Theatrical Releases March 30th, 2007

We’ve got some decent choices this week: if you’re in the mood for comedy, it’s all about Blades of Glory, if we have kids Meet the Robinsons (3-D at the Metreon) is better than you’d expect, but if you want something saucy it is all about Joseph Gordon-Levitt and that movie he’s in…The Lookout. I heard someone postulate it was like Brick 2: Outta College but I think that was just spite. We love skinny smart guys. Weeeeee looooovvvvveee them. Us at SFist that is.

LOCAL WISDOM

Artist Television Access (922 Valencia St.) If you like Encyclopedia Pictura, you’ll like the ATA’s Friday Night show Yarns for All. Thursday the 5th offers an A.N.S.W.E.R. screening of In the Shadow of the Palms – IRAQ. Reportedly the only doc to capture Iraq prior to invasion and then just after, the film has gained some deserved attention. See the trailer at the film’s site

The Balboa is showing The Namesake, with a double feature of Breach and Music and Lyrics.
FREE ADMISSION on your birthday!
Discount Cards: 5 admissions for $30.00 now on sale
SCHOOL NIGHT –Every Monday is School Night. $6.00 for Students, Faculty and school Staff (with School ID) .

The Castro (429 Castro St.) is showing the godly Godard’s Two or Three Things I know about Her (restored!), one of his many worshipful and confounding explorations of the feminine. SCOPE & NEW 35mm PRINT!

Other Cinema on Saturday will show Ben Russell’s Noise Hippies Against All Wars! A collection of 16mm shorts of random insight all put together by Rhode Island filmmaker Ben Russell.

By SFist Sara

Pacific Film Archive (2575 Bancroft Way)
Special Programs:

We’ve got Antonioni Screenings in spades this week: Friday there’s the beautiful Blow Up at 6, Satruday between the matinee and the SFIFF tribute there’s Le Amiche at 6:30 and Sunday starting at 2pm there’s a NOT TO MISS short film program by Antonioni followed by a screening of I Vinti and finally, a FREE screening of the doc on Antonioni called Antonioni: The Vision that Changed the Cinema.

Saturday the Matinee will be Robert Mulligan’s To Kill a Mockingbird, followed by an SFIFF Tribute screening of Eric Rohmer’s A Summer’s Tale at 8:40pm.

Tuesday PFA begins a new weekly screening series on Anthology Film Archives. This screening at 7:30 on the 3rd will be comprised of Recent Preservations otherwise impossible to see this side of the country.

The Wednesday Lecture is showing the genius doc/narrative hybrid: Cleo From 5 to 7 followed by a screening from their Conceptualist of the Early 70’s series entitled The Medium Is. This series is a really well curated collection of films that profoundly affected the look of the so called American Renaissance which of course effects (still) the works produced in cinema today.

Finally, Thursday the PFA is screening a series that will also show at YBCA the following week: Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul will be visiting with his works! This is a pretty big deal. The three-day screening series begins on Thursday and ends on Saturday. The first screening is Tropical Malady.

The Red Victorian is playing Sierra Leone’s Refugee Allstars Friday through Tuesday, on Wednesday they begin a few days with Aldmodovar’s Volver (really lovely) and finishes the week with Little Children.

The Roxie New College Film Center is playing A Zen Life – D.T. Suzuki, a doc about the Zen writer, philosopher and translator D.T. Suzuki. See our blurb review in this week’s Guardian.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (701 Mission Street)
No films this week.