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Sex Positive Roxie Theater	Daily from Sat., July 4 until Sun., July 5, 2:00pm more dates/times	Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film Film - Art House
First-time filmmaker Daryl Wein wasn’t even born when AIDS was first recognized by the CDC in 1981, but his documentary on Richard Berkowitz, one of the initial advocates of safe sex, does a good job of capturing (though, dizzyingly, not always with a tripod) the internecine struggles... More >>

Mock Up on Mu Red Vic Movie House	Daily from Wed., July 8 until Thu., July 9	Haight/ Fillmore	Film Film - Art House Film - Repertory & Special Screenings
Craig Baldwin is the mad scientist of Bay Area independent cinema. Best known in some circles as the founder and indefatigable programmer of Other Cinema, he emerges every few years from his Mission District basement with a painstakingly (some would say “maniacally”) crafted... More >>

“1939: The Golden Year of Cinema” Castro Theatre	Daily from Wed., July 1 until Thu., July 9	Castro/ Noe Valley	Festivals Film
Some people can’t get enough of old movies. We salute those people! For one thing, old films were shot to be viewed on a big screen, full of screen-edge detail and lush, meaningful textures. Interestingly enough, like the very newest Pixar products, pictures made in 1939 often don’t... More >>

The Girl From Monaco Clay	Daily from Fri., July 3 until Thu., July 9	Japantown/ Pacific Heights	Film
There’s not much to this thin, sun-drenched concoction about a straight-arrow Paris lawyer (Fabrice Luchini) who descends on the titular Côte d’Azur resort to defend an accused murderess (Chabrol muse Stéphane Audran), only to find himself distracted by the tawdry charms... More >>

Surveillance Lumiere Theatre	Daily from Fri., July 3 until Thu., July 9	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Film
Jennifer Lynch has been tarred with the unfounded claim that her films get made only because of who her father is. David Lynch serves as executive producer of Surveillance, Jennifer’s first film since the near-stoning she received after 1993’s Boxing Helena, and traces of his oeuvre... More >>

San Francisco Frozen Film Festival Roxie Theater	Daily from Fri., July 10 until Sat., July 11, 5:00pm	Mission/ Bernal Heights	Festivals Film Film - Art House
Here’s a helpful hint Heloise neglected to mention: Guys will say and do anything to get laid. You already knew that? Well, that’s precisely what frustrates the greasy titular “hero” of The Snake, local filmmakers Eric Kutner and Adam Goldstein’s ribald and highly... More >>

San Francisco Silent Film Festival Castro Theatre	Daily from Fri., July 10 until Sun., July 12	Castro/ Noe Valley	Festivals Film Film - Art House
Contemporary moviegoers often view the silent era as a kind of crude training ground deservedly relegated to the attic (with great-grandmother’s scrapbooks) by the advent of talking pictures. The demonstrated cure for those ill-informed prejudices isn’t a paragraph of perfumed prose,... More >>

Examined Life Red Vic Movie House	Sun., July 12, 2:00pm more dates/times	Haight/ Fillmore	Film Film - Art House
Ideas beam out from Astra Taylor’s engaging new philoso-doc Examined Life; the viewer basks in the intelligence on-screen and, occasionally, soaks up the rays. A purveyor of intellectual vaudeville, the thirty-ish Taylor has mobilized a group of professional philosophers. Coaxed from their... More >>

$9.99 Lumiere Theatre	Daily from Fri., July 10 until Thu., July 16	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Film Film - Art House
Tatia Rosenthal’s stop-motion animation $9.99 adds a measure of stolid creepiness to co-writer Etgar Keret’s brand of dark whimsy. Like Jellyfish—the live-action film Keret directed with his wife, Shira Geffen, in 2007—$9.99 is an episodic affair detailing the absurd or... More >>

Julia Sundance Kabuki Cinemas	Daily from Fri., July 10 until Thu., July 16	Japantown/ Pacific Heights	Film Film - Art House
Tilda Swinton doesn’t merely act the title role in French director Erick Zonca’s Julia—she devours it, spits it back up, dances giddily upon it, twirls it in the air. It’s a big, all-consuming performance, and in the hands of a lesser actress and filmmaker, it might have... More >>

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Spotlight Tours SFMOMA	Every week Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 12:00pm	South of Market	Film Lectures Museum Exhibits & Events

Down & Dirty: the Intimate World of Queer Filmmaking Femina Potens	Third Saturday of every three months, 8:00pm	Castro/ Noe Valley	Film LGBT Events

"Fourth of July Film Orgy" Oddball Films	Sat., July 4, 8:30pm	Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film Fourth of July

Bad Movie Night: Rocky IV Dark Room Theater	Sun., July 5, 8:00pm	Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film Film - Art House

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze Red Vic Movie House	Tue., July 7, 7:15pm more dates/times	Haight/ Fillmore	Film Film - Art House

Forever Plaid 20th Anniversary Special Century San Francisco Centre	Thu., July 9, 8:00pm	South of Market	Film

Nao Bustamante, Margaret Tedesco, Cliff Hengst The Lab	Fri., July 10, 8:00pm	South of Market	Film Performing Arts

Sid & Nancy Cafe Royale	Wed., July 15, 8:00pm	Embarcadero	Film Free Events Music

Jack Curtis Dubowsky Ensemble Artists' Television Access	Fri., July 17, 7:00pm	Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film Music

Bugs Bunny on Broadway Davies Symphony Hall	Fri., July 17, 8:00pm	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Film Music

Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Davies Symphony Hall	Sat., July 18, 8:00pm	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Film Music

We Are the ILWU, The Eye of the Storm, and May Day 2008 Main Library, Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room	Sat., August 1, 2:00pm	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Film Politics

Beyond ESPN: An Offbeat Look at the Sports Film Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	Daily from Thu., August 6 until Sun., August 30	South of Market	Film

Richard Avedon Film Series: Program 1 SFMOMA	Sat., July 4, 3:00pm more dates/times	South of Market	Film Film - Art House Museum Exhibits & Events

Jules and Jim Red Vic Movie House	Sun., July 5, 2:00pm more dates/times	Haight/ Fillmore	Film Film - Art House