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    Global Film Initiative’s Santhosh Daniel (left) and Jeremy Quist (right) mingle with Kay Sato of the SF Jewish Film Festival at the GFI Happy Hour event at Custom Lounge... more

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War room: Stanley Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb" plays in SFMOMA's Richard Avedon Film Series. (Still, 1964; photo courtesy Columbia Pictures/Photofest)

June 30-July 6

Fireworks for the cineaste arrive via the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on this Independence Day week. SFMOMA kicks off a terrific program of films chosen to screen alongside an exhibition of Richard Avedon photographs with two Civil Rights-era classics, Edward Pincus’s Black Natchez (1965) and Robert Drew’s The Children Were Watching (1961). Elsewhere: The Castro pays tribute to one of Hollywood’s most productive years, 1939. Meanwhile, the Red Vic has Truffaut’s Jules and Jim, and the SFFS Screen accelerates its summer program with a Belgian road flick.

"Jules and Jim"--Jul. 5-6

The Red Vic serves up a welcome screening of this early New Wave delight. If Truffaut’s not your cup of tea, perhaps you can indulge in some early 1990s nostalgia with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, screening earlier in the week.

1939: The Golden Year of Cinema--July 1-9

The Castro celebrates a banner year in Hollywood history. The Marx Brothers, W.C. Fields, Garfield, Cagney, Garbo and Crawford are among the stars on offer, and the week includes Boris Karloff and Jimmy Stewart double features.

SFFS Screen: "Eldorado"--Jul. 3-9

This Belgian road movie tails two loners as they drive around South Belgium in a vintage Eldorado, leavening its pessimism with a deadpan sense of humor. More at SFFS.

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