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PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
2575 Bancroft (at Bowditch), Berkeley, (510) 642-1124, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu. $7, second show $1.50. The East Bay mecca for film scholars, part of UC's Berkeley Art Museum, thrives at its on-campus location, up the steps on Bancroft between Telegraph Avenue and the Hearst Gym.
WEDNESDAY: A UCB film history class open to the public screens D.W. Griffith's still effective melodrama Way Down East (1921) 3 p.m. "Urban Renewal," a program of video art mapping cities from NYC to SF, with works by Scott Rankin, Bull.Miletic and others. Bull.Miletic, complete with dot, in person 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: "Merce Cunningham: Dances for Camera" screens four films documenting the choreographer's career 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: A three night Human Rights Watch Festival opens with The Last Just Man (Steven Silver, Canada, 2001), on the 1994 Rwanda genocide 7:30 p.m. Ken Loach's latest, Sweet Sixteen (U.K., 2002) 9:10 p.m.
SATURDAY: Human Rights Watch -- Thierry Michel's Iran, Veiled Appearances (Belgium, 2002), with discussion to follow 3 p.m. Israel in August (Avi Mograbi, Israel, 2002), just before the outbreak of the latest catastrophic struggle 7 p.m. Afghanistan Year 1380 (Alberto Vendemmiati and Fabrizio Lazzaretti, Italy, 2002) looks at that country after 9/11 and screens with James Longley's Gaza Strip (2002) 8:35 p.m.
SUNDAY: A Children's Film Festival screening of Scars (Lars Berg, Norway, 2002), about a boy's coming of age. English subtitles read aloud 1 p.m. Human Rights Watch -- Blue Vinyl (Judith Helfand, Daniel B. Gold, 2001) tracks said plastic's worldwide eco impact 5:30 p.m. A police shooting in NYC's the subject of Justifiable Homicide (Jon Osman, Jonathan Stack, 2001) 7:30 p.m.
MONDAY: Closed.
TUESDAY: A tribute to filmmaker Gus Van Sant commences with his first feature, Mala Noche (1985) and his short films Junior the Cat (1988), My Friend (1988) and Ballad of the Skeletons (1996) 7:30 p.m.
PARKWAY
1834 Park (at Lake Merritt), Oakland, (510) 814-2400, www.picturepubpizza.com. $5 save as noted. Pizza, beer, and movies on two screens. Call theater for programs, booked a week in advance. The Parkway also offers occasional scheduled special programs.
THURSDAY (Feb. 6): Pam Grier stars as Foxy Brown (Jack Hill, 1974), with live music by Oakland's Mocha Velvet Combination before each screening. $8 6:30, 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY (Feb. 11): The disappearance of an immigrant woman in Manhattan sparks local filmmaker Nitza Henig's black comedy Penny Ante (2002). Digital projection, filmmaker in person 9:15 p.m.
MIDNIGHT SHOW (Saturday): The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), with live performance by Barely Legal. $6.
RAFAEL FILM CENTER
1118 Fourth St. (at A Street), San Rafael, 454-1222, www.finc.org. $8.50 save as noted. This three-screen repertory theater is operated by the California Film Institute. Programs are complex; check carefully and call for confirmation.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Terry Gilliam is Lost in La Mancha (Keith Fulton, Luis Pepe, U.K., 2002) 7, 9 p.m. Shanghai Ghetto (Dana Janklowicz-Mann, Amir Mann, 2002) 6:30, 8:30 p.m. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, Australia, 2002) 6:45, 8:45 p.m. See Ongoing for reviews.
STARTS FRIDAY: Linguist/activist Noam Chomsky articulates opinions about 9/11 in Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (John Junkerman, 2003) 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 p.m.. Call theater for other films and times.
SUNDAY: A weekly Pre-Code Hollywood series introduced by Mick LaSalle continues with Clarence Brown's exciting courtroom melodrama A Free Soul (1931), with Clark Gable in his early brutal mode 7 p.m.
RED VIC
1727 Haight (at Cole), 668-3994, www.redvicmoviehouse.com. $6.50 save as noted. There's a spot on the couch for you at this collectively owned rep house.
WEDNESDAY: Matt Ehling's Urban Warrior (2002) documents the incursion of military battle techniques into American cities 2, 7:15, 9:15 p.m.
THURSDAY: Errol Morris crossed The Thin Blue Line (1988) to free an innocent man in this famed documentary 7:15, 9:30 p.m.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Bad sex at the office: Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2002) 7:15, 9:30 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4:15 p.m.
SUNDAY & MONDAY: Uli Gaulke's Havana Mi Amor (Germany/Cuba, 2000) dramatizes the lives of Cuban soap opera fans in this S.F. film premiere 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4 p.m.
TUESDAY: Screening in conjunction with the S.F. Bluegrass Fest, Arthur Penn's gangster classic Bonnie & Clyde (1967) featured, of course, the splendid picking of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs 7:15, 9:35 p.m.
ROXIE
3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com; 820-3907 and www.sfindie.com for the S.F. Independent Film Festival screening here Feb. 7-16. $8 regular admission; $8.50 evening/$6 before 4 p.m. for S.F. Indie films save as noted. Short-run repertory in one of the most adventurously programmed theaters in the U.S.A. See Digital Movie House for more plot descriptions of Indie films.
WEDNESDAY: A double bill of fine films noir, Fritz Lang's outstanding The Big Heat (1953; 2, 5:30, 9 p.m.) and Edward Dmytryk's grim little S.F.-filmed The Sniper (1952; 3:45, 7:15, 10:45 p.m.).
THURSDAY: More noir, both rare -- Barbara Stanwyck is Witness to Murder (Roy Rowland, 1954; 7:30, 10:30 p.m.) while Raymond Burr kidnaps Natalie Wood in A Cry in the Night (Frank Tuttle, 1956; 6, 9:05 p.m.).
FRIDAY: The 5th Annual SF Independent Film Festival screens here for ten days, starting with a film about the struggles to republish a suppressed G.W. Bush bio, Horns and Halos 5 p.m. A drama of pregnancy, Expecting (Deborah Day, Canada, 2002) 7:15 p.m. Jay Lee's thriller Noon Blue Apples (2003) 9:30 p.m. Nitwit 11:30 p.m.
SATURDAY: Indiefest -- Experimental filmmaker Harry Smith's remembered in American Magus noon The Austin bicycle scene's immortalized in Bike Like U Mean It 2:15 p.m. "Drawing Outside the Lines" (animation) 4:30 p.m. Controversial Gasper Noe's Irreversible (France, 2002) 7 p.m. A Canadian triangle, Inertia (Sean Garrity, 2002) 9:15 p.m. A Hong Kong s.f. adventure filmed in San Francisco, The Wesley's Mysterious File (Andrew Lau, 2002) 11:30 p.m.
