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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Alex and Andrew J. Smith's The Slaughter Rule (2002). See Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Feb. 14-20): Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (Russia, 2002). See Opening for review. Call for times.
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 V.I. Pudovkin's Mother (U.S.S.R., 1926) 3 p.m. A Gus Van Sant tribute continues with his breakthrough feature Drugstore Cowboy (1989) and his hard-to-see short films Four Boys in a Volvo (Levi's Road Trip), DeWitt Clinton Choir, and The Discipline of DE 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: Van Sant's latest, Gerry (2003). Filmmaker in person 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: More Van Sant -- Falstaff reworked as My Own Private Idaho (1991), plus the short Flea Captain Beefheart 7 p.m. Nicole Kidman is To Die For (1995), plus a William S. Burroughs rant, Thanksgiving Prayer 9:10 p.m.
SATURDAY: A series of classics from the Czech New Wave commences with two long-banned films that directly comment on Stalinism, The Joke (Jaromil Jires, 1968; 7 p.m.) and Jiri Menzel's excellent dark comedy of intellectuals being re-educated on a scrapheap, Larks on a String (1969; 8:40 p.m.).
SUNDAY: A Children's Film Festival screening of Minoes (Vincent Bal, Netherlands, 2001), about two 11-year-olds who switch sexes. English subtitles read aloud 1 p.m. "Aardvarks, Amphibians and All That Jazz" 3 p.m. A medieval Czech epic -- sold out in its screening last August -- Frantisek Vlácil's Markéta Lazarova (1967) 5:30 p.m.
MONDAY: Closed.
TUESDAY: Experimental cinema -- A program of "apocalyptic visions" includes Christopher MacLaine's The End (1953), Larry Jordan's dreamlike collage Our Lady of the Sphere (1969), and much more 7 p.m. Structuralist humor from Owen Land's New Improved Institutional Quality (1976) and Michael Snow's Back and Forth (1968-69) 8:50 p.m.
PALACE OF FINE ARTS
3301 Lyon (at Bay), www.palaceoffinearts.org; 381-2644 for this program. General admission (Visionary Art Gallery & Video Presentations): both days $20, one day $15.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY (Feb. 15 & 16): The San Francisco Medical Research Foundation's second annual Visionary Art, Music & Video Festival, a benefit for the Global Peace Foundation (GlobalPeaceFoundation.org) and the Worldwide Forgiveness Alliance (ForgivenessDay.org), offers continuous screenings starting at noon.
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. 13): A "Valentine's Double D Double Feature" proffers William Winckler's The Double-D Avenger (2001) starring three veterans of Russ Meyer films made 30 or more years ago, with one of them, Raven De La Croix, in person, together with director and cast. Also, Ted Mikels' Mark of the Astro-Zombies (2001), a sequel of sorts to a 1968 film, starring another Meyer alumna, Tura Satana. "Burn the bras of your brain and let it all hang out in Thrillville for this once in a lifetime event! No silicone, baby, they're ALL REAL!" says impresario Will Viharo. Projected "Double DVD." $8 7:30 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: Noam Chomsky articulates his opinions about 9/11 in Power and Terror (John Junkerman, 2003) 7:15 p.m. 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.
STARTS FRIDAY: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (Russia, 2002); see Opening for review. Shanghai Ghetto and Rabbit-Proof Fence continue. Call theater for times and other films.
FRIDAY: Haydn Reiss' documentary on the newly popular 13th-century mystic poet Rumi -- Poet of the Heart (1998), with filmmaker in person 7 p.m.
SUNDAY: A weekly Pre-Code Hollywood series introduced by Mick LaSalle continues with Monta Bell's offbeat Downstairs (1932), with John Gilbert as an opportunistic servant laying siege to a household 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: Screening in conjunction with the S.F. Bluegrass Fest, David Hoffman's Earl Scruggs: His Family and Friends (1971) tells the tale of the country-western legend 2, 7:15, 9:15 p.m.
THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY (Feb. 13-19): The love story of two transsexuals in rural Georgia, Southern Comfort (Kate Davis, 2000). See Opening for review 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 2, 4 p.m., Wed 2 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 screenings here Feb. 12-16. $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 and Expression Center for more plot descriptions of IndieFest films.
WEDNESDAY: The fifth annual S.F. Independent Film Festival continues here with Heart of America (Uwe Boll, Germany, 2003), about teenagers planning a Columbine-type massacre 12:30 p.m. J.T. Kelly's $6,000 horror film Soft for Digging (2002) 2:45 p.m. A drama of pregnancy, Expecting (Deborah Day, Canada, 2002) 5 p.m. Nothing So Strange 7:15 p.m. Headspace 9:15 p.m.
THURSDAY: IndieFest -- Missing Persons 5 p.m. "Salinger's Sort" (shorts about teens) 7:15 p.m. Heart of America 9:30 p.m.
