Schedules are for Wed/9-Tues/15 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. "ANSWER
Film Series": Salt of the Earth (Biberman, 1954) Thurs,
8. "Satan's Smelly Metaphor: Zag Men, Live!," short films
about robots, artificial intelligence, and more Sat, 8.
BLACK BOX 1928 Telegraph, Oakl; (510) 451-1932. "Hip Hop
Film Festival," shorts and features about hip-hop July 14-17,
3 (youth program), 6, 8, 10. Go to www.hiphopfilmfest.com for a
schedule.
'BRAINWASH MOVIE FESTIVAL' Parkway Theater, 1834 Park, Oakl;
(415) 273-1545. $6-8 (festival pass $17). "Brainwash Television
Series Pilot" and "wild and wacky independent" shorts,
Thurs, 9:15. Alliance for West Oakland Development parking lot,
1357 Fifth St, Oakl. "Brainwash Drive-In/Bike-In Movie Festival,"
short films with sound broadcast on FM radio Fri-Sat, 9.
BRIDGE 3010 Geary; 751-3213, www.peacheschrist.com. $8. "Midnight
Mass": Pink Flamingos (Waters, 1972/1997) Sat, midnight.
CASTRO 429 Castro; 621-6120. $5-8. The Good, the Bad, and
the Ugly (Leone, 1966) Wed-Thurs, 8 (also Wed, noon, 4).
Hidden in Plain Sight (Smihula, 2003) Fri, 8. Benefit
for the film and Film Arts Foundation ($12-15). The Shining
(Kubrick, 1980) Mon, 7:30 ($10). "San Francisco Silent
Film Festival": "Alice in Disneyland," short films from
1921-25 with star Virginia Davis McGhee in person Sat, 11am;
Carmen (DeMille, 1915) Sat, 1:30; Tepeyac (Gonzalez,
1917) Sat, 3:45; The Crowd (Vidor, 1928) Sat, 8,
introduced by Leonard Maltin; "Germaine Dulac": "The
Smiling Madam Beudet" (1922) and "The Seashell and the Clergyman"
Sun, 11:15am; The Penalty (Worsley, 1920) Sun, 1:30,
introduced by Ron Chaney; Claire (Thomas, 2001) Sun,
4; "Talk About Funny," clip show and discussion with Geoff
Hoyle and Larry Pisoni Sun, 7; Go West (Keaton, 1925)
Sun, 8:30. Tickets $6-14 (festival pass $70); for more information
call (415) 273-1175 or go to www.silentfilm.org. Russian Ark (Sokurov,
2002) July 15-16, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:10.
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) Tues-Sun, 2:30 (also Fri, 5:30, 8:30; Sat, 12:20, 5:30, 8:30;
Sun, 12:30). Ongoing. Giant-screen film presentation.
CHRISTOPHER B. SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St, San
Rafael; (415) 454-1222. $5.50-9. Winged Migration (Perrin,
2002) call for times. Spellbound (Blitz, 2002) call
for times. Nowhere in Africa (Link, 2002) Wed, call for
times. "Hip Hop Film Festival," shorts and features about
hip-hop, with filmmaker Kevin Epps (Straight outta Hunters Point)
in person Wed, 9; Thurs, 7, 9:15. Go to www.hiphopfilmfest.com
for a schedule. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Leone, 1966)
June 11-17, call for times. My Favorite Blonde (Lanfield,
1942) Sat-Sun, 1.
DELANCEY STREET THEATER 600 Embarcadero; philippe.ufoh.com.
Free. "The Matrix Regurgitated" Fri, 8:30.
'FILM NIGHT IN THE PARK' Creek Park, 400 block of Sir Frances
Drake Blvd, San Anselmo; (415) 453-4333, www.filmnight.org. $2-5. Monty
Python and the Holy Grail (Jones and Gilliam, 1975) Fri, 8;
Breakfast at Tiffany's (Edwards, 1961) Sat, 8. Outdoor
screening.
FOREIGN CINEMA 2534 Mission; www.firstgradefilmfest.com. $7-9.
"First Grade Film Fest," festival of short first films by
new and established directors Mon-Tues, 7:30.
FOUR STAR Clement and 23rd Ave; www.hkinsf.com. $6-7.50. "Kung
Fu Movie Madness": •Storm Riders (Lau, 1998) Thurs,
11:45am, 4, 8 and She Shoots Straight (Yuen, 1990) Thurs,
2:05, 6:15, 10:15. "Midnites for Maniacs": Starship
Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997) Fri-Sat, midnight.
GRAND LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER 530 Lake Park, Oakl; www.ebcaw.org.
$1. Civilian Casualties (Anderson, 2002) Mon, 7.
MISSION CULTURAL CENTER FOR LATINO ARTS 2868 Mission; www.laborfest.net.
$5. "International Working Class Film and Video Festival":
Be More Human (Labor Video Press, 2003) Thurs, 7, with
guests from the Japanese labor movement including labor singer Tetsurou
Tanaka; It's Hard to Tell a Singer by the Song (Pickering,
2001) with "Pilebutts: Working under the Hammer" (Brooks,
2003) Sun, 2.
JEZEBEL'S JOINT 510 Larkin; www.sfindie.com. Free. "SF
IndieFest Microcinema": Heavy Metal (Potterton, 1981) Wed,
8; Tweeked (Dewey, 2001) Thurs-Fri, 8; Food of
the Gods (Gordon, 1976) Tues, 8.
METREON Action Theatre, Fourth St at Mission; www.metreon.com.
Free. "Free Anime Screenings": "Bandai Fan Favorite Weekend"
Sun, 11am-8pm.
PFA THEATER 2575 Bancroft, Berk; (510) 642-1412. $4-8. "Excess
of Evil": The Devils (Russell, 1971) Wed, 7:30. "Aki
Kaurismäki: Helsinki Bent": Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana
(1994) Thurs, 7:30, and Sun, 7; Drifting Clouds (1997)
Thurs, 8:50, and Fri, 7:30; Ariel (1989) Fri, 9:25;
I Hired a Contract Killer (1990) Sat, 5:20, 9; La
vie de bohème (1992) Sat, 7; The Match Factory
Girl (1990) Sun, 5:30. "Sarunas Bartas: Some Small Light":
Few of Us (1996) Tues, 7:30.
RED VIC 1727 Haight; 668-3994. $3-6.50. Lilya 4-Ever (Moodysson,
2002) Wed, 2, 7, 9:20. "Sound and Vision," a "sonic
salon" of live music and film Thurs, 7:30, 9:30 (different
programs, each $7.50). "The Good Old Naughty Days,"
silent pornographic shorts from the early 1900s Fri-Tues, 7:15, 9:15
(also Sat-Sun, 2, 4).
ROXIE 3117 16th St; 863-1087. $4-8. Rivers and Tides (Riedelsheimer,
2001) Wed, 2, 4:30, 7, 9. What I Want My Words to Do to You:
Voices from Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (Gavin, Katz,
and Sunshine, 2003) July 9-16, call for times. Eve Ensler in
person Wed/9, 6 and 8pm.
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": " 'Copy Shop' and Other Short Animations"
(Widrich, 2001) Thurs, 7. Director Virgil Widrich in person;
cosponsored by the San Francisco Film Society.
SPANGANGA 3376 19th St; www.lilycat.com. $7. "Rough Cut
Film Festival," trailers and unfinished films Sat, 1. (Program
repeats Sun, 1, Aloft, 25 McLea.)
WEREPAD 2430 Third St; 824-7334. $8. • The Sergeant
(Flynn, 1968) and The Devil's Commandment (Freda, 1956) 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) Wed-Sun, 11am-5pm. Captain Pantoja
and the Special Services (Lombardi, 1999) Wed, 7:30 ($7-8).