11 of the Best Movies and Film Festivals to See This Summer

A free outdoor screening series returns with a full schedule across various San Francisco locations from June 12 to Oct. 16, 2026. The lineup is geared toward families, featuring The Princess Bride, Inside Out, The Parent Trap, School of Rock, and Beetlejuice. A Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive retrospective runs June 12 to Aug. 30, 2026, opening the same day as Disclosure Day. The program centers on Steven Spielberg’s work, including A.I. Artificial Intelligence and black-and-white classics such as The Killing, Paths of Glory, and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. A queer summer run in theaters and at the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival spans June 17–27, 2026, featuring Stop! That! Train! and Girls Like Girls.

"June 12-Oct. 16, 2026 Various San Francisco locations Following last year's truncated schedule, the free outdoor screening series returns with a full slate. The lineup won't get your pulse racing - it's geared toward families rather than the date crowd - which is what it takes sometimes to spend a summer evening in the elements hereabouts. The late Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride is the curtain-raiser, with Pixar's Inside Out, The Parent Trap, School of Rock and Beetlejuice in the wings. Bundle up, kiddos!"

"June 12-Aug. 30, 2026 Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive Coincidentally, Steven Spielberg's latest hunk of speculative pulp fiction, Disclosure Day, opens the same day this monumental retrospective begins. The directors are inextricably linked by A.I. Artificial Intelligence (Aug. 20) which Kubrick developed and Spielberg directed in 2001. Resist the tempting timeliness of that title and catch up instead with the former photojournalist's black-and-white masterpieces The Killing, Paths of Glory and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Actually, see everything on the big screen that the brilliant perfectionist made."

"June 17-27, 2026 Various locations Queer summer launches in theaters with the campy disaster comedy Stop! That! Train! (opening June 12) and Hayley Kiyoko's coming-of-age saga Girls Like Girls (June 19). Then the San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival rolls out the gold carpet with a massive celebration of the present and past of gay and lesbian cinema. Local multihyp"

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