JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2018 SCHEDULE THEATER The Roxie Theater is San Francisco’s independent, nonprofit cinema, bringing people together to meet and connect through distinctive cinematic experiences. Whether in our historic 234-seat main theater or our intimate 49-seat screening room (the “Little Roxie”) we highlight the best in local and world film and play host to the Bay Area’s most prestigious and innovative film festivals. The Roxie is a 501(c)(3) organization, and the second oldest continually-run cinema in the world.
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12/29 - 1/4 1/4 1/4 1/5 - 1/11 Red Shift In 16mm Félicité Window Horses + Daughters of Chaos SF IndieFest When the son of a proud, free-willed A young Canadian is invited to perform Personal and poetic films by Gunvor The 20th SF IndieFest features a fantastic Congolese bar singer is hit by car, she at a poetry fest in Iran where she finds Nelson and Marjorie Keller, each exploring selection of new narrative and doc features sets out on a breakneck race through herself in the company of poets and Per- relationships between mothers and & shorts, the usual fun festival parties and
In The Fade: the streets of Kinshasa - a world of sians in this engrossing & stirring visual daughters, the mysteries of growing up a 20 year retrospective film series. 2 weeks SAN FRANCISCO music & dreams- to raise money & save treasure of female-led storytelling. and growing old. Presented by Canyon of film fest goodness! Antiporno SF Special Preview Cartoons That Bop! Quest him. Cinema. Controversial Japanese filmmaker Goethe-Institut/Berlin & Beyond Film Hot musical cartoons of the 30’s, Class & race intersect in this prize Sion Sono returns with a feminist Festival presents Germany’s highly 40’s and 50’s from the vault. Name winning & intimate doc that captures take on sexuality with which the anticipated 2018 Oscar entry and Golden bandleaders lend their musical talents to eight years in the life of an African 2/16 - 2/22 2/16 2/16 2/17 iconic Japanese studio Nikkatsu is Globes-nominated film IN THE FADE, some of the best ‘toons around - most of American family living in North relaunching its famed (and infamous) directed by Fatih Akin and starring Diane which have never been screened at the Philadelphia. “One of the Year’s Best”- Roman Porno label. Kruger. Roxie! Village Voice.
1/5 - 1/10 1/5 - 1/9 1/6 1/6 Kiki’s Delivery Service In Between (Bar Bahar) Spirited Away (35mm) Pom Poko (35mm) (35mm) In director Maysaloun Hamoud’s Studio Ghibli’s 11th feature (and arguably Studio Ghibli’s 7th feature hauntingly Studio Ghibli’s 4th feature follows a young sparkling taboo-breaking feature debut, the best) follows a young girl as she explores a clan of raccoons as they witch & her talking cat as she figures out three Palestinian women try to balance enters a magical world of moral lessons. confront suburban development in how to live life on her own. Dir: Hayao 78/52: Gus Van Sant Double: faith and tradition with their modern Dir: Hayao Miyazaki. Presented by Spoke the modern city. Dir: Isao Takahata. Miyazaki. Presented by Spoke Art. Hosted lives while living in the heart of Tel Aviv. Art. Hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks. Presented by Spoke Art. Hosted by Jesse by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks. The Green Fog 2017 Sundance Shorts Hitchcock’s Shower Scene To Die For/Psycho (35mm) Hawthorne Ficks. A can’t miss SF film experience! Widely considered the premier showcase With 1 taboo-shattering scene composed Celebrate Gus Van Sant with 35mm prints Director Guy Maddin employs his for short films & the launchpad for of 78 camera set-ups & 52 edits running of his salaciously sick satire TO DiE FOR mastery of assemblage to remake many now-prominent indie filmmakers, just 3 minutes, PSYCHO redefined screen + his infamously underrated PSYCHO, an 2/17 2/18 2/18 2/17 a “parallel-universe version” of this collection of the best shorts from violence & changed film history. A perfect updated shot by shot experiment of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo using a variety of Sundance 2017 whets the appetite for warm up for Van Sant’s remake. Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece. found Bay Area footage. 2018.
1/10 1/11 1/11 - 1/14 1/12 - 1/14 Princess Mononoke Nippon Nights (35mm) My Neighbor Totoro (35mm) Castle in the Sky (35mm) Cat Film Fest Studio Ghibli’s 9th feature is a landmark Studio Ghibli’s 3rd feature film follows Studio Ghibli’s stunning debut feature This weekend goes to the CATS & DOGS! animated epic of the brutality towards young sisters who discover wondrous follows two children as they search the Short films from around the world, our environment. Dir: Hayao Miyazaki. forest spirits in their own backyard. Dir: skies for a floating castle. Dir: Hayao exploring the mystique of the fascinating Female Convict 701: Presented by Spoke Art. Hosted by Hayao Miyazaki. Presented by Spoke Art. Miyazaki. Presented by Spoke Art. Hosted felines who share our lives. A portion of Jesse Hawthorne Ficks. Hosted by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks. by Jesse Hawthorne Ficks. the proceeds will benefit Fix Our Ferals! For Ahkeem Beast Stable Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice Liquid Sky (35mm) As Ferguson erupts, 17-year old Daje Meiko Kaji (LADY SNOWBLOOD) returns New 4K restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s This rarely screened 80’s sci-fi classic enters a court-supervised high school, to Nippon Nights for JAILHOUSE 41 final masterpiece, made as he was dying delves into the underbelly of the New watches gun violence kill friends & be- director Shunya Ito’s final entry into the of cancer. A haunting vision of a world Wave New York with high fashion, synthe- 2/18 2/22 comes pregnant, w/ Ahkeem. A critically FEMALE CONVICT SCORPION series, threatened with nuclear annihilation. “A sizers, drugs and aliens! 35mm + Q&A on acclaimed portrait of race relations the moody and surreal pulp masterpiece stunningly beautiful film.” -NYTimes 1/12 & digital restoration on 1/13-14. today. BEAST STABLE!
1/12 -1/17 1/12 - 1/18 1/12 - 1/18 1/13 Film School Drop Outs: RoxCine Best of O-scope Dog Film Fest Reform School Girls 2/23 - 3/1 A celebration through film of the The Roxie’s newest cult movie experience Are We Not Cats love between dogs and their people - presents a 1986 women-in-prison classic The strange but tender story of a man who attempts to restart his life, benefitting the animal welfare groups featuring WENDY O. WILLIAMS of Birdboy: that bring them together. A portion of the PLASMATICS. Hosted by Veruca but is sidetracked when he meets a woman who shares his unorthodox SAN FRANCISCO SAN the proceeds go to Muttville! BathSalts & Jerry Lee. SO YOUNG. SO habit, a proclivity for eating hair. Comedy/romance/horror. The Shape of Water The Forgotten Children Intent To Destroy The Love Witch (35mm) BAD. SO WHAT?! At the height of the Cold War, circa A band of misfit anthropomorphic critters Joe Berlinger’s critically lauded film- Anna Biller’s Technicolor-inspired, 1962, two workers in a high-tech US attempt to flee a dystopian island in this within-a-film chronicles the diplomatic ’60s-inflected feminist fantasy following government laboratory discover a adaptation of a surreal Spanish graphic pressure, Hollywood censorship & legacy a beautiful young witch picking up & terrifying secret experiment, in this novel, a rare example of adventurous adult of suppression that have conspired seducing men with spells & potions is sly, 2/25 2/25 2/25 3/1 otherworldly fairytale from Guillermo animation. Unforgettable. to bury the horror of the Armenian sexy, colorful & unspeakably entertaining. Best of O-scope Staff Pick Nippon Nights Best of O-scope del Toro. Genocide.
1/15 1/20 Scott Walker: Sunday Bloody Sunday Staff Pick Best of O-scope 30 Century Man (35mm) Tokyo Mighty Guy Shut Up & Play The Hits A rare glimpse into the creative world Kelly’s Pick! John Schlesinger’s Akira Kobayashi (the “Japanese Elvis”) So what if they are back touring a new of the most enigmatic figure in rock groundbreaking 1971 film is a sensitive plays a two-fisted chef who fights the album? LCD Soundsystem was serious when history & the undeniable impact he had portrayal of modern relationships: a love mob to bring justice and French cuisine they called it quits in 2011. Madison Sq. A Zed & Two Noughts on popular music via interviews with triangle between a gay man, a bisexual to Ginza! Join Nippon Nights for this Garden was the last hurrah & James Murphy 1/19 - 1/25 some of his biggest, highest profile man, and a straight woman. Rare 35mm delirious musical/sex farce/action was throwing the best funeral ever. (35mm) Kedi fans. screening! mashup! Scott’s Pick! Peter Greenaway’s visually The Road Movie For thousands of years hundreds of thou- entrancing ode to loss and obsession A mosaic of asphalt, landscapes & some of the craziest stuff you’ve ever sands of Turkish Cats, neither wild nor tells the story of twin zoologists who tame, claiming no owners, have wandered become obsessed with decomposing seen, this compilation of footage shot from Russian dashboard cameras in & out of the lives of Istanbul’s human animals after their wives die in a car epitomizes the you-have-to-see-it-to-believe-it doc. residents. Meet the felines & the city. 3117 16TH STREET SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 94103 (415)-863-1087 [email protected] accident.