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CINEMA LOUNGE

Balboa Festivals and Events
Jazz Night: A Great Day in Harlem - January 29, 2012
The Golden Globes 2011 - January 15, 2012
SF Neighborhood Theatre Foundation Benefit - December 13, 2011
Super Natural - A Big Wave Documentary Film - November 3, 2011
14th United Nations Association Film Festival - October 26, 2011
Manhattan Short Film Festival - September 27, 2011
Red State - September 25, 2011
Pearl Jam Twenty - September 20, 2011
Bill Plympton In Person with Idiots & Angels and Master Class - July 25-27, 2011
Jazz Night: Jazz on a Summer's Day - May 19, 2011
Cannes Blog 2011
Bruce Springsteen - The Promise - April 28, 2011
Certifiably Jonathan - April 18, 2011
Back to Space-Con - April 14, 2011
Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead - April 4, 2011
Philip Guston: A Life Lived + Discussed - March 14, 2011
Balboa's 85th Birthday Bash - March 6, 2011
The Harmony Game: The Making of Bridge Over Troubled Water - March 3, 2011
2011 Oscar Party - February 27, 2011
Pink Smoke Over the Vatican - December 9, 2010
Meet the Bay Area's Royalty of Pastry - November 21, 2010
Re-Animator & From Beyond with Director Stuart Gordon in Person - November 16, 2010
Left in the Dark - October 21, 2010
Watch Horror Films! Keep America Strong! with John Stanley's Lost Films Collection - October 12, 2010
Enemies of the People with filmmaker Rob Lemkin in Person - October 11, 2010
Cotton Candy with filmmaker Ernie Gehr in Person - September 11, 2010
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band's London Calling - June 17, 2010
Wild At Heart with Barry Gifford in Person - April 28, 2010
The Grateful Dead: Crimson, White & Indigo - April 19-20, 2010
Gumby Dharma - April 1, 2010
Creatures Features Presents: Horror Express - March 25, 2010
They Came to Play with live Piano Performances - March 22, 2010
Remembering Playland at the Beach Sneak Previews - March-April, 2010
2010 Oscar Party - March 7, 2010
Balboa's 84th Birthday Bash - February 28, 2010
Balboa's 83rd Birthday Bash AND Oscar Party - Feb. 22, 2009
Gary's Top Films of 2008 - Dec. 31, 2008
Watch Horror Films! Keep America Strong! - Dec. 10, 2008
Richard Williams Event - Nov. 2, 2008
Cannes 2008 Report - May, 2008
Balboa's 82nd Birthday Bash - Feb. 27th, 2008
The Rolling Stones Open the Berlin International Film Festival - Feb. 8, 2008
Holiday 2007 Film Picks - Dec. 7, 2007
Cannes 2007 Report - May, 2007
Buster Keaton at the Balboa Birthday Bash - Feb. 27, 2007
Robin Wright Penn at the Balboa - Feb. 6, 2007
Gary Meyer's 2006 Film Favorites - Dec. 2006
Last Frame of the Picture: Needles to Natchez - Movie Theatres of the American West (Fall 2006)
AS SURE AS MY NAME IS BORIS KARLOFF (June 2 - 22, 2006)
Reel San Francisco 2006 (April 16 - 27, 2006)
Samurai! (December 2 - 22, 2005)
Sin in Soft Focus – Paramount Pre-Code (November 3 - 24, 2005)
The Films of Louis Malle (August 11 - 25, 2005)
Human/Nature Festival (June 24 - July 6, 2005)
The Reel San Francisco! (April 16 - May 11, 2005)
Gene Wilder comes to the Balboa (April 11, 2005)
Garbo's Back! (February 24 - March 3, 2005)
Hot cha cha! Flip through the Balboa Birthday Bash 2005 photo album (February 27, 2005)
Noir City 3, Darkness Coast to Coast (January 14 - 27, 2005)
The Balboa's 78th Birthday was a blast! (February 26, 2004)

Past Calendars
March - April 2005
May - June 2005
August - October 2005
October - November 2005
October - December 2005
Jan - February 2006
March - April 2006
May - June 2006
(We are no longer making printed calendars. Check the website for the most up-to-date information)

Festival Reports
Our Cannes 2004 snapshots
San Francisco International Film Festival 2004 Report
Cannes Report 2003

Other SF Independent Theaters
Vogue
Red Vic
Roxie
Castro
Paramount (Oakland)
PFA (Berkeley)

Worthy Websites
Left in the Dark - Portraits of San Francisco Movie Theatres
Noir Film - a locally-produced website dedicated to film noir.
Eddie Muller's Noir City
Cinema Treasures - "Devoted to movie theater preservation and awareness."
The Internet Movie Database
Leonard Maltin's MOVIE CRAZY
RogerEbert.com
Rotten Tomatoes
Bayflicks.net, your one-stop guide for revivals, festivals and everything cinema in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Le Video, San Francisco's premiere rental house, with close to 89,000 films, including rare and foreign videos found nowhere else.
Internet Movie Poster Awards

Balboa Scrapbook
You Love Us — You Really Love Us! A flood of Balboa Theater fan testimonials brings a lump to our throat.