Films around San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley, aggregated from select theaters.

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…

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

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…

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

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

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.

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

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…

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

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).

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.

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…

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 Tibetan actor/musician Tsering Bawa Dorjee in person for Q&A moderated by Gaetano Kazuo Maida Executive Director of the Buddhist Film Foundation.

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…

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).

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.

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

Arab Film Festival 2026

Continuing the Arab Film Festival’s tradition of uplifting Palestinian voices, this program highlights the stories of Palestinians in their own words. Each film offers us glimpses into the daily lives…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Club Kid

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

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).

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.

Closure

After his teenage son, Chris, is last seen by a surveillance camera on a bridge over Warsaw’s turbulent Vistula River, Daniel embarks on an all-consuming search. Armed with self-built boats, drones…

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…

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…

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…

Club Kid

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

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…

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.

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…

Dive in Wonderland

The first Japanese theatrical animated adaptation of Alice in Wonderland

In Transit

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

The Exorcist

The scariest movie of all time

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…

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…

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…

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

Peter Greenaway's verbal & visual feast

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.

My Brother's Wedding

Charles Burnett's 1983 masterpiece, newly restored.

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…

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.

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

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

The Room Returns

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

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

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.

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…

WTO/99

A found footage snapshot of political and cultural history.

The Exorcist III

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

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).

THX 1138

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