[ { "name": "Everything for Sale", "description": "Wajda's homage to Zbigniew Cybulski, the \"Polish James Dean\" who starred in the director's ASHES AND DIAMONDS and died young. The movie follows the tribulations of a director attempting to make a movie with a Cybulski-like star who never shows up.", "release_year": "1969", "runtime_minutes": 105, "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/oPTIKRNJ2rexJS93AjIdBbr2lcA.jpg", "trailer_url": null, "tmdb_id": 94527, "tmdb_rating": 6.1, "tmdb_url": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/94527", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/#tmdb-94527-everything-for-sale", "showings": [ { "name": "Everything For Sale", "description": "The lead protagonist of a film disappears mid production, and his family and crew search for him before tragic news reaches them. Wajda’s first film where he received sole screenwriting credit, this deeply personal homage to his beloved actor Zbigniew Cybulski, the star of Ashes and Diamonds, is also a scathing portrait of the film industry.\n\nThe film-within-a-film mirrors the real life tragedy, with actors channeling their real life experiences into their performances. Weaving together autobiography and fiction, Wajda questions what it means to be an artist and how we mourn by creating legends as a way to interpret the past. A deeply personal homage that mirrors the tragic death of iconic actor Zbigniew Cybulski, the “Polish James Dean.”", "auditorium": "Little Roxie", "formats": [], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://roxie.com/film/everything-for-sale/", "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:wajda-at-100", "name": "Wajda at 100", "description": "Marking the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, Poland declared 2026 the year of Andrzej Wajda. One of the great European directors of the 20th century, whose work and political engagement played a decisive role in bringing Polish film to international audiences, Wajda’s films have long been unavailable and difficult to view in the United States.\n\nScreenings of Andrzej Wajda’s films in the USA in 2026 are part of the ‘Wajda 100 Tour – North America’ project, organized by DI Factory with the financial support of the Polish Film Institute.\n\nBorn in 1926 into a home that honored fine art (with a literary schoolteacher mother and his aide-de-camp father an amateur painter), Andrzej Wajda studied sculpture and oil painting before enlisting in the anti-fascist, and anti-communist, Home Army at the age of sixteen. Following the devastation of WWII, Wajda emerged from the rubble as a commanding force in film, launching a career that continually envisioned, and reenvisioned, a Polish national cinema and identity. An educator, aesthete, dissident, community builder, and cinematic experimenter, Wajda remains an influential and monumental figure in world cinema.\n\nFor Wajda at 100, we’re diving into the range and restless energy of a filmmaker who never stopped reinventing himself: the claustrophobic wartime nightmare of Kanal, the cool postwar disillusionment of Ashes and Diamonds, the sharp comedy of Hunting Flies and Roly Poly, the self-questioning Everything for Sale, the feverish ambition of The Promised Land, and the political charge of Man of Marble. Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, and Man of Marble screen in new 4K restorations.", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/series/wajda-at-100/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/", "film_description": null }, "showtimes": [ { "start_on": "2026-11-08", "start_at": "2026-11-08T15:10:00", "formats": [], "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": "Hunting Flies + Roly Poly", "description": "Presented together, Hunting Flies and Roly Poly are two distinct satirical comedy films by celebrated Director Andrzej Wajda.\n\nHunting Flies will be preceded by the short film Roly Poly.\n\nRoly Poly – Runtime: 35 minutes\n\nThe story of a racing car driver who undergoes so many transplants that it can no longer be determined which people have contributed to his make-up.\n\nRally driver Richard Fox keeps getting involved in terrible accidents but always manages to survive thanks to organs transplanted from people who died in crashes he caused. The situation complicates when he starts acquiring his donors’ personality traits along with their organs.\n\nHunting Flies – Runtime: 104 minutes\n\nWlodek is a shy man who’s afraid of his mother as well as his wife. However, upon meeting Irena, his life takes a new turn.\n\nOne of the key films of the Polish film renaissance, this satiric comedy explores the seeming world of emancipated women and emasculated men in Communist Poland. A librarian shares his life and home with his domineering wife. He has an affair with a beautiful intellectual, who wears fly-shaped glasses. She tries to become the woman behind the great artist. It’s a film dedicated to the women of Poland, even as it critiques the relations between the sexes.", "release_year": "1969", "runtime_minutes": null, "poster_url": "https://roxie.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Untitled-design-5.jpg", "trailer_url": null, "tmdb_id": null, "tmdb_rating": null, "tmdb_url": null, "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/#san-francisco/roxie-33670", "showings": [ { "name": "Hunting Flies + Roly Poly", "description": "Presented together, Hunting Flies and Roly Poly are two distinct satirical comedy films by celebrated Director Andrzej Wajda.\n\nHunting Flies will be preceded by the short film Roly Poly.\n\nRoly Poly – Runtime: 35 minutes\n\nThe story of a racing car driver who undergoes so many transplants that it can no longer be determined which people have contributed to his make-up.\n\nRally driver Richard Fox keeps getting involved in terrible accidents but always manages to survive thanks to organs transplanted from people who died in crashes he caused. The situation complicates when he starts acquiring his donors’ personality traits along with their organs.\n\nHunting Flies – Runtime: 104 minutes\n\nWlodek is a shy man who’s afraid of his mother as well as his wife. However, upon meeting Irena, his life takes a new turn.\n\nOne of the key films of the Polish film renaissance, this satiric comedy explores the seeming world of emancipated women and emasculated men in Communist Poland. A librarian shares his life and home with his domineering wife. He has an affair with a beautiful intellectual, who wears fly-shaped glasses. She tries to become the woman behind the great artist. It’s a film dedicated to the women of Poland, even as it critiques the relations between the sexes.", "auditorium": "Little Roxie", "formats": [], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://roxie.com/film/hunting-flies-roly-poly/", "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:wajda-at-100", "name": "Wajda at 100", "description": "Marking the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, Poland declared 2026 the year of Andrzej Wajda. One of the great European directors of the 20th century, whose work and political engagement played a decisive role in bringing Polish film to international audiences, Wajda’s films have long been unavailable and difficult to view in the United States.\n\nScreenings of Andrzej Wajda’s films in the USA in 2026 are part of the ‘Wajda 100 Tour – North America’ project, organized by DI Factory with the financial support of the Polish Film Institute.\n\nBorn in 1926 into a home that honored fine art (with a literary schoolteacher mother and his aide-de-camp father an amateur painter), Andrzej Wajda studied sculpture and oil painting before enlisting in the anti-fascist, and anti-communist, Home Army at the age of sixteen. Following the devastation of WWII, Wajda emerged from the rubble as a commanding force in film, launching a career that continually envisioned, and reenvisioned, a Polish national cinema and identity. An educator, aesthete, dissident, community builder, and cinematic experimenter, Wajda remains an influential and monumental figure in world cinema.\n\nFor Wajda at 100, we’re diving into the range and restless energy of a filmmaker who never stopped reinventing himself: the claustrophobic wartime nightmare of Kanal, the cool postwar disillusionment of Ashes and Diamonds, the sharp comedy of Hunting Flies and Roly Poly, the self-questioning Everything for Sale, the feverish ambition of The Promised Land, and the political charge of Man of Marble. Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, and Man of Marble screen in new 4K restorations.", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/series/wajda-at-100/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/", "film_description": null }, "showtimes": [ { "start_on": "2026-11-15", "start_at": "2026-11-15T15:00:00", "formats": [], "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": "Ashes and Diamonds", "description": "A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of repeating the assassination. He meets Krystyna, a girl working as a barmaid in the restaurant of the \"Monopol\" hotel. His affection for her makes him even more aware of the senselessness of killing at the end of the war. Loyalty to the oath he took, and thus the obligation to obey the order, tips the scales.", "release_year": "1958", "runtime_minutes": 103, "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/nE8aqRvVnRQEqskiarnFhdJdk8g.jpg", "trailer_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6kcDS5QM6I", "tmdb_id": 5055, "tmdb_rating": 7.4, "tmdb_url": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/5055", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/#tmdb-5055-ashes-and-diamonds", "showings": [ { "name": "Ashes and Diamonds (4K Restoration)", "description": "On the last day of World War II in a small town somewhere in Poland, Polish exiles of war and the occupying Soviet forces confront the beginning of a new day and a new Poland. In this incendiary environment we find Home Army soldier Maciek Chelmicki, who has been ordered to assassinate an incoming commissar. But a mistake stalls his progress and leads him to Krystyna, a beautiful barmaid who gives him a glimpse of what his life could be.\n\nGorgeously photographed and brilliantly performed, Ashes and Diamonds masterfully interweaves the fate of a nation with that of one man, resulting in one of the most important Polish films of all time.", "auditorium": "Big Roxie", "formats": [], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://roxie.com/film/ashes-and-diamonds-4k-restoration/", "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:wajda-at-100", "name": "Wajda at 100", "description": "Marking the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, Poland declared 2026 the year of Andrzej Wajda. One of the great European directors of the 20th century, whose work and political engagement played a decisive role in bringing Polish film to international audiences, Wajda’s films have long been unavailable and difficult to view in the United States.\n\nScreenings of Andrzej Wajda’s films in the USA in 2026 are part of the ‘Wajda 100 Tour – North America’ project, organized by DI Factory with the financial support of the Polish Film Institute.\n\nBorn in 1926 into a home that honored fine art (with a literary schoolteacher mother and his aide-de-camp father an amateur painter), Andrzej Wajda studied sculpture and oil painting before enlisting in the anti-fascist, and anti-communist, Home Army at the age of sixteen. Following the devastation of WWII, Wajda emerged from the rubble as a commanding force in film, launching a career that continually envisioned, and reenvisioned, a Polish national cinema and identity. An educator, aesthete, dissident, community builder, and cinematic experimenter, Wajda remains an influential and monumental figure in world cinema.\n\nFor Wajda at 100, we’re diving into the range and restless energy of a filmmaker who never stopped reinventing himself: the claustrophobic wartime nightmare of Kanal, the cool postwar disillusionment of Ashes and Diamonds, the sharp comedy of Hunting Flies and Roly Poly, the self-questioning Everything for Sale, the feverish ambition of The Promised Land, and the political charge of Man of Marble. Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, and Man of Marble screen in new 4K restorations.", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/series/wajda-at-100/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/", "film_description": null }, "showtimes": [ { "start_on": "2026-11-29", "start_at": "2026-11-29T15:30:00", "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": "Man of Marble", "description": "A young Polish filmmaker sets out to find out what happened to Mateusz Birkut, a bricklayer who became a propaganda hero in the 1950s but later fell out of favor and disappeared.", "release_year": "1977", "runtime_minutes": 153, "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/dQWfBHQmdQbcUAeyr0VS1j19uto.jpg", "trailer_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVKdrnbmQlU", "tmdb_id": 224, "tmdb_rating": 7.1, "tmdb_url": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/224", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/#tmdb-224-man-of-marble", "showings": [ { "name": "Man of Marble (4K Restoration)", "description": "In 1976, a young woman in Krakow is making her diploma film, looking behind the scenes at the life of a 1950s bricklayer, Birkut, who was briefly a proletariat hero, at how that heroism was created, and what became of him.\n\nOften called the Polish Citizen Kane, Man of Marble reflects director Wajda’s emerging hostility to the Stalinist cultural establishment and its oppressive restrictions on artistic expression.", "auditorium": "Little Roxie", "formats": [], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://roxie.com/film/new-people-man-of-marble-4k-restoration/", "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:wajda-at-100", "name": "Wajda at 100", "description": "Marking the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, Poland declared 2026 the year of Andrzej Wajda. One of the great European directors of the 20th century, whose work and political engagement played a decisive role in bringing Polish film to international audiences, Wajda’s films have long been unavailable and difficult to view in the United States.\n\nScreenings of Andrzej Wajda’s films in the USA in 2026 are part of the ‘Wajda 100 Tour – North America’ project, organized by DI Factory with the financial support of the Polish Film Institute.\n\nBorn in 1926 into a home that honored fine art (with a literary schoolteacher mother and his aide-de-camp father an amateur painter), Andrzej Wajda studied sculpture and oil painting before enlisting in the anti-fascist, and anti-communist, Home Army at the age of sixteen. Following the devastation of WWII, Wajda emerged from the rubble as a commanding force in film, launching a career that continually envisioned, and reenvisioned, a Polish national cinema and identity. An educator, aesthete, dissident, community builder, and cinematic experimenter, Wajda remains an influential and monumental figure in world cinema.\n\nFor Wajda at 100, we’re diving into the range and restless energy of a filmmaker who never stopped reinventing himself: the claustrophobic wartime nightmare of Kanal, the cool postwar disillusionment of Ashes and Diamonds, the sharp comedy of Hunting Flies and Roly Poly, the self-questioning Everything for Sale, the feverish ambition of The Promised Land, and the political charge of Man of Marble. Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, and Man of Marble screen in new 4K restorations.", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/series/wajda-at-100/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/", "film_description": null }, "showtimes": [ { "start_on": "2026-12-13", "start_at": "2026-12-13T15:00:00", "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": "The Promised Land", "description": "At the turn of the century, Lodz, Poland, was a quick-paced manufacturing center for textiles, replete with cutthroat industrialists and unsafe working conditions. Three young friends, a Pole, a Jew, and a German, pool their money together to build a factory.", "release_year": "1975", "runtime_minutes": 179, "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/pjk8K5MpQJX0XczTC2KOVWNj0lC.jpg", "trailer_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGosYBfbRBc", "tmdb_id": 511, "tmdb_rating": 7.4, "tmdb_url": "https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/511", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/#tmdb-511-the-promised-land", "showings": [ { "name": "New People: The Promised Land", "description": "In turn-of-the-century Łódź, three ambitious young men set out to build a textile empire, chasing wealth through a city transformed by industry, greed, and ruthless competition. Wajda turns Władysław Reymont’s Nobel Prize-winning novel into a feverish, visually striking portrait of capitalism in overdrive, where success comes at a brutal human cost.", "auditorium": "New People Cinema", "formats": [], "quirks": [], "source_url": "https://roxie.com/film/new-people-the-promised-land/", "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:wajda-at-100", "name": "Wajda at 100", "description": "Marking the 100th anniversary of his birth and the 10th anniversary of his death, Poland declared 2026 the year of Andrzej Wajda. One of the great European directors of the 20th century, whose work and political engagement played a decisive role in bringing Polish film to international audiences, Wajda’s films have long been unavailable and difficult to view in the United States.\n\nScreenings of Andrzej Wajda’s films in the USA in 2026 are part of the ‘Wajda 100 Tour – North America’ project, organized by DI Factory with the financial support of the Polish Film Institute.\n\nBorn in 1926 into a home that honored fine art (with a literary schoolteacher mother and his aide-de-camp father an amateur painter), Andrzej Wajda studied sculpture and oil painting before enlisting in the anti-fascist, and anti-communist, Home Army at the age of sixteen. Following the devastation of WWII, Wajda emerged from the rubble as a commanding force in film, launching a career that continually envisioned, and reenvisioned, a Polish national cinema and identity. An educator, aesthete, dissident, community builder, and cinematic experimenter, Wajda remains an influential and monumental figure in world cinema.\n\nFor Wajda at 100, we’re diving into the range and restless energy of a filmmaker who never stopped reinventing himself: the claustrophobic wartime nightmare of Kanal, the cool postwar disillusionment of Ashes and Diamonds, the sharp comedy of Hunting Flies and Roly Poly, the self-questioning Everything for Sale, the feverish ambition of The Promised Land, and the political charge of Man of Marble. Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, and Man of Marble screen in new 4K restorations.", "source_url": "https://roxie.com/series/wajda-at-100/", "url": "https://www.stuffsac.com/san-francisco/roxie/series/wajda-at-100/", "film_description": null }, "showtimes": [ { "start_on": "2026-12-19", "start_at": "2026-12-19T15:30:00", "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" } ] } ]