March 18 2003

Rep Clock

Schedules are for Wed/19-Tues/25 except where noted. Double features are noted with a •. Director and year are given when available.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia; 824-3890. $5. Señorita Extravida (Portillo) Thurs, 8. "What They Shoulda Taught Free School Benefit," documentary screenings, spoken word performance, and more Fri, 8 (for more info call 415-920-8970). "Other Cinema": "Scott Stark's 'Home Movies Meet the Avant-Garde'," 16mm films from the 1930s-50s Sat, 8:30.

CASTRO 429 Castro; 621-6120. $5-8. "The Big Picture: The 50th Anniversary of Cinemascope": Ryan's Daughter (Lean, 1970) Wed, noon, 4, 8; The Long Hot Summer (Ritt, 1958) Thurs, 7; Sweet Bird of Youth (Brooks, 1962) Thurs, 9:20; Manhattan (Allen, 1979) Fri-Sat, 7 (also Sat, 2:30); The Apartment (Wilder, 1960) Fri-Sat, 9 (also Sat, 4:30); Chinatown (Polanski, 1974) Sun-Mon, 7 (also Sun, 2); Mississippi Mermaid (Truffaut, 1969) Sun-Mon, 9:30 (also Sun, 4:30); Viva Maria! (Malle, 1965) Tues, 7; The Magnificent Seven (Sturges, 1960) Tues, 9:20.

FILM ARTS FOUNDATION Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission; 978-ARTS. $6-7. "True Stories": Long Gone (Cahill and Eberhardt, 2003) Wed, 7:30.

INTERCULTURAL INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA 1362 Post, Rm G1; 441-1884 (RSVP requested). Free. "Inside North Korea": Shadows and Whispers (Kim) Wed, 7. Screening followed by a presentation about human rights in North Korea.

JEZEBEL'S JOINT 510 Larkin; www.sfindie.com. Free. "SF IndieFest Microcinema": "The Unamerican Film Festival," radical, political short films, features, and trailers Wed-Fri, 8; The Girls from H.A.R.M. (Bishow, 2000) Fri, 8; Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925) Mon, 8; Demon Seed (Cammell, 1977) Tues, 8.

KQED 2601 Mariposa; 552-8760. $10-15 (both days $20-25). "The Best of Input," television programs from around the world produced by public broadcasters Fri, 5; Sat, 10a.

MECHANIC'S INSTITUTE LIBRARY 57 Post; 393-0100. $5. The Verdict (Lumet, 1982) Fri, 6. Large-screen video presentation.

PFA THEATER 2575 Bancroft, Berk; (510) 642-1412. $4.50-7. "Film 50": Meet Me in St. Louis (Minnelli, 1944) Wed, 3. With a lecture by Marilyn Fabe. "Video: Recent Revelations": "The Angry Breed," short films Wed, 7:30. "Film and Video Makers at Cal": "Dialogues: Documentaries from the Graduate School of Journalism," short films Thurs, 7. "Neo-Eiga: New Japanese Cinema": Crazy Thunder Road (Ishii, 1980) Fri, 7:30; August in the Water (Ishii, 1995) Fri, 9:20; Labyrinth of Dreams (Ishii, 1997) Sat, 7; Electric Dragon 80,000 V (Ishii, 2001) Sat, 8:50; Eureka (Aoyama, 2000) Sun, 5:30.

RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael; (415) 454-1222. $5.50-8.50. Stone Reader (Moskowitz, 2002) March 21-27, call for times. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Noyce, 2002) call for times. Russian Ark (Sokurov, 2002) call for times. "Back in the Limelight: Highlights from the American Film Theatre": Butley (Pinter, 1974) Wed, 7; The Maids (Miles, 1974) Thurs, 7, 9. "Radio at the Rafael" live radio broadcast of "West Coast Live," Sat, 10a ($9-14). Assassination Tango (Duvall, 2003) Tues, 7:15 ($9-12). Writer-director-star Robert Duvall in person, with costar Luciana Pedraza.

RED VIC 1727 Haight; 668-3994. $3-6.50. Personal Velocity (Miller, 2002) Wed-Thurs, 7:15, 9:15 (also Wed, 2). 8 Mile (Hanson, 2002) Fri, 7:15, 9:35 (also Sat, 2, 4:15). Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (Junkerman, 2002) March 23-26, 7:15, 9:15 (also Sun/23, 2, 4; March 26, 2).

ROXIE 3117 16th St; 863-1087. $3-7. Daughter from Danang (Dolgin and Franco, 2002) Wed-Sat, Mon-Tues, 8 (also Wed, Sat, 4); Sun, 3:15. David Hockney: Secret Knowledge (Wright, 2001) Wed-Sat, Mon-Tues, 6:30, 9 (also Wed, Sat, 2); Sun, 2. " 'Up the Oscars' Benefit Bash" Sun, 4:35 ($15).

SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission; 552-1990. $4-7. "Docs on Docs: Vertov and Buñuel: In Front of the Lens": The Prisoners of Buñuel (Gieling, 1999) Thurs, 7:30. With shorts by Luis Buñuel.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin; 557-4277. Free. "Cult Musicals": Hairspray (Waters, 1988) Thurs, noon. Large-screen video presentation.

SPANGANGA 3376 19th St; www.spanganga.org. $7. "The Subject Is Sex," unusual shorts from "the underbelly of sex cinema," presented by Oddball Films and Videos's Stephen Parr Fri, 10.