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March 2023

Thursday, March 23, 2023

A young boy Sansón holds his head upon his arms folded as he looks in the camera of Rodrigo Reyes

Rodrigo Reyes in person for Q&A on Friday, March 17 & Saturday March 18! UC Davis Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of […]

Thursday, March 23, 2023

6:50 pm

A young man in a white tee shirt surrounded by colored light

SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE! In a dystopian 2054, three friends go on a road trip into the past. On their journey, they rediscover lost biodiversity. […]

Thursday, March 23, 2023

6:00 pm

A young Jewish man painting in the dark of a room

Berlin, 1942. Cioma Schönhaus (Louis Hofmann, star of the hit Neflix series Dark) is a young Jewish man who won’t let anyone take away […]

Thursday, March 23, 2023

9:00 pm

Friday, March 24, 2023

Biologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens, thanks […]

Friday, March 24, 2023

5:45 pm

A young aristocratic woman walking her dog in a French-style park

Newly remastered in 4K by the BFI National Archive, The Draughtsman’s Contract recently premiered at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival. “Five stars. Greenaway’s […]

Friday, March 24, 2023

6:30 pm

A young woman speaking on the old-style phone in a foley room full of different substances

Goethe Forum: When her sibling Zara suffers a nervous breakdown, the introvert Eva is forced to take on Zara’s job as a Foley artist. […]

Friday, March 24, 2023

6:00 pm

In Davy Chou’s dazzling second narrative feature, a mercurial 25-year-old — born in South Korea and raised in France by adoptive parents — returns […]

Friday, March 24, 2023

8:45 pm

Two men and a woman looking disturbed as they witness something weird unfold before their eyes

US PREMIERE! It was supposed to be a harmonious family reunion. But no sooner have husband and wife Stephan (Christoph Maria Herbst) and Elisabeth […]

Friday, March 24, 2023

8:30 pm

Saturday, March 25, 2023

Black-and-white pictures of Iranian prime minister Mohammad Mossadegh overthrown in the notorious Coup 53

“Both as a detective story and as a deep dive into a world event whose consequences linger, it is bracing, absorbing filmmaking” – Ben […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

1:00 pm

Werner Herzog in a beige overshirt

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE! “Nothing is typical for Werner, only the atypical is typical for him.” This is just one of many attempts to characterize […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

1:00 pm

A young aristocratic woman walking her dog in a French-style park

Newly remastered in 4K by the BFI National Archive, The Draughtsman’s Contract recently premiered at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival. “Five stars. Greenaway’s […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

3:30 pm

Two bare-chested balding men in speedos reading the same book as they enjoy their vacation with a gray-haired woman in a pink summer dress sitting closeby

Alice and Peter are celebrating their retirement and are looking forward to a new phase in their lives. Then Alice finds out that her […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

3:15 pm

A young woman looking defiantly in the camera as a man pats her on the head

“It’s hard not to be swept up by the strong current of Suzhou River: a seductive and atmospheric conundrum that works pleasingly as an […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

5:50 pm

Turkish housewife Rabiye Kurnaz with human rights lawyer Bernhard Docke at her side on their way to the Supreme Court in Washington DC to get her son Murat out of Guantanamo

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE! The battle for the release of her son Murat from Guantanamo catapults Turkish housewife Rabiye Kurnaz from her terraced house in […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

6:00 pm

In Davy Chou’s dazzling second narrative feature, a mercurial 25-year-old — born in South Korea and raised in France by adoptive parents — returns […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

7:50 pm

Biologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens, thanks […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

7:50 pm

Two gangster-looking men in black suits on a small, though filled with bikes, bridge across the channel

NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE! Xatar’s way from tough upbringing and the drug underworld to the top of the charts is as dramatic as it is […]

Saturday, March 25, 2023

8:45 pm

Sunday, March 26, 2023

A young woman with white wings flying up in the dome

“Wings of Desire” is one of cinema’s loveliest city symphonies. Bruno Ganz is Damiel, an angel perched atop buildings high over Berlin who can […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

1:00 pm

A blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) is imaged under a microscope

“Lyme disease was discovered in 1975, yet there has been very little progress for patients. Even still, Lyme is often dismissed by the medical […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

1:00 pm

A young boy Sansón holds his head upon his arms folded as he looks in the camera of Rodrigo Reyes

Rodrigo Reyes in person for Q&A on Friday, March 17 & Saturday March 18! UC Davis Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

3:45 pm

A woman in a sleeveless dress speaking on the speakerphone before she is to deliver a speech to the crowds of people around her stand

Q&A immediately following the screening with director Thomas Antonic, Tate Swindell (Unrequited Records), plus ruth weiss’s band members Rent Romus & Doug O’ Connor! […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

3:50 pm

“CRITIC’S PICK. TANTALIZING. A great profile, filled with wit, affection and detailed stories of how the books came to be.”– Ben Kenigsberg, The New […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

5:40 pm

A young dark-haired woman lying in the sea of his childhood's toys and other artifacts of her life

“Dark, disturbing and insanely beautiful… The Stanley Kubrick of Anime” -Vice. Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

6:30 pm

A little boy rides an animated horse as they cross a snow covered field in The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in Oscar nominated animated short film 2023

The annual popular program provides both the delight of discovery and renewed wonder at the ways in which short-form cinema can explore the world […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

8:05 pm

Biologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens, thanks […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

8:05 pm

8:05 pm

9:05 pm

Su Li-zhen played by Maggie Cheung Man-yuk in a red overcoat dreaming about love

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters […]

Sunday, March 26, 2023

8:25 pm

Monday, March 27, 2023

A young dark-haired woman lying in the sea of his childhood's toys and other artifacts of her life

“Dark, disturbing and insanely beautiful… The Stanley Kubrick of Anime” -Vice. Rising pop star Mima has quit singing to pursue a career as an […]

Monday, March 27, 2023

6:30 pm

A red-haired woman with a zombie-like jaw trying to scare off her victim with her rotten teeth and blood-filled wide eyes

Don’t miss this LIVE Midnight Mass podcast recording, screening, and celebration of 1985’s queer horror opus FRIGHT NIGHT with star Stephen “Evil Ed” Geoffreys in-person! […]

Monday, March 27, 2023

8:30 pm

Biologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens, thanks […]

Monday, March 27, 2023

9:00 pm

9:00 pm

In Davy Chou’s dazzling second narrative feature, a mercurial 25-year-old — born in South Korea and raised in France by adoptive parents — returns […]

Monday, March 27, 2023

9:00 pm

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

A young woman looking defiantly in the camera as a man pats her on the head

“It’s hard not to be swept up by the strong current of Suzhou River: a seductive and atmospheric conundrum that works pleasingly as an […]

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

6:30 pm

A very special presentation in 35 mm film. Nominated for 9 Academy Awards and winner of 7 BAFTA Awards (including Best Film and Best […]

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

6:30 pm

A young aristocratic woman walking her dog in a French-style park

Newly remastered in 4K by the BFI National Archive, The Draughtsman’s Contract recently premiered at the 2022 Venice International Film Festival. “Five stars. Greenaway’s […]

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

8:25 pm

Biologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens, thanks […]

Tuesday, March 28, 2023

8:25 pm

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

In Davy Chou’s dazzling second narrative feature, a mercurial 25-year-old — born in South Korea and raised in France by adoptive parents — returns […]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

6:30 pm *

A middle-aged woman looking worried as she looks back

“The writer-director’s use of colour 16mm, his (now-famous) 1970s Bolex clockwork camera, and post-production sound anoint Enys Men as the Kernowek equivalent of such […]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

6:45 pm

Su Li-zhen played by Maggie Cheung Man-yuk in a red overcoat dreaming about love

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters […]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

8:50 pm

A little boy rides an animated horse as they cross a snow covered field in The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse in Oscar nominated animated short film 2023

The annual popular program provides both the delight of discovery and renewed wonder at the ways in which short-form cinema can explore the world […]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

9:00 pm

Biologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens, thanks […]

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

9:00 pm

Thursday, March 30, 2023

A young boy Sansón holds his head upon his arms folded as he looks in the camera of Rodrigo Reyes

Rodrigo Reyes in person for Q&A on Friday, March 17 & Saturday March 18! UC Davis Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of […]

Thursday, March 30, 2023

6:00 pm

Biologist Tim Shields has watched desert tortoise populations in the Mojave Desert plummet since the 1990s. The latest threat? Ballooning populations of ravens, thanks […]

Thursday, March 30, 2023

6:00 pm

A young girl in pigtails and a black robe holds both hands near her face as an older, bearded man in black robes and cap looks toward her with an expression of concern

Carl’s Staff Pick! Book of Days is a film about time, originally drawing parallels between the Middle Ages, a time of war, plague and […]

Thursday, March 30, 2023

6:50 pm

Su Li-zhen played by Maggie Cheung Man-yuk in a red overcoat dreaming about love

Hong Kong, 1962: Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) and Su Li-zhen (Maggie Cheung Man-yuk) move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters […]

Thursday, March 30, 2023

8:45 pm

Friday, March 31, 2023

“Rewind & Play dazzles! A gleaming portrait of Monk at work.” – Lisa Kennedy, NY Times In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer […]

Friday, March 31, 2023

7:00 pm

“A piece of cinematic art. It’s modern day Japanese animation at its best.”Kevin Williams, Chicago Tribune Based loosely on the life and work of Ozu […]

Friday, March 31, 2023

8:45 pm

A middle-aged woman looking worried as she looks back

“The writer-director’s use of colour 16mm, his (now-famous) 1970s Bolex clockwork camera, and post-production sound anoint Enys Men as the Kernowek equivalent of such […]

Friday, March 31, 2023

9:15 pm

April 2023

Saturday, April 1, 2023

The Night Beauty

‘30s PASSION! TRIPLE FEATURE MATINÉE The Night Beauty / La belle de nuit 12:00 PM The recently rediscovered Louis Valray is our entry into a world of […]

Saturday, April 1, 2023

12:00 pm

New German Cinema pioneer Wim Wenders (Wings of Desire) brings his keen eye for landscape to the American Southwest in Paris, Texas, a profoundly […]

Saturday, April 1, 2023

1:05 pm

“Rewind & Play dazzles! A gleaming portrait of Monk at work.” – Lisa Kennedy, NY Times In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer […]

Saturday, April 1, 2023

4:10 pm

A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which […]

Saturday, April 1, 2023

6:00 pm

“A piece of cinematic art. It’s modern day Japanese animation at its best.”Kevin Williams, Chicago Tribune Based loosely on the life and work of Ozu […]

Saturday, April 1, 2023

9:00 pm

Sunday, April 2, 2023

The Last Billionaire

’30S SEXISM, GREED, AND…GHOSTS! TRIPLE FEATURE MATINÉE… Dactylo 12:00 PM The twists and turns of the “sexual runaround” experienced by a young woman (Marie […]

Sunday, April 2, 2023

12:00 pm

A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which […]

Sunday, April 2, 2023

1:00 pm

“Rewind & Play dazzles! A gleaming portrait of Monk at work.” – Lisa Kennedy, NY Times In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer […]

Sunday, April 2, 2023

4:00 pm

The Old Devil

EARLY EVENING DOUBLE FEATURE WITH HARRY BAUR! The Old Devil / Cette vieille canaille 5:15 PM No French film festival from the 1930s is […]

Sunday, April 2, 2023

5:15 pm

“A piece of cinematic art. It’s modern day Japanese animation at its best.”Kevin Williams, Chicago Tribune Based loosely on the life and work of Ozu […]

Sunday, April 2, 2023

5:40 pm

A middle-aged woman looking worried as she looks back

“The writer-director’s use of colour 16mm, his (now-famous) 1970s Bolex clockwork camera, and post-production sound anoint Enys Men as the Kernowek equivalent of such […]

Sunday, April 2, 2023

7:45 pm

Monday, April 3, 2023

She Returned at Dawn

EVENING DOUBLE FEATURE—HENRI DECOIN & DANIELLE DARRIEUX! She Returned at Dawn / Retour à l’aube 6:45 PM Danielle Darrieux and Henri Decoin made seven […]

Monday, April 3, 2023

6:45 pm

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

“Rewind & Play dazzles! A gleaming portrait of Monk at work.” – Lisa Kennedy, NY Times In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer […]

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

7:00 pm

A middle-aged woman looking worried as she looks back

“The writer-director’s use of colour 16mm, his (now-famous) 1970s Bolex clockwork camera, and post-production sound anoint Enys Men as the Kernowek equivalent of such […]

Tuesday, April 4, 2023

8:35 pm

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

“Rewind & Play dazzles! A gleaming portrait of Monk at work.” – Lisa Kennedy, NY Times In December 1969, legendary jazz pianist and composer […]

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

7:10 pm

Sleepbomb returns to The Roxie for the San Francisco debut of their new and revised original score to Robert Weine’s 1920 exploration of psychological […]

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

7:00 pm

A middle-aged woman looking worried as she looks back

“The writer-director’s use of colour 16mm, his (now-famous) 1970s Bolex clockwork camera, and post-production sound anoint Enys Men as the Kernowek equivalent of such […]

Wednesday, April 5, 2023

8:45 pm

Thursday, April 6, 2023

In Jessica’s staff pick, Jack Black stars as Ignacio (friends call him Nacho), a Mexican priest who moonlights as a lucha libre wrestler to […]

Thursday, April 6, 2023

6:45 pm

Friday, April 7, 2023

Come prepared to sing and dance the night away. Each ticket holder will get a bag of goodies to interact with the screening. Dress […]

Friday, April 7, 2023

6:30 pm

Saturday, April 8, 2023

Marie-Martine

OCCUPATION ERA QUARTET PART 1: ALBERT VALENTIN Marie-Martine 12:00 PM MidCentury Productions is honored to present the American premieres of two works from another […]

Saturday, April 8, 2023

12:00 pm

Ozu’s hilarious Technicolor reworking of his silent I Was Born, But . . . , Good Morning (Ohayô) is the story of two young […]

Saturday, April 8, 2023

4:00 pm

Her First Affair

OCCUPATION ERA QUARTET PART 2: DECOIN/DARRIEUX REDUX & MARC ALLEGRET Her First Affair / Premier rendez-vous 4:30 PM In our third Darrieux/Decoin collaboration, Max […]

Saturday, April 8, 2023

4:30 pm

Sunday, April 9, 2023

THEATRICAL COMPLICATIONS! TWO WITH FRANÇOIS PÉRIER… Man About Town / Le silence est d’or 12:00 PM René Clair returns to France after a thirteen-year […]

Sunday, April 9, 2023

12:00 pm

A man and woman with dark olive skin and brown hair look off into the distance. The sea is in the background.

The Arab Film and Media Institute presents the 3rd Annual Arab Women in the Arts Showcase Soraya, born in Brooklyn in a working class […]

Sunday, April 9, 2023

1:00 pm

The Fantastic Night

FRANCES’ LAST GREAT CLASSIC STAR! TRIBUTE TO MICHELINE PRESLE… The Fantastic Night / La nuit fantastique 4:45 PM Silent film giant Marcel L’Herbier struggled […]

Sunday, April 9, 2023

4:45 pm

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

A scared girl traveling on a ferry with spirits of three other people she is the only person able to see

Winner of the Academy Award® for Best Animated Feature, Hayao Miyazaki’s wondrous fantasy adventure is a dazzling masterpiece from one of the most celebrated filmmakers […]

Wednesday, April 12, 2023

6:45 pm

Saturday, April 15, 2023

a man with a grey beard, grey hair, and wild look in his eyes stands in what appears to be a home-made lab.

Meet Your Psychedelic Godparents Sasha Shulgin was a chemist who discovered nearly 200 psychedelic substances. His wife and co-author, Ann Shulgin, was a a […]

Saturday, April 15, 2023

4:00 pm

Sunday, April 16, 2023

A person in a long white flowing dress is surrounded by blue water.

Q&A with director Jasmin Mara López after the screening! When director Jasmin Mara López sees a photo of her niece with her grandfather, she […]

Sunday, April 16, 2023

1:00 pm

Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his gorgeously detailed […]

Sunday, April 16, 2023

3:40 pm

Friday, April 21, 2023

The Saturday, April 22 screening of ‘DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime’ will be followed by an extra special in person Q&A featuring Laurie […]

Friday, April 21, 2023

6:30 pm

Saturday, April 22, 2023

The Saturday, April 22 screening of ‘DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime’ will be followed by an extra special in person Q&A featuring Laurie […]

Saturday, April 22, 2023

3:30 pm

Sunday, April 23, 2023

The Saturday, April 22 screening of ‘DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime’ will be followed by an extra special in person Q&A featuring Laurie […]

Sunday, April 23, 2023

3:30 pm

Monday, April 24, 2023

The Saturday, April 22 screening of ‘DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime’ will be followed by an extra special in person Q&A featuring Laurie […]

Monday, April 24, 2023

6:30 pm

Madonna with a bright red mouth, surrounded by ugly-faced men looking into the camera

With the massive success of BATMAN ’89, Hollywood opened the floodgates on high-budgeted pulp adventure stories. Luckily for star/producer Warren Beatty, who owned the […]

Monday, April 24, 2023

9:15 pm

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

The Saturday, April 22 screening of ‘DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime’ will be followed by an extra special in person Q&A featuring Laurie […]

Tuesday, April 25, 2023

6:30 pm

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

The Saturday, April 22 screening of ‘DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime’ will be followed by an extra special in person Q&A featuring Laurie […]

Wednesday, April 26, 2023

6:30 pm

Thursday, April 27, 2023

The Saturday, April 22 screening of ‘DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime’ will be followed by an extra special in person Q&A featuring Laurie […]

Thursday, April 27, 2023

6:30 pm