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Vogue Theatre. Albert Maysles Memorial Film Festival: It's hard to believe there's never been a full-on retrospective of documentarian Albert Maysles' work, and it's a shame that it took his death this past March for such a thing to occur, but better late than never! More than a dozen of his films from 1962 to 2011, many in collaboration with his brother David, will be shown over the course of a week, including Grey Gardens, Anastasia, Meet Marlon Brando, the Oscar-nominated LaLee's Kin: The Legacy of Cotton, the 10-minute Orson Welles in Spain, multiple films about the Rolling Stones and Christo, and more. Through May 14. 3290 Sacramento, San Francisco, 346-2288, voguesf.com.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Basketball Jones: Hoops on Screen: From loving tributes to NYC pickup ballers to bittersweet documentaries about could-have-beens and should-have-beens, the YBCA takes it to the hole in May with four films about b-ball: Hoop Dreams (2 p.m. Saturday & Sunday, May 9-10), From Deep (7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 14), Doin' It in the Park (2 p.m. Sunday, May 17), and Lenny Cooke (2 p.m. Sunday, May 24). Thu., May 14, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., May 17, 2 p.m.; Sun., May 24, 2 p.m. $8-$10. Kevin Jerome Everson: Frames Connecting Necessity and Coincidence: San Francisco Cinematheque and the YBCA co-present a two-night survey of works by the prolific filmmaker who takes an experimental approach to documenting contemporary African-American life. Tuesday's feature, The Island of St. Matthews, looks at the relationship between a frequently flooded riverside community and the river that simultaneously nourishes and threatens it, while Wednesday's program focuses on seven of Everson's recent short films. May 19-20, 7:30 p.m. $6-$10. sfcinematheque.org. 701 Mission, San Francisco, 978-2787, ybca.org.
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