Schedules are for Wed/20 through Tues/26 except where noted. Double features are noted with a •. Director and year are given when available.

ACT I and II 2128 Center, Berk; (510) 843-FILM. $6. "Midnight Movie Series": Running Time (Becker, 1997) Sat, midnight.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia; 824-3890. $5. "Dirges and Sturgeons," short-film program curated by Astria Suparak Fri, 8. "Other Cinema": "Glitch para Gabachos: New Mexican Film, Video, and Electronic Music" Sat, 8:30 ($5).

CASTRO 429 Castro; 621-6120. $4.50-7. Grey Gardens (Maysles, Maysles, Hovde, Meyer, and Froemke) Wed-Thurs, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:20. Pauline and Paulette (Debrauwer, 2001) Fri/22-Thurs/28, 7, 9 (also Sat-Sun, Wed, 1, 3, 5).

EXPLORATORIUM McBean Theater, 3601 Lyon; EXP-LORE. $6-10. "Mathematics Film Series": "Adventures in Perception" (1979), "Fetch" (Paley, 2001), and "Eights" (Olitzky, 1993) Sun, 2.

FINE ARTS CINEMA 2451 Shattuck, Berk; (510) 848-1143. $4-7.50. • King of Hearts (de Broca, 1966) Wed-Fri, 7:15 and Contempt (Godard, 1963) Wed-Fri, 9:20. "Third Annual East Bay Gay Asian Film Festival": I'm the One That I Want (Coleman, 2002) Sat, 7; "I Know Karate," short films from the 2002 San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival Sat, 9:30. For reservations contact Joseph at (510) 986-6830, ext 371, or go to www.ahschc.org/men.htm. • The Gleaners and I (Varda, 2000) March 24-April 3, 7:15 and 32 Short Films about Glenn Gould (Girard, 1993) March 24-April 3, 8:55 (also Sun, 5:25).

ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA 425 Washington; 788-6210. Free. "Recent Italian Cinema": Off to the Revolution in a 2CV (Sciarra, 2001) Tues, 6:30.

KQED 2601 Mariposa; 552-8760, www.filmarts.org. $10-15. "Best of Input," television programs from around the world Fri, 6-10; Sat, 10a-5.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY 57 Post; 393-0100. $5. "CinemaLit Film Series 2002": "Steinbeck Centennial/Steinbeck on Film": The Pearl (Fernandez, 1948) Fri, 6.

MISSION CULTURAL CENTER FOR LATINO ARTS 2868 Mission; 821-1155. $3. Libertarias (Aranda, 1995) Thurs, 10a and 7.

NEW PFA THEATER 2575 Bancroft, Berk; (510) 642-1412. $4.50-7. Sunset Boulevard (Wilder, 1950) Wed, 3. "Celebrating Appalshop": Chemical Valley (Pickering and Lewis, 1991) with "Coal Bucket Outlaw" (Hansell, 2001) Wed, 7:30; • Hazel Dickens: It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song (Pickering, 2001) and Dreadful Memories: The Life of Sarah Odgen Gunning (Pickering, 1988) Thurs, 7:30. A Thousand and One Voices: The Music of Islam (Mahmoud, 2001) Fri, 7:30. "So Dark the Light: Black and White," films screened in new prints from Columbia Pictures: In a Lonely Place (Ray, 1950) Sat, 7; The Big Heat (Lang, 1953) Sat, 8:55; In Cold Blood (Brooks, 1967) Sun, 5:30; The Sniper (Dmytryk, 1952) Mon, 8:05; The Crimson Kimono (Fuller, 1959) Tues, 7; Underworld USA (Fuller, 1961) Tues, 8:40.

PARKWAY THEATRE 1834 Park, Oakl; (415) 681-3189. $10. "Ideas in Animation": "Great New European Animation," Nik Phelps and the Sprocket Ensemble perform original live music to animated and independent films Thurs, 7:30, 9:30.

1000 VAN NESS 1000 Van Ness; 931-9800. $7-9. "Spike and Mike's Classic Festival of Animation Best of the Fest" Fri/22-Fri/29, 1:30, 4, 7:15, 9:45.

RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael; (415) 454-1222. $5.50-8.50. Ram Dass Fierce Grace (Lemle, 2001) call for times. No Man's Land (Tanovic, 2001) call for times. Piñero (Ichaso, 2001) Call for times. The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (Appleton, 2000) Call for times. "We Love NY": Next Stop, Greenwich Village (Mazurksy, 1976) Thurs, 7. Partial proceeds benefit the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. "International Family Film": Mariken (van Duren, 2000) Sat, 2. Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae, 1989) Fri/22-Thurs/29, call for times (no show Sun/24).

RED VIC 1727 Haight; 668-3994. $3-6.50. Tape (Linklater, 2001) Wed, 2, 7:15, 9:15. Vanilla Sky (Crowe, 2001) Thurs-Sat, 7:30, 10:15 (also Sat, 2, 4:45). Latcho Drom (Gatlif, 1993) Sun-Mon, 7:15, 9:30 (also Sun, 2, 4:15). Safe (Haynes, 1995) Tues, 7, 9:30.

ROXIE 3117 16th St; 863-1087. $3-7. Jung (War): In the Land of the Mujaheddin (Vendemiati and Lazzaretti, 2001) Wed/20-Thurs/28, 7, 9:15 (also Wed, Sat-Sun, 2, 4:30; Sun/24, show at 2 only).

SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission; 822-2885. $4-7. El Zócalo (Lord and Vasquez, 2002) Thurs, 7:30. Codirector Chip Lord in person. San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut. "Forty Years in Focus": "A Brakhage Weekend II": The Text of Light (1974) with "Desert" (1976) and "Sketches" (1976) Fri, 7:30; "Short Films by Stan Brakhage, 1971-1981" Sat, 7:30; "Stan Brakhage: 'The Arabic Numeral Series' " Sun, 7.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin; 557-4277. Free. "The Emerald Isle on Celluloid: Ireland and the Irish": My Left Foot (Sheridan, 1989) Thurs, noon.

TIBURON PLAYHOUSE 40 Main, Tiburon; (415) 381-4123. $8-15. "Tiburon International Film Festival" Fri/22-Thurs/28. For more information go to www.tiburonfilmfestival.com.

WEREPAD 2430 Third St; 824-7334. $5. "Beatniks Through the Ages," an evening of beatnik clips from the 1940s through the '60s, hosted by Chris Murry, with live music Fri, 10:30.