When Katy McHugh, owner of Milwaukee’s Sip and Purr Cat Café, learns of the feral cat crisis in Doha, Qatar, she creates a brave and unsanctioned plan to fly 25 cats from Doha back to Wisconsin for adoption. From Mye Hoang the director of Cat Daddies, this film offers a heartwarming, urgent look at strangers overcoming barriers to save lives, highlighting the global struggle for animal welfare.

This screening presents newly digitized footage from the Ray Balberan Mission Mediarts Archive featuring youth organizing for employment and human rights in the Mission District, as well as community expressions of the art, music and cultural movements of the seventies. Ray Balberan will lead a live narration of the footage while inviting audience members to join in and share their own memories and commentary that will contribute to an organic collection of metadata.

David Lynch once described his stunning debut feature simply as “a dream of dark and troubling things,” but the unclassifiable ERASERHEAD is so much more: an expressionistic headtrip, a Grand Guignol nightmare, a pitch-black comedy of manners, and even a deeply personal allegory about the (post-) nuclear family. Amidst a monochromatic wasteland teeming with smoke and shadows, Jack Nance’s wire-haired wage slave Henry struggles to navigate the horrors of mutant offspring, sinister hallucinations and, most terrifying of all, his new in-laws. Directed by David Lynch. 88m. USA.

The incredible story of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, told by his peer and secret rival Antonio Salieri -now confined to an insane asylum.

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.

"Ceci N’est Pas Une Porn..." How do YOU define porn? Will you know it when you see it? This short film curation explores the sexual image through creative storytelling and erotic animations.

An examination on the effect of Franco-era religious schooling and sexual abuse on the lives of two longtime friends.

Ousmane Sembène, one of the greatest and most groundbreaking filmmakers who ever lived and the most internationally renowned African director of the twentieth century, made his feature debut in 1966 with the brilliant and stirring Black Girl (La noire de . . .). Sembène, who was also an acclaimed novelist in his native Senegal, transforms a deceptively simple plot—about a young Senegalese woman who moves to France to work for a wealthy white couple and finds that life in their small apartment becomes a figurative and literal prison—into a complex, layered critique on the lingering colonialist mindset of a supposedly postcolonial world. Featuring a moving central performance by Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Black Girl is a harrowing human drama as well as a radical political statement—and one of the essential films of the 1960s.

In the late 1990s, eight-year-old Sasha and her family relocate to a new home on Vancouver Island, but their fresh start is interrupted by increasingly dangerous behavior from the eldest son, Jeremy. At wit’s end, their parents are presented with a shattering choice. Award-winning director Sophy Romvari’s feature debut is a lyrical and profound testament to the things we carry with us, masterfully chronicling the haze of a languid summer and the hyaline clarity of the moments that defined it.

By Hook or by Crook chronicles the tale of two unlikely friends who commit petty crimes as they search for a path to understanding themselves and the outside world. Silas Howard plays Shy (a transgender man), who leaves his small town after the death of his father, and heads to the big city to live a life of crime. Along the way, he encounters Valentine, a quirky adoptee, in search of his birth mother. An immediate kinship is sparked between these men and they become partners in crime. Suffering money troubles, emotional problems, and physical confrontations, the duo face their issues head on and learn to trust each other and support each other in pursuit of their goals.

Carrie White, a shy, friendless teenage girl who is sheltered by her domineering, religious mother, unleashes her telekinetic powers after being humiliated by her classmates at her senior prom.

Two cab drivers search San Francisco's Chinatown for the mysterious Chan, who disappeared with their $4000.

Two melancholy Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious female underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant he frequents.

Arnold, a mouse in midlife, sees his world as artificial theater sets. As personal troubles mount, his suspicion of living in a fake reality leads him to search for what's authentic.

Original Cast Album: Company + Documentary Now! season 52 episode 3: “Original Cast Album: Co-Op” – 24 min at 3pm + Grey Gardens + Documentary Now! season 50 episode 1: “Sandy Passage” – 21 min at 5:30p

Meet Big and Little Edie Beale: mother and daughter, high-society dropouts, and reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis. The two manage to thrive together amid the decay and disorder of their East Hampton, New York, mansion, making for an eerily ramshackle echo of the American Camelot. An impossibly intimate portrait, this 1976 documentary by Albert and David Maysles, codirected by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer, quickly became a cult classic and established Little Edie as a fashion icon and philosopher queen. Screening with Documentary Now season 50 episode 1: “Sandy Passage” – 21 min An in depth look at the daily lives of two aging socialites and their crumbling estate. This mother and daughter live in extreme squalor, but the documentarians find more than just dirt and clutter on the property.

This holy grail for both documentary and theater aficionados offers a tantalizingly rare glimpse behind the Broadway curtain. In 1970, right after the triumphant premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s groundbreaking concept musical Company, the renowned composer and lyricist, his director Harold Prince, the show’s stars, and a large pit orchestra all went into a Manhattan recording studio as part of a time-honored Broadway tradition: the making of the original cast album. What ensued was a marathon session in which, with the pressures of posterity and the coolly exacting Sondheim’s perfectionism hanging over them, all involved pushed themselves to the limit—including theater legend Elaine Stritch, who fought anxiety and exhaustion to record her iconic rendition of “The Ladies Who Lunch.” With thrilling immediacy, legendary filmmaker D. A. Pennebaker offers an up-close view of the larger-than-life personalities, frayed-nerve energy, and explosive creative intensity that go into capturing the magic of live performance. Screening with Documentary Now season 52 episode 3: “Original Cast Album: Co-Op” – 24 min Follows producers Benedict Juniper (Taran Killam), Simon Sawyer (John Mulaney) and Howard Pine (James Urbaniak) overseeing the recording for the cast album of the musical Co-Op. The star-studded cast of Co-op includes Kenny (Alex Brightman), Larry (Richard Kind), Patty (Paula Pell) and Dee Dee (Renee Elise Goldsberry).

The combustible chemistry between a Polish florist and a British tourist in this charming postcard of sapphic synchronicity.

In celebration of their collaborative exhibition “A Slice of the Pie” featuring work from fifteen Bay Area galleries, Fraenkel Gallery presents this one-night-only special event celebrating the local arts scene. In addition to a slide show presenting the work on view in the exhibition, representatives from participating galleries will take the stage to answer the night’s big question. Moderated by San Francisco Chronicle Arts & Culture Columnist Tony Bravo, this multi-directional Q&A promises an informative, poignant, and hilarious evening.

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

Farewell My Concubine is a 1993 Chinese epic historical drama film, directed by Chen Kaige, starring Leslie Cheung, Gong Li and Zhang Fengyi. Cheng Dieyi (Leslie Cheung) and Duan Xiaolou (Zhang Fengyi) grow up enduring the harsh training of the Peking Opera (Jing-Ju) Academy, where instructors regularly beat the students to instill in them the discipline needed to master the complex physical and vocal techniques of this ancient art. As the two boys mature, they develop complementary talents: Dieyi, with his fine, delicate features, assumes the female roles (Dan-Jue) while Xiaolou plays masculine warlords (Sheng-Jue). Their dramatic identities become real for Dieyi when he falls in love with Xiaolou, who fails to fully reciprocate his affections and marries a courtesan, Juxian (Gong Li), creating a dangerous, jealousy-filled romantic triangle. Hailed as a “cultural achievement” (The New York Times) and widely considered one of the most important motion pictures ever made, FAREWELL MY CONCUBINE is a “gorgeous, intoxicating epic” (Los Angeles Times) that is both “visually spectacular” and “sumptuous in every respect” (Time Out). Spanning 50 years from the early 20th century to the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, Chen Kaige's passionate, exquisitely shot film captures the vast historical scope of a changing country while revealing the intimate and touching details of a unique, tender, heartrending love story. Based on the bestselling novel by Lillian Lee, it was selected as one of the “100 Best Films in Global History” by TIME Magazine, was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and remains the only Chinese-language film to ever win the Palme d’Or. This film is the latest restored uncut 4K version (20 minutes longer than its original Miramax theatrical release). 程蝶衣（张国荣 饰）和段小楼（张丰毅 饰）从小在京剧学校接受严苛的训练长大，师傅们经常以体罚的方式来灌输纪律性，使学生掌握这门古老艺术所需的复杂身段与唱腔技巧。随着两人逐渐成长，他们形成了互补的才华：眉清目秀、气质纤细的蝶衣主要扮演旦角，而小楼则饰演阳刚的武将角色。 对蝶衣而言，舞台上的身份逐渐走入现实，他爱上了小楼；然而小楼并未完全回应这份感情，反而娶了名妓菊仙（巩俐 饰），由此形成了一段充满危险与嫉妒的情感三角关系。而这段复杂的关系，在近代中国的时代洪流之下，必然地逐渐把三人撕扯破碎，并拖至深渊… 《霸王别姬》改编自李碧华同名小说，由陈凯歌执导，张国荣、巩俐、张丰毅主演的电影。本片获得第46届法国戛纳电影节金棕榈奖，成为第一部也是迄今唯一获得此奖项的华语电影。亦被视为有史以来最伟大的华文电影之一。此外，该片还荣获美国金球奖最佳外语片，以及第66届奥斯卡最佳外语片奖提名，并于2005年被美国《时代》周刊评为“百大不朽电影”之一。2006年，《首映》杂志将巩俐饰演的“菊仙”列为“有史以来最伟大表演100位”第89名。 片源为2023年为纪念本片上映30周年，而重新修复的 4K 无删减版本，比早先上院线版多出约 20 分钟。 Award获奖情况 1993 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or and FIPRESCI Prize 1993 法国戛纳电影节｜金棕榈奖、费比西奖 1994金球奖｜最佳外语片 1994 Golden Globe Award Best Foreign Language Film 1994英国电影学院奖｜最佳外语片 1994 British Academy Film Awards Best Film not in the English Language 1994洛杉矶影评人协会奖｜最佳外语片 1994 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Best Foreign Language Film 1994奥斯卡金像奖｜最佳外语片，最佳摄影奖 提名 1994 Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography Nomination

"A smorgasbord in sexual storytelling!" Experimental, explicit, funny, and just plain fun to watch, these short films span humor and creativity.

In Universal Pictures’ Get Out, a speculative thriller from Blumhouse (producers of The Visit, Insidious series and The Gift) and the mind of Jordan Peele, when a young African-American man visits his white girlfriend’s family estate, he becomes ensnared in a more sinister real reason for the invitation. Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya, Sicario) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams, Girls), have reached the meet-the- parents milestone of dating, she invites him for a weekend getaway upstate with Missy (Catherine Keener, Captain Phillips) and Dean (Bradley Whitford, The Cabin in the Woods). At first, Chris reads the family’s overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter’s interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he could have never imagined. Equal parts gripping thriller and provocative commentary, Get Out is written and directed by Peele (Key and Peele) and produced by Blumhouse’s Jason Blum, as well as Sean McKittrick (Donnie Darko, Bad Words), Edward H. Hamm Jr. (Bad Words) and Peele. The film also stars Caleb Landry Jones (X-Men series), Stephen Root (No Country for Old Men), Milton “Lil Rel” Howery (The Carmichael Show), Betty Gabriel (The Purge: Election Year), Marcus Henderson (Pete’s Dragon) and Lakeith Stanfield (Straight Outta Compton).

A visceral investigative essay documentary from director Valerie Veatch, whose past Sundance-premiering films Me @ the Zoo (HBO) and Love Child (HBO) explore how emerging technologies reshape identity, culture, and global power. This new film is her most ambitious work yet - over eight chapters, Veatch helms an urgent excavation of the philosophical, cultural, and political forces driving the global AI boom.

An old mother and her middle-aged daughter, the aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy, live their eccentric lives in a filthy, decaying mansion in East Hampton.

This is the tale of a meeting between Lazzaro, a young peasant so good that he is often mistaken for simple-minded, and Tancredi, a young nobleman cursed by his imagination. Life in their isolated pastoral village Inviolata is dominated by the terrible Marchesa Alfonsina de Luna, the queen of cigarettes. A loyal bond is sealed when Tancredi asks Lazzaro to help him orchestrate his own kidnapping. This strange and improbable alliance is a revelation for Lazzaro. A friendship so precious that it will travel in time and transport Lazzaro in search of Tancredi. His first time in the big city, Lazzaro is like a fragment of the past lost in the modern world.

In a near future, a lonely writer develops an unlikely relationship with an operating system designed to meet his every need.

A French actress filming an anti-war film in Hiroshima has an affair with a married Japanese architect as they share their differing perspectives on war.

John Muller, a petty and arrogant crook, devises a plot to rob an illegal gambling joint and when the caper becomes badly botched, he goes on the lam, frantically trying to evade the gangsters he tried to burn. While in hiding he discovers he bears a strong and strange resemblance to a noted psychiatrist and, through a murderous plan, Muller assumes his identity. A dangerous romantic interlude accompanies this scheme, and the brilliant ironic twist at the end will leave you speechless. A sadly underseen film noir classic. Starring Paul Henreid, Joan Bennett, John Qualen, Leslie Brooks. Screenplay by Daniel Fuchs. Photographed by John Alton. Directed by Steve Sekely. In B&W. 83 mins. 1948.

Director Mikhail Kalatozov’s delirious masterpiece unfolds in four stunning vignettes that paint a portrait of pre-revolutionary Cuba—its culture and the people who call the island home. Shot soon after the Cuban Missile Crisis, this wildly offbeat celebration of Communist iconography mixes Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality. Newly restored, “I Am Cuba” has never looked or sounded better.

Rewind Presents ~ Jawbreaker (1999) w/ Drag by Mary Vice! Directed by Darren Stein Join us for this high school cult classic black comedy about a birthday prank gone terribly wrong! Happy hour at Dalva at 8pm - show your ticket and get a discounted drink! “Jawbreaker (1999) is a study of the nature of power relations, a Foucauldian teen comedy that takes positions on sexuality, the criminal justice system, and body image issues. Jawbreaker may be high-key and cartoonish, but, like its namesake confection, it can be a challenge to digest. Courtney, Marcy, Julie, and Liz are the "Flawless Four," the non plus ultra of popularity at their high school. The leader, Courtney (Rose McGowan), is "like Satan in heels," while second-in-command Liz (Charlotte Ayanna), "the Princess Di of Reagan High," rules with kindness. Marcie (Julie Benz) is Courtney's loyal sycophant, while Julie (Rebecca Gayheart) has an independent streak and is critical of Courtney's leadership.” - Cosmo Bjorkenheim (Screen Slate) Follow us on instagram at rewindpresentssf for updates!

A singular work in film history, Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles meticulously details, with a sense of impending doom, the daily routine of a middle-aged widow—whose chores include making the beds, cooking dinner for her son, and turning the occasional trick. In its enormous spareness, Akerman’s film seems simple, but it encompasses an entire world. Whether seen as an exacting character study or one of cinema’s most hypnotic and complete depictions of space and time, Jeanne Dielman is an astonishing, compelling movie experiment, one that has been analyzed and argued over for decades.

Our hero (voiced by rapper ACE COOL), called by a different name in each chapter of his life, becomes a J-pop idol, an outcast, a leader, and an oracle in this hundred-year chronicle spanning the past, present, and future. Through a chance encounter with a transfer student, he trains to become an idol, starting his search for self-identity and a journey toward greatness beyond superstardom. Written, directed, edited and entirely hand-drawn by newcomer Ryuya Suzuki over eighteen months, JINSEI (meaning “life” in Japanese) is an anime tour-de-force that announces Suzuki to the world as a bold new talent in independent animation.

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute.

Claude Chabrol’s forty-ninth feature stands as the crowning achievement of his prolific career—a coolly riveting study of class dynamics, the psychology of crime, and the sordid secrets lurking beneath the veneer of everyday life. A fascinatingly enigmatic, César Award–winning Isabelle Huppert is the chaotic yin to Sandrine Bonnaire’s tightly coiled yang. They are, respectively, a small-town postal worker and a maid to a wealthy family, a pair of outsiders who form a mysterious alliance that gradually, almost imperceptibly, goes haywire. With a master’s control of sound, editing, and suspense, Chabrol constructs a tour de force of sustained tension that delivers each brilliant shock with ice-pick precision.

Law of Desire takes place in a feverish universe in which life is theatre, and to truly live is to overact. Almodóvar takes as his protagonist a prolific writer–director, Pablo (Eusebio Poncela) and through him explores the possibilities of utter desire — desire that is at once a possession, and the wish to possess. Pablo is obsessed with a young lover, Juan, who can't be had; but it is Antonio, a one-night stand replacement for Juan, who teaches Pablo about true obsession when he wakes up the morning after, possessed and possessive.

Linda Perry is one of the most recognizable artists of the past 30 years. The hat, tattoos and her hit single What’s Up? with 4 Non Blondes made her an icon. In the decades since that song topped the charts, Linda has reinvented herself as a songwriter and producer, penning hits for artists like Dolly Parton, Christina Aguilera and Pink. This film offers an intimate look at a vulnerable and courageous woman who dreams big, yet still struggles with the past and present, with fear, identity and family, as she grapples with the same big question we all do: Who am I?

Part of our ongoing series Wild, Weird Wicked: Films from Before the Code! A small-time criminal (Edward G. Robinson, in one of his best-known roles) moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.

In a tight knit Dominican American community in The Bronx, Rico (Juan Collado) is hustling his way through the summer, selling bootleg ”nutcracker” cocktails out of a beach cooler and chasing girls without a care in the world. But when his teenage girlfriend, Destiny (Destiny Checo), begins crashing at his place with his family, turning their small apartment into a stage for their messy, complicated young love, it’s only a matter of time before they’re hit with the sobering reality of growing up too fast in a city that waits for no one.

Four best friends are graduating from the University of the Philippines Diliman, their paths diverging in significant, if inevitable ways. Joey (Lorna Tolentino) bounces from lover to lover, couch to couch. Kathy (Gina Alajar), a mediocre singer, is intent on making it at all costs. Sylvia (Sandy Andolong) separates from her husband, while he sets up house with another man. Maritess (Anna Marin) gets married and sees her life reduced to the role of mother and housewife. Over the course of three years, the life of four friends intersects at the vanguard of wider societal changes. Unhurried, rich with character development, and unlike any ensemble in international cinema, Moral, the midpoint film in Marilou Diaz-Abaya’s landmark feminist trilogy, is often considered one of the best Filipino films ever made. Miraculously restored from near-unsalvageable elements in 2017, it remains an essential film for its bold structure and epic portrait of womanhood in the time of Martial Law. From anti-Marcos resistance to American culture creeping to new values being put in practice, Moral is a novelistic examination of an evolving Philippines society heading into the 80s with updated definitions.

Aloof teenage Japanese tourists, a frazzled Italian widow, and a disgruntled British immigrant all converge in the city of dreams—which, in Mystery Train, from Jim Jarmusch, is Memphis. Made with its director’s customary precision and wit, this triptych of stories pays playful tribute to the home of Stax Records, Sun Studio, Graceland, Carl Perkins, and, of course, the King, who presides over the film like a spirit. Mystery Train is one of Jarmusch’s very best movies, a boozy and beautiful pilgrimage to an iconic American ghost town and a paean to the music it gave the world.

A hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive.

The bold comedy-drama tells the story of a wealthy New York City teenager who, eager to impress his activist crush, follows an online connection to Texas where he believes he can stop an act of extreme violence. Anchored by a transformative performance from Asa Butterfield, the film also stars Jaeden Martell, Chris Bauer, Jennifer Ehle, Anna Baryshnikov, Noah Centineo, Becky Ann Baker, Avan Jogia and Pippa Knowles.

When Pee-wee Herman's idyllic world is destroyed by the theft of his fire-engine red bicycle, the pre-pubescent adult sets out on a manic cross-country odyssey to recover his most valued possession. Director Tim Burton makes his feature-film debut with this comic masterpiece.

Bergman's modernist masterpiece explores the volatile relationship between an actress who refuses to speak and the nurse overseeing her convalescence. After a mischievous montage 'explaining' the film's origins, the narrative proper gets underway, charting the increasingly tense battle of wits between the chatty Alma (Andersson) and the mute Elisabet (Ullmann), who are isolated together in a cottage on the island of Fårö. With a rich, resonant mix of related themes - the vampiric nature of art, the complex fragility of personality, the difficulty of communication - the film is arguably Bergman's most audacious and formally innovative work, multi-levelled yet utterly lucid. Sven Nykvist's lustrous camerawork, the subtle sound design and matchless lead performances combine to create a mesmerisingly beautiful work of unforgettable, haunting mystery.

A pickpocket unwittingly lifts a message destined for enemy agents and becomes a target for a Communist spy ring.

From the legendary Studio Ghibli, creators of Spirited Away, and Academy Award®-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, comes an epic masterpiece that has dazzled audiences worldwide with its breathtaking imagination, exhilarating battles, and deep humanity. Inflicted with a deadly curse, the young warrior Ashitaka heads west in search of a cure. There, he stumbles into a bitter conflict between Lady Eboshi, the proud people of Iron Town, and the enigmatic Princess Mononoke, a young girl raised by wolves, who will stop at nothing to prevent the humans from destroying her home and the forest spirits and animal gods who live there.

In this animated feature, Charlie Brown (Duncan Watson), Linus (Liam Martin) and the gang head to Camp Remote, located in the Rocky Mountains, where the big event is the annual river rafting race. Competing against Charlie Brown and his friends is a gang of bullies who always win the race, owing to their penchant for dirty tactics and cheating. This time proves no different, and Charlie Brown has to overcome his lack of confidence if his team is to have any hope of winning.

A tightly-wound film noir crime thriller featuring some of John Alton’s most thrilling images. Newly escaped convict Joe Sullivan desperately wants to reconnect with the sadistic crime boss he took the prison rap for—as well as the bundle of cash he has waiting for him. The plan becomes complicated when two women, each with their own design on Joe, enter the picture. Alton manages to give the film a wonderfully florid look, with actions and emotions racing wildly out of control. Love and bullets rarely mix well, as this stunning film so aptly proves. Starring Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt, Raymond Burr, John Ireland. Screenplay by Leopold Atlas and John C. Higgins. Photographed by John Alton. Directed by Anthony Mann. In B&W. 79 mins. 1948.

"Balancing insightful documentaries and sexy fun." Beautiful, candid, and uncensored, these short adult documentary films offer new perspectives on sexuality.

As part of Roxie Theater’s ARTHOUSE 50 series, we co-present the 25th anniversary of Thomas Riedelsheimer award winning classic documentary Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time projected on a pristine 35mm film print pulled from the Roxie’s vault. Post-screening presentation by long-time Goldsworthy gallerist Cheryl Haines, founder & principal of the Haines Gallery. “The river, the sea made solid. And stone made liquid. Then you see something you never saw before; that was always there but you were blind to it.” Landscape sculptor Andy Goldsworthy is renowned throughout the world for his work in ice, stone, leaves, wood. Some of his works stand and remain in the landscape; others decay, melt, or are blown away. His own remarkable still photographs are Goldsworthy’s way of talking about his often ephemeral works, of fixing them in time. Many find places in the exquisite and best-selling books that have been the bases of his wide popularity. Now with this deeply moving film, shot in four countries and across four seasons on Super 16mm, and the first major film he has allowed to be made, the elusive element of time adheres to his sculpture. Following the film, Haines Gallery founder Cheryl Haines will regale us with stories & anecdotes of her exploits stemming from her 35-year collaboration with Andy Goldsworthy. Gallerist Cheryl Haines may well have been the individual primarily responsible for Thomas Riedlesheimer’s initial access to Goldsworthy and his works, at least those here in the States, introducing him to the San Francisco Bay Area-Goldsworthy-Haines Gallery nexus that has nurtured the art, the artist, and the region with a cyclical, three-decade symbiosis, and may well have spawned the director’s 28-year collaboration with English guitarist, composer and multi-instrumental improvisor Fred Frith, who brilliantly scored this and a number of Riedelsheimer movies, including his Rivers And Tides 2017 sequel, Leaning into the Wind. In her capacity as Andy’s gallerist, Haines, the force of nature behind Haines Gallery and it’s non-profit subsidiary, For-Site, was responsible for Andy’s rise in America, and his renowned & influential U.S.- based commissions including the deYoung Museum’s entrance Drawn Stone, works found in the Presidio: Spire – Snake Walk – Tree Fall, and Earth Wall, as well as Stanford University’s Stone River, constructed from sandstone that was salvage from the University’s buildings destroyed in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes. In 1994, Haines curated the solo exhibition Andy Goldsworthy: Stone Work in America – a turning point in the artist’s career. Just last month, on April 16th, Goldsworthy was honored at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s Annual Gala, for an evening celebrating his practice and lasting impact on the region. At the event, Andy remarked, “San Francisco, more than any other city, has fashioned me as an artist. It has been a privilege to be part of its creative energy – an energy central to its spirit and identity.” Her gallery’s 12th solo exhibition, Andy Goldsworthy: For Olle, takes place May 8 – July 3 at the Haines Gallery: 2 Marina Boulevard, Building C. Haines Gallery represents any number of high-profile artists whose work continually draws world-wide attention to the region, including Iranian-American artist, Shiva Ahmadi, Syrian painter and graphic designer, Tammam Azzam, and Chinese dissident sculptor, photographer & filmmaking activist, Ai Weiwei, whose spectacular, site-specific, multi-media installation, @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz (2014 – 2015), was radically jeopardized by his sudden detention by Chinese authorities, a distressing derailment of disappointment which was only avoided, thanks in large part to the efforts of the curator and primary organizer of the entire myriad of complex logistics involved, Cheryl Haines and her Gallery team. The topical & history-making exhibition eventually drew 900,000 visitors! The entire risk-brimming undertaking is enticingly recounted in the 2019 feature film Ai Weiwei: Yours Truly, directed by… wait for it… the omnipresent & assiduous advocate of art & artists, Ms. Cheryl Haines, herself. SF Doc Fest & The Roxie are honored, and utterly delighted that Ms. Haines could join us for this event devoted to celebrating our triple-threat of overlapping anniversaries: Doc Fest 25! / Roxie Arthouse 50 / Rivers & Tides 25. About ARTHOUSE 50: For 50 years, The Roxie has been a haven for the daring, the strange, and the unforgettable. Arthouse 50 honors that legacy with a series of films that reflect the spirit of arthouse cinema—past, present, and future—with more to come throughout the year.

"If you think you know porn, think again!" From fantastical roleplaying to representation that matters, these short films reflect the wide range of what sex looks like on camera.

After his family is murdered by a notorious and ruthless bandit, a former police officer enlists the services of two outlaws to capture the bandit.

It is set in the botanical garden of Marburg, a medieval university town in Germany, and tells three stories connected to a tree over a period of more than 100 years.

A psychologist is sent to a station orbiting a distant planet in order to discover what has caused the crew to go insane.

Being connected to nature, what does it mean? Father knows and father shows. The director's father is 84. We follow in his footsteps into the mountain home. Into nature's smallest life and out to grand panoramas, where he grew up.

A portrait of Sarah McBride’s historic run to become the first trans Member of Congress, the backlash that ensues, and her fight for change amidst intensifying political extremism.

Amy Goodman takes on soldiers, politicians, and corporate media in a fearless pursuit of truth. Undeterred by armed soldiers, smooth-talking politicians, and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time. Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media. Oscar-nominated filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water, The Janes) take us behind the scenes with the warm, wisecracking granddaughter of an Orthodox rabbi — raised in a tradition of asking hard questions – as she navigates a news landscape reshaped by technology, corporate consolidation, and political assaults on truth itself. Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?

Bruno Antony thinks he has the perfect plot to rid himself of his hated father, and when he meets tennis player Guy Haines on a train he thinks he's found the partner he needs to pull it off. His plan is relatively simple: Two strangers each agree to kill someone the other person wants gone. For example, Guy could kill his father and he could get rid of Guy's wife Miriam, freeing him to marry Anne Morton, the beautiful daughter of a U.S. Senator. Guy dismisses it all out of hand, but Bruno goes ahead with his half of the "bargain" and disposes of Miriam. When Guy balks, Bruno makes it clear that he will plant evidence to implicate Guy in her murder if he doesn't get rid of his father. Guy had also made some unfortunate statements about Miriam after she had refused to divorce him. It all leads the police to believe Guy is responsible for the murder, forcing him to deal with Bruno's mad ravings.

Truly one of the most unusual films in the entire film noir canon, it tells the story of a beautiful young widow who becomes the victim of a cruel plot, one seemingly hatched by a mysterious fortune teller tied to a group of criminals. A curious wave of romance and danger envelops this strange and beautiful film, giving Alton ample opportunities to incorporate the exotic supernatural qualities it has with just the proper amount of atmospheric splendor. Starring Turhan Bey, Lynn Bari, Cathy O’Donnell, Richard Carlson, Donald Curtis. Screenplay by Crane Wilbur and Muriel Roy Boulton. Photographed by John Alton. Directed by Bernard Vorhaus. In B&W. 78 mins. 1948.

Without a doubt among the most hard-edged film noir thrillers of the 50s, it continues to thrill and fascinate audiences with its uneasy mix of wanton sexuality and brutal violence. An obsessed cop will stop at nothing to bring down a vicious crime lord, even if it means sacrificing the lives of those who mean the most to him. Here, Alton delivers some of his most potent imagery, creating a pervasive atmosphere of mounting dread. Starring Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Jean Wallace, Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef, Earl Holliman, Helen Walker. Screenplay by Philip Yordan. Photographed by John Alton. Directed by Joseph H. Lewis. In B&W. 87 mins. 1955.

Already on edge in the wake of an ongoing Communist purge, a government official, Ludvik (Radoslav Brzobohatý), and his soused wife, Anna (Jiřina Bohdalová), return home from a political soirée to discover that their keys are missing, their electricity has been cut, and “the ear” of the regime may be listening in on their every word. So begins a long night’s journey into dread as the two of them bicker, booze, and crawl the walls with fear. Could Ludvik be the next party member to disappear? Completed in the uneasy aftermath of the Prague Spring and immediately banned for its unvarnished depiction of state surveillance, Karel Kachyňa’s The Ear—unseen publicly until 1990—compresses an entire police state into one sleepless night, revealing how authoritarian power hides in plain sight, twists perception, and corrodes the fragile boundary between safety and fear.

A staggering work of existential science fiction, The Face of Another dissects identity with the sure hand of a surgeon. Okuyama (Yojimbo's Tatsuya Nakadai), after being burned and disfigured in an industrial accident and estranged from his family and friends, agrees to his psychiatrist's radical experiment: a face transplant, created from the mold of a stranger. As Okuyama is thus further alienated from the world around him, he finds himself giving in to his darker temptations. With unforgettable imagery, Teshigahara's film explores both the limits and freedom in acquiring a new persona, and questions the notion of individuality itself.

Visionary, radical, spiritual seeker, renowned poet, founding member of a major literary movement, champion of human rights, Buddhist, political activist and teacher – Allen Ginsberg’s remarkable life shaped the very soul of American counterculture. For 25 years, Academy Award®-nominated director Jerry Aronson accumulated more than 60 hours of film on Ginsberg, resulting in this comprehensive portrait of one of America’s greatest poets, author of Howl and other groundbreaking poems. The Life and Times of Allen Ginsberg premiered at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival and went on to enjoy success at theaters around the country. Now, the film has been digitally remastered in 16:9 HD (pillarboxed at 4:3, the film's original aspect ratio) and will be available to stream for the first time. In all, the film reveals the last 70 years of American culture beginning with the Beat era in the post-war Forties and Fifties, continuing through the revolutionary Sixties and concluding with the uncertainty and possibility of current times. The Deluxe Two-Disc DVD includes the remastered feature film and over six hours of bonus materials including never-before-seen materials made public because of the warm friendship that developed between subject and director, as well as exclusive and revealing interviews with his friends, family and contemporaries such as Bono, Johnny Depp, Philip Glass, Ken Kesey, Timothy Leary, Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol and many others.

Part of our series Wild, Weird, Wicked: Films From Before the Code! One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror, The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big-game hunter with a taste for the world’s most exotic prey—his houseguests, played by Fay Wray and Joel McCrea. Before making history with 1933’s King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack wowed audiences with their chilling adaptation of this Richard Connell short story.

A very different kind of animated film. Make sure to leave the kids (and pets) at home for THE PLAGUE DOGS, a rarely-screened masterpiece of arthouse animation whose haunting memory will never leave you. This fascinating follow-up to 1978’s landmark WATERSHIP DOWN follows lab test dogs Snitter and Rowf, who jailbreak from their torture in a secret facility only to find that the outside world’s even more bleak. Since the dogs accidentally broke a vial used by plague researchers on their way out, the human world launches a lethal hunt. Here is a world where animals are not a blank slate for our ideals and morality, but are the direct expression of the animals themselves; Humanity’s the bad guy, and the audience is not left off the hook. Featuring a slew of top-tier British voice talents: John Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Judy Geeson and Patrick Stewart.

A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other.

Considered one of the greatest films ever made, The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu), by Jean Renoir, is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners in which a weekend at a marquis' country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances.

THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI is a raucous sex comedy that brought international fame to director Lina Wertmuller (Swept Away). Giancarlo Giannini (Love and Anarchy) gives a wonderfully comic performance as the sad sack Mimi, a Sicilian laborer whose refusal to vote for the Mafia's candidate leads him to lose his job, his wife and his home. At rock bottom, he revives his spirits by falling in love with the beautiful, radical Fiorella (Mariangela Melato), with whom he starts a new life as a reliable husband and father. But the past comes back to haunt him, piling on comical complexities as all his energies surge into defending his honor, an obsession that has horrendous but hilarious consequences. A blistering satire of Italy in the 1970s, THE SEDUCTION OF MIMI takes aim at a corrupt government, compromised labor leaders and the Neanderthal sexual politics of men in power, with uproarious results.

Photopraphed in sterling, sensuous black-and-white, Francois Ozon's new take on Albert Camus's classic novel of existentialist ennui is a landmark of adaptation, simultaneously faithful to the text and dedicated to discovering fresh perspectives in the margins. Meursault works as a clerk at an office in Algiers during the French colonial occupation. Meursault finds his routine upended by the sudden death of his mother. As Meursault gets swept up in a cycle of escalating reprisals among his neighbors, tensions come to a head with a fateful encounter on the beach.

On January 3, 1889 in Turin, Italy, Friedrich Nietzsche steps out of the doorway of number six, Via Carlo Albert. Not far from him, a cab driver is having trouble with a stubborn horse. The horse refuses to move, whereupon the driver loses his patience and takes his whip to it. Nietzsche puts an end to the brutal scene, throwing his arms around the horse's neck, sobbing. After this, he lies motionless and silent for two days on a divan, until he loses consciousness and his mind. Somewhere in the countryside, the driver of the cab lives with his daughter and the horse. Outside, a windstorm rages. Immaculately photographed in Tarr's renowned long takes, The Turin Horse is the final statement from a master filmmaker.

These are the armies of the night. They are 100,000 strong. They outnumber the cops five to one. They could run New York City. Tonight they’re all out to get the Warriors. Analog Time Machine presents a cult classic party. Get ready for an immersive night of pre-film music, visuals, themed beer, and more, all with the gritty vibe of a graffiti covered subway car. Cannnn youuuu diggggg itttt?! This 1979 crime action classic sparked hysteria and outrage when it was first released. Of course, that only stoked its legendary status. The film tracks a Brooklyn gang on a mythic 30 mile journey from the north end of the Bronx to their home turf in Coney Island. Their only obstacle is every street gang in all the five boroughs. DOORS OPEN AT 8:45 FOR A DJ SET

Renowned Icelandic poet and author Andri Snær Magnason is chasing something elusive. As the glacial ice of his homeland melts, he constructs a cinematic time capsule to hold onto this moment and send it to the future, before everything he loves slips away. Using his own collected archives, his grandparents’ photographs, and films, as well as traditional songs and folktales, Andri interlaces his family’s story with that of the land around him. From Academy Award®-nominated director Sara Dosa, TIME AND WATER is a universal reflection on the power of home and what it means to be alive amid profound epochal change.

Traces of Memory is a short film showcase that explores the threads of grief, identity, memory, and exploration of self and the environments we live in. Affirming that while all are born and/or based Bay Area artists, we are limitless in the locations/places we tell our stories.

TWO SPIRITS interweaves the tragic story of a mother’s loss of her son with a revealing look at a time when the world wasn’t simply divided into male and female, and many Native American cultures held places of honor for people of integrated genders

Born in a warehouse hidden behind a hand-painted sign for a "Children’s Retirement Home", UGLY BABY is what happens when you stop trying to curate childhood and start honoring its unfiltered, psychedelic madness. UGLY BABY is a high-octane variety show written by, starring, and fueled by young maniacs who attend Rock Band Land, treated with the technical reverence of a professional production. There will be an intermission and a Q&A with the makers of Ugly Baby after the showing.

Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.