Taking Inventory as of April 20

Dogs of Chinatown (2008) - Official Website
Made in USA starring Anna Karina; directed by Jean-Luc Godard; French with subtitles; (1966)
Wild Boys of the Road; directed by William Wellman; (1933)
We Work Again short film; (1930)
Tokyo! directed by Joon-ho Bong (Shaking Tokyo), Leos Carax (Merde) and Michel Gondry (Interior Design); Japanese and French with subtitles; (2008) - Official Website
Tokyo Sonata directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa; Japanese and French with subtitles; (2008) - Official Website
Gabriel Over the White House starring Walter Huston and Franchot Tone; directed by Gregory La Cava; (1933)
The Road Is Open Again short film; (1933)
Hell-Bent for Election animated short film; directed by Chuck Jones; (1944)
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale documentary; directed by Richard Shepard; (2009)
Dog Day Afternoon starring Al Pacino, Charles Durning and John Cazale; directed by Sidney Lumet; (1975)
Mister Scarface starring Jack Palance; dubbed; (1976)
Chained Heat starring Linda Blair, John Vernon, Sybil Danning and Stella Stevens; (1983)
Vigilante starring Robert Forster, Fred Williamson and Woody Strode; (1983)
Raw Force starring Cameron Mitchell; (1982)
Lady Terminator (1988)

§§§

I saw films all over town the past few weeks. I visited the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts screening room for the first time last Saturday when I watched Mister Scarface and Chained Heat.

I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale and Dog Day Afternoon screened at the Vogue. Director Richard Shepard answered questions about his documentary on John Cazale. He was interviewed by SF Chronicle movie critic Ruthe Stein.

I Knew It Was You was followed by Dog Day Afternoon. Sadly, it was projected from a DVD.

I watched Tokyo! at the Landmark Opera Plaza and Tokyo Sonata at the Landmark Bridge.

Dogs of Chinatown screened at the 4-Star.

Made in USA, Vigilante, Raw Force and Lady Terminator played at the Castro.

Wild Boys of the Road and Gabriel Over the White House were part of PFA's program titled From Riches to Rags: Hollywood and the New Deal. The four film program explored how Hollywood filmmakers responded to FDR’s New Deal.

We Work Again, The Road Is Open Again and Hell-Bent for Election were short films that preceded the feature films in From Riches to Rags: Hollywood and the New Deal.

Mister Scarface, Chained Heat, Vigilante, Raw Force and Lady Terminator (along with Escape from New York which I did not watch this weekend) were part of the Alamo Drafthouse's Rolling Roadshow Tour. Austin's famed movie house periodically takes some of its film prints on tour. On this trip, they stopped in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle.

Vigilante, Raw Force, Lady Terminator and Escape from New York were co-presented by Midnites for Maniacs.