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Saturday 31, May

Friendship

Friendship

Rfor language and some drug content.

Stand by Me

Stand by Me

R

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

R

Saturday 31, May

Sunday 1, June

Friendship

Friendship

Rfor language and some drug content.

Sunday 1, June

American Psycho

American Psycho

Rstrong violence, sexuality, drug use and language.

Sunday 1, June

Monday 2, June

Friendship

Friendship

Rfor language and some drug content.

Monday 2, June

Young Soul Rebels

Young Soul Rebels

Rfor sexuality and language.

Monday 2, June

Tuesday 3, June

Friendship

Friendship

Rfor language and some drug content.

Tuesday 3, June

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

R

Tuesday 3, June

Wednesday 4, June

Friendship

Friendship

Rfor language and some drug content.

Wednesday 4, June

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

R

Wednesday 4, June

Thursday 5, June

Friendship

Friendship

Rfor language and some drug content.

Thursday 5, June

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Thursday 5, June

Friday 6, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Friday 6, June

Kamikaze Hearts

Kamikaze Hearts

NR

Friday 6, June

Saturday 7, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Cecil B. Demented

Cecil B. Demented

Rfor strong crude sexual content, violence, language and drug use.

The Room

The Room

R

Saturday 7, June

Sunday 8, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Ex Machina

Ex Machina

RRated R for graphic nudity, language, sexual references and some violence

Monday 9, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Monday 9, June

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Monday 9, June

Tuesday 10, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Tuesday 10, June

The Doors

The Doors

R

Tuesday 10, June

Wednesday 11, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Wednesday 11, June

Super Shangri-La Show

Super Shangri-La Show

Wednesday 11, June

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

R

Wednesday 11, June

Thursday 12, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Thursday 12, June

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

PG

Thursday 12, June

Friday 13, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th

R

Friday 13, June

Saturday 14, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th

R

Sunday 15, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

JCVD

JCVD

R

Sunday 15, June

Monday 16, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Monday 16, June

Boom!

Boom!

Monday 16, June

Tuesday 17, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Tuesday 17, June

La Haine

La Haine

Tuesday 17, June

Wednesday 18, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Wednesday 18, June

Insomnia

Insomnia

Rfor language, some violence and brief nudity

Wednesday 18, June

Thursday 19, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

Thursday 19, June

The Watermelon Woman

The Watermelon Woman

Thursday 19, June

Friday 20, June

Bottoms

Bottoms

Rfor crude sexual content, pervasive language and some violence.

Friday 20, June

Saturday 21, June

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

R

Sunday 22, June

But I'm a Cheerleader

But I'm a Cheerleader

R

Monday 23, June

Moonlight

Moonlight

Rsome sexuality, drug use, brief violence, and language throughout

Monday 23, June

Tuesday 24, June

Funeral Parade of Roses

Funeral Parade of Roses

Tuesday 24, June

Wednesday 25, June

I Saw the TV Glow

I Saw the TV Glow

PG-13for violent content, some sexual material, thematic elements and teen smoking.

Wednesday 25, June

Thursday 26, June

Law of Desire

Law of Desire

NC-17for a scene of explicit sexual content

Thursday 26, June

Friday 27, June

Paris Is Burning

Paris Is Burning

Rfor language and sexuality

Friday 27, June

Saturday 28, June

Shogun Assassin

Shogun Assassin

R

Saturday 28, June

Comedy At The Balboa

Comedy At The Balboa

PG-13

Saturday 28, June

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

R

Saturday 28, June

Sunday 29, June

Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary

R

Sunday 29, June

Monday 30, June

Style Wars

Style Wars

Monday 30, June

American Psycho

American Psycho

Rstrong violence, sexuality, drug use and language.

A wealthy New York investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.

Sunday 1, June

Blue Velvet

Blue Velvet

R

The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

Wednesday 11, June

Boom!

Boom!

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.

Monday 16, June

Bottoms

Bottoms

Rfor crude sexual content, pervasive language and some violence.

Two unpopular queer high school students start a fight club to have sex before graduation.

Friday 20, June

But I'm a Cheerleader

But I'm a Cheerleader

R

But I’m a Cheerleader, 1999 Directed by Jamie Babbit A COMEDY OF SEXUAL DISORIENTATION. Megan is an all-American girl. A cheerleader. She has a boyfriend. But Megan doesn’t like kissing her boyfriend very much. And she’s pretty touchy with her cheerleader friends. Her conservative parents worry that she must be a lesbian and send her off to “sexual redirection” school, where she must, with other lesbians and gays learn how to be straight.

Cecil B. Demented

Cecil B. Demented

Rfor strong crude sexual content, violence, language and drug use.

An insane independent film director and his renegade group of teenage filmmakers kidnap an A-list Hollywood actress and force her to star in their underground film.

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Celine and Julie Go Boating

Céline and Julie Go Boating, 1974 ‘Céline et Julie vont en bateau’ Directed by Jacques Rivette A mysteriously linked pair of young women find their daily lives pre-empted by a strange boudoir melodrama that plays itself out in a hallucinatory parallel reality.

Monday 9, June

Comedy At The Balboa

Comedy At The Balboa

PG-13

Live comedy show

Saturday 28, June

Ex Machina

Ex Machina

RRated R for graphic nudity, language, sexual references and some violence

A young programmer is selected to participate in a breakthrough experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I.

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo

PG

The story of Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an extremely determined man who intends to build an opera house in the middle of a jungle.

Thursday 12, June

Friday the 13th

Friday the 13th

R

Watch Friday the 13th on Friday the 13th. Why not? Friday the 13th, 1980 Directed by Sean S. Cunningham THEY WERE WARNED…THEY ARE DOOMED…AND ON FRIDAY THE 13TH, NOTHING WILL SAVE THEM. Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child’s drowning.

Friendship

Friendship

Rfor language and some drug content.

Suburban dad Craig falls hard for his charismatic new neighbor, but Craig’s attempts to make an adult male friend threaten to ruin both of their lives.

Sunday 1, June

Monday 2, June

Tuesday 3, June

Wednesday 4, June

Thursday 5, June

Show Future Dates
Funeral Parade of Roses

Funeral Parade of Roses

In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young drag queen, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the jealousy of Gonda's mistress, Leda, the bar's matron. Eddie and Gonda decide to get rid of her...

Tuesday 24, June

I Saw the TV Glow

I Saw the TV Glow

PG-13for violent content, some sexual material, thematic elements and teen smoking.

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate introduces him to a mysterious late-night TV show a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen's view of reality begins to crack.

Wednesday 25, June

Insomnia

Insomnia

Rfor language, some violence and brief nudity

Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.

Wednesday 18, June

JCVD

JCVD

R

Jean-Claude Van Damme gets involved in a bank robbery with hostages situation and reflects about his life during it.

Sunday 15, June

Kamikaze Hearts

Kamikaze Hearts

NR

Alternately distressing, instructive, contestable, and fascinating, Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive newcomer Tigr and her partner, the magnetic, imperious porn veteran Sharon Mitchell — caught in a toxic romance. By turns mesmerizing and unsettling, Kamikaze Hearts is both a fascinating record of pre-gentrification San Francisco’s X-rated underground and an intense, searing love story. The film offers a disturbing glimpse of the modification of bodies, feelings, and lives.

Friday 6, June

La Haine

La Haine

24 hours in the lives of three young men in the French suburbs the day after a violent riot.

Tuesday 17, June

Law of Desire

Law of Desire

NC-17for a scene of explicit sexual content

A film maker has a fling with a homicidal possessive fan who threatens his true love and sister.

Thursday 26, June

Moonlight

Moonlight

Rsome sexuality, drug use, brief violence, and language throughout

A timeless story of human connection and self-discovery, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world while growing up in a rough neighborhood of Miami. At once a vital portrait of contemporary African-American life and an intensely personal and poetic meditation on identity, family, friendship, and love, Moonlight is a groundbreaking piece of cinema that reverberates with deep compassion and universal truths. Anchored by extraordinary performances from a tremendous ensemble cast, Barry Jenkins’s staggering, singular vision is profoundly moving in its portrayal of the moments, people, and unknowable forces that shape our lives and make us who we are.

Monday 23, June

My Own Private Idaho

My Own Private Idaho

R

My Own Private Idaho, 1991 Directed by Gus Van Sant WHEREVER, WHATEVER, HAVE A NICE DAY. In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV,” Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the coast of Italy in a quest to find Mike’s estranged mother. Along the way they turn tricks for money and drugs, eventually attracting the attention of a wealthy benefactor and sexual deviant.

Paris Is Burning

Paris Is Burning

Rfor language and sexuality

Where does voguing come from, and what, exactly, is throwing shade? This landmark documentary provides a vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City’s African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene. Made over seven years, Paris Is Burning offers an intimate portrait of rival fashion “houses,” from fierce contests for trophies, to house mothers offering sustenance in a world rampant with homophobia and transphobia, racism, AIDS, and poverty. Featuring legendary voguers, drag queens, and trans women—including Willi Ninja, Pepper LaBeija, Dorian Corey, and Venus Xtravaganza—Paris Is Burning brings it, celebrating the joy of movement, the force of eloquence, and the draw of community.

Friday 27, June

Pet Sematary

Pet Sematary

R

Behind a young family's home in Maine is a terrible secret that holds the power of life after death. When tragedy strikes, the threat of that power soon becomes undeniable.

Sunday 29, June

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors

"The Ukrainian film 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors' won almost every award in sight on the 1964 film festival circuit... [It] has the kind of heedless energy you glimpse in some of the early work of Martin Scorsese, pounding camerawork so filled with itself it can hardly contain the story. For anyone who’s interested in the Ukrainian culture and customs of perhaps a century ago, 'Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors' is a treasure, a repository of costumes, masks, superstitions and beliefs, courtship customs and the sufferings of short lives with too much work in them." - rogerebert.com Ivan (Ivan Mikolaichuk) is madly in love with his childhood sweetheart, Marichka (Larisa Kadochnikova). The two, who are also neighbors, have formed an inseparable bond over the years, despite the rift that divides their families: her father murdered his father. Ivan intends to marry his beloved, but is forced to leave town in order to earn a suitable dowry. Once he departs, he endures a series of hurdles and tragedies that complicates the impending union -- only to return to further tragedy. 100% of proceeds from this screening will benefit Razom, https://razomforukraine.org/. The screening will be preceded by a brief history of the film's production and its relevance to the current day, presented by Edmond Soun (co-producer of Media Meltdown at the Balboa).

Thursday 5, June

Shogun Assassin

Shogun Assassin

R

When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.

Saturday 28, June

Stand by Me

Stand by Me

R

After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.

Style Wars

Style Wars

STYLE WARS captured the look and feel of New York’s ramshackle subway system as graffiti writers’ public playground, battleground and spectacular artistic canvas. Opposing them by every means possible were Mayor Edward Koch, the police, and the New York Transit Authority. Meanwhile MCs, DJs and B-boys rocked the city with new sounds and new moves and street corner breakdance battles evolved into performance art. New York’s legendary kings of graffiti and b-boys own a special place in the hip hop pantheon. STYLE WARS has become an emblem of the original, embracing spirit of hip hop as it reached out across the world from underground tunnels, uptown streets, clubs and playgrounds.

Monday 30, June

Super Shangri-La Show

Super Shangri-La Show

Presenting Strange Movies at the haunted & historic Balboa Theatre!

Wednesday 11, June

The Doors

The Doors

R

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band The Doors and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.

Tuesday 10, June

The Phoenician Scheme

The Phoenician Scheme

PG-13for violent content, bloody images, some sexual material, nude images, and smoking throughout.

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME. The story of a family and a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn Lund, their tutor. With: Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, and Benedict Cumberbatch.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

R

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O'Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named "Rocky." Doors open: 11:00 Pre-Show: 11:30 Movie Starts: Midnight!

Saturday 31, May

Saturday 28, June

Show Future Dates
The Room

The Room

R

Tommy Wiseau’s THE ROOM! THE ROOM is an electrifying black comedy about love, passion, betrayal, and lies, starring "The Disaster Artist" himself, writer/director Tommy Wiseau. He plays a successful banker with a great respect for and dedication to the people in his life, especially his best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) and future wife Lisa (Juliette Danielle). As the film depicts friendships and relationships in the lives of its five major characters, it raises life's real and most-asked question: "Can you really trust anyone?" A cult sensation, since 2003 now in its NEW San Francisco home The Balboa Theatre! So Grab Your Spoons, Red Dress, And Best Friends! Come Join The Party, It’s A Riot! With Your Host Michael Blythe! THE ROOM Plays The Balboa the First Saturday Of Every Month!

Saturday 7, June

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

R

En route to visit their grandfather's grave (which has apparently been ritualistically desecrated), five teenagers drive past a slaughterhouse, pick up (and quickly drop) a sinister hitch-hiker, eat some delicious home-cured meat at a roadside gas station, before ending up at the old family home... where they're plunged into a never-ending nightmare as they meet a family of cannibals who more than make up in power tools what they lack in social skills...

Tuesday 3, June

Wednesday 4, June

Show Future Dates
The Watermelon Woman

The Watermelon Woman

The Watermelon Woman, 1996 Directed by Cheryl Dunye Cheryl, a young black lesbian, works a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about a black actress from the 1930s known for playing the stereotypical “mammy” roles relegated to black actresses during that period. This was the first feature film directed by an “out” black lesbian.

Thursday 19, June

Young Soul Rebels

Young Soul Rebels

Rfor sexuality and language.

Youth culture meets identity politics in this part-thriller, part-gay love story set in London in 1977, days before the Queen's Silver Jubilee celebrations. The hedonistic world of pirate DJs Chris and Caz is shattered when a close friend is killed while cruising in the local park. The black community suspect the National Front, but the police pull Chris in as a suspect. This beautifully crafted period piece, a bold and stylish debut feature from Isaac Julien, paints a convincing picture of late-'70s London. The city is a carefully mapped out social landscape, open to all but offering safety to none, as we are taken to a Dalston barber, east London council estates festooned with Union Jacks, West End offices, soul clubs and city parks.

Monday 2, June