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/3mwlvzcmnvs23This week, @sashafrerejones.bsky.social on Milagros Mumenthaler's The Currents, screening Sunday at Shapeshifters Cinema as part of @vitalsignsfilms.bsky.social https://www.screenslate.com/articles/currents28 Sep 2026 18:11 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwlvzcmnvs23https://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mw7awfy3gc2kWe've got two more pieces on features in this weekend's Re:Vision festival from @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social. First, Arlin Golden on Margot Benacerraf's 1959 FIPRESCI winning expressionistic documentary about life in Venezualan salt mining villages, screening Saturday on 35mm at the Roxie. https://www.screenslate.com/articles/araya-revision23 Sep 2026 17:22 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw7awfy3gc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mw26zu3iwc2cFor this week's feature, Patrick Dahl on six new digital preservations of Len Lye's eye-popping, hand-stenciled, legendary animated shorts, screening Thurs.-Sun. at the Roxie as part of @sffilmpreserve.bsky.social's inaugural Re:Vision festival: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/len-lye-shorts-revision21 Sep 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mw26zu3iwc2chttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mvtbi6zf3s2kTwo hours to go! [contains quote post or other embedded content]18 Sep 2026 23:00 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvtbi6zf3s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mvso6vakv22cThe Portal Kickstarter is ~$16k away from their next goal, which they need to hit to open in November. They need to hit that goal BY 6 PM TODAY. GET THEM THERE FOLKS. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. OPEN THE PORTAL. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theportalcinema/the-portal-theater-san-francisco18 Sep 2026 17:14 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvso6vakv22chttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mvqcacpad22yA little over 24 hours left to donate! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Sep 2026 18:35 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvqcacpad22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mvlxo77phk2iAn if you would like a specific reason to donate, The Portal just announced on IG that among their first programs will be a (much-needed!!!) Chick Strand retrospective: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdVA5vZm5j1/?stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==m [contains quote post or other embedded content]16 Sep 2026 01:15 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlxo77phk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mvjc334sas2dThis week's feature is Castration Movie Anthology ii. The Best of Both Worlds, screening one night only at the Drafthouse New Mission and Mountain View this Wednesday: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/castration-movie-anthology-ii-best-both-worlds14 Sep 2026 23:43 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvjc334sas2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mufkvinehk2kThis week, Screen Slate is excited to be a community partner with @sfcinematheque.bsky.social for "faraway so close", the eighth and final show of this year's CROSSROADS festival, Sunday at 8PM at Gray Area31 Aug 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufkvinehk2khttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mu6aaabru225YOUR FRIDAY AFTERNOON REMINDER TO [contains quote post or other embedded content]28 Aug 2026 20:46 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6aaabru225https://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mtuayi64es27This week, @kieferama.bsky.social on Nathaniel Dorsky's Arboretum Cycle, screening Saturday afternoon at BAMPFA with Dorsky in person. https://www.screenslate.com/articles/arboretum-cycle24 Aug 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtuayi64es27https://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mtoxc5li7c2yIn case we have any non-local readers who wonder why our logo looks like that: [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 18:56 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtoxc5li7c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mtjswlxk7224OPEN THE ℙORTAL https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theportalcinema/the-portal-theater-san-francisco20 Aug 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjswlxk7224https://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3msqrlendtk25This week, @danschindel.bsky.social on the 25th anniversary of Wet Hot American Summer, back in theaters this weekend: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/wet-hot-american-summer10 Aug 2026 18:54 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3msqrlendtk25https://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3ms73d5z7ls2fThis week, an interview with director-actor-screenwriter Robert Townsend on the occasion of his residency at the Balboa and 4 Star theaters, starting Wednesday with Hollywood Shuffle on 35mm: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/im-true-hyphen-interview-robert-townsend03 Aug 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms73d5z7ls2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mrsc47v3nk24Less than 2k to go for ATA to reach their goal! [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Jul 2026 15:57 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrsc47v3nk24https://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mrnlptn3ik2wThis week, Bernardo Rondeau on King Vidor's 1949 The Fountainhead, screening in a matinee Tuesday, July 28, at the Orinda: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/fountainhead27 Jul 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrnlptn3ik2whttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mr4g6qxrq22pFolks! Artists' Television Access @ataconnect.bsky.social needs one last push to clear enough backrent for their landlord to forgive the rest! Get them to their goal by August 1st! https://www.every.org/ataconnect/f/15-days-15k20 Jul 2026 23:12 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr4g6qxrq22phttps://bsky.app/profile/screenslatesf.bsky.social/post/3mr3xgcf4222oThis week, Shelby Shaw on the @sfcinematheque.bsky.social's "A Thing Brilliant and Powerful: Films on Gesture, Paint and Painting" at SFMOMA this Thursday, July 23, feat. short films by Cauleen Smith, Stan Brakhage, and others, and in memory of Fred Worden: https://www.screenslate.com/articles/thing-brilliant-and-powerful-films-gesture-paint-and-painting20 Jul 2026 18:48 +0000at://did:plc:bb2ibuootgndga3kpoolphwy/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr3xgcf4222ohttps://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/3ml7jqt632c2r