Semi-fictionalized documentary biopic of British artist David Hockney. After a difficult break-up, Hockney is left unable to paint, much to the concern of his friends. The title was named after Hockney's pop-art painting 'A Bigger Splash'.

A TV woman turns a homespun bum into a rotten media hero.

Two tacky homegirls move to L.A. to become dancers; instead they scam a dying millionaire but eventually become B.A.P.S. (Black American Princesses).

Basement Fest presents: Death Spa on VHS Michael’s health club is beseiged with a series of terrible murders involving killer saunas and other grisly devices. Michael’s wife killed herself a while before and her brother holds Michael responsible. Michael needs to stop the bloodshed before he loses all of his clients. Basement is an art collective and VHS archive in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. They host a weekly film screening and radio show on Radio Valencia.

Basement Fest presents: Phenomena on VHS A young girl who has an amazing ability to communicate with insects is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders. Basement is an art collective and VHS archive in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. They host a weekly film screening and radio show on Radio Valencia.

Basement Fest presents: The Boxer's Omen on VHS Mysterious! Intriguing! Horrifying! Don’t miss it! After his brother was crippled in the ring by a cheating Thai boxer, Chan Hung goes to Thailand to avenge his brother, and finds the key to an omen which may release their family from an ancient curse. He is then caught up in a spiraling web of fate, Buddhist curses, and black magic. Basement is an art collective and VHS archive in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. They host a weekly film screening and radio show on Radio Valencia.

Basement VHS Fest: All-Day Pass Access to all three Basement Fest programs Basement is an art collective and VHS archive in the Mission District of San Francisco, CA. They host a weekly film screening and radio show on Radio Valencia.

Chef Primo and businessman Secondo are immigrant brothers from Italy who open their dream restaurant, Paradise, in New Jersey. However, Primo's authentic food is too unfamiliar for the local tastes, and the restaurant is struggling. When famous Italian-American bandleader Louis Prima is scheduled to appear at Paradise, the two brothers put all of their efforts into the important meal, which will likely decide the fate of their restaurant.

The Dust Bowl overtakes his native Oklahoma in the early 1930s, and struggling young musician Woody Guthrie (David Carradine) leaves his wife, Mary (Melinda Dillon), to join the great westward migration to southern California. When he meets singer and union agitator Ozark Bule (Ronny Cox), Guthrie finds his populist political voice -- but at the expense of his personal life. Director Hal Ashby adapted this biopic from Guthrie's 1943 autobiography of the same title.

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry (Jonathan Pryce) escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle (Robert De Niro), he meets the woman from his daydream (Kim Greist), and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.

In the 1970s Harlem, garbage collector Roop feels intimidated by the idea of dating Claudine who is a single mother of six on welfare.

Country boy Xiaojun (Leon Lai) moves to Hong Kong, hoping to get rich so that he can send for his hometown sweetheart and marry her. But Xiaojun barely scrapes by in the baffling metropolis, and is lonely until he meets city-slicker Qiao (Maggie Cheung). While she schools him in urban living, the mismatched pair become best friends and eventually have a romantic tryst. Both decide it's wise to forget their passionate night and remain friends, but they still secretly yearn for one another.

Deeply shaken after being assaulted by a deranged man (Harry Connick Jr.), Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver) must face her fears if she is to help solve a series of murders. Helen is a psychologist who has studied serial killers, but this case, in which the crimes seem modeled on the work of infamous deviants, is grimmer than most. With the help of two San Francisco police officers (Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney), Helen tries to come between the murderer and his next victim.

Wong Kar Wai’s breakthrough sophomore feature represents the first full flowering of his swooning signature style. The first film in a loosely connected, ongoing cycle that includes In the Mood for Love and 2046, this ravishing existential reverie is a dreamlike drift through the Hong Kong of the 1960s in which a band of wayward twenty-somethings—including a disaffected playboy (Leslie Cheung) searching for his birth mother, a lovelorn woman (Maggie Cheung) hopelessly enamored with him, and a policeman (Andy Lau) caught in the middle of their turbulent relationship—pull together and push apart in a cycle of frustrated desire. The director’s inaugural collaboration with both cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who lends the film its gorgeously gauzy, hallucinatory texture, and actor Tony Leung, who appears briefly in a tantalizing teaser for a never-realized sequel, Days of Being Wild is an exhilarating first expression of Wong’s trademark themes of time, longing, dislocation, and the restless search for human connection.

Dorothy Ashby Celebration: Live Tribute Set from the Samuél Gonzalez Group featuring Destiny Muhammad & screening of Valley of the Dolls (1967) DOORS at 6:30 PM MUSIC at 7:00 PM FILM at 8:00 PM In tribute to Dorothy Ashby's unique connection to popular culture, we're screening Valley of the Dolls-- the theme from which she presciently covered on her 1968 album Afro-Harping: In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O’Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.

Two innocent people are arrested. An interesting third person, with broken English, joins them in their cell. On his idea, they decide to escape from the prison. Their journey is the rest of the movie.

Harrison (Charles Grodin), Penny (Alfre Woodard), Julia (Kyra Sedgwick) and Milo (Tom Sizemore) die in 1959 when the bus they are riding crashes. The four continue as ghosts, guardians to the child born at the moment of their deaths. Baby Thomas grows up to be a businessman (Robert Downey Jr.) who has memories of his playmates, but assumes they are products of his youthful imagination. When the ghosts realize they need Thomas' help to move on, they decide to make an appearance once more.

A Hong Kong actress, Maggie Cheung playing a fictional version of herself, is cast in France to star in a remake of Les vampires (1915), but petty intrigues and clashing egos plague the production.

LIVE MUSIC: Croz Boyce 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $33 ADV / $36 DOOR

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LIVE MUSIC: Gracie and Rachel Meredith Edgar 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $20 ADV | $25 DOOR

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What makes the Bay Area such a unique place for Asian American food? In the new CAAM-funded digital series Meals That Made Us, Director Nisha Balaram sets out to explore how Asian Americans are using food to shape identity, nurture one another, and imagine new futures. Set against the rich culinary backdrop of San Francisco and its surroundings, the series ventures far beyond the city’s elite restaurants. Everyday people find meaning in unexpected places, whether it’s foraging as a connection to ancestral experiences, elevating institutional meals with cultural care, or creating third spaces that nourish bodies and hearts. Moving between intimate interviews and sweeping cultural commentary, Meals That Made Us shows that cooking and eating are evolving traditions that are both connections to the past and the groundwork for new communities.

DRAGASSI (A Drag Parody Celebration of Degrassi: The Next Generation) This August, Canada comes Stateside with DRAGASSI - A Drag Parody Celebration of Degrassi: The Next Generation! If you grew up North of the border or addicted to The N here in the U.S., you were likely also obsessed with the insane antics of the tumultuous Toronto teens of Degrassi High! A media sensation that has seen five TV series and multiple television films, the era known as The Next Generation spanned 14 seasons and more chaotic “issue of the week” drama (pronounced Canadian style, rhyming with Alabama) than you can possibly imagine. From Drake getting paralyzed in a school shooting to heartthrob Craig doing blow with Taking Back Sunday, Degrassi GOES THERE and this month at Movie Madhouse, we’re paying homage with drag queens and kings acting our sketches inspired by the show’s characters, secret screenings, games, and more! Whatever it takes, you know we will make it through! MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE Gender jesters Piranha Psychotronica and Kafka X bring you a new experience in cinematic depravity… Media Meltdown Movie Madhouse! Prepare yourself to enter into a world of face-flaying forgotten and forsaken films… Made-for-TV, Direct-to-Video, VCR games, underground cinema, and more wiley weirdness than your minds can handle! In a world dominated by AI, CGI, mega streaming platforms, and cinematic universes, Media Meltdown celebrates the amateur, the low-budget, the handmade, the experimental, and the weird! Commit yourself every 3rd Sunday to … MEDIA MELTDOWN MOVIE MADHOUSE!

LIVE MUSIC: Wildlife Freeway Gromnica Red Light Lit An immersive evening of poetry, live music, dance, and experimental film 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $18 ADV | $22 DOOR

A woman researches a book that takes her to the black magic cult of Leák in Bali. She meets an evil witch who promises to train her dark arts. But she is tricked and turned into a flying vampire with internal organs hanging from her neck.

A television network cynically exploits a deranged former anchor's ravings and revelations about the news media for its own profit.

Police Story, 1985 ‘警察故事’ Directed by Jackie Chan YOU MAY KNOW THE NAME, BUT THE GAME HAS CHANGED. Officer Chan Ka Kui manages to put a major Hong Kong drug dealer behind the bars practically alone, after a shooting and an impressive chase inside a slum. Now, he must protect the boss’ secretary, Selina, who will testify against the gangster in court.

Spirited Away, 2001 ‘千と千尋の神隠し’ Directed by Hayao Miyazaki A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free her family.

Considered by critics as the greatest concert film of all time, the live performance was shot over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December of 1983 and features Talking Heads' most memorable songs.

The story of the rise and fall of an African American vocal group.

Lonely housewife Ila (Nimrat Kaur) decides to try adding some spice to her stale marriage by preparing a special lunch for her neglectful husband. Unfortunately, the delivery goes astray and winds up in the hands of Saajan (Irrfan Khan), an irritable widower. Curious about her husband's lack of response, Ila adds a note to the next day's lunchbox, and thus begins an unusual friendship in which Saajan and Ila can talk about their joys and sorrows without ever meeting in person.

A high school teacher from a troubled inner city Washington D.C. neighborhood becomes a super-powered hero and takes on the gang that has been terrorizing his streets.

The Princess Diaries, 2001 Directed by Garry Marshall SHE ROCKS. SHE RULES. SHE REIGNS. A socially awkward but very bright 15-year-old girl being raised by a single mom discovers that she is the princess of a small European country because of the recent death of her long-absent father, who, unknown to her, was the crown prince of Genovia. She must make a choice between continuing the life of a San Francisco teen or stepping up to the throne.

The Virgin Suicides, 1999 Directed by Sofia Coppola BEAUTIFUL, MYSTERIOUS, HAUNTING, INVARIABLY FATAL. JUST LIKE LIFE. A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

A Sneak Preview of the behind-the-scenes documentary by Chris Brown showing the making of Adios Ke Aloha, Waves of the Same Sea featuring Taj Mahal, David Hidalgo, Los Cenzontles, Gary Haleamau and Sonny Lim Adios Ke Aloha, Waves of the Same Sea is a groundbreaking musical exploration that reconnects the long hidden ties between Mexico and Hawai’i that began in 1832 when Mexican vaqueros brought cattle wrangling, and the guitar, to Hawai’i. Led by Los Cenzontles, Taj Mahal, David Hidalgo, Gary Haleamau and Sonny Lim, this album is rich with overtones of Hawaiian slack key guitars, lap steel, and ipu gourd ringing naturally alongside Mexican harp, accordion, bajo sexto, jarana, and requinto. Spanish, Hawaiian, and English languages mix freely in reimagined versions of old and new Hawaiian, Mexican, and Afro Caribbean songs and rhythms. Adios Ke Aloha, Waves of the Same Sea, a first-voice creative project, largely recorded live, is a joyful reflection of tradition, community, Native wisdom, and sharing. Culture is a fabric within which we are all woven.

Zola, 2020 Directed by Janicza Bravo Y’ALL WANNA HEAR A STORY? A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.