Concerts, films, and talks around the Bay Area.

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

William Greaves reunites the legends of the Harlem Renaissance fifty years later

You Can See Everything

Fielder & Oppenheim's doc on Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes

Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother

A hitman with a conscience and everything to lose

Ken Russell's The Devils

Experience the uncut version, newly restored and remastered in 4K

Lady

Lady is an off-beat comedy about a lonely, narcissistic aristocrat who dupes a struggling, opportunistic director into filming her every move. But her obsession with the spotlight takes a surreal turn…

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his TV show, filmmaker John Wilson searches for a new creative outlet. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he attempts to apply the same…

LEE RITENOUR

One of the most celebrated guitarists in contemporary jazz

Los Gaiteros de San Jacinto, Fruko, & Carmelo Torres

Doors 6:30pm

NAZA

NAZA is also playing at NEW PEOPLE In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by…

Wild at Heart

A red hot, full throttle love odyssey from David Lynch

Election Night Watch Party: Hosted by Kochina Rude!

Doors 5pm

Los Domingos

Ainara is seventeen, brilliant, and expected to choose a university degree. Instead, she makes a choice no one saw coming: she feels called to God and is considering life as a cloistered nun.

Wild at Heart (4K Restoration)

Come dressed as your favorite character from the film on Halloween and score FREE POPCORN. Snakeskin jackets, red lipstick, and Lynchian weirdness encouraged! “This is a snakeskin jacket.

Chronovisor

An armchair mystery in which the life of a reclusive academic collides with the story of a clandestine technology that can photograph the past. While writing a monograph on historical theories of…

Blade Runner: The Final Cut (35mm)

While so many effects-driven visions of the future have faded with time, Blade Runner remains a template for imagining the neon-soaked city to come, as influential in its way as Fritz Lang’s…

Exhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15…

You Can See Everything

Fielder & Oppenheim's doc on Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes

Ken Russell's The Devils

Experience the uncut version, newly restored and remastered in 4K

Free Art Workshop: Clay Tile Textures

Learn how to carve marks and textures on clay tiles.

Fjord

Renate Reinsve and Sebastian Stan star in this year's Palme D'Or winner

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

William Greaves reunites the legends of the Harlem Renaissance fifty years later

Gallery Tour & Sketching Activity: Dread Scott & Rael San Fratello

Learn more about the exhibitions in this guided tour and sketching activity.

An Evening with Jane Schoenbrun: Public Access Afterworld + I Saw the TV Glow

THIS SCREENING IS AT RUSH! Co-presented by Book Passage. Join us for a special evening with acclaimed filmmaker and writer Jane Schoenbrun, celebrating the release of their debut novel…

Runa Simi

A with Director Augusto Zegarra, Protagonist Fernando Valencia, and Producer Paloma Iturriaga after the screening! “The film is a love letter to a language, and to the culture woven into and defined…

Harun Farocki’s War at a Distance and Videos by Mahmoud Alhaj

Copresented by the UC Berkeley Palestinian and Arab Studies Program

Harun Farocki’s influential 2003 essay film and Mahmoud Alhaj’s recent videos examine how perception is controlled as a result, or a tool, of war and conflict.

Pain of Truth

Doors 6pm

Ryli

Known for their melodic yet melancholic sound, Ryli will provide a sonic juxtaposition to Gahee Park’s moody and introspective paintings.

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his TV show, filmmaker John Wilson searches for a new creative outlet. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he attempts to apply the same…

You Can See Everything

Fielder & Oppenheim's doc on Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes

Curator’s Tour / Anthony Graham on Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Senior Curator Anthony Graham offers a tour of Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing which he co-curated with Chief Curator Margot Norton. Author of the lead exhibition catalogue essay, Graham will explore the evolution of Hassinger's…

Exhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15…

Wrenching News Workshops

Included with admission.

Join artist Julia Goodman in creating Wrenching News, a collaborative artwork featured in Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing, through the process of twisting and knotting newspapers according to Hassinger’s…

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his TV show, filmmaker John Wilson searches for a new creative outlet. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he attempts to apply the same…

Fjord

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close-knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form…

NAZA

NAZA is also playing at NEW PEOPLE In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by…

The Secret

Digital Restoration

Loosely based on a real-life double-murder case, Ann Hui’s grisly debut feature traces the labyrinthine investigation by one of the victim’s friends, played by Sylvia Chang. At once procedural and spectral, The Secret…

New People: Paprika

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Arguably the chef d’oeuvre in the anime icon’s blemish-free filmography, Paprika was Kon Satoshi’s fourth…

CÓRDOBA

genre-blending sound that fuses pop, rock, R&B and Latin rhythms

Danny L Harle

Doors 7pm

Squirrel Flower

Doors 7pm

Lady

Lady is an off-beat comedy about a lonely, narcissistic aristocrat who dupes a struggling, opportunistic director into filming her every move. But her obsession with the spotlight takes a surreal turn…

Alien

The crew of the commercial towing ship Nostromo is heading home with 20 million tons of mineral ore when a mysterious transmission pulls them off course. What begins as another job quickly becomes a…

Wild Horse Nine

Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich bring CIA drama to Easter Island

You Can See Everything

Fielder & Oppenheim's doc on Silicon Valley founder Elizabeth Holmes

Jam Session with Creativity Explored

Join us for an afternoon jam session featuring Creativity Explored artists and their handmade instruments.

Mean Streets

4K Digital Restoration

Set during the Feast of San Gennaro in the Italian neighborhood where Martin Scorsese grew up, and populated with characters and situations based on the neighborhood’s inhabitants, Mean Streets is a brilliant…

New People: Being Heumann

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. All screenings will be open caption! In-person Q&A with Crip Camp Co-Director and Activist Jim Lebrecht…

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with…

Fatherland

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of…

Floating Features: Pacific Heights

Drake and Patty purchase a San Francisco Victorian hoping to fund their future through rental income. Their stability collapses when Carter Hayes occupies the studio, weaponizing tenant law to drain…

Harakiri

Tatsuya Nakadai is a penniless samurai who asks a wealthy clan's permission to commit ritual suicide—though that’s not the only killing on his mind. “Probably the best samurai film ever made” (Washington Post).

DWELE

Trailblazer of this generation's newfound Soul/ R&B era

City Surf Project Presents Dark N Stormy

Doors 7:30pm

Ken Russell’s The Devils (4K Restoration)

In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier’s protection of the city of Loudun from the corrupt Cardinal Richelieu is undermined by a sexually repressed nun’s accusation of witchcraft.

An Evening With Legend Zeppelin

Doors 8pm

Wild Horse Nine

Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich bring CIA drama to Easter Island

We Own the Night

One family on opposite sides of the law. Two brothers about to collide.

Las Almas ni los Ojos (Neither Souls nor Eyes)

Presented by CiNEOLA and co-presented by RoxCine. Part of the COLOMBIA ON FILM: bajo el velo de la ficción (under the veil of fiction) series. Haunted by an iconic photograph from Colombia’s violent…

Special Guest Gallery Chat: Exploring BeHere / 1942 with Margaret Yee

Special Guest Gallery Chat: Exploring BeHere / 1942 with Margaret Yee Join us in our latest special exhibition, BeHere / 1942: A New Lens on the Japanese American Incarceration, for a special walkthrough with museum educator and Gallery…

Kwaidan

4K Digital Restoration, Director’s Cut

This is Masaki Kobayashi’s atmospheric and visually captivating adaptation of four haunting stories by Lafcadio Hearn. “Each of the exquisitely crafted tales . . . is, in its own right, one of the…

New People: My Undesirable Friends: Part 2 – Exile (Chapters 4-5)

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Followed by a post-screening Q&A with Protagonist Ksenia Mironova. A group of young journalists deemed…

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with…

The Dalai Lama: My Religion Is Kindness

Director Babeth Mondini-VanLoo and Special Guest in person for Q&A moderated by Gaetano Kazuo Maida Executive Director of the Buddhist Film Foundation. This new film offers a unique, intimate…

Fatherland

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of…

New People: Being Heumann

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. All screenings will be open caption! In-person Q&A with Crip Camp Co-Director and Activist Jim Lebrecht…

The Sword

“With its blend of melodrama, weapons-based action, and wire-fu choreography . . . [The Sword] gets as swept up by the characters’ quieter moments of their muted agony as it does by their physical violence” (Jake Cole, Slant Magazine).

Fjord

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close-knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form…

Alex Cameron

Doors 8pm

Closing of Fairyland @ 75: A Legacy of Magic

Closing of Fairyland @ 75: A Legacy of Magic With just a few weeks left to experience it, OMCA welcomes you to explore Fairyland’s rich history and impact on Oakland’s cultural landscape with Fairyland @ 75: A Legacy of Magic.

Wild Horse Nine

Sam Rockwell and John Malkovich bring CIA drama to Easter Island

The Magnificent Ambersons

Real life screened more daringly than it's ever been before!

Studio 8 2026: Babeth Mondini VanLoo (Studio 8 Legacy Award)

The 2026 Studio 8 Legacy Award honors Dutch artist and filmmaker Babeth Mondini VanLoo (SFAI, 1977), a student of Joseph Beuys whose documentaries span five decades, from punk to Buddhism.

Mapping Utopias

Space is limited; RSVP required.

Educator, anthropologist, and community organizer Isa Prieto leads participants through a discussion and collective mapmaking activity exploring the idea of utopianism and the fragments of utopia that…

New People: Being Heumann

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. All screenings will be open caption! In-person Q&A with Crip Camp Co-Director and Activist Jim Lebrecht…

Los Conductos

Presented by CiNEOLA and co-presented by RoxCine. Part of the COLOMBIA ON FILM: bajo el velo de la ficción (under the veil of fiction) series. Freely inspired by a true story. Medellin, Colombia.

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

Masaki Kobayashi’s three-part antiwar masterpiece follows the awakening—and disillusionment—of a Japanese soldier (the great Tatsuya Nakadai) during World War II. “Amazingly powerful in its emotional sweep and the depth of its historical…

Exhibition Tour: Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection

Included with admission.

Southland Tales

Richard Kelly's genre-bending follow-up to DONNIE DARKO featuring The Rock

Everything For Sale

The lead protagonist of a film disappears mid production, and his family and crew search for him before tragic news reaches them. Wajda’s first film where he received sole screenwriting credit…

How to Clean a House in 10 Easy Steps

Presented by CiNEOLA and co-presented by RoxCine with community partner BAVC Media Part of the COLOMBIA ON FILM: bajo el velo de la ficción (under the veil of fiction) series. Beatriz Valencia…

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with…

Contempt

4K Digital Restoration

Jean-Luc Godard’s Homeric homage to Fritz Lang, “one of the defining moments of modernist filmmaking” (Film Comment). With Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, and Jack Palance.

Foy Vance

Doors 6pm

RUBEN STUDDARD

Grammy Award nominee, winner of season two of American Idol

Chunks

A comedy anthology for people who love TV but can’t find a damn thing to watch.

Fatherland

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of…

NAZA

NAZA is also playing at NEW PEOPLE In secret conversations on the rooftops of Tel Aviv at night, the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza are revealed by…

Fjord

From two-time Palme d’Or winner Cristian Mungiu, a Norwegian woman and her devout Romanian husband relocate with their five children to a remote, close-knit, coastal town. Their teenage children form…

The History of Concrete

Following the finale of his TV show, filmmaker John Wilson searches for a new creative outlet. After attending a workshop on how to write and sell a Hallmark movie, he attempts to apply the same…

Being Heumann

Being Heumann opens at NEW PEOPLE on November 6! They wouldn’t take Judy Heumann’s phone calls, so she took their building. In 1977, a young disabled woman (Ruth Madeley) and a scrappy coalition of…

Paper Tiger

Two brothers get caught in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true

Once Upon a Time in Harlem

A decade after his death, genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves has one last trick up his sleeve with what he considered the most important event he captured on film: a 1972 party he engineered with…

THX 1138 (35mm)

Presented in 35mm in its original theatrical version, George Lucas’s THX 1138 imagines a sterile underground future where citizens are drugged into compliance, emotion is suppressed…

Buzzcocks, Modern English

Doors 7pm

Rio Amor

Doors 7pm

Fatherland

FATHERLAND centres on the relationship between the Nobel Prize-winning writer Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Sandra Hüller) – actress, writer and rally driver. In the summer of…

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

An unflinching gaze into a serial killer, newly restored

Exhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15…

Rock Ross: Go Like This (16mm)

Presented by Canyon Cinema Filmmaker Rock Ross in person for a post-screening audience Q&A! Canyon at The Roxie is back with a spotlight on local legend Charles Rock Ross! Rock Ross: Go Like This…

Samurai Rebellion

Japanese cinema icons Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai team up to slice their way through duty-bound Japan in this tale of a dutiful samurai whose attempts to be a “good servant” are about to end . . . in blood.

Buzzcocks, Modern English

Doors 7pm

Jake Xerxes Fussell

Doors 7pm

Crocodile Dose

Three friends embark on a fantastical 24-hour odyssey or drugs and alcohol

Club Kid

A club promoter's lifestyle is upended when he learns he has a 10-year-old son

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Almodóvar’s laugh-out-loud farce about love and heartache

Band of Outsiders

Digital Restoration

Anna Karina, Sami Frey, and Claude Brasseur are unlikely burglars in Jean-Luc Godard’s “reverie of a gangster movie” (Pauline Kael). “Band of Outsiders shows Godard at his most amusing, and that is no small thing”…

SFTFF 2026 – COMEDY

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival opens with COMEDY, a shorts block featuring four outstanding and hilarious films. Cockroach (23min) Justice Singleton, USA, 2025 A bold…

JACKIEM JOYNER

Contemporary saxophonist, author, and music producer

Marc Broussard

Doors 7pm

Russian Circles

Doors 7pm

SFTFF 2026 – DOCUMENTARY

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with DOCUMENTARY, a shorts block featuring four poignant and explorative films. 3 Hearts of Iron (13:25min) Ariel del Sol, Costa Rica…

Club Kid

A club promoter's lifestyle is upended when he learns he has a 10-year-old son

Waikiki Brothers

A mediocre nightclub cover band strums its way across the forgotten hinterlands of South Korea in Yim Soon-rye’s now-cult classic—simultaneously deadpan and admiring, sorrowful and life-affirming—with lead roles for future superstars Hwang…

Floating Features: Friday the 13th

A group of camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp which, years before, was the site of a child’s drowning. About Floating Features San…

SFTFF 2026 – HORROR

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with HORROR, a shorts block featuring five terrifying and shocking films. Mascott (13:31min) Marilyne Lamontagne, Canada, 2025 Scott…

ZENEFIT 2026: A NIGHT OF SONIC EXPLORATION & DEEP LISTENING

Doors 6pm

KRS-ONE

Rapper, social activist, and hip-hop pioneer from the Bronx, known as "The Teacha"

The Inheritance

BAMPFA Collection

A dying businessman sets off a family scandal by announcing that his fortune will go to his illegitimate children in Masaki Kobayashi’s melodrama, a wry condemnation of Japanese postwar materialism, perfectly chilled by…

La Bola Negra

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish history, bound by pain…

Other Lives

Doors 8pm

SFTFF 2026 – GRAB BAG

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with GRAB BAG, a shorts block of films featuring nine films with a variety of genre and tone. Cowboy (4:18min) Ryan Thompson, United States…

Member Bonus Reciprocity Week at Asian Art Museum

Join us for a celebratory partnership between the Oakland Museum of California and the Asian Art Museum (AAM) with this bonus reciprocity weekend!

From November 14–15th, enjoy free admission reciprocity to the Asian Art Museum for 2 guests…

Club Kid

A club promoter's lifestyle is upended when he learns he has a 10-year-old son

Artists’ Conversation: Emory Douglas and William Rhodes

Tickets required. Gallery admission included with ticket purchase.

In a conversation moderated by Sita Kuratomi Bhaumik, Emory Douglas and William Rhodes discuss their collaborative piece Revolution in Our Lifetime, featured in Some…

West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty

Join us for an afternoon screening of Med Hondo’s “West Indies: The Fugitive Slaves of Liberty” (1979).

La Bola Negra

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish history, bound by pain…

Volver

Pedro Almodóvar and his muse Penélope Cruz’s celebration of female community

Taxi Driver

4K Digital Restoration

After he takes a job as a taxi driver to cope with chronic insomnia, ex-Marine Travis Bickle (Robert “You talkin’ to me” De Niro) begins to see the dark city as one vast cesspool of crime and concupiscence.

Little Forest

A young professional abandons a Seoul life of coffee shops and office drudgery to return to a rural mountain farm and learn to “make her own time” in this “small film with a very big heart” (Taipei Times). Based on a Japanese manga.

SFTFF 2026 – SPECULATIVE FICTION

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with SPECULATIVE FICTION, a shorts block featuring six out of this world films. Las Cosas Que Brillan (11:09min) Kristal Sotomayor…

SFTFF 2026 – ADULT (18+)

The 2026 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival continues with ADULT(18+), a shorts block featuring five intimate and definitively adult films. Mommy (8:40min) Evie Snax, Manon Praline…

The Cactus Blossoms

Doors 8pm

Club Kid

A club promoter's lifestyle is upended when he learns he has a 10-year-old son

Spotlight Sundays: Japanese American Legacies of Resistance

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The Human Condition II: The Road to Eternity

In Part II of Masaki Kobayashi’s nine-hour epic about Japan’s occupation of China during World War II, soldier Tatsuya Nakadai tries to institute more humane procedures in his military unit, but he only succeeds in attracting the ire of…

Exhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15…

Hunting Flies + Roly Poly

Presented together, Hunting Flies and Roly Poly are two distinct satirical comedy films by celebrated Director Andrzej Wajda. Hunting Flies will be preceded by the short film Roly Poly.

Communal Land Care with TERREMOTO and Test Plot

Landscape architecture design studio TERREMOTO and nonprofit Test Plot discuss their approach to radical communal land care that cultivates beauty and biodiversity, and explore the belief that ecological and climate crises require a…

Just Like Weather

4K Digital Restoration

Just Like Weather centers on a young couple on the rocks. Through interviews, reenacted scenes from their everyday lives, fictional episodes, and behind-the-scenes documentary, anxieties of Hong Kong’s future after…

La Bola Negra

From Cannes-winning directors Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi—popularly known as Los Javis—La Bola Negra follows three generations of men across pivotal moments in Spanish history, bound by pain…

An Evening With Craig Finn & The Band of Forgiveness

Doors 7pm

Dive in Wonderland

The first Japanese theatrical animated adaptation of Alice in Wonderland

*CANCELLED* PRAYERS

Doors 6:30pm

Margaret Glaspy

Doors 7pm

ARMORED SAINT/ METAL CHURCH

Doors 6pm

In Transit

"A lovely new entry in existential cinema." - Movie Jawn

The Exorcist

The scariest movie of all time

Exhibition Tour: Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection

Included with admission.

Free Art Workshop: Velveteen Rabbit Pop-up Book

Design an imaginative pop-up book featuring characters from the story of “The Velveteen Rabbit.”

Progressive Art Studio Models: A Lecture By Cléa Massiani

A lecture on Progress Art Studios (PAS); radical spaces that support artists with intellectual and developmental disabilities while disrupting normative assumptions about art, labor, and value.

Black Hole Collective Film Lab

This screening brings together films made by Black Hole Collective Film Lab members past and present, footage from group workshops taught by members and visiting artists, and documentation of the lab’s evolution through multiple moves over…

John Carroll Kirby

Doors 7pm

Sueco

Doors 7pm

Paper Tiger

Two brothers get caught in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true

La Chinoise

Digital Restoration

Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 Pop-agitprop portrait of revolutionary youth “feels like a trial run for the May 1968 revolution. See it by any means necessary” (Time Out New York).

Paper Tiger

Two brothers get caught in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true

Harakiri

Tatsuya Nakadai is a penniless samurai who asks a wealthy clan's permission to commit ritual suicide—though that’s not the only killing on his mind. “Probably the best samurai film ever made” (Washington Post).

On the Road (En el Camino)

Veneno’, a rebellious young drifter, frequents roadside diners where he sleeps with truck drivers. Urgently needing a ride, he meets ‘Muñeco’, a hard-edged driver who keeps to himself.

CineSpin: He Who Gets Slapped

Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk beginning at 6:30 PM.

Join us for CineSpin, the BAMPFA Student Committee’s annual event featuring terrific UC Berkeley student musicians providing original live accompaniment to great…

Jayski and the Dawn featuring Jay Lane and Dave Ellis

Doors 7pm

Aliens (Special Edition)

Where its predecessor was a slow-burn suspenser, Cameron’s ALIENS is a bombastic, no-holds-barred exosuit fight to the finish, an express elevator to hell, goin’ down! Lone survivor Ripley (Sigourney…

MADDIE ZAHM

Doors 8pm

The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover

Peter Greenaway's verbal & visual feast

Panel on Hassinger’s Moving Image Work: Leigh Raiford and Zana Sanders in Conversation with Robyn Farrell and Kristin Juarez

Tickets required. Gallery admission included with ticket purchase.

BAMPFA will present several of Maren Hassinger’s video works, from documentation of her early performance works to her later, more cinematic works. Following the screening,…

Touki Bouki

Join us for an afternoon screening of Djibril Diop Mambety’s Touki Bouki (1973).

Paper Tiger

Two brothers get caught in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true

Samurai Rebellion

Japanese cinema icons Toshiro Mifune and Tatsuya Nakadai team up to slice their way through duty-bound Japan in this tale of a dutiful samurai whose attempts to be a “good servant” are about to end . . . in blood.

Raging Bull

4K Digital Restoration

The biography of boxer Jake LaMotta becomes a visceral meditation on existential suffering. “A fusion of Hollywood genre with personal vision . . . closer to poetry than pulp. Its sculptural weight can only be…

Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern (4K Restoration)

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon and Amoment Books. Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, is forced to abandon her…

An evening with Andrew McMahon and his piano

Doors 6pm

Poi Dog Pondering

Doors 8pm

New People: A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint

All listed screenings take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. A Deeper Love: The Story of Miss Peppermint is an award-winning documentary that follows trailblazing…

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer

By Part III of Masaki Kobayashi’s epic, the Japanese army is being routed by superior Russian troops. Protagonist Tatsuya Nakadai is captured by the Soviets and imprisoned, learning the bitter truth about the Red Army as liberators.

Exhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15…

Paper Tiger

Two brothers get caught in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true

Birds of War

Post screening Q&A with Director’s and Film Subject’s Janay Boulos and Abd Alkader Habak. By turning the camera on themselves, the co-directors follow the arc of their own love story as the vehicle…

Zhang Yimou’s Raise the Red Lantern (4K Restoration)

Co-presented by Bay Area Chinese Culture Salon and Amoment Books. Nineteen-year-old Songlian, a promising student whose family has been destroyed by her father’s death, is forced to abandon her…

Rouge

Digital Restoration

Fleur (Anita Mui) is a ghost adrift in modern Hong Kong searching for her lost lover, “Twelfth Master” (Leslie Cheung). Slipping back and forth in time, “to watch Rouge today is to be reminded that cinema is a time…

Pearl

Director Ti West's twisted, technicolor homage to the golden age of cinema

THE OZ NOY TRIO feat. DAVE WECKL

Blend of jazz, funk, rock, blues, and R&B

Divine Offering: Celebrating the Legacy of Alice Coltrane

Doors 7pm

Paper Tiger

Two brothers get caught in a scheme that turns out to be too good to be true

Point Blank (1967)

Lee Marvin runs roughshod across the West Coast

September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill

A fusion of film, theatre, and concert performance, newly restored.

The Ninth Configuration

William Peter Blatty's "real" EXORCIST II

Exhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15…

The Room Returns

A chaotic reimagining of Tommy Wiseau's THE ROOM, filmed without any rehearsal

IRISH CHRISTMAS IN AMERICA

A fascinating performance of music, song, dance, and stories of seasonal Irish traditions

Andre Nickatina

Doors 7pm

Moonalice

Doors 7pm

Sudden Fury

The explosive story of an accident that turned into murder!

Planes, Trains & Automobiles

Traveling on Thanksgiving was always a nightmare – just ask Martin and Candy

Bitter Christmas

Pedro Almodóvar's latest film explores the limits of stories within stories

The Last Waltz

4K Digital Restoration

Martin Scorsese’s loving portrait of The Band’s farewell concert in San Francisco is “arguably the most beautiful of rock movies, while the musical highlights . . . still astound” (Time Out). With guest appearances by…

Bitter Christmas

Pedro Almodóvar's latest film explores the limits of stories within stories

EMMA RUTH RUNDLE

Doors 7pm

Sleepless Nights XX: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

Doors 7:30pm

Black Girl

Join us for an afternoon screening of Ousmane Sembene’s “Black Girl” (1966).

Center Stage

4K Digital Restoration

Maggie Cheung stars in Stanley Kwan’s modernist biopic on the life and tragic early death of Chinese film star Ruan Lingyu. “A masterpiece . . . the greatest Hong Kong film I’ve seen” (Jonathan Rosenbaum).

Bellissima

4K Digital Restoration

Luchino Visconti is in an unusually comic mode for this satire on urban life and movieland ambition. The incomparable Anna Magnani plays a mother trying to launch her young daughter in show business.

Zepparella the Led Zeppelin Powerhouse

Doors 7pm

Petty Theft

Doors 8pm

Exhibition Tour: Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing

Included with admission.

Graduate students from the Departments of African American and African Diaspora Studies and History of Art offer exhibition tours on selected Wednesdays at 12:15 PM, Sundays at 2 PM, and Free First Thursdays at 1:15…

White Nights

4K Digital Restoration

Marcello Mastroianni stars in a romantic, sublimely artificial adaptation of a Fyodor Dostoyevsky story about people drifting along crossing, doubling paths.

New People: An Eye for an Eye

This screening will take place at NEW PEOPLE CINEMA, located at 1746 Post Street in Japantown. Director Tanaz Eshaghian in person for a post-screening Q&A An Eye for an Eye unfolds like a real-life…

Tokyo Godfathers (Dubbed)

The acclaimed holiday classic from modern master Satoshi Kon

GoodFellas

4K Digital Restoration

Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of Nicholas Pileggi’s chronicle of real-life Mafia associate Henry Hill, hurtles through some twenty-five years of “family” life, as the riveting Ray Liotta inhabits Hill’s chilling and…

PAUL TAYLOR

Smooth jazz alto and soprano saxophonist

WTO/99

A found footage snapshot of political and cultural history.

A John Waters Xmas

Doors 7pm

GAURI B: YEARS IN THE BREAKING

Doors 7pm

The Exorcist III

A criminally overlooked nerve-shredder from author William Peter Blatty.

Exhibition Tour: Some Particular Heaven: Ideas of Utopia in the BAMPFA Collection

Included with admission.

Batman Returns

Christmas in Gotham isn't complete without a bat, a cat, and a penguin

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

“As in Let the Summer Never Come Again, it is the poetry of aimlessness that enables Alexandre Koberidze to make visible and narratable in cinema everything that we rarely perceive in the reality of our everyday lives” (Berlinale).

ISAIAH SHARKEY

Confluence of modern soul, jazz, R&B, and Black American guitar tradition

THX 1138

The original cut in 35mm of George Lucas' first foray into Science Fiction!

SYLVIA ANDERSON FEAT DARREL WALLS AND MUSIC DIRECTOR CARL WHEELER

Two Voices, One Purpose. A Night of Gospel Brilliance, Soul & Praise

DEMOLA THE VIOLINIST

Internationally known award-winning recording artist & multi-instrumentalist

ZORN / MEDESKI / LOMBARDO "Awakening Ground" *Matinee*

Doors 3pm

THE JAMES HUNTER SIX WITH SPECIAL GUEST OSCAR LADELL

"The United Kingdom’s Greatest Soul Singer”

*CANCELLED* King of Drag

Doors 7pm

Buck Meek

Doors 7pm

The Strike

Doors 7pm

RAMONES X

Doors 7:30pm

RAMONES X

Doors 7:30pm

RAQUEL JETÉ

Big Band Returns with Raquel Jeté: A Tribute to the Harlem Renaissance

PRE SHOW WINE TASTING + MUSIC EXPERIENCE W/ MINDI ABAIR (SHOW TICKET NOT INCLUDED)

SHOW TICKET NOT INCLUDED

MINDI ABAIR CHRISTMAS SHOW

Be swept up in the joy of the season

NZURI SOUL: CHRISTMAS IN EGYPT IV - THE GIFT

Step into the Spirit—Where Christmas Meets God's Promise

Chuck Prophet

Doors 7pm

LARRY VUCKOVICH ALL-STARS

Celebrating his 90th birthday

BONEY JAMES LIVE

Celebrating NYE and his NEW album "Simple Man"

The Lemon Twigs

Doors 8pm