Set in iconic New York City, this is the story of four musicians, bound together by their passion for music and long years of working together. But when their patriarch Peter is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the repercussions hit the group deeper than they could imagine. First and second violinists Robert and Daniel row over first chair, Robert and violist Juliette's marriage hits the rocks when he has an affair, and their headstrong daughter embarks on her own explosive affair - with Daniel. As their 25th anniversary performance looms, the musicians must either find a way to overcome their troubles, and preserve their legacy - or part ways forever. With opening orchestral performance of Beethoven's String Quartet No.14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 featured in the film

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.

Celeste returns to their hometown not expecting to see anyone, but when their former best friend and ride for the evening drags them to a party they are fated for a long night ahead. Taking cues from irreverent queer 1990s & 2000s aesthetics and teen comedy-dramas, Be Here Now meditates on loss, connection, and friendship through a DIY punk & femme lens. with live music from Christina's Trip & Spa DOORS at 7:00 PM MUSIC at 7:30 PM FILM at 9:00 PM $15 ADV | $18 DOOR

Doc'n Roll Film Festival presents: Big Mama Thornton: I Can't Be Anyone But Me This fascinating documentary profiles Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton as a blues powerhouse who shook American music to its core. Towering in voice and presence, she made “Hound Dog” a #1 hit before Elvis ever sang it, and her ferocious “Ball & Chain” launched Janis Joplin’s career. Defying gender norms in jeans, boots, and cowboy hat, Big Mama captivated audiences with raw energy, humor, and soul. From Alabama juke joints to European festivals, she lived hard, sang harder, and left an indelible mark on rock, R&B, and the blues.

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.

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.

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!

Two of Britain’s greatest painters, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable were also the greatest of rivals. Born within a year of each other, both used landscape painting to reflect the changing world around them. Tate Britain is bringing these two greats together for a groundbreaking exhibition, in London from November 2025 to April 2026, and Exhibition on Screen once again has exclusive and privileged access to bring their extraordinary art and remarkable stories to the big screen in February so that you can enjoy both film and exhibition together. Discover unexpected sides to both artists with intimate views of sketchbooks and personal items and insights from leading experts. Turner’s blazing sunsets and sublime scenes from his travels and Constable’s idealised depictions of beloved places from home whipped the public of the time into a frenzy of enthusiasm. Constable represents the very best of the old school of realism and pastoral nostalgia; Turner, an exciting new way of depicting emotion and dreamlike impressions. Critics compared their starkly different styles to a clash of ‘fire and water’. Don’t miss this opportunity to see these greats side-by-side, as they so often were in life, on the big screen for the first time.

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.

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: Meredith Edgar Maiden Mare Maralisa 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $15 ADV / $18 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: Sophie May Kacie Jewel Hill 7:00 PM Doors 8:00 PM Music $20 ADV / $22 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

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

Doc'n Roll Film Festival presents: Rave Culture: A New Era When society fractured, electronic music took over. Late 80s. In an England suffocated by unemployment and Margaret Thatcher’s policies, a generation found refuge and a voice in music. In abandoned factories and secret fields, underground raves were born - explosions of light and sound where thousands of youth escaped social oppression to the rhythm of a new musical genre: breakbeat. Fusing the raw intensity of Detroit techno, the warmth of Chicago house, and the energy of New York hip hop, breakbeat shattered all the rules. Syncopated rhythms, powerful basslines, and limitless production fueled by samplers and synthesizers gave birth to a sound that was not just danced to - it was an act of rebellion. An electrifying journey into the heart of the rave revolution, from the first illegal beats in England to its global explosion. Through never-before-seen archival footage, interviews with the most underground pioneers, and a soundtrack that still resonates today, this documentary unveils the story of a movement that transformed music, culture, and the very essence of nightlife. Featuring: Orbital, The Prodigy, General Levy, Baby D, DJ Rap, Slipmatt, Uncle Dugs, Goldie, Jumpin Jack Frost, Bryan Gee, Altern 8, DJ Hype, Fabio, Sarah Sandy, The Ragga Twins, DJ Brockie, Bassline Smith, DJ Ron, Master Pasha, Shades Of Rhythm, Nick Halkes, The House Crew, DJ Darren Jay, Junior Tomlin, plus many more...

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".

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.

After the Rebels are brutally overpowered by the Empire on the ice planet Hoth, Luke Skywalker begins Jedi training with Yoda, while his friends are pursued by Darth Vader.

After a daring mission to rescue Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt, the Rebels dispatch to Endor to destroy the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Luke struggles to help Darth Vader back from the dark side without falling into the Emperor's trap.

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.

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

Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline had three children and then they separated. All three children are extraordinary — all geniuses. Virtually all memory of the brilliance of the young Tenenbaums was subsequently erased by two decades of betrayal, failure, and disaster. Most of this was generally considered to be their father’s fault. “The Royal Tenenbaums” is the story of the family’s sudden, unexpected reunion one recent winter.