Laughs and a beer at the Balboa
The Beer Movie: The folks at the Balboa Theatre want you to spend Saturday nights watching fun classics out at the Richmond District treasure, and to prove it, the beer’s on them.
Classic comedies new and old, from “Animal House” to “The Big Lebowski” to “Pineapple Express,” screen at 10 p.m. Saturdays at least through April 29. Included with each $10 ticket purchase is a can of Lagunitas 12th of Never Ale. I mean, dude ... John Landis’ “Animal House” screens Saturday, March 25, and careful not to let this crafted pale ale go down the wrong pipe in one of the funniest movies of all time, a high point of the careers of John Belushi, Tim Matheson and Tom Hulce.
The April schedule: “Idiocracy” (April 1), “The Big Lebowski” (April 8), “Pineapple Express” (April 15), “Back to the Future” (April 22) and “The Sandlot” (April 29).
10 p.m. Saturdays. Balboa Theatre, 3630 Balboa St., S.F. (415) 221-8184. www. cinemasf.com/balboa “Leonard Cohen: Bird on a Wire”: Unearthed in the lost-and-found pile in the wake of the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s death in November is this never-released 1974 documentary by Tony Palmer, the British filmmaker who, with Frank Zappa, co-wrote and codirected “200 Motels.” Palmer is a fly on the wall during Cohen’s exhausting 1972 world tour. “Chelsea Hotel,” “Suzanne,” “Who by Fire,” “Sisters of Mercy,” “Famous Blue Raincoat” and “So Long, Marianne” are all there. Friday, March 24, through March 30. Roxie Theater, 3117 16th St., S.F. (415) 863-1087. www.roxie.com “Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present”: Director Tyler Hubby presents his documentary about the composer, filmmaker, conceptual artist, media activist and radical mathematician, among other things, who died last year at 76. 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 24. $10. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St., S.F. (415) 978-2787. www.ybca.org