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SATURDAY: Deaf Film Festival -- A lecture, "Theorizing a Deaf Cinema," by Jane Norman 3 p.m. A deaf woman's life in a small Japanese village, I Love You (Akihiro Yonaiyama, 1999), with filmmaker in person 7 p.m. A deaf hit man is Bangkok Dangerous (1969) in Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang's thriller 9:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: Deaf Film Festival -- John Schuchman's illustrated lecture "Hollywood Speaks" examines film clichés 3 p.m. A program of "Deaf Shorts From Europe" 5 p.m.
MONDAY: Closed.
TUESDAY: Experimental cinema -- A program of films from the last 30 years of the 20th century includes works by Hollis Frampton, James Broughton, Su Friedrich, and more 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. 20): Live 105's monthly "Rewind Cinema" series screens the early Coen Brothers comedy Raising Arizona (1987), with Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, and an evil, motorcycle-riding John Goodman 6:30, 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: Noam Chomsky articulates his opinions about 9/11 in Power and Terror (John Junkerman, 2003) 7:15 p.m. Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (Russia, 2002) 6:30, 8:30 p.m. Shanghai Ghetto (Dana Janklowicz-Mann, Amir Mann, 2002) 9 p.m. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, Australia, 2002) 6:45, 8:45 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Call theater for films and show times.
SUNDAY: A weekly "Pre-Code Hollywood" series introduced by Mick LaSalle concludes with Dorothy Arzner's Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), with Fredric March as an alcoholic married to Sylvia Sidney 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: The love story of two transsexuals in rural Georgia, Southern Comfort (Kate Davis, 2000). See Ongoing for review 2, 7:15, 9:15 p.m.
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: Paul Justman's documentary about the famed backup musicians "the Funk Brothers," Standing in the Shadows of Motown (2002) 7:15, 9:35 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4:15 p.m.
SUNDAY & MONDAY: François Ozon's color-coordinated murder mystery 8 Women (France, 2002), with an all-star cast drawn from 60 years of French film history 7:15, 9:30 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4:15 p.m.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY (Feb. 25 & 26): A January 1972 clash between British soldiers and Irish protesters is re-created in Paul Greengrass' docudrama Bloody Sunday (U.K./Ireland, 2002) 7, 9:20 p.m.; also Wed 2 p.m.
ROXIE
3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com. $8. Short-run repertory in one of the most adventurously programmed theaters in the U.S.A.
DAILY: Doris Dörrie's Naked (Nackt) (Germany, 2002); see Ongoing for review 7, 9:15 p.m.; also Wed, Sat, & Sun 2, 4:30 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE
S.F. Art Institute, 800 Chestnut (at Jones), 822-2885, www.sfcinematheque.org. $7 save as noted. The San Francisco Cinematheque specializes in avant-garde, historical, and experimental films at venues around the Bay Area, including the Yerba Buena Center (see separate entry).
SUNDAY (Feb. 23): Michele Smith's two-hour silent epic Regarding Penelope's Wake draws from hundreds of extracts from found-footage cinema, hand-painted, ripped, and otherwise processed to produce a retelling of Homer's Odyssey. Digital video; artist in person 7:30 p.m.
SHATTUCK
2230 Shattuck (at Kittredge), Berkeley, (510) 843-3456, www.landmarktheatres.com. $9. This venerable theater assigns one of its eight screens to repertory programming. For the rest of the Shattuck's schedule, see our Showtimes page.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (Russia, 2002). See Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Feb. 21-27): John Junkerman's Power and Terror: Noam Chomsky in Our Times (2003). Call for times.
STANFORD
221 University (at Emerson), Palo Alto, (650) 324-3700, www.stanfordtheatre.org. $6. This handsomely restored neighborhood palace usually screens pre-1960 Hollywood fare in the best available prints, with excellent projection and a courteous staff.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Two of Jean Harlow's better films, in the jungle with Clark Gable in Red Dust (Victor Fleming, 1932; 7:30 p.m.) and as the Red Headed Woman (Jack Conway, 1932; 6, 9:05 p.m.) out to break up Wayne Morris' marriage.
FRIDAY: A double dose of Ida Lupino offers her as a songstress in Jean Negulesco's Road House (1948; 7:30 p.m.) -- a particular favorite of Martin Scorsese's and an inspiration for his Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore -- and as one of Edmond O'Brien's two wives in The Bigamist (Lupino, 1953; 6, 9:15 p.m.). Joan Fontaine's the other wife.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Two of the great-looking, classic film noirs directed by Anthony Mann and photographed by John Alton, T-Men (1947; 7:30 p.m.; also Sun 4:15 p.m.) and Raw Deal (1948; 6, 9:15 p.m.), all about luckless cops, cons, and the women who love them (Claire Trevor is especially good in Deal).
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 Mission (at Third Street, in Yerba Buena Gardens), 978-2787, www.YerbaBuenaArts.org. $5 save as noted. This venue's Screening Room is a home for film and video programs of all sorts. Closed Mondays.
DAILY: Continuous loop screenings by Swedish video artists through April 13 -- On Wednesdays, Annka Ström's The Artist Live; on Thursdays, Ström's Ten New Love Songs; on Fridays, Anneè Olofsson's Ricochet and The Thrill Is Gone; on Saturdays, Annika Larsson's Cigar; on Sundays, Larsson's 40-15; on Tuesdays, Olofsson's You Need Her and You Want Her Golden Hair. Free with gallery admission 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
