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Thursday 3, April

Becoming Led Zeppelin

Becoming Led Zeppelin

PG-13for some drug references and smoking.

Thursday 3, April

Night Moves

Night Moves

R

Thursday 3, April

Friday 4, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Friday 4, April

To Live and Die in L.A.

To Live and Die in L.A.

R

Friday 4, April

Saturday 5, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Re-Animator

Re-Animator

R

The Room

The Room

R

Saturday 5, April

Sunday 6, April

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

PG-13Rated PG-13 for mature themes

Sunday 6, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Monday 7, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Monday 7, April

Harriet the Spy

Harriet the Spy

PG-13

Monday 7, April

Tuesday 8, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Tuesday 8, April

Drugstore Cowboy

Drugstore Cowboy

R

Tuesday 8, April

Wednesday 9, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Wednesday 9, April

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rob

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rob

Rfor some strong violence and brief sexual references

Wednesday 9, April

Thursday 10, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Thursday 10, April

Ocean's Eleven

Ocean's Eleven

PG-13for some language and sexual content.

Thursday 10, April

Friday 11, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Friday 11, April

Rise of the Super Tromettes

Rise of the Super Tromettes

R

Friday 11, April

Saturday 12, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Saturday 12, April

The Descent

The Descent

Rfor strong violence/gore and language

Saturday 12, April

Sunday 13, April

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday

G

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Monday 14, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Monday 14, April

Love and Pop

Love and Pop

PG-13

Monday 14, April

Tuesday 15, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Tuesday 15, April

Julien Donkey-Boy

Julien Donkey-Boy

R

Tuesday 15, April

Wednesday 16, April

Super Shangri-La Show

Super Shangri-La Show

Wednesday 16, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Wednesday 16, April

Thursday 17, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Thursday 17, April

Neil Young: Coastal

Neil Young: Coastal

TBC

Thursday 17, April

Friday 18, April

Sinners

Sinners

Rfor strong bloody violence, sexual content and language.

Friday 18, April

After Hours

After Hours

R

Friday 18, April

Saturday 19, April

Sinners

Sinners

Rfor strong bloody violence, sexual content and language.

Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood

Sunday 20, April

Neil Young: Coastal

Neil Young: Coastal

TBC

Sinners

Sinners

Rfor strong bloody violence, sexual content and language.

Monday 21, April

Sinners

Sinners

Rfor strong bloody violence, sexual content and language.

Monday 21, April

Demolition Man

Demolition Man

Rfor non-stop action violence, and for strong language.

Monday 21, April

Tuesday 22, April

Sinners

Sinners

Rfor strong bloody violence, sexual content and language.

Tuesday 22, April

Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces

R

Tuesday 22, April

Wednesday 23, April

Sinners

Sinners

Rfor strong bloody violence, sexual content and language.

Wednesday 23, April

The Exterminating Angel

The Exterminating Angel

Wednesday 23, April

Thursday 24, April

Sinners

Sinners

Rfor strong bloody violence, sexual content and language.

Thursday 24, April

Primer

Primer

PG-13for brief language

Thursday 24, April

After Hours

After Hours

R

An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

Friday 18, April

Becoming Led Zeppelin

Becoming Led Zeppelin

PG-13for some drug references and smoking.

BECOMING LED ZEPPELIN explores the origins of this iconic group and their meteoric rise in just one year against all the odds. Powered by awe-inspiring, psychedelic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music, Bernard MacMahon’s experiential cinematic odyssey explores Led Zeppelin’s creative, musical, and personal origin story. The film is told in Led Zeppelin’s own words and is the first officially sanctioned film on the group. The hybrid docu-concert film also unveils a huge amount of rare and unseen Led Zeppelin performance footage. The result is a visceral musical experience that will transport audiences into the concert halls of Led Zeppelin’s earliest tours, accompanied by intimate, exclusive commentary from the famously private band.

Thursday 3, April

Demolition Man

Demolition Man

Rfor non-stop action violence, and for strong language.

A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.

Monday 21, April

Doctor Zhivago

Doctor Zhivago

PG-13Rated PG-13 for mature themes

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.

Sunday 6, April

Drugstore Cowboy

Drugstore Cowboy

R

Classics on Film Presents ~ Drugstore Cowboy (on 35mm) Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon) is the leader of a "family" of drug addicts consisting of his wife, Dianne (Kelly Lynch), and another couple who feed their habit by robbing drug stores as they travel across the country. After a tragedy befalls a member of his group, Bob decides he must leave his dysfunctional clan and go straight. Parting ways with his junkie past proves more difficult than expected when Bob is stalked by an old acquaintance looking to score drugs at any price.

Tuesday 8, April

Five Easy Pieces

Five Easy Pieces

R

Rejecting his cultured upper-class background as a classical pianist, Robert Dupea (Jack Nicholson) opts for a blue-collar existence, working in a California oil field and spending time with his waitress girlfriend, Rayette (Karen Black). But when Robert discovers that his father is gravely ill, he wants to reunite with his estranged family in the state of Washington. He and Rayette take a road trip that brings the two paths of his life to an uncomfortable intersection.

Tuesday 22, April

Freaky Tales

Freaky Tales

R

Four interconnected stories set in 1987 Oakland, CA. will tell about the love of music, movies, people, places and memories beyond our knowable universe.

Friday 4, April

Monday 7, April

Tuesday 8, April

Wednesday 9, April

Thursday 10, April

Friday 11, April

Saturday 12, April

Monday 14, April

Tuesday 15, April

Wednesday 16, April

Thursday 17, April

Show Future Dates
Harriet the Spy

Harriet the Spy

PG-13

Harriet M. Welsch is a spy. But when her friends find her secret notebook, the tables are turned on her. Can she win them back and still keep on going with the spy business?

Monday 7, April

His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday

G

A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.

Julien Donkey-Boy

Julien Donkey-Boy

R

A portrait of the effects of schizophrenia on family life is the central focus.

Tuesday 15, April

Lady Snowblood

Lady Snowblood

Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill saga, this endlessly inventive film, set in late nineteenth-century Japan, charts the single-minded path of vengeance taken by a young woman (Meiko Kaji) whose parents were the unfortunate victims of a gang of brutal criminals. Fujita creates a wildly entertaining action film of remarkable craft, an effortless balancing act between beauty and violence.

Love and Pop

Love and Pop

PG-13

A high school girl engages in compensated dating in order to buy an expensive ring before the day ends.

Monday 14, April

Neil Young: Coastal

Neil Young: Coastal

TBC

Take a journey with maverick musician Neil Young in this personal, behind-the-scenes doc as he cruises the coast on his recent solo tour. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker and Young’s wife, Daryl Hannah, Coastal offers a glimpse behind the curtain of this unguarded iconoclast, as he navigates a return to the stage post-Covid – from his everyday observations on the bus to his candid, wry banter with his audience. The illuminating film also features songs rarely, if ever played live, performed in breathtakingly beautiful theaters.

Night Moves

Night Moves

R

Los Angeles private investigator Harry Moseby is hired by a client to find her runaway teenage daughter. Moseby tracks the daughter down, only to stumble upon something much more intriguing and sinister.

Thursday 3, April

Ocean's Eleven

Ocean's Eleven

PG-13for some language and sexual content.

Ocean’s Eleven 2001 Directed by Steven Soderbergh ARE YOU IN OR OUT? Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny’s hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to score the cash, Danny risks his chances of reconciling with ex-wife, Tess.

Thursday 10, April

Primer

Primer

PG-13for brief language

Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.

Thursday 24, April

Re-Animator

Re-Animator

R

Loosely based on H P Lovecraft's classic horror tale, Herbert West is a young scientist who has a good head on his shoulders and another on the lab table in front of him.

Rise of the Super Tromettes

Rise of the Super Tromettes

R

A mysterious virus is infecting the men of Tromaville. It's up to the Female vigilante team known as The Super Tromettes to unite and tackle this threat.

Friday 11, April

Sinners

Sinners

Rfor strong bloody violence, sexual content and language.

Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers (Jordan) return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.

Friday 18, April

Monday 21, April

Tuesday 22, April

Wednesday 23, April

Thursday 24, April

Show Future Dates
Super Shangri-La Show

Super Shangri-La Show

Presenting Strange Movies at the haunted & historic Balboa Theatre!

Wednesday 16, April

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rob

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rob

Rfor some strong violence and brief sexual references

Robert Ford, who's idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the reforming gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

Wednesday 9, April

The Descent

The Descent

Rfor strong violence/gore and language

A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.

Saturday 12, April

The Exterminating Angel

The Exterminating Angel

The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.

Wednesday 23, April

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 5, April

To Live and Die in L.A.

To Live and Die in L.A.

R

A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.

Friday 4, April