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Schedules are for Wed/16 through Tues/22 except where noted. Double features are noted with a . Director and year are given when available.

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE SAN FRANCISCO 1345 Bush; 775-7755. $5. La cage aux follies (Molinaro, 1980) Wed, 7; Sat, 2.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia; 824-3890. $5. "Rhythm from Wreckage" kinetic film and video Thurs, 8. Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture, and Sustainable Alternatives (Sacerdote, 2002) Fri, 8. "Other Cinema": "Erik Davis Trips Out!," psychedelic imagery and "trip sequences" from various films Sat, 8:30. "Rachael's Film Night": An Injury to One (Wilderson, 2002) Sun, 7.

CASTRO 429 Castro; 621-6120. $4.50-7. "Kurosawa and Mifune": High and Low (1963) Wed, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30; The Bad Sleep Well (1960) Thurs, 7:30; Yojimbo (1961) Fri, 7, 9:20; The Hidden Fortress (1958) Sat-Sun, 1:30, 4:30, 7:30; Sanjuro (1962) Mon, 7, 9:10; Red Beard (1965) Tues, 7:30.

DELANCEY STREET THEATER 600 Embarcadero; (650) 724-5544, www.unaff.org. $5-8. "United Nations Association Film Festival" Wed, 7.

FINE ARTS CINEMA 2451 Shattuck, Berk; (510) 843-1143. Call for price. Body and Soul (Rossen, 1947) with "Manhatta" (Strand, 1921) Wed, 7:30 and Raging Bull (Scorsese, 1980) Wed, 9:40.

GRAND LAKE THEATRE 3200 Grand, Oakl; (510) 451-FILM, www.oaklandfilmsociety.org. Call for price. "Oakland International Film Festival": One Week (Seaton, 2002) Thurs, 8; Long Night's Journey into Day (Hoffmann and Reid, 2001) Fri, 6; The Doe Boy (Redroad, 2001) Fri, 8:45; Señorita extravida (Portillo) Sat, 6; "Shorts Night Out" (shorts program) Sat, 8:45; Promises (Shapiro, Goldberg, and Bolado, 2001) Sun, 5:30; Faat-Kine (Sembene, 2002) Sun, 8:45; Family Fundamentals (Dong, 2002) Mon, 6; La ciénaga (Martel, 2001) Mon, 8:45; E-Dreams (Chin, 2001) Tues, 6; Haiku Tunnel (Kornbluth and Kornbluth, 2001) Tues, 8:45.

MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE LIBRARY 57 Post; 393-0100. $5. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963) Fri, 6.

MILLS COLLEGE Haas Auditorium, 5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakl; www.lunabar.com. $5-7. "Lunafest," short films by women filmmakers; proceeds benefit the Breast Cancer Fund Thurs, 7.

NEW COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA 766 Valencia; 553-8140, www.cineaccion.com. $3-5. "Films for Activism and Social Change": The Global Banquet and The Greening of Cuba Wed, 8.

NEW LANGTON ARTS 1246 Folsom; 626-5416. $6-8. "Visual Urban Legends," film collage of favorite scenes from movies Thurs, 8.

PFA THEATER 2575 Bancroft; (510) 454-1222. $4.50-7. "Weird America": Okie Noodling (Beesley, 2001) with "Moonshine" (Riley, 1999) Wed, 7:30. "Rob Nilsson: Fiercely Independent": Signal 7 (1983) Thurs, 7; Heat and Sunlight (1987) Thurs, 9:20. "An Evening with David Thomson": The Letter (Wyler, 1940) and book signing of The New Biographical Dictionary of Film, Fri, 6:30. "Mario Bava: Prints of Darkness": Five Dolls for an August Moon (1970) Sat, 7; Twitch of the Death Nerve (1971) Sat, 8:50. "Homecoming Matinee," early short films about Berkeley Sun, 3. "Cinemath": Drowning by Numbers (Greenaway, 1988) Sun, 5:30. "Trials and Film": Class Action (Apted, 1990) Mon, 3. "Ang Lee/King Hu": The Wedding Banquet (Lee, 1993) Mon, 7. "Alternative Requirements 2002: Experimental Works from Bay Area Schools" Tues, 7:30.

RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael; (415) 454-1222. $5.50-8.50. "Mill Valley Film Festival" Wed-Sun. See First Runs. Fighter (Bar-Lev, 2001) Wed-Thurs, call for times. Baraka (Fricke, 1992) Mon-Sun, call for times. Rivers and Tides (Riedelsheimer, 2001) call for times. The Last Kiss (Muccino, 2001) call for times. Merci pour le chocolat (Chabrol, 2000) Oct 18-24, call for times.

RED VIC 1727 Haight; 668-3994. $3-6.50. American Mullett (Arnold, 2002) Wed, 2, 7:15, 9:15. Hell House (Ratliff, 2001) Oct 17-23, 7:15, 9:15 (also Sat-Sun, 2, 4; Wed, 2).

ROXIE 3117 16th St; 863-1087. $3-7. Invincible (Herzog, 2001) Wed-Thurs, 7. Biggie and Tupac (Broomfield, 2002) Wed-Thurs, 9:40 (also Wed, 4:45). "Dark Wave": Intacto (Fresnadillo, 2001) Fri, 7:30 and Sat, 2:30; Dog Soldiers (Marshall, 2002) Fri, 9:45; Versus (Kitamura, 2001) Fri, midnight and Sat, 5; Dark Water (Nakata, 2002) Sat, 7:30 and Sun, 5; The Unknown (Hjorth, 2001) Sat, 9:45; Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine In Daehakroh (Nam, 2001) with "Gridlock" (Beliën, 2002) Sat, midnight and Sun, 2:30; Inugami (Harada, 2001) Sun, 5; Kat (Schmidt, 2001) Sun, 9:45. In Shifting Sands: The Truth about UNSCOM and the Disarming of Iraq (Ritter, 2002) Sat-Sun, noon; Mon-Tues, 7, 9:15.

SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission; 552-1990, www.sfcinematheque.org. Call for price. "Monogrammed Accidents: Films and Other Ephemera by Jeanne Liotta" Thurs, 7:30.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin; 557-4277. Free. "In the Land of the Deaf": Children of a Lesser God (Haines, 1986) Thurs, noon. Large-screen video presentation.

YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 701 Mission; 978-ARTS. $3-6. "Dirt: A Lech Kowalski Retrospective": Born to Lose: The Last Rock 'n' Roll Movie (1999) Fri, 7, 9; The Boot Factory (2000) Sat, 7, 9.