November 13, 2002

Rep Clock

Schedules are for Wed/13 through Tues/19 except where noted. Double features are noted with a •. Director and year are given when available.

AMC KABUKI 8 1880 Post; www.sffs.org. $8-9. "New Italian Cinema Event": The Second Time (Calopresti, 1999) Thurs, 7 and Fri, 9:30; Notes of Love (Calopresti, 1998) Thurs, 9:30; I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (Calopresti, 1999) Fri, 7; Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini, 1965) Mon, 7:30; Not Fair (de Lillo, 2001) Tues, 7; What Are You Looking For (Puccioni, 2001) Tues, 9:30.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia; 824-3890. $5. "Kucharathon: Three Films by George Kuchar": "Pagan Rhapsody" (1970), "The Sunshine Sisters" (1972), and "Blips" (1972) Thurs, 8. "OpenScreening," Fri, 8; tapes and films must be cued and labeled by 7. "3rd I (South Asian Underground Cinema) Presents": "From the Frontlines of South Asia," shorts produced by Frontline/World Sun, 2. "Other Cinema": "Wobblies Past and Prisons Present," short films about labor, prisons, and other issues Sat, 8:30.

BUILD 483 Guerrero; www.nyrotek.com/projection. $20 (includes dinner). "Projection (A Cinema Bistro)": Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (Hughes, 1987) Sat, 6:30.

CASTRO 429 Castro; 621-6120. $4.50-7. "Let There Be Kino!": Derzu Uzala (Kurosawa, 1975) Wed, 7:30; The Bicycle Thief (de Sica, 1947) Mon, 7:10; Diary of a Country Priest (Bresson, 1950) Mon, 9; Time Regained (Ruiz, 1999) Tues, 7:30. "UnderSkatement 2002 Film Festival," short films and videos about skateboarding Thurs, 8; For more information on this event call (415) 970-8964. My Grandmother (Mikaberidze, 1929) Fri-Sat, 8 ($12). With live accompaniment by the Beth Custer Ensemble. "Film Arts Festival," 18th annual event Sun. See First Runs.

CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO Rosenberg Library, 50 Phelan; 239-3580. Free. Promises (Shapiro, Goldberg, and Bolado, 2001) Wed, 7; screening in Room 305. Starting Over in America: The Story of the Hungarian 56ers (Gati) Thurs, 7; screening in Room 304.

FINE ARTS CINEMA 2451 Shattuck, Berk; (510) 848-1143, www.fineartscinema.org. $4-8. • No Regrets for Our Youth (Kurosawa, 1946) with "Intermission" (Ross and Rudnick) Wed-Thurs, 7 and Beat the Devil (Huston, 1953) Wed-Thurs, 9:05 (also Sun, 5:15). "Latino Film Festival" Fri-Sun. See First Runs. •All the President's Men (Pakula, 1976) Nov 18-24, 7 and Dick (Fleming, 1999) Nov 18-24, 9:35.

JEZEBELS JOINT 510 Larkin; www.sfindie.com. Free. "SF IndieFest Microcinema": The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Sharman, 1975) Wed, 8; Thoth (Kernochan, 2001) Thurs-Fri, 8; Better Living Through Circuitry (Reiss, 1999) Mon, 8; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (Hooper, 1986) Tues, 8.

MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE LIBRARY 57 Post; 393-0100. $5. Swing High, Swing Low (Liesen, 1937) Fri, 6.

METREON Action Theater, second flr, Fourth at Mission; 369-6086. Free. "Mobile Fighter G Gundam Weekend," back-to-back anime films Fri, 5; Sat-Sun, 11a.

PFA THEATER 2575 Bancroft, Berk; (510) 454-1222. $4.50-7. "Weird America": Life Itself (Herman and Kohler, 2001) with "Nest of Tens" (July, 1999) Wed, 7:30. "Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival 2002": • An Injury to One (Wilkerson, 2002) and Mamma Benz and the Taste of Money (Junger, 2002) Thurs, 7; Benjamin and His Brother (Howes, 2002) with "Ota Benga" (Franca, 2002) Fri, 7. "A Lonely Place: The Films of Ulrich Seidl": Good News (1990) Sat, 7; Models (1998) Sat, 9:30. "An Evening with Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner": •The Waste Land (Warner, 1996) and The Last September (Warner, 1999) Sun, 6. "Trials and Film": Cape Fear (Scorsese, 1991) Mon, 3. "Ang Lee": The Ice Storm (Lee, 1997) Mon, 7. "Alternative Visions": "Living Colore: Now ...," short films Tues, 7:30.

RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael; (415) 454-1222. $5.50-8.50. The Trials of Henry Kissinger (Gibney and Jarecki, 2002) call for times. Heaven (Tykwer, 2002) call for times. Rivers and Tides (Riedelsheimer, 2001) call for times. Alias Betty (Miller, 2001) Nov 15-21, call for times. Naqoyqatsi (Reggio, 2002) Nov 15-21, call for times. Gospel (Leivick and Ritzenberg, 1982) Thurs, 7.

RED VIC 1727 Haight; 668-3994. $3-6.50. Cherish (Taylor, 2002) Wed-Thurs, 7:15, 9:25 (also Wed, 2). The Notorious C.H.O. (Machado, 2002) Fri-Sat, 7:15, 9:20 (also Sat, 2, 4). Lovely and Amazing (Holofcener, 2002) Sun-Mon, 7:15, 9:15 (also Sun, 2, 4). Wattstax (Stuart, 1973) Tues, 7:15, 9:25.

ROXIE 3117 16th St; 863-1087. $3-7. Last Dance (Bank, 2002) Wed, Fri-Tues, 6, 8, 10 (also Wed, Sat-Sun, 2, 4:30). In Shifting Sands: The Truth about UNSCOM and the Disarming of Iraq (Ritter, 2002) Thurs, 5:45, 8. Director Scott Ritter in person.

SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission; 552-1990, www.sfcinematheque.org. $4-7. "Hans Richter's Dreams That Money Can Buy (Or, Where the '20s Avant-Garde Went in the '40s)," short films Thurs, 7:30.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin; 557-4277. Free. "The Western": Heartland (Pearce, 1980) Thurs, noon. Large-screen video presentation.

SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, Wattis Theater 151 Third St; www.sffs.org or www.ticketweb.com. $12-15. "The Seventh Art: New Dimensions in Cinema": A Tree of Palme (Takashi, 2002) Thurs, 8. Filmmaker in person. Cosponsored by the San Francisco Film Society.

21 GRAND GALLERY 449B 23rd St, Oakl; (510) 444-7263. $7-10. "The Sprocket Ensemble: Ideas in Animation," live music set to indie films and animated works Sat, 7, 9:30.

VALLEY LIFE SCIENCES BLDG Rm 2050, UC Berkeley, Berk; (415) 863-0814, ext 114. Free. "All Amateur Ecstasy: Asian American Shorts," presented by NAATA's San Francisco International Asian Film Festival" Thurs, 8:15.