This weekend around San Francisco, Oakland and Berkeley: Friday, September 18 to Sunday, September 20.
Fri, Sep 18
- Alamo New Mission
- Alamo New Mission
- Alamo New Mission
- Basic InstinctAlamo New Mission
Basic Instinct
Paul Verhoeven's sleazy & shocking erotic thriller
- Hope (2026) , ,Alamo New Mission
Hope (2026)
A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster
- Ghost in the Shell (Dubbed)Alamo New Mission
Ghost in the Shell (Dubbed)
A mind-bending, boundary-transcending futuristic sci-fi thriller
- Fall Teacher NightOakland Museum
Fall Teacher Night
Calling all teachers! In celebration of our school communities, teachers and principals are invited to join us for OMCA’s Annual Fall Teacher Night.
Stop by a dedicated educators’ lounge to learn more about OMCA’s education resources and…
- Welcome Space BrothersAlamo New Mission
Welcome Space Brothers
The unbelievable story of Ruth Norman and the Unarius Academy of Science.
- Friday Nights at OMCA with Kiyomi & Cal Raijin TaikoOakland Museum
Friday Nights at OMCA with Kiyomi & Cal Raijin Taiko
Live Performance by Cal Raijin Taiko, Live Music by Kiyomi, Music Set by DJ Dailo Mac, Live Figure Drawing with Sketchboard Co., Annual Fall Teacher Night, ScholarMatch, and Gallery Chats Celebrate the opening week of BeHere/1942: A New…
- Barbara ForeverRoxie
Barbara Forever
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…
- FilipiñanaRoxie
Filipiñana
Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…
- Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger ,Alamo New Mission
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time
- Floating Features: The RockRoxie
Floating Features: The Rock
An FBI chemical weapons expert, and a former SAS soldier turned political prisoner, must break into Alcatraz prison when a rogue military group, led by a renegade general, take it over and threaten a…
- Senegalese Meet Sene-GallicBAMPFA
Senegalese Meet Sene-Gallic
Free admission. Tickets available at the admissions desk at 6 PM.
Two shorts that mark the beginning and the current state of Alice Diop’s visionary filmmaking: Les Sénégalaises et la Sénégauloise finds her musing on migration, exile, and…
- TonyAlamo New Mission
Tony
Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters
- BIG DADDY KANEYoshi's
BIG DADDY KANE
One of the most influential and skilled MCs in hip-hop
- Bimbo's 365 Club
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp MiasmaRoxie
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit…
- The Independent
- Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary RemasterRoxie
Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster
“My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in a sea of information.” In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York…
- The Chapel
- Rickshaw Stop
Sat, Sep 19
- Alamo New Mission
- TonyAlamo New Mission
Tony
Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters
- Alamo New Mission
- Spy KidsAlamo New Mission
Spy Kids
- Curators’ Conversation: Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson on Lotty Rosenfield: Disobedient SpacesBAMPFA
Curators’ Conversation: Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson on Lotty Rosenfield: Disobedient Spaces
Tickets required. Gallery admission included with ticket purchase.
Cocurators Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson discuss Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces, examining Rosenfeld’s approach to art under authoritarianism, feminist…
- Hope (2026) , ,Alamo New Mission
Hope (2026)
A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster
- Larry Reed: A Life in Light and ShadowRoxie
Larry Reed: A Life in Light and Shadow
Join us at the Roxie Theater for a special screening honoring the life and work of Larry Reed (1944–2026), master of Balinese shadow theater, theater and film director, and founder of ShadowLight…
- Artist’s Conversation: Marcel Pardo ArizaBAMPFA
Artist’s Conversation: Marcel Pardo Ariza
Tickets required. Gallery admission included with ticket purchase.
Marcel Pardo Ariza joins BAMPFA Chief Curator Margot Norton for a conversation about their new Art Wall project and Art Handlxrs, the award-winning organization Ariza…
- Graciela Iturbide and Enrique Chagoya in Conversation Artist TalkSFMOMA
Graciela Iturbide and Enrique Chagoya in Conversation
- Trouble in ParadiseYBCA
Trouble in Paradise
See Ernst Lubitsch’s “Trouble in Paradise” (1932) as part of a weekly film series exploring voyeurism and theatricality, cocktail charm and social taboos.
- Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger , ,Alamo New Mission
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time
- Welcome Space BrothersAlamo New Mission
Welcome Space Brothers
The unbelievable story of Ruth Norman and the Unarius Academy of Science.
- FilipiñanaRoxie
Filipiñana
Director Rafael Manuel in person for introduction and Q&A moderated by Ali El-Sadany, editor of FilmSlop, on Saturday, September 5 (at rush). Presented by FiliKula Amid stifling heat and pervasive…
- SF Lost Neon Landscapes: ChinatownRoxie
SF Lost Neon Landscapes: Chinatown
This curated program of short films made from San Francisco-centric footage focuses on Chinatown, one of our city’s most beloved and documented neighborhoods. Program includes famous neon-lit scenes…
- ContemptBAMPFA
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.
- Barbara ForeverRoxie
Barbara Forever
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…
- Basic InstinctAlamo New Mission
Basic Instinct
Paul Verhoeven's sleazy & shocking erotic thriller
- Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary RemasterRoxie
Ghost in the Shell: 30th Anniversary Remaster
“My codename is Project 2501, and I am a life form that was born in a sea of information.” In the year 2029, the world looks like a hybridization of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and New York…
- The HoleBAMPFA
The Hole
New 35mm Print
In Taipei it’s the end of the world as we know it, thanks to a mysterious plague, but even the most alienated urbanite is dreaming of 1950s movie musicals in Tsai Ming-liang’s delirious exploration of modern isolation,…
- MOHINI DEYYoshi's
MOHINI DEY
Renowned bass guitarist, arranger, producer & vocalist
- The Samurai and the PrisonerRoxie
The Samurai and the Prisoner
Co-presented by the Japan Society of Northern California “Kurosawa has made one of his best films, a work that feels a bit like Agatha Christie, a bit like Shakespeare, and even a bit like Samurai…
- Kwaidan (4K Restoration)Roxie
Kwaidan (4K Restoration)
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is…
- Rickshaw Stop
- The Independent
- The Chapel
- THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOONAlamo New Mission
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
Sun, Sep 20
- SFMOMA
- Hope (2026) , ,Alamo New Mission
Hope (2026)
A haunting South Korean thriller about fear, conflict, and cosmic disaster
- Alamo New Mission
- Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger ,Alamo New Mission
Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger
One of the most anticipated rock 'n' roll comebacks of all time
- Brailled ItRoxie
Brailled It
In-person Q&A with Co-Director David Grabias moderated by Filmmaker and Activist Jim Lebrecht! Every year, the best under-18 braille readers and writers in the English-speaking world come to Los…
- The Oldest Person In The WorldRoxie
The Oldest Person In The World
Filmmaker Sam Green will be in attendance for a post-screening Q&A at all three screenings! KQED’s Alexis Madrigal moderates following the Sun, 9/20, 12:30pm show! Kronos Quartet’s David Harrington…
- Curator’s Tour: Margot Norton on Maren Hassinger: Living Moving GrowingBAMPFA
Curator’s Tour: Margot Norton on Maren Hassinger: Living Moving Growing
Join Chief Curator Margot Norton, co-curator with Senior Curator Anthony Graham, for a walkthrough of the exhibition, featuring Hassinger's material experiments in sculpture, her long-standing engagement with movement and performance, and…
- Alamo New Mission
- Spotlight Sundays: Alice Street Screening with Malonga Arts Dance and DrumsOakland Museum
Spotlight Sundays: Alice Street Screening with Malonga Arts Dance and Drums
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- LOVE SUPREME Summer Day Party SeriesThe Chapel
LOVE SUPREME Summer Day Party Series
Doors 2pm
- Pink Trash at Crescent Lawn, UC BerkeleyBAMPFA
Pink Trash at Crescent Lawn, UC Berkeley
Co-presented by the UC Berkeley Environmental Arts and Humanities Initiative
Maren Hassinger restages her iconic 1982 performance Pink Trash on UC Berkeley’s Crescent Lawn, joined for the first time by six UC Berkeley students in a work…
- Watercolor Workshop: Feeling First, a Matisse StudySFMOMA
Watercolor Workshop: Feeling First, a Matisse Study
- Barbara ForeverRoxie
Barbara Forever
EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY KRISTEN STEWART WINNER, TEDDY AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY, 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL Director Brydie O’Connor IN PERSON for Q&A on Friday, September 18 moderated by Documentary…
- Ghost in the Shell (Subtitled)Alamo New Mission
Ghost in the Shell (Subtitled)
A mind-bending, boundary-transcending futuristic sci-fi thriller
- BellissimaBAMPFA
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.
- The Cycle of LoveRoxie
The Cycle of Love
Director Orlando von Einsiedel IN PERSON in conversation with filmmakers Dayna Goldfine & Dan Geller, Wed, Sept 9!! In 1977, PK, a 23-year-old Delhi street artist from a poor, ‘untouchable’ family…
- Kwaidan (4K Restoration)Roxie
Kwaidan (4K Restoration)
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is…
- The Last WaltzBAMPFA
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…
- THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOONAlamo New Mission
THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON
- Teenage Sex and Death at Camp MiasmaRoxie
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Visionary director Jane Schoenbrun (I Saw the TV Glow) presents a new kind of horror remake in TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA. Bursting with imagination and surreal wit…
- Great American Music Hall
- Rickshaw Stop
- TonyAlamo New Mission
Tony
Late nights, lies, and lobster – don't miss TONY in theaters
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