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/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/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/3mgnfuqryrc2e