Arthur Russell Celebration: Live Music from local musicians & screening of Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell DOORS at 7:00 PM MUSIC at 7:30 PM FILM at 9:00 PM

Basement VHS presents: The Lair of the White Worm When an archeologist uncovers a strange skull in foreign land, the residents of a nearby town begin to disappear, leading to further unexplainable occurrences.

Brian, a struggling filmmaker and alcoholic, is determined to bring his dream slasher film to life. But as his substance abuse disorder takes over, his relationships crumble and his grip on reality deteriorates. Mentally breaking down during a film shoot, Brian descends into a hellish psychological nightmare war zone. To survive, he must confront his inner demon zombies—or be consumed by them. Most importantly, he must not allow the killer from his movie to stab his brain. Premiere of the Debut Feature Film from Michael Cruz with live music from The Clog & Slosh DOORS at 7:00 PM MUSIC at 8:00 PM FILM at 9:30 PM $15 ADV | $18 DOOR

Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.

A disk containing mysterious information from a CIA agent ends up in the hands of two unscrupulous and daft gym employees who attempt to sell it.

When a wannabe documentarian sees a viral video of a young trans woman claiming to be pregnant, she thinks she found the perfect subject for her next film.

Cleo, a singer and hypochondriac, becomes increasingly worried that she might have cancer while awaiting test results from her doctor.

Following her seminal documentary on the punk rock scene but years before she would go on to paying love homage to this subculture in “Wayne’s World”, director Penelope Spheeris created the perfect snapshot of the 1980s Los Angeles hair metal scene, a decadent snapshot of sex, drugs, fame, and rock n roll! Focusing on both the bands and the fans, the film features notable stars such as the members of KISS, Aerosmith, Alice Cooper, Poison, and an egg-cooking Ozzy Osbourne in a bathrobe! And that’s not to mention live performances from Megadeth, Lizzy Borden, and a few bands who are less remembered in 2026. But the heart of this film is the music lovers who just wanna rock! Featuring a preshow by the metalheads from Media Meltdown who are headbanging to celebrate the 6 year anniversary of the first Media Meltdown show! 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!

Join WNP Film Club on May 28th for a screening of an all-time classic San Francisco film, Good Neighbor Sam (1964). Sam Bissell (Jack Lemmon) is an advertising executive who loves his wife, Min (Dorothy Provine), and his family as much as he loves peace and quiet. WNP Film Club is a 4 Star Theater series brought to you by Western Neighborhoods Project, your friendly community history nonprofit, in partnership with Bay Area Movies and CinemaSF. Join us in celebrating movies filmed on location in San Francisco, with an emphasis on the west side. Each screening will feature an introduction by WNP, who will share some background about the film and featured locations, including “then and now” comparisons. Optional Extra Credit: stick around after to unpack the movie with John and Chelsea and indulge your inner film nerd. The program begins at 7:00pm on Thursday, May 28th. Tickets sales support both WNP and the 4 Star Theater!

Grey Gardens, 1975 Directed by Albert Maysles, David Maysles … Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, two aging, eccentric relatives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis, are the sole inhabitants of a Long Island estate. The women reveal themselves to be misfits with outsized, engaging personalities. Much of the conversation is centered on their pasts, as mother and daughter now rarely leave home.

A new breed of enemy has taken over the world… Sam Hell has come to take it back. ‘Hell’ is the name of the hero of the story. He’s a prisoner of the women who now run the USA after a nuclear/biological war. Results of the war are that mutants have evolved, and the human race is in danger of extinction due to infertility. Hell is given the task of helping in the rescue of a group of fertile women from the harem of the mutant leader (resembling a frog). Hell cannot escape since he has a bomb attached to his private parts which will detonate if he strays more than a few hundred yards from his guard.

A bright assistant D.A. investigates a gruesome hatchet murder and hides a clue he found at the crime scene. Under professional threats and an attempt on his life, he goes on heartbroken because evidence point to the woman he still loves.

The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.

Aspiring thief Johnny (Dermot Mulroney) messes with the wrong man when he attempts to steal from Seldom Seen (Harry Belafonte), a Kansas City mob dynamo. Blondie (Jennifer Jason Leigh), Johnny's wife, refuses to sit back and let Johnny be held captive, resulting in a scheme to abduct a prominent government official's wife (Miranda Richardson). Blondie's plan is to use the woman's political connections to free her husband, but it gets complicated when the two women form an unlikely bond.

Programme 4, the switched-on broadcast from the wall-to-wall carpeted world of Golden Sands, is coming to you live with a special presentation: a feature-length screening of Programme 4 with an exclusive look at all-new television entertainment! Escape to a groovy, aspirational world of tomorrow, TODAY. Make the Scene with creator Rachel Lichtman, special guest stars, Rhodes pianos, complimentary matchbooks and more. Featuring special guest appearance from Kelley Stoltz on the Rhodes piano! DOORS at 7:30PM SHOW at 8:00 PM $22 ADV | $25 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Devin Shaffer Lucy Liyou 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $18 ADV | $20 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Dylan Earl Jacob Aranda 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $18 ADV / $23 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Eli Winter Trio Danny Paul Grody Duo CHIROMANCER Presented by Talent Moat 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $15 ADV / $18 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Field Medic (with support from beaming) 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $22 ADV / $25 DOOR

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

LIVE MUSIC: Mia Wilson Ny Oh (Co-Headlining) Presented by Royal Oakie 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $15 ADV | $18 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Nat Lefkoff Good Friends Midheaven 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $18 ADV / $22 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Penelope Trappes 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $16 ADV | $18 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: An Evening with: Souled American (2 Sets) Andy Cabic Spinning Vinyl Before & Between Sets 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $25 ADV / $30 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: The Sleeves 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $15 ADV / $20 DOOR

LIVE MUSIC: Tommy Guerrero Josh Lippi 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $25 ADV / $30 DOOR

A TOTAL ACCORD NIGHT AT THE THEATER Hosted by Media Meltdown (as part of Total Accord Fest 2026) LIVE MUSIC: The Seshen AroMa DRAG PERFORMANCES: Pirahna Psychotronica, Kafka X & Mojo Carter! MUSIC VIDEOS: The Seshen, AroMa, Davia Schendel, Gloomy June, Zelma Stone! plus the PREMIERE SCREENING of the Total Accord Short Documentary by White Crate!

LIVE MUSIC: Woods Dougie Poole Presented by (((folkYEAH!))) 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $22

LIVE MUSIC: Kelley Stoltz (Record Release) Telephone Numbers No Picture 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $18 ADV / $20 DOOR

When a childless couple of an ex-con and an ex-cop decide to help themselves to one of another family's quintuplets, their lives become more complicated than they anticipated.

A former circus artist escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name as he becomes "her arms".

Sun Ra Celebration: Live Music from the Samuél Gonzalez Group & screening of Sun Ra: A Joyful Noise MUSIC at 8:00 PM FILM at 9:00 PM

Poet, philosopher, Egyptologist, bandleader. Jazz visionary Sun Ra was all of these—and more. With his ever-evolving band the Sun Ra Arkestra, he produced more than 200 albums, stretching the boundaries of free-form jazz while weaving ancient Egypt, interstellar metaphors, and scientific musings into a singular musical and spiritual vision of Afrofuturism that continues to reverberate across generations. Director Christine Turner takes us on an illuminating journey through the life of this multi-faceted artist, gracefully balancing recollections from the Arkestra’s still-devout band members and dancers with insightful interviews from music scholars, and unforgettable film and performance footage of Sun Ra himself. The result is a portrait—informative, inspiring, and mind-bending—of a man whose audacious vision, otherworldly imagination, and uncompromising artistry helped shape not only the sound of jazz, but the cultural landscape of the 20th century and beyond.

What happens when non-violent leaders are pushed to support armed struggle against a brutal regime in a forgotten war? Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar follows four democracy revolutionaries who are finding creative means to fight against the military junta. Some take up arms while struggling to stay true to their commitment to non-violence, while others engage in “artivism,” using music, poetry and art to bring about a peaceful, free, democratic and truly inclusive future for all people in Myanmar.

Varda films and interviews gleaners in France in all forms, from those picking fields after the harvest to those scouring the dumpsters of Paris.

Wishing to become a successful Reggae singer, a young Jamaican man finds himself tied to corrupt record producers and drug pushers.

Bliss Cavendar lives in small-town Texas and yearns to break free of her mother's world of beauty pageants and conformity. She sees her chance when she meets the Hurl Scouts, a roller-derby team; she tries out for the team and wins a slot, lying to her parents about her new hobby. Bliss finds friendship and freedom with her teammates, but a conflict between a championship game and the Bluebonnet beauty pageant threatens to spill her secret.