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Shot throughout the Bay Area, including San Francisco, Oakland, the still-under-construction BART tunnels, and the Caldecott Tunnel, Lucas’s stark debut turns familiar local architecture into an eerily convincing future.", "auditorium": "Big Roxie", "formats": [ "35mm" ], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://roxie.com/film/thx-1138-35mm/", "region": { "sacid": "san-francisco", "name": "San Francisco", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/" }, "theater": { "sacid": "san-francisco/roxie", "name": "Roxie Theater", "short_name": "Roxie", "color": "#1d4ed8", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/" }, "series": { "sacid": "san-francisco/roxie:the-future-according-to-syd-mead", "name": "The Future According to Syd Mead", "description": "Few artists have shaped how the movies imagine the future as profoundly as Syd Mead. Trained as an industrial designer, Mead brought a rare sense of plausibility to science fiction, creating cities, vehicles, machines, and entire environments that felt not just futuristic, but already lived in. His work on films including Blade Runner, TRON, and Aliens helped define the visual language of cinematic futurism for generations.\n\nTHE FUTURE ACCORDING TO SYD MEAD celebrates the cinematic legacy of a true futurist visionary, timed to Syd Mead: Future Pastime, a major exhibition of his graphic work on view October 8 through December 17, 2026 at San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid Annex Gallery. Presenting Mead’s original artwork beyond his cinematic contributions, the exhibition offers another way into the extraordinary imagination behind these films. As curators William Corman and Elon Solo write, Mead created “meticulously rendered visions of the future that balance the extraordinary with the familiar,” imagining lived-in futures that felt tantalizingly within reach.\n\nOur selections move from the neon architecture of Blade Runner and the sleek digital world of TRON to the industrial hardware of Aliens and the cyberpunk world of Johnny Mnemonic. 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Adapting Philip K. Dick’s novel into the gold standard of sci-fi noir, Ridley Scott shares much of the film’s visual legacy with “visual futurist” Syd Mead, whose design concepts helped define its unforgettable world, and with Vangelis’s atmospheric synth score.", "auditorium": "Big Roxie", "formats": [ "35mm" ], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://roxie.com/film/blade-runner-the-final-cut/", "region": { "sacid": "san-francisco", "name": "San Francisco", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/" }, "theater": { "sacid": "san-francisco/roxie", "name": "Roxie Theater", "short_name": "Roxie", "color": "#1d4ed8", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/" }, "series": { "sacid": "san-francisco/roxie:the-future-according-to-syd-mead", "name": "The Future According to Syd Mead", "description": "Few artists have shaped how the movies imagine the future as profoundly as Syd Mead. 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The program also reaches beyond the films Mead directly designed, with THX 1138 and Welcome II the Terrordome expanding the conversation around the futures he helped us imagine and the filmmakers who pushed those visions in radically different directions.", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/series/the-future-according-to-syd-mead/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/the-future-according-to-syd-mead/", "film_description": null }, "showtimes": [ { "start_on": "2026-11-03", "start_at": "2026-11-03T20:40:00", "formats": [ "35mm" ], "quirks": [], "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T18:28:54" } ], "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T18:28:54", "last_seen_at": "2026-10-31T02:18:32" } ] }, { "name": "Aliens Special Edition", "description": "After drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years, Lieutenant Ellen Ripley is rescued, only to discover that the moon where her crew first encountered the deadly Xenomorphs has now been colonized by terraformers. When communication with the colony, Hadley's Hope, is suddenly lost, a deeply traumatized Ripley is persuaded by Weyland-Yutani representative Carter Burke to return to the planet as an advisor. Accompanied by a squad of elite Colonial Marines, they embark on a heavily armed rescue mission—only to find themselves completely outmatched by a massive infestation of relentless alien predators.", "release_year": null, "runtime_minutes": 154, "poster_url": "https://roxie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Untitled-design.jpg", "trailer_url": null, "tmdb_id": 1808412, "tmdb_rating": null, "tmdb_url": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1808412", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/the-future-according-to-syd-mead/#tmdb-1808412-aliens-special-edition", "showings": [ { "name": "Aliens (Special Edition)", "description": "Where its predecessor was a slow-burn suspenser, Cameron’s ALIENS is a bombastic, no-holds-barred exosuit fight to the finish, an express elevator to hell, goin’ down! Lone survivor Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) goes back for a rematch with the creatures who slaughtered the crew of the Nostromo, this time bringing along a squad of hard-boiled space marines whose number includes the great Bill Paxton, Jenette Goldstein, and Lance Henriksen’s mumblety-peg-playing android Bishop. Rounding out the superb supporting players are the aliens themselves, pinnacles of pre-CGI visual effects that just keep coming, and coming, and coming, and coming… while Mead’s contributions can mostly be seen in the blade-like military vessel Sulaco and the unforgettable “Power Loader” donned by Ripley for the main event grudge match.\n\nScreening in Cameron’s preferred cut, which adds nearly 20 minutes of material not seen in the theatrical version, including glimpses of life at the ill-fated Hadley’s Hope colony and some “kickass” motion-activated turret guns.\n\n“Hot off of the immediate successes of Blade Runner and TRON, Syd Mead was enlisted by Cameron to build out the world of ALIENS, his muscular, action-oriented second chapter to Ridley Scott’s now-iconic 1979 masterpiece. The centerpiece of Mead’s designs is the U.S.S. 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On one delivery run, he accepts a package that not only exceeds the implant's safety limits—and will kill him if the data is not removed in time—but also contains information far more important and valuable than he had ever imagined. On a race against time, he must avoid the assassins sent to kill him and remove the data before it, too, ends his life.", "release_year": "1995", "runtime_minutes": 97, "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/iH8Jgi8qvb7pnBfI8fVGaUbyRna.jpg", "trailer_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDzjBr1c4qs", "tmdb_id": 9886, "tmdb_rating": 5.8, "tmdb_url": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/9886", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/the-future-according-to-syd-mead/#tmdb-9886-johnny-mnemonic", "showings": [ { "name": "Johnny Mnemonic: In Black and White", "description": "Robert Longo’s JOHNNY MNEMONIC: IN BLACK & WHITE strips the cyberpunk thriller down to its starkest elements, turning its corporate dystopia, overloaded data networks, and street-level futurism into something even more graphic and uncanny. Keanu Reeves stars as a data courier carrying information directly in his brain, racing to deliver a dangerous payload before it kills him. Syd Mead contributed concept designs to the film, bringing his industrial, lived-in vision of the future to a world of megacorporations, obsolete technology, and information overload.", "auditorium": "Big Roxie", "formats": [], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://roxie.com/film/johnny-mnemonic-in-black-and-white/", "region": { "sacid": "san-francisco", "name": "San Francisco", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/" }, "theater": { "sacid": "san-francisco/roxie", "name": "Roxie Theater", "short_name": "Roxie", "color": "#1d4ed8", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/" }, "series": { "sacid": "san-francisco/roxie:the-future-according-to-syd-mead", "name": "The Future According to Syd Mead", "description": "Few artists have shaped how the movies imagine the future as profoundly as Syd Mead. 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The program also reaches beyond the films Mead directly designed, with THX 1138 and Welcome II the Terrordome expanding the conversation around the futures he helped us imagine and the filmmakers who pushed those visions in radically different directions.", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/series/the-future-according-to-syd-mead/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/the-future-according-to-syd-mead/", "film_description": null }, "showtimes": [ { "start_on": "2026-11-27", "start_at": "2026-11-27T20:40:00", "formats": [], "quirks": [], "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T18:28:55" } ], "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T18:28:55", "last_seen_at": "2026-10-31T02:18:32" } ] }, { "name": "Welcome II the Terrordome", "description": "In a near future, black people have been forced to live in the drug-infested Terrordome, a ghetto where they are continually subjected to the racist actions of the police. 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