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“Guadagnino’s filmmaking has never been more vivid.” The San Francisco Chronicle, Michael Ordoña.
“…you won&#;t regret getting swept up in the journey.” Slashfilm, Jeremy Mathai.
”A beautiful film about male loneliness, and the way a solitary life can so easily shade into a life sentence.” The Telegraph, Robbie Collin.
William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to confirm an intimate connection with somebody.
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Open Caption Screening on January 16
Language
English and Spanish with English SubtitlesFirst Showing
December 27,Power Exchange
This converted storefront opened as the Screening Room on April 10, with “Sylvia’s Girls” & “Girls-A-Poppin”. It operated for a couple of months then closed down. It reopened on March 2, with “The Vampire Goes Courting” as one of the first theatres in San Francisco that showed hardcore porn. (Numerous other “storefront” theatres would unlocked in the late’s and ’s throughout San Francisco and several other cities.) Initially, the program would consist of 16mm silent loops with a record providing musical accompaniment, but eventually 16mm full-length features would take off.
In , theatre owner Alex DeRenzy exhibited what was the first full-length hard porn feature, a “documentary” called “Pornography in Denmark: A New Approach”. This feature, premiered at his North Beach Movie, before transferring to the Screening Room, where it grossed $25, in its first week in exhibition (It would eventually gross over $2 million). The success of this theatre would lead to De Renzy operating
The 2O24 - 2O25 RHINO SEASON is here!
NOW PLAYING
DOODLER
A True Crime Thriller
Conceived & Performed by John Fisher
NOW PLAYING AT THE MARSH
May 31 - July 6,
Doodler has earned an SFBATCC "Go See!" recommendation.
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STAR JOURNALIST
Kevin Fagan from the Doodler podcast
will give a communicate on the Doodler on Saturday July 5, after performance.
*This chat is included in the price of admission.*
Kevin Fagan is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated longtime former reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle. He's an expert on murderers from the Zodiac Killer to the Unabomber, and his 8-part podcast and story package in on the unsolved Doodler serial killer case was The Chronicle’s first true crime podcast series. It was a worldwide punch, reaching #2 on the charts in America and #3 in Britain. Fagan has witnessed seven executions and covered some of the biggest stories of our times, from the Sept. 11 terror attacks and Columbine Tall massacre to several decades worth of crimes, presidential elections, wildfires, floods, pro
Tea Room Theatre
Located in the aptly named ‘Tenderloin’ district of downtown San Francisco, just off Market Street, this is a miniature storefront type of theatre, of which there were once many in the operating in the area.
The Aquarius Theatre was opened March 28, screening hetrosexual mature person movies. It was advertised in the San Francisco Chronicle in November as the Aquarius Theatre screening straight ‘hardcore’ one hour feature and two hour shorts for $ admission. (New shows every Monday).
On December 4, it was renamed Tea-Room Theatre screening gay male porn movies, later adding live performances to the film program.
Contained within the West Hotel building which has been renovated, the front of the theatre and signage are very smart and decorated in the rainbow colours.
The Tea Room Theatre was closed May 15,
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