Events on Sunday, August 3
Watch Horror Films, Keep America Strong
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Cerrito Speakeasy Theater
In the days before On Demand and Netflix (or even VHS, for that matter), movie buffs got their fix at home...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley
In classic Horatio Alger fashion, miniature powerhouse Dolly Parton escaped her dirt-poor Tennessee roots to find fame and fortune in the...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Stage and screen idol of the 1930s, Charles Laughton took one turn in the director's chair, and it just happened to...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Hemlock Tavern
The myth of the ultimate bar band casts a long shadow from the E Street Band to the Pogues, from Guided...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ CELLspace
The lascivious bookworms over at Litquake know how to grab our attention — and our wallets. Their latest fundraiser features the...
Ongoing Events
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Landmark Embarcadero
For fans of the book and miniseries, it's hard to imagine how Brideshead Revisited could conform to a two-hour feature-film format....
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Sundance Kabuki Cinema
Growing old has long been a stereotypical bugaboo for gay men. Thankfully, there are filmmakers like Jacques Nolot, whose semi-autobiographical Before...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations....
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Sunday 8/ 3 @ de Young Museum
Although the California Academy of Sciences is across the street, it's the de Young that's currently filled with swarms of jellyfish,...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ American Conservatory Theater
Roger Rees has a decidedly multifaceted career. Stateside, he's best known for slapstick roles like the snooty-yet-sexy Robin Colcord on Cheers,...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Various locations
The Wackness is the sort of movie whose most redeeming qualities are least likely to be advertised in its trailers. About...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' much-anticipated triennial presents a comprehensive view of the city's visual and performing art from the...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Exploratorium
Opening (appropriately enough) on Friday the 13th, the Exploratorium's newest exhibit encourages visitors to test their own superstitions (or lack...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ City Hall
During World War II, Victory Gardens produced almost 40% of America's food supply. In a nod to history, artist and green...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ The Castro Theatre
Milestone Films recently scored a surprise hit with a restoration of Charles Burnett's 1977 film Killer of Sheep. The company...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Various locations
With movies set in locations around the world, this year's SF Jewish Film Festival could easily double as an international film...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Holly Williams and Justin Gabbard
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Park Life
Holly Williams' Los Angeles shimmers with the sequined lights of movie marquees and deco hotels, but the burnished glow masks a...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ SFMOMA
In Room for Thought, Swiss video artists Alexander Hahn and Yves Netzhammer tackle Second Life's computer-generated spaces from a sympathetic angle....
Sunday 8/ 3 @ John Hinkel Park
With its infamous opening salvo ("Merdre!"), Alfred Jarry's vulgar, nonsensical satire of 19th-century despotism, Ubu Roi scandalized Parisian theatergoers upon its...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Various locations
Dedicated flâneurs will appreciate the YBCA's series of unconventional strolls and bus rides through San Francisco's hidden corners. Performance artist Michael...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Oakland Museum of California
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ SFMOMA
With China the topic du jour this summer, SFMOMA weighs in with a look at the post-Tiananmen art scene. In over...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ SFMOMA
The devastating injuries Frida Kahlo suffered as a teenager during a bus accident actually may have been inspirational — they led...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ The Legion of Honor Museum
Impressionism has more than its fair share of great names: Monet, Degas, Renoir, Manet, and the list goes on. Less often...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Roxie Theater
About eight years ago, a San Francisco artist named Someguy labeled 1,000 blank notebooks with instructions: add a drawing, story, confession,...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ SFMOMA
Drawing on Mexico's rich cinematic history, the Angel of Fire film series — an accompainment to SFMoMA's blockbuster Frida Kahlo exhibit...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Triple Base
Part performance piece and part street fair, interactive exhibition Open for Business invites 16 contemporary artists to unleash the entrepreneur within....
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Frey Norris Gallery
With a Zen-like touch, Korean artist Koh Myung Keun creates photo sculptures that turn images of nature into luminous magic lanterns....
Sunday 8/ 3 @ SFMOMA
Lee Miller's biography reads like a spectacular modernist novel: Roaring-'20s fashion model discovered by Condé Nast; avant-garde muse for Man Ray,...
The Montage Art of Winston Smith
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Glama-Rama Salon
Winston Smith's dense, darkly playful collages are Boschian panoramas of our consumer society. Smith wasn't the first punk to pick up...
Sunday 8/ 3 @ Various locations
Every two years, the Soundwave>Series drops two months of interdisciplinary, multimedia arts programming on the eyes and ears of San Francisco....
