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3630 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94121

415-221-2184

http://www.balboamovies.com

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3630 Balboa St. San Francisco CA 94121

Hours: Daily 12pm-11pm

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This historic two-screen theater opened in 1926, and is independently owned. It shows the latest block busters, and hosts the occasional special screening. It's available to rent for events, and parking (like most places in the Outer Richmond) isn't too hard.

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Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

By Michael Fox | Wed, August 01, 2012

Live cinema is the next unpredictable step in the movie-going experience, if you haven’t been paying attention to the experimental filmmakers and po-mo VJs doing real-time sampling and multi-projector shows. Their aim is to provoke an audience... More »
This Has Happened: James Murphy on the New LCD Soundsystem Doc

By Karina Longworth | Wed, July 18, 2012

"When we started the band, suddenly we were, like, New York famous. We could get into any place, but you know — I was never recognized on a plane." James Murphy, former frontman of post-punk dance band LCD Soundsystem, has called to talk about... More »
$Last Chance to See Christopher Nolan\'s <em>Batman</em> Films in Glorious 35mm$

Last Chance to See Christopher Nolan's Batman Films in Glorious 35mm

By Sherilyn Connelly | Tue, July 17, 2012

35mm film is a dying format, and there's not a whole lot that you or I can do other than enjoy it while it's still around to be enjoyed -- and support the theaters that give you a chance to do so. An... More »
LCD Soundsystem Doc Shut Up and Play the Hits Coming to Make You Wistful For One Night Only

By Ian S. Port | Fri, June 01, 2012

So of course you didn't get to go see LCD Soundsystem's final three-hour kiss-off at Madison Square Garden last April, aka the most important music event of your stupid, short lifetime. Okay, maybe ... More »
"4:44 Last Days on Earth": How We Lived at the End

By Karina Longworth | Wed, April 18, 2012

In writer/director Abel Ferrara's vision of the apocalypse, Chinese joints deliver right up until the end. The media's "live coverage" continues almost as long. Sorry, haters: "Al Gore was right," says NY1 anchor Pat Kiernan, playing himself. The... More »
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2012 | Best Movie/Dumpling Combination

Here's something purportedly fun: going to the movies. Here's something that's actually fun: skipping the exhausting, soul-sucking multiplex, and heading for the Balboa, an independent theater that's been around since 1926. At the Balboa, recent offerings have included the award-winning six-hour Italian family drama Best of Youth, a Bengali Film Festival, and the opening of The Hunger Games. They also put on special events, such as a screening of Romeo and Juliet from London's Royal Ballet,... More »
2005 | Best Movie House

This classic theater, designed by architects James and Merritt Reid (who also did the Fairmont Hotel and the original Cliff House), has been a San Francisco favorite since it opened in 1926. Transformed into a twin-screen venue in 1978, the Balboa is the quintessential second-run theater, offering an eclectic mix of Hollywood studio movies, independents, documentaries, and foreign films. Judging from the kudos it receives from adoring moviegoers who subscribe to its newsletter and post to... More »
2004 | Best Neighborhood Movie Theater

Back before the monolithic octoplex darkened the cinematic landscape, every proudly individual San Francisco neighborhood had its own movie theater. But like the fabled Market Street movie palaces of yore, most of these anchoring icons are either extinct or endangered (although the excellent Castro is an enduring genre unto itself). One happy exception is the Balboa, which has been hosting Outer Richmond moviegoers since 1926. Owner and movie stalwart Gary Meyer presents double features of... More »
2001 | Best Neighborhood Movie House

Like the afternoon newspaper, a neighborhood movie house is a money-losing venture and a dying breed. The few that remain in San Francisco are on the chopping block -- except one little theater tucked deep in the Richmond District, the Balboa. It looked like even this holdout might disappear this year when the widow of the longtime owner (who died in 1995) began making it known that she wasn't interested in carrying the torch much longer. She is in her 80s, after all. But Gary Meyer, a... More »

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Balboa Theater

3630 Balboa St. San Francisco, CA 94121

415-221-2184

Description

Please Allow Me to Introduce Myself

By Michael Fox | Wed, August 01, 2012

This Has Happened: James Murphy on the New LCD Soundsystem Doc

By Karina Longworth | Wed, July 18, 2012

Last Chance to See Christopher Nolan's Batman Films in Glorious 35mm

By Sherilyn Connelly | Tue, July 17, 2012

LCD Soundsystem Doc Shut Up and Play the Hits Coming to Make You Wistful For One Night Only

By Ian S. Port | Fri, June 01, 2012

"4:44 Last Days on Earth": How We Lived at the End

By Karina Longworth | Wed, April 18, 2012

2012 | Best Movie/Dumpling Combination

2005 | Best Movie House

2004 | Best Neighborhood Movie Theater

2001 | Best Neighborhood Movie House

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