next week): www.screenslate.com/articles/pin...

If we sell out the screenings at Frameline and The Music Box I will drop Castration Movie Chapter iii. junior ghosts—premorphic drift

more tix released for our frameline screening at the new parkway theatre on monday!