Rep Clock

Schedules are for Wed/17-Tues/23 except where noted. Double features are marked with a •. Director and year are given when available. All times are p.m. unless otherwise specified.

AMC KABUKI 8 1881 Post, SF; (415) 820-3907. $9. San Francisco Independent Film Festival Presents: "Another Hole in the Head: 7 Nights of Unrelenting Terror": Vampire Circus (Young, 1971) Fri, 6:30; Undead (Spierig, 2003) Fri, 8:30; Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah (Kaneko, 2001) Sat, noon; "Comedies of Terror" (shorts program) Sat, 2; Ghost of the Needle (Avenet-Bradley, 2003) Sat, 4:15; Mon, 11; Ginger Snaps 2 (Sullivan, 2004) Sat, 6:30; The Curse of Bloodhead (Coppola, 2004) Sat, 8:45; Tues, 2; Skinned Deep (Bartalos, 2004) Sat, 11; Tues, 4:15; Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Stuart, 1972) Sun, noon; The Ghosts of Edendale (Avalos, 2003) Sun, 2; Tues, 6:30; "Short (But Scary as Hell)" (shorts program) Sun, 4:15; I Pass for Human (Chris D., 2004) Sun, 6:30; Lethal Dose (LD 50) (De Selva, 2003) Sun, 8:45; Battlefield Baseball (Yamaguchi, 2003) Sun, 11; A Living Hell (Shugo, 2000) Mon, 2; Demon under Glass (Cunningham, 2002) Mon, 4:15; "Comedies of Terror" Mon, 6:30; Graveyard Alive (Kephart, 2003) Mon, 8:45; Inner Senses (Law, 2002) Tues, 8:45; Savage Island (Lando, 2003) Tues, 11. Continues through March 25; for a complete schedule, go to www.sfhorror.com.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia, SF; (415) 824-3890. $5-7. Absolute Time Film Festival, films about cross-cultural communication Thurs-Fri, 8; Sat, 4. Other Cinema: "Roast the Pigs of War!!," antiwar films and videos Sat, 7.

AUCTIONS BY THE BAY 2700 Saratoga, Alameda; (510) 835-6187. $5-7. The 39 Steps (Hitchcock, 1935) Fri, 7, 9; Sun, 5. The Birds (Hitchcock, 1963) Sat, 7, 9:30; Sun, 7.

CASTRO 429 Castro, SF; (415) 621-6120. $5-8.50. "Sing-a-long Wizard of Oz" (Fleming, 1939) March 17-25, 7 (also Wed, Sat-Sun, 1). For more info call (415) 863-0611; for advance tickets ($10-22), call 1-888-468-3399 or go to www.ticketweb.com. Thurs/18, Toto look-alike contest hosted by the S.F. SPCA and Pets Are Wonderful Support.

CHRISTOPHER B. SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael; (415) 454-1222, www.cafilm.org. $5.50-9. Touching the Void (McDonald, 2003) call for times. My Architect (Kahn, 2003) call for times. Kitchen Stories (Hamer, 2003) call for times. Balseros (Bosch and Domènech, 2002) call for times. The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1965) call for times. The Tracker (de Heer, 2002) March 19-25, call for times.

FILM ARTS FOUNDATION 145 Ninth St, SF; (415) 552-8760. Free. Film Arts Foundation Open-Screening Night Fri, 7. Cued submissions (works and excerpts up to 12 minutes) accepted starting at 6.

GOETHE-INSTITUT 530 Bush, SF; www.goethe.de/uk/saf/enindex.htm. $5. The Rabbit Is Me (Maetzig, 1965) Tues, 7:30.

ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA 425 Washington, SF; (415) 788-7142, ext. 18. Free. The Girl Who Knew Too Much (Bava, 1962) Fri, 5:45. Shock (Bava, 1977) Fri, 8:15. The House with the Laughing Windows (Avati, 1976) Sat, 5:45. Zeder (Avati, 1982) Sat, 8:15. Don't Torture a Duckling (Fulci, 1972) Mon, 5:45. Seven Notes in Black (Fulci, 1977) Mon, 8:15. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (Argento, 1969) Tues, 5:45. Suspiria (Argento, 1977) Tues, 8:15. Video presentations.

MISSION CULTURAL CENTER 2868 Mission, SF. $6-9. "Traveling Film South Asia": •Don't Ask Why (Sumar, 1999), Skin Deep (Mohan, 1998), and "The Unconscious" (Dwivedi, 2003) Fri, 7; •Gothra Tak: The Terror Trail (Chakravorty, 2003) and The Bond (Jayasankar and Monteiro, 2003) Sat, 3; •Development Flows from the Barrel of the Gun (Toppo and Meghnath, 2003), The Fire Within (Shriprakash, 2002), and Hunting Down Water (Barnela and Saberwal, 2003) Sun, 3. Fest continues through March 28 in Milpitas; for a complete schedule go to www.ektaonline.org/tfsa.

PARKWAY 1834 Park, Oakl; (510) 814-2400. $5. Berkeley Copwatch Presents: The Streets Are Watching (Crawford) Tues, 9:15.

PFA THEATER 2575 Bancroft, Berk; (510) 642-5249, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu. $4-8. "Film 50": Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Fassbinder, 1973) Wed, 3. Screening includes a lecture by Marilyn Fabe. "Bay Area Media Artists": "The Eternal Eternal Frame" Wed, 7:30. Since (Warhol, 1966) Wed, 9:30. "Film and Video Makers at Cal": "[De]Coded: A Cross-Examination of Documentary Film" Thurs, 7. "Chantal Akerman": The Captive (2000) Fri, 7; All Night Long (1982) Fri, 9:10; Chantal Akerman by Chantal Akerman (1996) Sun, 4; •The Man with the Suitcase (1983) and Moving In (1992) Sun, 5:30. "The Case for Pavel Jurácek": The Key to Determining Dwarfs, or The Last Travel of Lemuel Gulliver (Sulík, 2003) and "Josef Kilián: A Character Needing Support" (Jurácek and Schmidt, 1964) Sat, 7; Every Young Man (Jurácek, 1965) and "The Dynamite Keeper" (Sirovy, 1960) Sat, 9:05.

RED VIC 1727 Haight, SF; (415) 668-3994. $3-6.50. Bubba Ho-Tep (Coscarelli, 2002) Wed, 2, 7:15, 9:15. "We Interrupt This Empire ..." (San Francisco Video Activist Network) Thurs, 7:15, 9:30. Big Fish (Burton, 2003) Fri-Sat, 7, 9:30 (also Sat, 2, 4:30). To Be and to Have (Philibert, 2003) Sun-Mon, 7, 9:25 (also Sun, 2, 4:25). Elephant (Van Sant, 2003) March 23-24, 7:15, 9:15 (also March 24, 2).

ROXIE 3117 16th St, SF; (415) 863-1087. $4-8. MC5: A True Testimonial (Thomas, 2002) Wed-Thurs, 9:30 (also Wed, 4:30). Balseros (Bosch and Domènech, 2002) Wed-Thurs, 7 (also Wed, 2). Stupidity (Nerenberg, 2003) March 19-26, 6:15, 8, 9:45 (also Wed, Sat-Sun, 2, 4:30).

SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission, SF; (415) 978-2787, www.sfcinematheque.org. $4-7. Resisting Paradise (Hammer, 2004) Thurs, 7:30. Director Barbara Hammer in person. California College of the Arts, 1111 Eighth St, SF; (415) 552-1990. "A Program of Blind Films and Daguerrosounds by Alex Mendizabal," with Mendizabal in person Sun, 7:30.

VARNISH FINE ART 77 Natoma, SF; (415) 222-6131. Free. Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War Thurs, 8. With shorts.

W SILICON VALLEY HOTEL Lounge, 8200 Gateway, Newark; (510) 794-3033. Call for this week's classic film title Wed, 5:30.