These 23 activities are worth leaving the house for.
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Every day from Feb. 18 to Feb. 20
Grand Lake Theatre · Grand Lake
Catch Wuthering Heights in a 1920s movie palace where a live organist plays before the film. The Rialto's gilded ceilings and velvet seats make every screening feel like an event, not just a movie night.
October 17 at 6:30pm (This weekend)
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive · Downtown Berkeley
Visconti trades neorealist grit for moonlit longing in this black-and-white Dostoyevsky adaptation. Marcello Mastroianni pines beautifully in a dreamlike studio-built Livorno, screened at BAMPFA's art-house cinema.
October 22 at 7pm
Shapeshifters Cinema · Old Oakland Historic District • $15
Two body-snatching aliens fall in love across America in Zach Clark's lo-fi sci-fi oddball romance, narrated by Sparks' Russell Mael. Critic A.S. Hamrah follows with industry talk and a book signing.
October 22 at 7:30pm
Orinda Theatre · Northwood - Tara
Love spells gone deliciously wrong: Anna Biller's candy-colored cult classic follows a witch whose potions work a little too well. Screens in a gorgeous Art Deco theater with two rare 16mm shorts.
Every day from Oct. 23 to Oct. 29
Orinda Theatre · Northwood - Tara
Love as an act of resistance in present-day Tehran. A Bahá'í woman and a secular Muslim doctor risk everything in this story of hope, followed by a Q&A with the cast and filmmakers.
October 24 at 7pm (Next weekend)
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive · Downtown Berkeley
Godard's banned-in-France spy story is equal parts romance and reckoning. A hitman falls for Anna Karina (her first Godard role) while both sides of the French-Algerian War close in.
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Thu, Oct 15 · 6:30 PM
Orinda Theatre · Northwood - Tara
Free
Tue, Oct 20 · 5:30 PM
West Wind Solano Drive-In · Concord
Fri, Oct 30 · 11:59 PM
Martinez Campbell Theater · Martinez
Fri, Oct 30 · 7:30 PM
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive · Downtown Berkeley
Sun, Nov 8 · 11:00 AM
Orinda Theatre · Northwood - Tara
Tue, Nov 24 · 1:00 PM
Orinda Theatre · Northwood - Tara
Sat, Apr 3 · 9:00 AM
Rialto Cinemas Elmwood · Elmwood
Alameda Theatre & Cineplex · Alameda
Rialto Cinemas Cerrito · El Cerrito
The Delta · Brentwood
Rialto Cinemas Cerrito · El Cerrito
Orinda Theatre · Northwood - Tara
The Delta · Brentwood
The Delta · Brentwood
Orinda Theatre · Northwood - Tara
Rialto Cinemas Cerrito · El Cerrito
Rialto Cinemas Cerrito · El Cerrito
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