February at the Castro Theatre

If February is a month for lovers, the Castro Theatre celebrates all manner of romance, beginning with a Valentine Weekend extravaganza from Marc Huestis commemorating the 20th anniversary of his big Castro stage-and-screen shows. From there, the Castro's February slate ranges from "Blade Runner" (2/16-17) to the return of its popular Sing-Along format featuring Disney's "The Little Mermaid" (2/20-24) .

Pacific Heights With today's skyrocketing rents, controversial evictions and escalating confrontations between Silicon Valley tech moguls and rent-control survivors, openly gay British director John Schlesinger's spooky 1990 thriller is an entertaining reminder that none of this is all that new. A yuppie couple's (Matthew Modine & Melanie Griffith) decision to sublet a piece of their hilltop Victorian comes back to haunt them when the new tenant (Michael Keaton) turns psycho. (2/12, 7 p.m.)

Beetlejuice (1988) Tim Burton employs Keaton's uniquely unsettling screen persona to fuel a mixed-genre (slapstick & horror) battle between a nasty spirit and the new owners of a country estate. With Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis and a bust-out turn from a young Wynona Ryder. (2/12, 8:55 p.m.)

Batman (1989) Burton and Keaton push the dark side of this venerable comic-book franchise with the help of an over-the-top Jack Nicholson as a darkly funny Joker. With co-star Kim Basinger acting up a storm, Burton notched an Oscar for film design. (2/13, 7 p.m.)

Night Shift (1982) Newbie director Ron Howard uses a light touch in this melodrama about morgue attendants (Keaton and Henry Winkler) becoming pimps on the side. With a mischievous Shelly Long and music by Burt Bacharach. (2/13, 9:20 p.m.)

West Side Story Huestis offers this 10 Oscar-winning musical spin on Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (including 1961 Best Picture) as a Valentine Day's warm-up. With Natalie Wood (her singing dubbed by Marni Nixon) and Richard Beymer as the doomed lovers, and the Jets and Sharks gangs headed up by George Chakiris and Russ Tamblyn. Shot in a Manhattan hood that would become the Lincoln Center site, this vibrantly entertaining American classic combined the talents of Robert Wise, Jerome Robbins and Leonard Bernstein. (2/14, 1 p.m.)

Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo & Juliet (1968) This grand event features an on-stage Q&A with the screen's greatest Romeo, Leonard Whiting. (2/14, autograph party, 6:30 p.m.; gala with Whiting, 8 p.m.; film only, 9:10 p.m.)

Big Hero 6 (2014) Disney/Pixar's Best Animated Feature nominee has a tech boy wonder and his robot companion fighting to save San Francisco from high-tech destruction. (2/15, 12:30 & 2:45 p.m.)

Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) Director Blake Edwards found gold in a Truman Capote novella, allowing Audrey Hepburn her definitive screen-turn as the cat-loving party girl Holly Golightly. With music by Henry Mancini, script by George Axelrod, this Manhattan romance co-stars George Peppard and Patricia Neal, and is only slightly tarnished by a racially insensitive cameo by Mickey Rooney. (2/15, 5 & 9:20 p.m.)

Sabrina This mid-career Billy Wilder rom-com provides Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart with a rich stream of one-liners, as Bogart saves Hepburn from his playboy younger brother William Holden. (2/15, 7:10 p.m.)

Blade Runner (1982/2007) Strange how time flies at the movies. This Harrison Ford-starring sci-fi classic is set in a supposedly dystopian 2019 LA. Director Ridley Scott pulls out all techno stops, allowing us to imagine a future nightmare that's no longer that far off. (2/16, 2, 4:30, 7 & 9:30 p.m.; 2/17, 7 & 9:30 p.m.)

Magic Mike Male strippers take the spotlight in Steven Soderbergh's 2012 big-screen swan song. With Channing Tatum and Matthew McConaughey. (2/18, 7 p.m.)

Saturday Night Fever (1977) John Badham gives a young, cheeky John Travolta his chance to transcend youthful macho and, with the Bee Gees' disco-anthem score, create a memorable record of what it was like to be a young outsider, a Brooklyn kid staring hungrily across the river at the towers of Manhattan. (2/18, 9:05 p.m.)

Out of the Past (1947) Jacques Tourneur allows a then-wannabe tough guy (Robert Mitchum) to plead his case for film-noir stardom in a dark drama that has Mitchum's gas-station jockey going up against a mob boss (Kirk Douglas) at the behest of the big guy's lying tramp of a girlfriend (Jane Greer). (2/19, 2:30 & 7 p.m.)

Against All Odds (1984) Director Taylor Hackford is up to this blistering remake of Out of the Past, with 80s bad boy James Woods replacing Douglas as Jeff Bridges' gangland foe. (2/19, 4:30 & 8:50 p.m.)

The Exorcist It took me a while to wrap my head around William Friedkin's demonic-child, pea-soup-spewing, head-spinning Catholic horror story, adapted by William Peter Blatty from his own bestselling novel. Swedish genius-level actor Max Von Sydow lends weight to proceedings that might otherwise have seemed to be channeled from another planet. (2/25, 7 p.m.) (Plays with "The Bababook," Jennifer Kent's 2014 religious-horror update, 9:25 p.m.)

Vertigo (1958) Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart are at the top of their game in a mind-bending thriller that feeds off the leading man's fear of heights and fateful attraction to a duplicitous vixen (Kim Novak). Bet you can't watch this one just once! (2/28-3/2: Sat. & Sun. matinees at 2:30 p.m.; all three nights at 5:15 & 8 p.m.)