The traditional Opening Night and Preview Party of the Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema Festival comes to Cortland Avenue. The studios of Kingmond Young Photography will open its doors for the Opening of the 7th annual Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema screenings. It’s a party, a performance, …

The de Young Museum hosts a yearlong series celebrating Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo, a 2009 book celebrating street art in the Mission District. Tonight features a Mission Muralismo Film Series with rare and cutting edge, old-school and new-school Mission filmmaking shadowing and illuminating …

Start the Bernal Heights Film Crawl from one end of Cortland Avenue to the other for a roving cinema experience. Evening begins at Inclusions Gallery for Meet-the-Filmmakers reception and music at 6:30p. Films will be shown at multiple venues: Succulence/Four Star Video, the Bernal Branch …

This funny, unpretentious film marked writer John Hughes’s first time out as a director. The premise is ordinary, but the film is distinguished by funny gags and excellent performances by Molly Ringwald and Anthony Michael Hall. Samantha (Ringwald) is a high-school sophomore about to turn …

Enjoy film and the stunning view from the top of the Hill in Bernal Heights Park. The gates will be open to pedestrians, joggers and our impromptu audience as Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema returns to set up on the northwest corner of Bernal Hill where …

By tying thousands of balloon to his home, 78-year-old Carl Fredricksen sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America. Right after lifting off, however, he learns he isn’t alone on his journey, since Russell, a wilderness explorer 70 years …

The Rafael continues its quarterly series Everybody’s Classics, featuring big-screen presentations of classic films offered free to the public and made possible through the support of the Koret Foundation.
One of director Alfred Hitchcock’s most exhilarating entertainments, this scenic comedy-thriller propels advertising executive Cary Grant from …

What’s Closing Night at Precita Park without live music and a special surprise? As always, the weekend ends on a high note with an outdoor party-picnic-street food buffet with all of our neighbors, friends and organizing partner.
Sunday, September 5, 6:30-9:30pm
Closing Night
Precita Park
Folsom Street at Precita …

When his brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic Marine Jake Sully decides to take his place in a mission on the distant world of Pandora. There he learns of greedy corporate figurehead Parker Selfridge’s intentions of driving off the native humanoid “Na’vi” in order …

Celebrate the relationship between architecture and celluloid through these documentary films, which spotlight the built environment, the architectural profession and the ever-mythical architect’s ego. Every Wednesday in September at 6:00 pm at the Main Library; Free, registration required.
Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the …

Come to Jack London Square for a free outdoor showing of Dreamgirls, a musical about the history of Motown Records and The Supremes, nominated for eight Academy Awards. Let your inner diva out with a free Dreamgirls-inspired Motown karaoke contest. Prizes will be awarded.
The 2006 …

The locally-run Dolores Park Movie Night (not to be confused with the much larger city-wide “Film Night in the Park” event) continues its 2010 season with free movies on the second Thursday of each month in Dolores Park with the Jack Nicholson classic “Chinatown”.
About “Chinatown”: …

Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting an unusual rabbit. …

Amélie is a shy waitress in a Montmartre café. After returning a long-lost childhood treasure to a former occupant of her apartment, and seeing the effect it has on him, she decides to set out on a mission to make others happy and in the …

There is no such thing as “clean coal” and if you want proof come watch this free documentary about the ecological, social and health impact of coal mining and mountain-top removal.
Burning the Future: Coal in America is an up-to-date documentary on the subject of the …

In the distant future, a small waste collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
Friday September 24, 2010 – 8pm/Dusk
San Geronimo Valley Community Center,
6350 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. San Geronimo, CA 94963
FREE
Films are free of charge in …

The Coen brothers’ “The Big Lebowski” is a genial, shambling comedy about a human train wreck, and should come with a warning like the one Mark Twain attached to “Huckleberry Finn”: “Persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” It’s about a …

The San Francisco Film Society presents the much-anticipated ninth annual “Film in the Fog” outdoor movie event on Saturday October 2nd in the Presidio.
The free, family-friendly film screening will feature the classic existential science fiction thriller The Incredible Shrinking Man (USA 1957), a classic Disney …