November / December 2018 Schedule

NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2018 SCHEDULE

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Starts 11/30 12/2 Starts 12/7 Starts 12/7 Staff Picks NOVEMBER 11/1 Starts 11/2 11/2 - 11/4 11/2 Searching for RoxCine Ingmar Bergman Never On Sunday (35mm) Mirai People’s Republic of Desire For his 100th, Margarethe von Trotta Matt’s Pick! PYGMALION meets PRETTY Mamoru Hosoda (SUMMER WARS, WOLF China’s wealthiest cross paths with the examines the legendary auteur’s life WOMAN in this delectable Jules Dassin CHILDREN) brings his trademark balance working class in online showrooms where & work with his closest collaborators story of an American in Piraeus. See of gorgeous visuals & heartfelt emotions 100s of millions worship their virtual idols, & the new generation he influenced, Melina Mercouri shine as the port city to the time-traveling adventure of a earning them fame & fortune in a milieu of Berlin and Beyond retracing themes & places central to prostitute. A can’t miss 1960s Oscar nom young boy coping with a new sibling & a digital-only social connection. SAN FRANCISCO Autumn Showcase Museo The Long Shadow Wobble Palace his art. classic. magical portal. America’s leading festival of contempo- Inspired by a true story, this mesmerizing Two white Southern filmmakers trace On the eve of the 2016 election, a couple rary German cinema kicks off its 23rd thriller features a devilishly comedic their families’ slave-owning pasts as on the verge of a nervous break-up decide season with a series of thought-provok- performance from Gael García Bernal as they travel the roads of oppression and to split their home over the weekend and 12/8 & 12/11 12/8 12/9 12/12 suppression to show how racism still test the waters of independence. ing cinema, featuring Christian Petzold’s one of the unlikely culprits behind the 16mm on 16th RoxCine “Transit” and Ken Duken’s “Berlin scandal that rocked a nation. affects the very soul of our nation. Falling”.

11/4 11/6 11/9 - 11/11 11/11 Animation Celebration! The Dark Crystal (35mm) Invisible Hands Ata tu arado a una estrella Staff Picks A celebration of some of the greatest From the brilliant imagination of Jim This shocking, critically important “Do utopias still exist?” is the question cartoons made during the “Golden Age Henson! On a remote planet in the distant debut doc by Shraysi Tandon exposes Argentine director Fernando Birri asked of Animation” of the 1930s, 40s, & 50s. past, a Gelfling embarks on a quest child labor and trafficking within the everyone. Carmen Guarini weaves decades A compilation of shorts where cartoon to find the missing shard of a magical supply chains of the world’s biggest of footage together to remind us how Pioneers: San Francisco Transgender Lone Wolf and Cub: characters reign supreme on the big crystal to restore order to his world. corporations. Skype Q&A with director. essential utopias are to our survival. screen! Animation Show of Shows First Women Filmmakers Film Festival (SFTFF) Baby Cart at the River Styx The 20th Annual Animation Show of THE CURSE OF QUON GWON: WHEN The world’s first and longest running Jason’s Pick! Blood, female ninjas, and Shows explores the many facets of hu- THE FAR EAST MEETS THE WEST. The transgender film festival presents 6 new bad Samurai parenting come to life in the Starts 12/14 Starts 12/14 man relationships with 15 thought-pro- first Asian American film. Directed by programs and films from Bay Area and second installment of this influential 70s voking, poignant, and very funny Marion E. Wong in Oakland in 1916. Local International transgender filmmakers! cult manga series. B.B. Kiddo’s favorite animated shorts from around the world. filmmakers in conversation following the More info: www.SFTFF.org. film and Tarantino approved! screening.

11/11 & 11/14 11/15 - 11/21 11/12 11/12 Never Ending Man: 12/16 Hayao Miyazaki Shoplifters Kaku Arakawa’s doc follows the Hirokazu Kore-eda’s 2018 Cannes Fest Blade Runner + Brazil (35mm) tremendous struggle that unfolds as Palme d’Or winner about a makeshift The Roxie, Spoke Art and MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS join forces critically acclaimed animator and film family forced to steal in order to cope director Hayao Miyazaki embarks on a with a life of poverty. A slow-burning, to bring you two of the most iconic sci-fi films ever— BLADE The French Had a new endeavor: his first project ever to quietly explosive masterpiece. RUNNER (Ridley Scott’s final cut) and BRAZIL (Terry Gilliam’s cut). SF Urban Film Festival Name for It 5 Rocky IV The General utilize CGI. SFUFF hosts urban issue films and panel FRENCH NOIR is back with a vengeance MiDNiTES FOR MANiACS screens Keaton made many tour de forces of discussions at the Roxie 11/11 & 11/14, for a fifth year—incroyable! Don Malcolm Stallone’s spectacle neo-sincerely, in hilarity. But historically conventional screening films on contested urban takes us even deeper into the “lost preparation for CREED II. Come celebrate wisdom calls this Civil War period parody space for protest, celebration, art, and continent” with twenty (20!) films the 33rd Anniversary of this fist-pound- about a Confederate locomotive, hijacked Starts 12/15 12/22 12/23 12/25 community. Festival runs 11/11 to 11/18. from the 1950s, featuring all the usual ing, adrenaline-pumping, Cold War tour by Union spies, Buster’s masterpiece. suspects… de force.

11/14 Starts 11/16 Starts 11/17 Starts 11/23 The Muppet Christmas Carol OUTlook Liyana Spirited Away (35mm) Scarface (35mm) 5 Swazi orphans turn their past trauma Hayao Miyazaki’s treasured anime about With ghostly visits and joyful songs, Why not for the holidays?! Brian De Palma into creative fuel for an original a young girl who becomes trapped in a Michael Caine and your favourite Muppets & Oliver Stone’s profane, blood-soaked,

SAN FRANCISCO SAN The Great Buster: Hale County This Morning, collective fairytale where a young girl strange new world of spirits. When her tell their hilarious version of an old, blow-storming epic featuring Al Pacino’s is sent on a dangerous quest. A genre parents transform into giant pigs, she bitter miser’s redemption on Xmas Eve. boisterously operatic interpretation of a Gray House Narcissister Organ Player A Celebration This Evening defier brought to life via evocative must find a way to make them human Guaranteed to put you in a holiday spirit! Cuban refugee chasing the dream. animation. again. Austin Lynch (son of David) and Performance artist provocateur Celebrating the influential filmmaker/ “It’s not every day you witness a new Matthew Booth explore the relationship Narcissister, frequently topless while comedian, Peter Bogdanovich intimately cinematic language being born.” A rural between working-class people and their donning a mask & a merkin, directs an explores the fertile output & astonishing African-American community is intimate- environments in this deeply disturbing autobiographical multimedia hybrid bio of this silent era visionary with the aid ly & lyrically documented over 5 years by 12/29 Coming Soon Coming Soon Coming Soon and profoundly moving first feature film. revealing the mind behind her button- of ageless, side splitting clips. photographer turned filmmaker Ramell pushing stage show. Ross. Q&A w/ producer Danny Glover!

Starts 11/23 11/24 11/24 11/28 OUTlookRoxCine OUTlook Night of the Comet (35mm) Suspiria (2018) The Favourite If Beale Street Could Talk This New Year’s, ring in the Comet! In An audacious, “subdued & completely His third English-language film in four Director Barry Jenkins’ ambitious follow-up this 80s classic, there’s a comet coming batshit crazy” rebirth of the Argento years, Yorgos Lanthimos (THE LOBSTER) to MOONLIGHT adapts James Baldwin’s Festival of the for Earth & all are celebrating the end classic by Luca Guadagnino about a appears in rollicking, virtuosic form with poignant novel about a woman fighting of the world. In the aftermath, the only dance company coven. Featuring our idol Olivia Colman, Emma Stone & Rachel to free her falsely accused husband from Bohemian Rhapsody Pan’s Labyrinth (35mm) Torrey Pines Moving image ones left are two Valley girls & killer Tilda Swinton in 3 roles when just 1 would Weisz revelling in the wit of royal court prison before the birth of their child. A chronicle of the years leading up to Mexican Academy Award-winning auteur A colorful cut-out animation by Clyde The 8th Annual Festival of the Moving zombies. never do. life. Queen’s legendary appearance at the Guillermo del Toro delivers a unique, Petersen about gender and coming of Image highlights emerging talent from Live Aid ‘85 concert, six years before timeless tale of good and evil in this age in the 1990s while being raised by a CCSF’s Cinema, Visual Media Design and Freddie Mercury died of complications mythology-laden dark fable set against schizophrenic single mother. Featuring Broadcast Electronic Media Arts Depart- 3117 16TH STREET SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA 94103 (415)-863-1087 WWW.ROXIE.COM from AIDS. Rami Malek’s performance the postwar repression of Franco’s Spain. music from Kimya Dawson and Your ments in a combined festival program. will rock you. Heart Breaks!