. Get ready to Roxieâthe iconic indie theater reopens this week with viewers choice screenings beginning with Cinema Paradiso. 22 Fun Things to Do This Week (5.17.21)
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May 15, 2021
Bye, Netlix. Hello, movie theater! For the first time in over a year, the Roxie, San Francisco s most iconic indie film venue, is opening for IRL showings.
Plus, there are several concerts on this week s lineupâthink Dirty Cello at Brooklyn Basin and The Mother Hips in Big Sur; brews on tap at Harmonic Brewing s new waterfront taproom; comedian Lewis Black at Litquake; sweet shoe deals at the Freda Salvador sample sale; and a good old fashioned NoLa-style crawfish boil.
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David Lewis May 5, 2021Updated: May 9, 2021, 1:18 am
The Smith Rafael Film Center will be hosting this year’s in-person, indoors DocLands Documentary Film Festival. Photo: Smith Rafael Film Center
For 14 months, Bay Area film festivals have made do during the COVID-19 pandemic with streaming, drive-in showings and virtual Q&As with filmmakers and stars.
To be sure, outdoor screenings offer their own charms and festival streaming is here to stay. But some still clamor for the intimacy, community and power that only a theatrical festival experience can provide.
Well, the wait appears to be over. On Friday, May 7, the DocLands Documentary Film Festival in San Rafael is set to become the first Bay Area festival to take the leap, scheduling two-a-day indoor screenings until it wraps up May 16. DocLands will also feature a few in-person Q&As after select screenings.
G. Allen Johnson April 27, 2021Updated: April 27, 2021, 8:05 pm
Yeo Yann Yann stars in Andrew Chen’s “Wet Season,” a Singaporean drama by director Anthony Chen. Photo: Strand Releasing
Talented director Andrew Chen’s “Wet Season” is about a high school teacher who is constantly surrounded by people, yet utterly alone.
Ling (Yeo Yann Yann) teaches Mandarin to several disinterested teenagers at a boys school in Singapore, a city-state where English is the main language. Her job-obsessed husband is barely around (there’s no surprise when he is revealed to be having an affair) leaving her to care for her disabled father-in-law.
G. Allen Johnson April 28, 2021Updated: April 28, 2021, 4:42 pm
Children watch “Toy Story 2” at the Balboa Theater, where guests are treated on the weekends to a jazz show and movie at their parklet. Photo: Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The Chronicle
On a recent sunny Sunday afternoon, the sounds of live jazz wafted up and down Balboa Street in the Outer Richmond District as a small crowd sipped beer, munched on popcorn and moved with the rhythm.
During the final set from Danny Brown and the Noise All-Stars in front of the closed entrance to the Balboa Theater, Emily Bridwell and her two young children arrived. As the musicians packed up their instruments, workers wheeled a big-screen TV out to the theater’s parklet, where Bridwell’s children plopped down to watch a free showing of “Toy Story 2.”
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