SHOT IN S.F. DOUBLE FEATURE
VERTIGO 3:30, 8:10
Early-retired San Francisco policeman James Stewart is asked to follow a friend’s wife who is prone to mysterious absences. As his detecting soon turns to obsession, the film builds to dizzying heights of duplicity, derangement, and delusion. Alfred Hitchcock’s immortal masterpiece is his most powerful and personal work, and for decades has been challenging viewers to decode its multiple layers of symbolism. Co-starring Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes and Bernard Herrmann’s indelible music score. Voted the Greatest Film of All Time by Sight & Sound magazine, dethroning the long-standing Citizen Kane. (1958, 129 min, 35mm)
+ SAN FRANCISCO 6:00
Where the notorious OGs of the Barbary Coast come to grips with the snobs of Nob Hill! Clark Gable plays rakish kingpin Blackie Norton. Jeanette MacDonald portrays a singer torn by her love for Blackie and her need to succeed among the opera going elite. Spencer Tracy is a priest who supplements spiritual advice with a mean right hook. He urges Blackie to change. But if love and religion can't reform Blackie, Mother Nature will. Directed by the ever reliable W. S. Van Dyke, this extravaganza's street-splitting, brick-cascading, fire-raging recreation of the cataclysmic 1906 earthquake remains "one of the greatest action sequences in the history of cinema, rivaling the chariot race in both Ben-Hurs" (Adrian Turner, Time Out Film Guide). (1936, 115 min, 35mm)