WEDNESDAY 12th
EVENT
Nocturn: Celebrating Those Who Live in the Shadows
It's Wednesday — still a full four days before a new episode of HBO's True Blood debuts. Take a breath, girlfriend, I'm right there with you. If you need a midweek fix, dress up in your best vamp wear and head to Nocturn, a launch party for Marilyn Yu's new book, RelationsThat Suck: The Story of Eva and Dries (Art and Lenny, 52 pages, $350. For the launch, Yu (a.k.a. The Raven Queen) presents a night that celebrates our darker selves. The evening begins with a fashion show and features live music from Laguna Sunrise, a photo booth, and liquid snacks by raw chef Jennifer Lung. (Victoria Nguyen)
6 p.m.–11p.m., $15 (free with purchase of the book)
Roe
651 Howard, SF
(415) 666-5498
FILM
Boom!
It isn't every day we get to see Liz Taylor at her most big and bodacious, wearing a helmet of expensive pointy jewels. The 1968 Joseph Losey film Boom! affords you this rare opportunity.
La Liz is introduced lying in bed, where her first words are "Pain ... injection!," a command that is broadcast over her extremely private seaside retreat's public announcement system. Soon enough Liz has been injected by her faithful nurse, and she's ready to match wits over dinner with the Witch of Capri, played by none other than Noël Coward. This is from the era when Liz chose her roles based on where they'd allow her to sunbathe and what kinds of diamonds they might present. I can think of few better reasons to see her. (Johnny Ray Huston)
Free (reservations required), 7 p.m.
Museum of Performance and Design
Veterans Building
401 Van Ness, fourth floor, SF
(415) 255-4800
THURSDAY 13th
FILM
Repo Man
Alex Cox's reality-bending masterpiece Repo Man (1984) follows nihilistic punk Otto (a pre- Breakfast Club Emilio Estevez) as he contends with UFO nuts, G-men, and those no good Rodriguez brothers in search of cult cinema's all-time coolest MacGuffin: a rare '64 Chevy Malibu with an eerie green glow radiating from the trunk. Guiding Otto in the ways of the repo man is sagacious tweaker Bud (Harry Dean Stanton) and the eccentric coworkers who haunt Cox's vaguely dystopian L.A. Not to be viewed just once, Repo Man rewards the devoted fan by revealing an intricate jigsaw of recurring details. Shown as a double feature with Jacques Demy's 1969 California trip Model Shop. (Tony Papanikolas)
7 p.m., $10 ($7.50 kids/seniors)
Castro Theatre
429 Castro, SF
(415) 621-6120
VISUAL ART
"Introductions"
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