Wherefore art thou, UC Theater?

The UC Theater, on University Avenue in downtown Berkeley, was a repertory theater which played fabulous movies for runs of, at most, a week, and, more often, only one day. In its cavernous, dingy interior, I was introduced to many movies I still adore, and more movies which I'm sure I'd adore if I still remembered. Driving past the old marquee yesterday, I was reminded of the many years in which I lived only a few blocks away and in which I went to the movies there only relatively rarely. After it was gone, of course, I regretted not going to see movies there more often. I still haven't seen Wages of Fear, Irma Vep, Gummo, Yi Yi, and many more that I wanted to see at the time. I'd think that, now that I'm in the city, there should be a similar great movie-going experience within easy reach, but there is no theater, much less something like UC Theater, in North Beach. I guess there's the Roxie in the Mission, but, so far, all the theaters here feel less accessible or less interesting. Yes, in Oakland, I lived right by the Parkway, but the movies there were, for the most part, pretty dull to my taste. So... suggestions for what's here in San Francisco?