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FILM
"Ingrid Bergman Rarities"
Even when Ingrid Bergman is miscast, as in Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945), she's still capable of searing a movie with one downcast glance. The cheekbones were perfect for 1940s lighting, but Bergman's best roles come to life with furtive flickers of pain. Even if the actress hadn't been excommunicated for her affair with Roberto Rosselini, it's hard to imagine that her serious beauty would have fared well during 1950s Hollywood's infatuation with the bombshell. A Pacific Film Archive retrospective spotlights Bergman's work in Europe, starting with this unusual grab-bag of featurettes, brief encounters and a Red Cross promo. (Max Goldberg)
7 p.m., $5–$9.50
Pacific Film Archive
2575 Bancroft, Berk.
(510) 642-1412
DANCE
Printz Dance Project
Printz Dance Project, celebrating its 10th year, has an almost unique position in San Francisco. Choreographer Stacy Printz embraces a fiercely athletic, driven rhythmically accentuated style that is heavily influenced by jazz and popular forms. It's unlike anything else you'll see in the small theaters around town. Even though she doesn't perform as much as she used to, she still is an awesomely mesmerizing presence on stage. One of her regular guest artists, who joins the company again for this performance run, is the equally remarkable beat-boxer Carlos Aguirre. In addition to repertory work, including the powerful and intensely personal solo Inside Out, the company premieres Treading, a look at the confusion people encounter when they enter crossroads in life. It's probably no accident that Treading is the first work Printz created after recently becoming a mom. (Rita Felciano)
Through Nov 7
8 p.m., $20
Cowell Theater
Fort Mason Center, Marina at Laguna, SF
(415) 345-7575
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/87933
FILM
City of Sadness
It warmed the heart to see Hou Hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) in relatively wide distribution, but his career-defining works remain frustratingly difficult to see in the U.S. YBCA programmer Joel Shepard does Bay Area cinephiles a major solid by landing a freshly struck 35mm print of City of Sadness (1989), the film many consider to be Hou's masterwork. The director's exquisite framing and dilated narrative style closely attend Taiwanese history here, unfolding the story of an old man and his sons during the violent years stretching from Japan's 1945 withdrawal to the Kuomintang government's secession from mainland China in 1949. (Goldberg)
7 p.m. (also Nov. 8, 4:30 p.m.), $8
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission, SF
DANCE
Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance
Modern African dance is not quite as young as it may seem to American audiences — Germaine Acogny founded her now world famous school in Senegal in 1980. It took a while for presenters to become aware of what is probably one of the most significant developments in contemporary dance. But in Africa the movement already has a history. Witness South African Gregory Maqoma's solo, Beautiful Me, in which he pays tribute to "masters" who have influenced him. Yet the world is shrinking — only two of the three are African: fellow South African Vincent Matsoe and Congolese Faustin Linyekula. Both are familiar to San Francisco audiences. The third is British-Bangladesh Akram Khan. Maqoma's live music consists of violin, cello, sitar, and percussion. (Felciano)
Through Nov 7
8 p.m., $25
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission, SF
(415) 978-2787
FILM
Taiwan Film Days
San Francisco Film Society presents Taiwan Film Days, a Rolodex of seven hyper-politicized peeks inside the Taiwanese film industry. Actor and filmmaker Doze Niu Chen-zer's What On Earth Have I Done Wrong? (2007) muses on the life of a director breaking out with his film debut of, well, his life as a filmmaker. Other notable titles include Leon Dai's No Puedo Vivir sin Ti, Taiwan's entry into the 2010 Academy Awards. The film, also a true story, is a black and white gem detailing the lives of two unforgettable characters. The opening night party takes place at Bambuddha lounge; all films screen at the Opera Plaza. (Jana Hsu)
Screenings, tonight through Nov. 8
Times vary, $12.50
Opera Plaza
601 Van Ness, SF
Party tonight, 9 p.m., $30
Bambuddha Lounge
601 Eddy, SF
MUSIC
Devo
Surely the ultimate postmodern gesture imaginable, Devo has embodied and given credence to its own shtick and signature by de-evolving itself. No, it hasn't entirely transitioned back into primates (Mark Mothersbaugh still looks slightly more human than simian), but it will be playing 30-year-old albums, both on Warner Bros. — Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo (tonight) and Freedom of Choice (tomorrow) — in their entirety. In doing so, Devo isn't proving that the yellow radioactive suits and red "energy dome" hats still fit, but that these early years really were the band's best moments. Most aging rock bands inevitably cling to the backs of their early works. Devo, at least, has known this from the start and was smart enough to make it its calling card. (Spencer Young)
Through Nov 7
With Reggie Watts
9 p.m., $40-$75
Regency Ballroom
1290 Sutter, SF
EVENT
Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues
Embrace your inner goth and get turned on by the often perverse and unwholesome stories found in the collection, Morbid Curiosity Cures the Blues (Simon and Schuster). Editor Loren Rhoads moved to San Francisco in the late 1980s and published the cult nonfiction magazine Morbid Curiosity. Forty of the most abnormal contributions made their way into a book. Tales of the mundane mix with the absurd, like managing a Halloween superstore in downtown SF, and the kinky — orgies at black masses and hematolagnia (blood fetishism for all you vanilla players). The title suggests a self-help marketability, and one can find solace or resolution in the macabre, as one character does by visiting his suicidal mother in a mental ward. The book celebrates the bizarre and the unorthodox while maintaining a soft spot for self-discovery. (Lorian Long)
7:30 p.m., free
Books Inc.
2275 Market, SF
(415) 864-6777
EVENT
Mission Muralismo launch
Glossy coffee table books? Receptions at fine arts museums? Who would have thunk it, but your neighborhood artists, radicals, and riffraff have hit the big time. The de Young Museum has proclaimed the Mission District "a rising star on the global art scene" and is taking the release of a must-have look at the last few decades of its street art and social statements as an opportunity to kick off a year-long event series honoring the sol of San Francisco. The book, presented by the Precita Eyes Mural Project, is Mission Muralismo (Abrams) and it features pieces by everyone from Shepard Fairey to Mujeres Muralistas in dynamic collage format, dotted with essay jewels from writers on the scene like R. Crumb and Spain Rodriguez. (Caitlin Donohue)
5:30–8:45 p.m., free
de Young Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden, SF
(415) 750-7694
EVENT
Studio One Reading Series
First Fridays of the month, join local Bay Area students and emerging authors at Studio One Reading Series at the tiny, semi-remote but high-profile Studio One Art Center in Oakland. There's always a little wine and nibbles for any donation, big or small. This event features chapbook author and poet Shannon Tharp, who will read from Each Real Bird (Elliott Press) and other whimsical selections. Be sure to arrive early and pull up a chair, because this little box fills up fast. (Hsu)
With Gillian Conoley and Utrillo Kushner
7:30 p.m., donations
Studio One Art Center
365 45th St., Oakl.
(510) 597-5027
http://workingforthecity.blogspot.com
MUSIC
Fog Rising
Paying homage to San Francisco's most distinctive climactic quality, along with some of its best bands, the Fog Rising festival rolls into town. Sponsored by Tee Pee Records and art collective Secret Serpents, the event showcases a number of talented metal outfits, including Witch (with Dinosaur Jr.'s J. Mascis on drums), 2009 Goldies winners Saviours, and Portland, Ore.'s Red Fang, along with art by local standouts like Alan Forbes and David D'Andrea. Those interested in inventive, raucous rock 'n' roll and visionary poster art should be sure to attend. No word on whether there will be prizes if it's actually foggy. (Ben Richardson)
With Witch, Saviours, Red Fang, Ancestors, and more
2 p.m., $15
Broadway Studios
435 Broadway, SF
(415) 291-0333
EVENT
Goldies Party
Currently, you're all up in the annual issue that hails the Guardian Outstanding Local Discovery Award winners. After you've read about their many inspiring accomplishments and praiseworthy talents, why not head to a party in celebration? The 2009 Goldies party once again lights up 111 Minna Gallery, with DJing by DJs Pleasuremaker and Señor Oz (Afrolicious), live painting by Sirron Norris, and performances by the Fresh and Onlys, Dreamdate, and special guests (hint: a popular local band on Siltbreeze Records). Pop in your 14K grill, eat some Golden Grahams, watch a Goldie Hawn flick (I recommend 1987's Overboard), then head to Minna for a Midas-approved good time. (Cheryl Eddy)
9 p.m., free
111 Minna Gallery
111 Minna, SF
(415) 974-1719
MUSIC
Raveonettes
Grafting lush harmonies, catchy song structures, and timeless production values from 1950s rock 'n' roll pioneers like Buddy Holly and the Everly Brothers onto a modern indie approach, the Raveonettes have created an ethereal sound that is virtually all their own. Sune Rose Wagner and Sharin Foo have added fuzz-tone guitars, kinky lyrics, and more on top of their history-steeped musical foundation over the course of several records to great effect, including their latest, In and Out of Control (Vice), which hit stores last month. Catch the dashing duo when they hit North Beach on Monday, before they have to start playing larger venues and accommodating bigger audiences. (Sean McCourt)
With Crocodiles
8 p.m., $25
Bimbo's 365 Club
1025 Columbus, SF
(415) 474-0365
MUSIC
Jonas Reinhardt, Windsurf, Miracles Club
The three streams of electronic music that Windsurf, Jonas Reinhardt, and Miracles Club embody are most similar in that they choose to approach their synth-heavy music as if the instruments hadn't lost any of their eerie novelty. Miracles Club — Honey Owens (a.k.a. Valet) and Rafael Fauria's slow creep from stream-of-consciousness psych to weirded-out house — has the least marquee value here in the other two bands' hometown, but the duo enjoy the advantage of being the most unlikely and unstable amalgam. The spectrum between Windsurf's makeout-ready Balearic and Jonas Reinhardt's pseudoacademic electrokraut — both of which capture, in different postures, a blissed-out, lens-flare optimism — feels familiar in comparison. (Brandon Bussolini)
With DJ Pickpocket
9 p.m., $7
Knockout
3223 Mission, SF
(415) 550-6994
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