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7:00pm - Pump Up the Volume (1990) - 35th Anniversary
Written & Directed by Allan Moyle, showcasing Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis, Cheryl Pollak, Seth Green  

Celebrate the 35th anniversary of one the most underrated teen films of the 1990s. Christian Slater gives the performance of his career as a shy high schooler who's forced to move to a suburb in Phoenix, Arizona during his senior year. Once he starts his own pirate radio show (under the pseudonym of Hard Harry), his subversive late night ranting and raving begins to attract more than just his very own sweetheart (Samantha Mathis). Perfectly capturing the "grunge era" with a neo-sincere script as well as a treasured soundtrack including Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Bad Brains, Soundgarden and Leonard Cohen, the film is as relevant today as it was 35 years ago. Inspiring films such as Donnie Darko (2001) and The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), writer/director Allan Moyle has had a track record of capturing disaffected youth beginning with the punk classic Times Square (1981) and then again in Empire Records (1995). Find your flannel shirt, bust out some Ankh jewelry and be prepared to "talk hard". Preceded by a fistful of 1990s trailers along with a ton of trivia and special giveaways. Rated R for moderate nudity, profanity and subversive subject matter. Running Time: 105min. DCP courtesy of 

9:20pm - Trick or Treat (1986) - Rare 35mm print!

Directed by Charles Martin Smith, showcasing Marc Price, Tony Fields, Lisa Orgolini, Gene Simmons (of Kiss) and Ozzy Osbourne

Finally re-released after nearly 40 years, this overlooked 1980s teen flick (not to be confused with the 2007 horror anthology Trick r' Treat) is a profoundly affecting 1980s horror film that uniquely confronts depression in America's suburbia by way of "sleaze metal". Marc Price (of the TV show Family Ties fame) is spot-on as Eddie Weinbauer, a bullied teen who finds solace in his cassettes, vinyl LPs and Heavy Metal heroes. As Eddie spirals into the disturbing messages played backwards on his new Metal album, creature-feature artist Chuck Yagher (who designed the SFX for A Nightmare on Elm Street 2, 3, 4 and the first threeChild's Play films) concocts a slew of jaw-dropping monsters. Released a full year before The Lost Boys (1987) and The Gate(1987), this quintessential MOViES FOR MANiACS experience also showcases an incredible original metal soundtrack by "Fastway", headed by former Motörhead guitarist "Fast" Eddie Clarke. Preceded by a gaggle of 1980s trailers along with a ton of trivia and special giveaways. Rated R for moderate sex, nudity, violence profanity and subversive subject matter. Running Time: 98min. Rare 35mm print with rights courtesy of 

Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Friday 21, February

• 7:30 PM

Saturday 22, February

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Sunday 23, February

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Monday 24, February

• 7:00 PM

Tuesday 25, February

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Wednesday 26, February

• 7:00 PM

Thursday 27, February

• 7:00 PM

Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Saturday 22, February

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Sunday 23, February

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Monday 24, February

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Tuesday 25, February

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Wednesday 26, February

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Thursday 27, February

• 7:00 PM

Live Stand-Up Comedy at Balboa Theater

Saturday February 22, 2025

HEADLINER

Surprise Comedian 

Without giving away the very special guest headliner, the person has been in movies, television, and performed at about every English speaking comedy club in the world for decades. Continuing to sharpen the comedic knives with wit that cuts right to the point of stand-up comedy, making audiences die laughing. Luckily the headliner is making time in a packed schedule of theater, television, cinema and stand-up performance commitments to support local independent venues. Definitely check this one out!

Featuring Viral Comedian @Ho_grammer

Annette Mullaney

Annette Mullaney is a standup comic based in San Francisco. Named a "Comic to Catch" by the San Francisco chronicle, she's performed all over the US and Europe, including SF Sketchfest, Austin's Out of Bounds Festival, the Motor City Comedy Festival, and the Portland Comedy Festival. She performs in both English and Arabic.

Raised in the American midwest (with a brief stint in the Netherlands) by an Irish father and American mother, she lived in Syria for several years and has been a software engineer, translator, and writer for a magazine that she now realizes was a money-laundering front for the cousin of a dictator.

Hosted By Bay Area Legend 

Jerry LawJerry Law is a comedian based out of Oakland, CA that performs all over the United States. Jerry Law can be seen at numerous comedy clubs and festivals around the nation, and has been featured on CBS “Let’s Make A Deal” and many other platforms. He is a regular guest on Kevin Hart’s LOL network show Quake’s house. He has a special titled “From the Cage to the Stage” where he displays his experiences and versatility as a performer. Jerry is very energetic on stage and his stories about being a first time father after spending over a decade in prison are real life situations, yet hysterical! He also tackles relationships and what life is like after finding his purpose.

Shivaan Nadan

Shivaan Nadan shares his background of being Indian  but born and raised in Fiji until the age of 10. Then his family immigrated to Daly City. A story as unique as his comedic voice. The newest member of the #HellaFunny comedy group, Shivaan is a hilarious star in the SF comedy scene , a regular at the Hella Funny shows,Cobb's Comedy Club and opened for Hannibal Burress at the Palace of Fine Arts. A comedian and a visual artist check out his art on stage with comedy and his art off stage with his drawings. 

Rising Bay Area Stars

Art Galustyan

Nyoki Koyn

Clinton Nelson

Saturday 22, February

• 7:30 PM

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O'Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named "Rocky."

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW PLAYS THE LAST SAT OF EVERY MONTH!

Live shadowcast performance by The Bawdy Caste!

Jane Hudson (Bette Davis) is an aging child star left to care for her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford), also a former child actress. Stuck living together in a mansion in old Hollywood, Blanche plots to get even with Jane for the car crash that left her crippled years earlier. But Jane is desperate to keep Blanche imprisoned as she plans a new rise to fame, and tries to hide Blanche's existence from doctors, visitors and neighbors while she devises a way to get rid of her sister.

Sunday 23, February

• 1:00 PM

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Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Sunday 23, February

• 1:30 PM

• 4:30 PM

• 7:30 PM

Monday 24, February

• 7:00 PM

Tuesday 25, February

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Wednesday 26, February

• 7:00 PM

Thursday 27, February

• 7:00 PM

Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Monday 24, February

• 7:00 PM

Tuesday 25, February

• 7:00 PM

Wednesday 26, February

• 7:00 PM

Thursday 27, February

• 7:00 PM

Adonis Johnson (Michael B. Jordan) never knew his famous father, boxing champion Apollo Creed, who died before Adonis was born. However, boxing is in his blood, so he seeks out Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) and asks the retired champ to be his trainer. Rocky sees much of Apollo in Adonis, and agrees to mentor him, even as he battles an opponent deadlier than any in the ring. With Rocky's help, Adonis soon gets a title shot, but whether he has the true heart of a fighter remains to be seen.

Monday 24, February

• 7:30 PM

Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Tuesday 25, February

• 7:00 PM

Wednesday 26, February

• 7:00 PM

Thursday 27, February

• 7:00 PM

Piece by Piece is a 2005 American documentary film directed by Nic Hill. The film documents San Francisco's graffiti culture from the early 1980s to 2004. It is narrated by the San Francisco graffiti artist Senor One, better known as Renos.

Tuesday 25, February

• 7:30 PM

Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Wednesday 26, February

• 7:00 PM

Thursday 27, February

• 7:00 PM

Careless American military personnel dump chemicals into South Korea's Han River. Several years later, a creature emerges from the tainted waters and sinks its ravenous jaws into local residents. When the creature abducts their daughter (Go Ah-sung), a vendor (Song Kang-ho) and his family decide that they are the only ones who can save her.

Wednesday 26, February

• 7:30 PM

Sam finds himself in the middle of an international incident after meeting with President Thaddeus Ross. He must soon discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

Thursday 27, February

• 7:00 PM

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

Thursday 27, February

• 7:30 PM

In the year 10191, a spice called melange is the most valuable substance known in the universe, and its only source is the desert planet Arrakis. A royal decree awards Arrakis to Duke Leto Atreides and ousts his bitter enemies, the Harkonnens. However, when the Harkonnens violently seize back their fiefdom, it is up to Paul (Kyle MacLachlan), Leto's son, to lead the Fremen, the natives of Arrakis, in a battle for control of the planet and its spice. Based on Frank Herbert's epic novel.

Phoenix secretary Marion Crane (Janet Leigh), on the lam after stealing $40,000 from her employer in order to run away with her boyfriend, Sam Loomis (John Gavin), is overcome by exhaustion during a heavy rainstorm. Traveling on the back roads to avoid the police, she stops for the night at the ramshackle Bates Motel and meets the polite but highly strung proprietor Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), a young man with an interest in taxidermy and a difficult relationship with his mother.

Friday 28, February

7:30 PM

Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a new blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what's left of society into chaos. His discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who's been missing for 30 years.

Saturday 1, March

• 3:00 PM

• 7:00 PM

In 1986, Park (Song Kang-ho) and Cho (Kim Roi-ha) are two simple-minded detectives assigned to a double murder investigation in a South Korean province. But when the murderer strikes several more times with the same pattern, the detectives realize that they are chasing the country's first documented serial killer. Relying on only their basic skills and tools, Park and Jo attempt to piece together the clues and solve the case in this thriller based on true events.

A psychotic drug lord leaves prison bent on sharing his profits with the poor, but finds that the streets are tougher than when he left and that there is no way of washing the blood from his dirty money.

Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) leaves his university studies to enlist in combat duty in Vietnam in 1967. Once he's on the ground in the middle of battle, his idealism fades. Infighting in his unit between Staff Sergeant Barnes (Tom Berenger), who believes nearby villagers are harboring Viet Cong soldiers, and Sergeant Elias (Willem Dafoe), who has a more sympathetic view of the locals, ends up pitting the soldiers against each other as well as against the enemy.

The lives of several lovelorn individuals (Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau) intersect as they drift through Hong Kong.

It's the summer of 1987, and recent college grad James Brennan (Jesse Eisenberg) can't wait to begin his long-anticipated dream trip to Europe. Unfortunately, James' plans come to a screeching halt when his parents announce that they are unable to subsidize his trip. Forced to take a job at the local amusement park, James prepares for the worst summer ever, until he finds love with a captivating co-worker named Em (Kristen Stewart).

Local film premiere. Filmmaker Roddy a  SF firefighter.

In a surreal San Francisco where urban legends exist, a young woman on a date is stalked by an infamous serial killer terrorizing Vibeland and the greater Bay Area.

In this cult favorite road film, a mechanic (Dennis Wilson) and a driver (James Taylor) live only to race and maintain their 1955 Chevy. Heading east from California with no particular agenda, they give a girl (Laurie Bird) a ride, and en route she incites jealousy between the men by sleeping with them both. Meanwhile, the trio encounters an overbearing GTO driver (Warren Oates) who agrees to race them to New York, each side putting at stake their most prized possession: their car.

In this Japanese animation, cyborg federal agent Maj. Motoko Kusanagi (Mimi Woods) trails "The Puppet Master" (Abe Lasser), who illegally hacks into the computerized minds of cyborg-human hybrids. Her pursuit of a man who can modify the identity of strangers leaves Motoko pondering her own makeup and what life might be like if she had more human traits. With her partner (Richard George), she corners the hacker, but her curiosity about her identity sends the case in an unforeseen direction.

Austin, Texas, is an Eden for the young and unambitious, from the enthusiastically eccentric to the dangerously apathetic. Here, the nobly lazy can eschew responsibility in favor of nursing their esoteric obsessions. The locals include a backseat philosopher (Richard Linklater) who passionately expounds on his dream theories to a seemingly comatose cabbie (Rudy Basquez), a young woman who tries to hawk Madonna's Pap test to anyone who will listen and a kindly old anarchist looking for recruits.

Presenting Strange Movies at the haunted & historic Balboa Theatre!

New York City layabout Willie (John Lurie) and his dopey sidekick, Eddie (Richard Edson), get by on TV dinners and beer financed by haphazard card-sharking. Willie gets an unwelcome visit from his Hungarian teen cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), but, just as he warms to her, she ditches him for her aunt in Cleveland. Impulsively, Willie and Eddie take a road trip to pick up Eva, after which they head out to find fortune and paradise in Florida -- or at least alleviation from their constant boredom.

New York City layabout Willie (John Lurie) and his dopey sidekick, Eddie (Richard Edson), get by on TV dinners and beer financed by haphazard card-sharking. Willie gets an unwelcome visit from his Hungarian teen cousin, Eva (Eszter Balint), but, just as he warms to her, she ditches him for her aunt in Cleveland. Impulsively, Willie and Eddie take a road trip to pick up Eva, after which they head out to find fortune and paradise in Florida -- or at least alleviation from their constant boredom.

Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a bored construction worker in the year 2084 who dreams of visiting the colonized Mars. He visits "Rekall," a company that plants false memories into people's brains, in order to experience the thrill of Mars without having to travel there. But something goes wrong during the procedure; Quaid discovers that his entire life is actually a false memory and that the people who implanted it in his head now want him dead.

Douglas Quaid (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a bored construction worker in the year 2084 who dreams of visiting the colonized Mars. He visits "Rekall," a company that plants false memories into people's brains, in order to experience the thrill of Mars without having to travel there. But something goes wrong during the procedure; Quaid discovers that his entire life is actually a false memory and that the people who implanted it in his head now want him dead.

When infertility threatens mankind with extinction and the last child born has perished, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) becomes the unlikely champion in the fight for the survival of Earth's population; He must face down his own demons and protect the planet's last remaining hope from danger.

In this unconventional French drama, a group of unnamed aristocrats interact at a palatial château, resulting in an enigmatic tale told partially in flashback. X (Giorgio Albertazzi) is convinced that he has met the beautiful A (Delphine Seyrig) before in the Czech resort town of Marienbad, and implies they had a romantic relationship. M (Sacha Pitoeff), who may be A's husband or boyfriend, confronts her mysterious suitor, leading to conflict and questions about the truth behind his story.

Sunday 16, March

• 1:30 PM

• 4:00 PM

• 7:00 PM

A film about what could happen if the wrong person pushed the wrong button -- and it played the situation for laughs. U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely insane, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He thinks that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people.

Marcello Clerici (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a member of the secret police in Mussolini's Fascist Italy. He and his new bride, Giulia (Stefania Sandrelli), travel to Paris for their honeymoon, where Marcello also plans to assassinate his former college professor Luca Quadri (Enzo Tarascio), an outspoken anti-Fascist living in exile. But when Marcello meets the professor's young wife, Anna (Dominique Sanda), both his romantic and his political loyalties are tested.

After his beloved father (Brian Dennehy) dies, dimwitted Tommy Callahan (Chris Farley) inherits a near-bankrupt automobile parts factory in Sandusky, Ohio. His brand new stepmother, Beverly (Bo Derek), wants to cash out and close, but Tommy's sentimental attachment to his father's employees spurs him to make one last-ditch effort to find someone who will buy their products. With his father's tightly wound assistant, Richard (David Spade), in tow, Tommy hits the road to scare up some new clients.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mark Caso, Michelan Sisti, Leif Tilden, Kenn Troum) again battle their archenemy, the rogue ninja Shredder (Francois Chau). Shredder attempts revenge by obtaining the same radioactive ooze that created the Turtles and unleashing two new monstrous mutants: Tokka, an oversized snapping turtle, and Rahzar, a fearsome wolf-like creature. When Shredder plans to use the remaining ooze on himself, the Turtles must harness their ninja fighting skills to stop him.

In this quartet of neo-noir tales, a mysterious salesman (Josh Hartnett) narrates a tragic story of co-dependency, while a musclebound vigilante (Mickey Rourke) tears his way through the criminal underworld in search of his lost love (Jaime King). In another part of the city, a grizzled cop (Bruce Willis) foils the ambitions of a child-killer (Nick Stahl), and an ex-prostitute (Brittany Murphy) evades her ex-pimp (Benicio del Toro) with the help of her new boyfriend, Dwight (Clive Owen).

Veteran gambler Sydney befriends a young man named John, transforming into a Las Vegas casino champion. John falls for a prostitute, and the couple soon finds themselves in need of Sydney's help.

When the transition is being made from silent films to `talkies', everyone has trouble adapting. Don and Lina have been cast repeatedly as a romantic couple, but when their latest film is remade into a musical, only Don has the voice for the new singing part. After a lot of practise with a diction coach, Lina still sounds terrible, and Kathy, a bright young aspiring actress, is hired to record over her voice.

Saturday 22, March

• 1:30 PM

• 4:30 PM

• 7:30 PM

After saving the life of his royal father's usurper, Pelias (Douglas Wilmer), whom he fails to recognize, Jason (Todd Armstrong) is encouraged by the conniving murderer to begin a quest in search of the Golden Fleece. In doing so, Pelias hopes for Jason's death to thwart the prophecy that he will reclaim the throne. Along the journey, Jason is protected by the goddess Hera (Honor Blackman), and his crew includes Hercules (Nigel Green) and Acastus (Gary Raymond), a saboteur planted by Pelias.

Sunday 23, March

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An astronaut is transformed into a murderous gelatinous mass after returning from an ill-fated space voyage.

Renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril are at the center of British fashion in 1950s London -- dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites and debutantes. Women come and go in Woodcock's life, providing the confirmed bachelor with inspiration and companionship. His carefully tailored existence soon gets disrupted by Alma, a young and strong-willed woman who becomes his muse and lover.

This lauded drama follows the Youngers, an African-American family living together in an apartment in Chicago. Following the death of their patriarch, they try to determine what to do with the substantial insurance payment they'll soon receive. Opinions on what to do with the money vary. Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier) wants to make a business investment, while his mother, Lena (Claudia McNeil), is intent on buying a house for them all to live in -- two differing views of the American Dream.

Actor Rick Dalton gained fame and fortune by starring in a 1950s television Western, but is now struggling to find meaningful work in a Hollywood that he doesn't recognize anymore. He spends most of his time drinking and palling around with Cliff Booth, his easygoing best friend and longtime stunt double. Rick also happens to live next door to Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate -- the filmmaker and budding actress whose futures will forever be altered by members of the Manson Family.

The Earth is about to be destroyed by a huge ball of fire racing toward the planet. Cornelius, an old monk, knows how to stop the burning sphere with the help of Korben Dallas, a taxi driver and former secret agent and a woman named Leeloo.

Bruce Lee plays a martial-arts expert determined to help capture the narcotics dealer whose gang was responsible for the death of his sister. Lee enters a kung fu competition in an attempt to fight his way to the dealer's headquarters with the help of some friends.

Saturday 29, March

• 2:00 PM

• 7:00 PM

Chen Zhen leaves his homeland of China and relocates to stay with family in Thailand. Chen, who swore to his mother that he would avoid violence in his new life and even wears a necklace to remind himself of this oath, is tested when he confronts trouble at his job. When he finds out the factory he works at is a cover for a drug ring, and his family members are murdered by members of the gang, he can avoid fighting no more and decides to confront his corrupt boss.

In this cult classic, sweethearts Brad (Barry Bostwick) and Janet (Susan Sarandon), stuck with a flat tire during a storm, discover the eerie mansion of Dr. Frank-N-Furter (Tim Curry), a transvestite scientist. As their innocence is lost, Brad and Janet meet a houseful of wild characters, including a rocking biker (Meat Loaf) and a creepy butler (Richard O'Brien). Through elaborate dances and rock songs, Frank-N-Furter unveils his latest creation: a muscular man named "Rocky."

THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW PLAYS THE LAST SAT OF EVERY MONTH!

Live shadowcast performance by The Bawdy Caste!

In this classic film noir, insurance salesman Walter Neff (Fred MacMurray) gets roped into a murderous scheme when he falls for the sensual Phyllis Dietrichson (Barbara Stanwyck), who is intent on killing her husband (Tom Powers) and living off the fraudulent accidental death claim. Prompted by the late Mr. Dietrichson's daughter, Lola (Jean Heather), insurance investigator Barton Keyes (Edward G. Robinson) looks into the case, and gradually begins to uncover the sinister truth.

A psychedelic acid trip in which a young man takes a wild journey into the afterlife. A visceral journey set against the thumping, neon club scene of Tokyo, which hurls into an astonishing trip through life and death.