San Francisco Metro: Sun, Nov 15, 2026 · Film & Screening · 3 events · data version 20261021-173303
1:30 PM · The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details In Part II of Masaki Kobayashi’s nine-hour epic about Japan’s occupation of China during World War II, soldier Kaji (Tatsuya Nakadai) is appalled by the treatment afforded recruits. Given the rank of officer, he tries to install more humane procedures but only succeeds in attracting the ire of his fellow officers.
6:00 PM · Just Like Weather · Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley) · film · rating 6
bampfa.org · details Just Like Weather centers on a young couple on the rocks. Through interviews, reenacted scenes from their everyday lives, fictional episodes, and behind-the-scenes documentary, anxieties of Hong Kong’s future after 1997 bubble to the surface. “Fong has an unerring feel for the ways that people speak, think, laugh, console and wound each other” (Tony Rayns).
time TBA · Blade Runner: The Final Cut (35mm) · Roxy (Mission) · Buy Tickets · film · rating 6
roxie.com · details While so many effects-driven visions of the future have faded with time, Blade Runner remains a template for imagining the neon-soaked city to come, as influential in its way as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis . Adapting Philip K. Dick’s novel into the gold standard of sci-fi noir, Ridley Scott shares much of the film’s visual legacy with “visual futurist” Syd Mead , whose design concepts helped define its unforgettable world, and with Vangelis’s atmospheric synth score.