Daily arthouse/repertory cinema listings around the Bay. First official @screenslate.bsky.social outpost. Weekly newsletter sign up: http://screenslate.com/newsletterhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3movjkuheis2gThis week, an interview by Cat Beckstrand with Brydie O’Conner, director of Barbara Forever, and Florrie Burke, Barbara Hammer’s partner of many decades, for the doc’s local premier at Frameline: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/turning-camera-barbara-hammer-birth-death22 Jun 2026 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3movjkuheis2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mm5bbhuwgs2fThis week, @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social on Amanda Kramer's By Design, a very different kind of body swap movie, screening Wednesday at the Alamo Drafthouse New Mission. https://www.screenslate.com/articles/design18 May 2026 16:10 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mm5bbhuwgs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mllqkbh6t22lThis week, @commuter4film.bsky.social on a very rare screening of Our Hitler a.k.a. Hitler: A Film From Germany, Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's monumental, 7+ hour smorgasbord (including puppets), playing once and only once this Saturday at @bampfa.bsky.social https://www.screenslate.com/articles/our-hitler-aka-hitler-film-germany11 May 2026 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllqkbh6t22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3ml7jqt632c2rThe Silent Film Fest starts tonight! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 May 2026 20:22 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml7jqt632c2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3ml26jehbkc2yThis week, @feuilladist.bsky.social on deeper cuts at this year's SF Silent Film Festival, including films from the too-often overlooked 1910s, a city symphony avant la lettre, and— "the true hidden gem of the festival"—the (probably) first German feature directed by a woman: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/2026-san-francisco-silent-film-festival04 May 2026 17:18 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml26jehbkc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mkinpnnr2k2aThis week, Whitney Strub covers a floating screening series that feels vital right now—Newsreel: Collective Fragments of Living Struggle—showing late 60s leftist agitprop documentary shorts about community organizing, marches, strikes, riot, many of them of local interest. https://www.screenslate.com/articles/revolution-then-and-now-discussing-newsreel-collective-fragments-living-struggle-tooth27 Apr 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkinpnnr2k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mkb6yd5jdk2qIt's opening day of the 69th SFFILM Festival! We've got write-ups for five movies, among many, that we think are worth checking out, starting with The Arch, a nearly forgotten, newly rediscovered Hong Kong New Wave masterpiece from 1968: www.screenslate.com/articles/arch https://www.screenslate.com/articles/arch24 Apr 2026 18:50 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkb6yd5jdk2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mjzxccbbuk2vIn case anyone missed the news: tonight's screening of People's Park in black hole cinematheque's Newsreel series has been delayed to Thursday at Bathers Library. The screening of Columbia Revolt is still scheduled for Friday at 34 Trinity. https://www.screenslate.com/series/newsreel-collective-fragments-living-struggle [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Apr 2026 21:44 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjzxccbbuk2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mjwxmpb3d22xFor this week's feature, Shelby Shaw on “Constructions / Destructions / Instructions," six films by Gordon Matta-Clark screening tomorrow (Tuesday, April 21st), presented by @sfcinematheque.bsky.social at @grayarea.org: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/constructions-destructions-instructions-films-gordon-matta-clark20 Apr 2026 17:11 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwxmpb3d22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mjfgnjunlc2x"...a fervent examination of Pakistan’s visual culture and a significant document of these women’s lives, thoughts, desires, dialects, habits, and styles—all of which are under constant threat of erasure." This week's pick: Showgirls of Pakistan, Sun. at the Roxie with the director in person. https://www.screenslate.com/articles/showgirls-pakistan13 Apr 2026 17:52 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjfgnjunlc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mitxwd57r22gThis week, Connor Burns on The Shoes of the Fisherman, screening Sunday at the Orinda Theatre in their Wide Screen Road Show series: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/shoes-fisherman06 Apr 2026 19:14 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitxwd57r22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3miciwu7vjk2gShapeshifters is 2/3 of the way to their goal. Keep it going! [contains quote post or other embedded content]30 Mar 2026 20:30 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3miciwu7vjk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3miccaq4oqk2mThis week, Lucrecia Martel, interviewed by Andrea Avidad, on her new film Nuestra Tierra, upcoming in a career retrospective of her work at @bampfa.bsky.social that begins Saturday afternoon with La Ciénaga on 35mm: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/shaking-perception-interview-lucrecia-martel30 Mar 2026 18:30 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3miccaq4oqk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mhqprvu5g22lThis week, Joe Dante is in person at the Orinda Theater for screenings of Gremlins 2, Inner Space, and our feature this week, his love letter to schlocky B movies, Matinee https://www.screenslate.com/articles/matinee23 Mar 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqprvu5g22lhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mh6uv3trhc2qThis week, Patrick Dahl on Redacted, Brian De Palma's staged media montage of real American war crimes, screening Sunday at @grayarea.org as part of the series The Bush Years: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/redacted16 Mar 2026 16:28 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh6uv3trhc2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mgnfuqryrc2eThis week, our feature is Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, Kenneth Anger's hypersaturated Thelemic ritual-cum-film, playing alongside Luminous Procuress, a local-legendary piece of acid-washed genderfuckery, at @bampfa.bsky.social on Saturday afternoon: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/inauguration-pleasure-dome09 Mar 2026 17:44 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgnfuqryrc2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mg6j5nholc27Shapeshifters Cinema is an absolutely essential home for the Bay Area's film-going and film-making community and needs to fundraise $60k in the next two weeks. Help them out and spread the news! https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-shapeshifters-cinema-brewery-cafe?attribution_id=sl:ac2143ec-08fc-4b91-b455-d27f21976bb6&lang=en_US&ts=177256264503 Mar 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg6j5nholc27https://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mezbs37xys2mFor reasons that should be obvious—namely, him being an easy contender for the greatest documentarian, period, no qualifiers—Wiseman is a director Screen Slate has covered a lot over the years. In honor of the master, here's a roundup of those pieces, starting with today's feature, on 1976's Meat: [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2026 00:13 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mezbs37xys2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mezb32pils2mThis week, by bittersweet coincidence, our feature pick is Frederick Wiseman's Meat, the last film in the @bampfa.bsky.social Wiseman retrospective, written up by Wiseman Podcast host Arlin Golden. www.screenslate.com/articles/meat https://www.screenslate.com/articles/meat17 Feb 2026 00:00 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mezb32pils2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mddtv4r3222kThis week, Bernardo Rondeau on When the Wind Blows, Jimmy T. Murakami's animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs’s apocalyptic graphic novel, screening tonight and Sunday at the Roxie: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/when-wind-blows26 Jan 2026 18:13 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mddtv4r3222khttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mcaoobh4t222This week, @feuilladist.bsky.social interviews Swedish Film Institute Senior Curator Jon Wengström ahead of his visit to @bampfa.bsky.social to kick off a series of Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller silent films: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/jon-wengstrom-swedish-silent-cinema12 Jan 2026 18:36 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mcaoobh4t222https://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mam7hlmw522aSSSFB is taking the rest of the year off, but if you need your fix, the @screenslate.bsky.social mothership carries on through the holidays, e.g. today's Bi Gan inverview by nicolasrapold.bsky.social on Resurrection, playing now at the Roxie and Smith Rafael. https://www.screenslate.com/articles/world-building-bi-gan-resurrection22 Dec 2025 21:46 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mam7hlmw522ahttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3ma27vetfr22mThis week, @hellonfriscobay.bsky.social profiles @ataconnect.bsky.social, "one of the last bastions of underground weirdo culture in the city," which this week showcases CCSF student work and hosts the season finale of Other Cinema with a (de)tour of NorCal: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/its-atalive15 Dec 2025 18:06 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ma27vetfr22mhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3m7iqs4sjx22vThis week, Shelby Shaw celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Thundercrack!, Curt McDowell's George Kuchar-scripted-and-starring "Old Dark House"-cum-Gonzo-Peepshow no-budget epic, screening Wednesday at the Drafthouse New Mission: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/thundercrack08 Dec 2025 19:20 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7iqs4sjx22v