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Victory Day Lumiere Theatre	Daily	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Film Politics
We love a good psycho-thriller gun movie: Victory Day has the added value of being a revenge fantasy. Writer/director/star Sean Ramsay plays photojournalist Sam Cassels, who works in the Soviet Union and sees bad stuff happen. He comes home, gets a job at a magazine, and stumbles on a chance to... More >>

Red Cliff Embarcadero Center Cinema	Daily	Embarcadero	Film
After a decade navigating Hollywood, John Woo returned to China to make his latest film, but scale back he did not. The most expensive movie ever produced in the country and also the biggest, Woo's Red Cliff is a third-century battle royale with phalanxes of horsemen and armadas of battleships... More >>

“Sing-A-Long Sound of Music” Castro Theatre	Daily from Fri., November 27 until Sun., November 29, 1:00pm more dates/times	Castro/ Noe Valley	Film Film - Art House Holiday
“Sing-A-Long Sound of Music” — the words strike fear into certain people, who assume, quite rightfully, that they will be stuck in a theater filled with The Sound of Music’s sound of music for three-plus hours under direct social pressure from Rodgers and Hammerstein,... More >>

Fine, Totally Fine VIZ Cinema	Daily from Fri., November 27 until Thu., December 3	Japantown/ Pacific Heights	Film Film - Art House
Movies about losers — ahem, underachievers — comprise a delicious yet underrated genre. In films like Big Deal on Madonna Street, The Big Lebowski, Five Easy Pieces, and Knocked Up, adept filmmakers mine humor and pathos from inertia and failure. The latest winning addition to the... More >>

“Tropical Vulture” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	Daily from Sat., November 21 until Sun., January 10	South of Market	Film Film - Art House
The influential filmmaker George Kuchar first won a fringe following decades ago with his pioneering aesthetic of low-budget kitsch and bad-taste Hollywood homage. After switching to video in the '90s, the venerable Mission District icon gravitated toward first-person travelogues shot through... More >>

Ponyo Red Vic Movie House	Sun., November 29, 2:00pm more dates/times	Haight/ Fillmore	Film Film - Art House
The great ocean deep proves a natural canvas for Japanese animation legend Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away), whose latest feature riffs on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale of The Little Mermaid, albeit with the distinctly Miyazaki-an twist that the mermaid princess... More >>

Oh My God? Lumiere Theatre	Daily from Fri., November 27 until Thu., December 3	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Film Religion & Spirituality
Peter Rodger's documentary in which, as he says in the trailer, "I decided to go 'round the world and ask people what they think." He asks children, nuns, a princess, Hugh Jackman, and a host of picturesquely wrinkled religious dudes. Gorgeous cinematography provides visuals for the mystery... More >>

"The Cockettes on Film, at 40!" SFMOMA	Thu., December 3, 7:00pm	South of Market	Drag Film Film - Art House LGBT Events Museum Exhibits & Events
It’s hard to believe that just forty years ago the Cockettes -- a wild and woolly band of San Francisco drag miscreants -- were dropping acid and putting on their infamous psychedelic variety shows at the Palace Theatre in North Beach. Their louche legacy lives on through documentaries,... More >>

“Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4” Herbst Theatre	Fri., December 4, 7:30pm	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Film History Talks
Arriving home from the weekend, we upload and post our pictures and video on social media, which sounds impressive to our parents. In reality, it’s just the latest form of setting up the projector at the cocktail party and stultifying the guests with home movies. (See Katharine Hepburn and... More >>

Zombieland Red Vic Movie House	Fri., December 4, 7:15pm more dates/times	Haight/ Fillmore	Film Film - Art House
The zombie movie—that evergreen vessel for all manner of social and political allegory—gets stripped down to its “Holy shit! Zombies! Run!” chassis in this fitfully amusing romp directed with little ambition and even less distinction by first-timer Ruben Fleischer. Set in a... More >>

“Samuel Goldwyn Presents” Castro Theatre	Daily from Wed., December 2 until Thu., December 10	Castro/ Noe Valley	Film Film - Art House
It’s a tad disturbing that the latest films by two of our more interesting midcareer directors, Spike Jonze and Wes Anderson, are adaptations of children’s books (Where the Wild Things Are and Fantastic Mr. Fox). At the height (or depth) of the Great Recession, with the U.S. enmeshed... More >>

Bright Star Red Vic Movie House	Sun., December 13, 2:00pm more dates/times	Haight/ Fillmore	Film Film - Art House
Set in the bucolic suburbs of early-19th-century London, as fresh and dewy as a newly mowed lawn, Jane Campion’s Bright Star recounts the love affair between a tubercular young poet and the fashionable teenager next door. Fanny Brawne (Australian actress Abbie Cornish) is a self-assured,... 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

The Giant Claw and Blood Freak The Vortex Room	Thu., November 26, 8:00pm	South of Market	Film Film - Art House

Mozart’s Magic Flute for Families — The Movie! Herbst Theatre	Fri., November 27, 11:00am more dates/times	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Children's Events Family Events Film Free Events Music

Christmas with Walt Disney The Walt Disney Family Museum	Fri., November 27, 12:30pm more dates/times	The Presidio	Children's Events Film Holiday Museum Exhibits & Events

"The Global South" Artists' Television Access	Sat., November 28, 8:30pm	Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film Film - Art House

"Strangest Strange Sinema" Oddball Films	Sat., November 28, 8:30pm	Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film Film - Art House

The Room Red Vic Movie House	Sat., November 28, 11:59pm	Haight/ Fillmore	Film Film - Art House

Mozart’s Magic Flute for Families — The Movie! Herbst Theatre	Sun., November 29, 11:00am more dates/times	Hayes Valley/ Tenderloin	Children's Events Family Events Film Free Events Music

Bad Movie Night: The Wizard of Oz Dark Room Theater	Sun., November 29, 8:00pm	Mission/ Bernal Heights	Film Film - Art House

Postwar Japanese Films SFMOMA	Tue., December 1, 12:00pm	South of Market	Film Film - Art House

Owen Land: Dialogues Yerba Buena Center for the Arts	Tue., December 1, 7:30pm	South of Market	Film Film - Art House

Speaking in Tongues Ingleside Branch Library	Thu., December 3, 5:00pm	Ingleside/ Excelsior	Education Film Free Events Library