Schedules are for Wed/4-Tues/10 except where noted. Double features
are noted with a •. Director and year are given when available.
All times p.m. unless otherwise specified.
ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia; 824-3890. $4-8. "Kucharathon
II: Sci-Fi," films by George and Mike Kuchar Fri, 8. "Girls
on Film: Women of Color Screening Series" Sat, 8.
CASTRO 429 Castro; 621-6120. $5-8. "Matthew Barney's Cremaster
Cycle": Cremaster 4 and 5 (1994, 1997) Wed, 2, 4:30,
7, 9:30; Cremaster 3 (2002) Thurs, noon, 4, 8. Dracula:
Pages from a Virgin's Diary (Maddin, 2002) June 6-11, 1, 3, 5,
7, 9.
CHABOT SPACE AND SCIENCE CENTER 10000 Skyline Blvd, Oakl; (510)
336-7373. $6.50-8.75 (all shows except for those at 8:30 also require
museum admission: $5-8). Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West (Neibaur,
2002) ongoing starting June 7: Tues-Sun, 2:30 (also Fri, 5:30, 8:30;
Sat, 12:20, 5:30, 8:30; Sun, 12:30.) Giant-screen film presentation.
CHRISTOPHER B. SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St, San
Rafael; (415) 454-1222. $5.50-9. Nowhere in Africa (Link,
2001) call for times. Winged Migration (Perrin, 2002)
call for times. Spellbound (Blitz, 2002) call for times.
"Timeless Beauties: Greta Garbo": Anna Karenina (Brown,
1935) Wed, 7; Grand Hotel (Goulding, 1932) Sun, 7.
"Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle": Cremaster 3
(2002) Fri-Sat, 7:15 (also Sat, 3); Sun, 3; Cremaster
1 and 2 (1995, 1999) Sun-Mon, 6:30, 9; Cremaster 4 and
5 (1994, 1997) June 10-11, 6:45, 9. "Thanks for the
Memories: Happy 100 Bob Hope": •Road to Utopia (Walker,
1945) and The Paleface (McLeod, 1948) Thurs, 7:15; Road
to Utopia Sat, 2; The Paleface Sun, 2. "International
Family Films": The Living Forest (de la Cruz and Gomez,
2001) Sun, 1.
EIGHTH STREET STUDIO 2525 Eighth St, Berk; (510) 834-0284. $20-100
(no one turned away for lack of funds). Exploring the Wisdom of the
Body: The Story of Moving On Center Sun, 3. Benefit screening
of new documentary about the Moving On Center School of Participatory
Arts and Research.
FOREIGN CINEMA 2534 Mission; 648-7600. Free. "Cement Wall
Cinema," outdoor screening of shorts by Bay Area filmmakers, Wed,
8:15.
FOUR STAR Clement and 23rd Ave; www.hkinsf.com.
$6. "Midnites for Maniacs": Dressed to Kill (DePalma,
1980) Fri-Sat, midnight.
GRAND LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER 530 Lake Park, Oakl; www.ebcaw.org.
$1 (no one turned away for lack of funds). Jenin Jenin Mon,
7. Followed by a talk and discussion sponsored by the East Bay Community
Against the War.
METREON Action Theatre, Fourth St at Mission; www.metreon.com.
Free. "Free Anime Screenings": "Arjuna Weekend"
Sun, 11am-8pm.
MEZZANINE 444 Jessie; 820-9669. Free. "Art Slam at Mezzanine,"
with short films, sculpture by Pete Englehart, and jazz performer Jerry
Granelli Wed, 7.
LA PEÑA CULTURAL CENTER 3105 Shattuck, Berk; (510) 845-5576,
www.madknight.com/cdt. $5-10. "Superfest XXIII: International Media
Festival on Disabilities," 13 award-winning films from the festival
Sat-Sun, 12:30-5.
PFA THEATER 2575 Bancroft, Berk; (510) 642-1412. $4-8. "I
Found It at the Movies: Video Artists Look at Cinema": Made
in Hollywood (Yonemoto and Yonemoto, 1990) with "Movie Map"
(Lord, 2002) and "The Great Yiddish Love" (Nerwen, 2002) Wed,
7:30. "Vera Chytilová: Break the Rules": Fruit
of Paradise (1970) Thurs, 7:30; Prefab Story (1979)
Sun, 5:30; Wolf Chalet (1985) Sun, 7:30. "Nicholas
Ray": Party Girl (1958) Fri, 6; Hot Blood (1956)
Fri, 9:30; Wind across the Everglades (1958) Sat, 4:30,
8:55; The True Story of Jesse James (1957) Sat, 7. "Family
Classics": Fantastic Voyage (Fleischer, 1966) Sun, 2.
"The Inquiring Camera": Confessions of a Sociopath
(Gibbons, 2001-2003), with shorts by Joe Gibbons, Tiffany Shlain,
and Neil Goldberg Tues, 7:30.
RED VIC 1727 Haight; 668-3994. $3-6.50. Power and Terror:
Noam Chomsky in Our Times (Junkerman, 2002) Wed, 2, 7:15, 9:15.
The Godfather (Coppola, 1972) Thurs, 8. Gangs of
New York (Scorsese, 2002) Fri, 8; Sat, 2, 5:20, 8:40. All
the Real Girls (Green, 2003) Sun-Mon, 7:15, 9:35. "We
Interrupt This Empire ..." (San Francisco Video Activist Network,
2003) June 10-11, 7:15, 9:15 (also June 11, 2).
ROXIE 3117 16th St; 863-1087. $4-8. Wisegirls (Anspaugh,
2002) 6, 8, 10 (Tues, show at 10 only; also Wed, 2, 4). Love
the Hard Way (Sehr, 2003) Tues, 7:30 ($10).
SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE San Francisco Art Institute; 552-1990.
$4-7. "Fear of Flying: Living in a Surveilled World," short
film program curated by Scott Stark, Sun, 7:30.
SAN FRANCISCO MAIN LIBRARY Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin; 557-4277.
Free. "Local Lavender Scene: Saluting Bay Area Queer Filmmakers":
I Shall Not Be Removed: The Life of Marlon Riggs (Everett, 1996)
Thurs, noon. Large-screen video presentation.
21 GRAND 449B 23rd St, Oakl; (510) 444-7263. $6-10. Under
a Shipwrecked Moon (Alli, 2003) Thurs, 9. Filmmaker in person.
WEREPAD 2430 Third St; 824-7334. $8. • Che! (Fleischer,
1969) and Red Nightmare (Waggner, 1962) Fri, 9.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 701 Mission; 978-ARTS. $3-7.
"Time after Time: Asia and Our Moment," daytime program featuring
a continuous loop of Living Elsewhere (Wang, 1999) with "Chinese
Utopia" (Wang, 2002) Tues-Sun, 11am-5pm, through July 13 (no
screenings Sundays in June). "Goethe-Institut Presents":
The Manns: Novel of a Century (Part 2) (Breloer, 2001) Wed,
7:30. "Frame by Frame": • The Collector of Bedford
Street (Elliott, 2001) and Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks
(Houston, 2002) Fri, 2; The Day I Will Never Forget (Longinotto,
2002) Fri, 4; Shelter Dogs (Wade, 2003) Fri, 6; My
Flesh and Blood (Karsh, 2003) Fri, 8; Welcome to North
Korea (Tetteroo) Sat, 2; Balseros (Bosch and DomŠnech,
2002) Sat, 3; Naked World (Nelson, 2003) Sat, 5:30;
People Say I'm Crazy (Cadigan) Sat, 8; All about
My Father (Benestad, 2002) Sun, 11a; Bus 174 (Padilha
and Prado, 2002) Sun, 12:30; Showgirls: Glitz and Angst (Dick,
2003) Sun, 3. Most shows $5; for more information go to www.hbo.com/framebyframe.