MOViES FOR MANiACS is thrilled to announce a very rare screening of the unrated director’s cut of Ken Russell’s THE DEViLS (1971) @ The Balboa Theatre on FRi. SEPTEMBER 12 at 7:00pm.

Part of the “GET OFF THE INTERNET” Film Festival, which showcases Radical Movies unavailable to stream online and can only be experienced in a theater.

7:00pm THE DEViLS: UNRATED DiRECTOR'S CUT (1971)

In 1971, Ken Russell set out to adapt Aldous Huxley’s 1952 non-fiction novel “The Devils of Loudun”, an account of a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft after a series of possessions. What culminated was one of the most controversial “faith-based” film productions of all time. Showcasing legendary performances by acting royalty, Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed, this intensely sexy and graphically violent X-Rated endeavor has inspired countless directors ranging from Paul Verhoeven to Stanley Kubrick to Joe Dante.

Upon release, the 117-minute director’s cut was banned in the UK as well as countless other countries, and has been heavily censored in the US for decades. It has never been available on any round disc (DVD, Blu-Ray, 4K) and is still, currently, unavailable on any streaming platforms. Do not miss this rare Unrated Director’s Cut screening courtesy of Warner Brothers. Running Time: 117 minutes. Warning: Extremely mature content

Friday, September 12

Documentarian Marty DiBergi follows estranged Spinal Tap bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls as they search for a drummer and prepare for a reunion concert in New Orleans. Joined by music royalty Paul McCartney and Elton John, Spinal Tap wrestles with their checkered past to put on a show that they hope will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll.

Friday, September 12

Saturday, September 13

Sunday, September 14

Documentarian Marty DiBergi follows estranged Spinal Tap bandmates David St. Hubbins, Nigel Tufnel and Derek Smalls as they search for a drummer and prepare for a reunion concert in New Orleans. Joined by music royalty Paul McCartney and Elton John, Spinal Tap wrestles with their checkered past to put on a show that they hope will solidify their place in the pantheon of rock 'n' roll.

Thursday, September 11

Friday, September 12

Saturday, September 13

Sunday, September 14

On a break before his last semester of medical school, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Gael García Bernal) travels with his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De la Serna) from Brazil to Peru by motorcycle. The two men soon witness the great disparities in South America, encountering poor peasants and observing the exploitation of labor by wealthy industrialists. When they reach a leper colony in Peru, Ernesto's values have changed so much that he sides with the sufferers, forgetting his own comfort.

Thursday, September 11

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

wednesday, september 10

It’s hard to believe it’s been three decades since Cher, Dionne, Amber and Tai were walking the halls of Bronson Alcott High School, rocking “totally important designers” and coining a lexicon still instantly recognizable today.

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Clueless, the San Francisco Chronicle is presenting a special screening of Amy Hecklering’s teen comedy classic with actor, writer and San Francisco resident Elisa Donovan.

Join us on September 10 at the Balboa Theater where Chronicle Arts & Culture Writer Tony Bravo will host a pre-show conversation with Donovan about her role as the fabulous and ferocious Amber, how she feels about the movie’s impact on culture and her career beyond the iconic film.

Donovan, who is also known for roles in “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “A Night at the Roxbury” and “Beverly Hills 90210,” is the author of the 2021 memoir “Wake Me When You Leave” and will sign books after the movie.

Come dressed in your best ’90s look or character homage for a chance to win special prizes. It’ll be more fun than a val’ party. Totally pause and get your tickets today!

Wednesday, September 10

This widely acclaimed film from Soviet director Elem Klimov is a stunning, senses-shattering plunge into the dehumanizing horrors of war. As Nazi forces encroach on his small village in present-day Belarus, teenage Flyora (Aleksei Kravchenko, in one of the screen’s most searing depictions of anguish since Renée Falconetti’s Joan of Arc) eagerly joins the Soviet resistance. Rather than the adventure and glory he envisioned, what he finds is a waking nightmare of unimaginable carnage and cruelty—rendered with a feverish, otherworldly intensity by Klimov’s subjective camerawork and expressionistic sound design. Nearly suppressed by Soviet censors who took eight years to approve its script, Come and See is perhaps the most visceral, impossible-to-forget antiwar film ever made.

Tuesday, September 9

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Tuesday, september 9

wednesday, september 10

The most playful and also the grittiest of Kieślowski’s Three Colors films follows the adventures of Karol Karol (Zbigniew Zamachowski), a Polish immigrant living in France. The hapless hairdresser opts to leave Paris for his native Warsaw when his wife (Julie Delpy) sues him for divorce (her reason: their marriage was never consummated) and then frames him for arson after setting her own salon ablaze. White, which goes on to chronicle Karol Karol’s elaborate revenge plot, manages to be both a ticklish dark comedy about the economic inequalities of Eastern and Western Europe and a sublime reverie about twisted love.

Sunday, September 7

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Saturday, September 6

Sunday, September 7

In this classic and much-emulated work of science fiction, a rescue mission to a distant planet discovers the two survivors of a space ship that crashed 20 years before on the Forbidden Planet.

Saturday, September 6

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Saturday, September 6

Sunday, September 7

Steve Freeling moves his family into a new housing development and they begin to settle in. But strange things soon start happening and it appears that the Freelings are not alone in their home. At first, the spectral presence appears benign, simply moving objects around the house - then the hauntings start to intensify and Carol Anne, the family's youngest member, vanishes through a mysterious portal.

Projected on 35mm!

Thursday, September 4

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Thursday, September 4

Steve Freeling moves his family into a new housing development and they begin to settle in. But strange things soon start happening and it appears that the Freelings are not alone in their home. At first, the spectral presence appears benign, simply moving objects around the house - then the hauntings start to intensify and Carol Anne, the family's youngest member, vanishes through a mysterious portal.

Projected on 35mm!

Wednesday, September 3

Thursday, September 4

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

wednesday, september 3

Thursday, September 4

On the eve of World War I, strange accidents in a small Protestant village in Northern Germany involve the children and teenagers of a choir run by the schoolteacher and their families. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery as these events gradually take on the character of a punishment ritual.

Tuesday, September 2

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Tuesday, september 2

wednesday, september 3

Thursday, September 4

Two rising but reckless Naval officers - Pete “Maverick” Mitchell and Nick “Goose” Bradshaw - are recruited for Top Gun; an elite US Flying school for advanced fighter pilots.

There, the macho classmates engage in a dangerous competition to outdo their rivals and Maverick begins a relationship with a civilian instructor.

Presented on 35mm by Odyssey Film Institute. Dedicated to the exhibition of cinema on celluloid film. Screenings, Projection Workshops, and Discussions. All exhibited in 16mm and 35mm film.

Monday, September 1

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Monday, September 1

Tuesday, september 2

wednesday, september 3

Thursday, September 4

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Sunday, August 31

The lives of various characters intersect at Harlem's renowned Cotton Club. Handsome horn player Dix Dwyer falls for Vera Cicero, the stunning girlfriend of famous gangster Dutch Schultz. Meanwhile Dix's brother, Vincent, falls in with Schultz's crew, while Owney Madden, the jazz venue's proprietor, has his own mob ties. Although Dix goes on to become a Hollywood actor, his life doesn't get any less complicated or dangerous. Originally released in a truncated theatrical version, Coppola’s 2019 THE COTTON CLUB ENCORE is the director’s fully realized cut that features new scenes and musical sequences that deepen and enrich the storyline.

Sunday, August 31

Stand-Up Comedy at the Balboa Theatre

A Packed Lineup of shorter sets for up and coming Bay Area comedians during the first half of the show, with an intermission to grab another beer or popcorn from the lobby or that right on time bathroom break. The second half of the show features national touring and veteran comedians…With surprise pop-in guest sets.

A night of laughs in the Richmond District you will not want to miss!

Frankie Marcos (International Headliner and SFCC winner)

 Frankie Marcos is from the San Jose, California but headlines internationally.

He is the winner of the 2024 San Francisco International comedy competition, earning a place in history next to other past finalists like Robin Williams, Louis C.K, Ellen DeGeneres, and more.

Frankie is a regular on Don’t Tell Comedy as well as Chocolate Sundaes at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood. Frankie has been in the New York Comedy Festival, Melbourne International in Australia, and the Edinburgh Fringe in Scotland.

Link to check out all his stuff: Frankie Marcos Wesbite

Featuring
Dan Aguinaga (NYC)

Dan Aguinaga is a Brazilian-American comedian from New York City. He lives in San Francisco with his patient wife and two precocious daughters, whom he often talks about on stage with tight writing and a silly yet sincere stage presence. You can catch him performing in the prestigious San Francisco Comedy Competition in September.

Dan has opened for TJ Miller, Todd Barry, and Chris Porter.

Finalist in the SF International Comedy Competition 2024.

Featured performer at SF Sketchfest in January 2025.

Dan's website

Host Emily Rudolph (Phoenix, Arizona)

Emily Rudolph delivers stand-up that’s sharp, offbeat, and refreshingly self-aware. With a style that blends dry wit, unexpected turns, and personal storytelling, she disarms audiences with jokes that are as smart as they are strange.

A Phoenix native now based in San Francisco, Emily has performed at top venues like Cobb’s Comedy Club, Punch Line, San Jose Improv, and House of Comedy AZ. She’s shared the stage with comedy veterans like Rich Voss and recently made waves as a finalist in the Roast Battle Bay Area Championship and a semi-finalist in Arizona’s Funniest Person with a Day Job contest.

Performance Highlights

· Headlined Cobb’s Comedy Club 2x (July 2025, Feb 2024)

· Regular Performer at: San Jose Improv, House of Comedy AZ, Alameda Comedy Club, and with Roast Battle Bay Area.

· Finalist: Roast Battle Bay Area Championship (2024)

· Semi-Finalist: Arizona’s Funniest Person with a Day Job (2024)

· Opened/Hosted for: Alex Hooper, Corey Rodriguez, Paul Farahvar, April Macie, Peter Antoniou & more.

· Featured/Shared The Stage With: Rich Voss, Dylan Carlino, Kevin James Thornton & more.

LAUGH San Jose PRESENTS STOPPING BY

Avery Harmon (Chicago)

Co-Founder  Laugh San Jose

In 2017, comedian Avery Harmon made the journey from Chicago's windy city to the South Bay, where he discovered a thriving open mic and showcase scene. However, the  pandemic soon forced the closure of many venues, leaving him to frequently travel to SF, Oakland, & Santa Cruz to perform. Determined to create a more reliable core for comedy in the area, Avery partnered with Brian Moore to establish a new comedy hub in San Jose. This energetic and supportive community now welcomes talented performers from the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and beyond!

A seasoned performer, he has graced the stages of prestigious comedy clubs, from the legendary Jokes and Notes in Chicago to the renowned Punchline & Cobbs in San Francisco. Armed with his creative storytelling prowess and keen observational skills, he is poised to deliver an engaging and enjoyable performance.

Brian Moore (San Jose)

Co-Founder Laugh San Jose

Brian “BMo” Moore is a San Jose based comedian and producer. His high energy style of comedy with a quirky perspective has brought him to stages all over California and beyond. An older Millennial with Gen X tendencies, BMo tries his best to stay hip and cool while fighting off the urge to yell “GET OFF MY LAWN!”

BMo has performed at Cobb’s Comedy Club, Laughs Unlimited Sacramento, and San Jose Improv. He has also had the pleasure of hosting for comedy juggernauts Dean Delray, Ian Edwards and Roast Battle Champion Frank Castillo. Not to mention, he makes some of the best bacon in the world.

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Saturday, August 30

Sunday, August 31

Winner of three Academy Awards®, including Best Director, Brokeback Mountain is a sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver emotionally charged, remarkably moving performances in "a movie that is destined to become one of the great classics of our time" (Clay Smith, The Insider).

Saturday, August 30

Winner of three Academy Awards®, including Best Director, Brokeback Mountain is a sweeping epic that explores the lives of two young men, a ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection. The complications, joys and heartbreak they experience provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal deliver emotionally charged, remarkably moving performances in "a movie that is destined to become one of the great classics of our time" (Clay Smith, The Insider).

Friday, August 29

Saturday, August 30

Life in San Francisco seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. 

Friday, August 29

Saturday, August 30

Sunday, August 31

The first Iranian film to win the Palme d’Or, this austere, emotionally complex drama by the great Abbas Kiarostami follows the enigmatic Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around the hilly outskirts of Tehran looking for someone who will agree to bury him after he commits suicide, a taboo under Islam. Extended conversations with three passengers (a soldier, a seminarian, and a taxidermist) elicit different views on mortality and individual choice. Operating at once as a closely observed, realistic story and a fable populated by archetypal figures, Taste of Cherry challenges the viewer to consider what often goes unexamined in everyday life.

Thursday, August 28