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WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: Gérard Depardieu stars in the highly popular costumer Cyrano de Bergerac (Jean-Paul Rappeneau, France, 1990) 6:15, 8:30, 10:45 p.m.
MONDAY: Venue closed.
STARTS TUESDAY: Terry Gilliam's retro futurescape Brazil (1985) screens through March 23 at 6:30, 8:45, 11 p.m.
JEZEBEL'S JOINT
510 Larkin (at Turk), 820-3907, www.sfindie.com. This "Rock 'n' Roll DJ Bar" offers an "S.F. IndieFest MicroCinema" Mondays through Fridays. All screenings are followed by DJ music at 10 p.m. Free.
WEDNESDAY: Rob Reiner's heavy metal spoof This Is Spinal Tap (1986) 8 p.m.
THURSDAY: The animated Heavy Metal 8 p.m.
FRIDAY: Roddy Bogawa's Junk (1999), an "apocalyptic science-fiction love story built from detritus, rust and naked flesh" 8 p.m.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Call for program.
MECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY
57 Post (near Market), 393-0100 for reservations and information. $5. This cultural asset of long standing offers a "February Film Noir" series of projected video of classics, with salon-style discussions after the films featuring noir expert Eddie Muller.
FRIDAY (Feb. 28): John Alton's cinematography for Raw Deal (1948) virtually defines "film noir" with its harsh, high-contrast black-and-white look pinning down the hapless protagonists, who include Dennis O'Keefe and Claire Trevor 6:30 p.m.
OPERA PLAZA
601 Van Ness (at Golden Gate), 352-0810, www.landmarktheatres.com. This multiplex is only partly a "calendar house" rep theater. For the rest of the Opera Plaza's schedule, see our Showtimes page. $8.75.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Nils Tavernier's Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet (France, 2001). See Ongoing for more. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Feb. 28-March 6): Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer, Austria, 2002); see Opening for review. Call for times.
PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
2575 Bancroft (at Bowditch), Berkeley, (510) 642-1124, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu. $8, second show $2. 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: René Clair greeted the sound era with A Nous la Liberté (France, 1931), a silent comedy with music, dialogue, and singing flowers 3 p.m. A compendium of product placements from Hollywood films gives us "Value-Added Cinema" 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: A "Czech New Wave" series continues with The Maple and Juliana (Stefan Uher, 1972), a Slovakian fairy tale about a lovelorn woman turned into a tree and the calamities that follow when three musicians chop the tree up to make new instruments. Not due for a remake from Pixar anytime soon! 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: The Czech series concludes with Jan Nemec's thriller Diamonds of the Night (1964; 7:30 p.m.), following two boys as they escape from a death camp train, co-scripted by one of the survivors; and The Cremator (Juraj Herz, 1968; 9 p.m.), about a crematorium worker who becomes obsessed with his job.
SATURDAY: "An Afternoon With Bertrand Tavernier" offers the fine French filmmaker in person with his latest, Safe Conduct (2002), a drama set in the French film industry during the Occupation 2 p.m. The Women of Color Film Festival opens with "It's Our Turn to Speak," a program of short videos and the hourlong Some Real Heat (Stefanie Jordan, 2002), about female firefighters 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: Women of Color -- "Displacement," short films on exile and the hourlong Children of the Crocodile (Marsha Emerman, U.S./Australia), following two East Timor women's adaptation to life in Australia 3 p.m. The program "Through the Mirror" includes the short feature Adrift in the Heartland (Brigid Maher, 2002), about the friendship of a Palestinian woman and an African-American woman 6:30 p.m.
MONDAY: Closed.
TUESDAY: Women of Color -- "Home Is Where Our Healing Is," a program of shorts on coming to terms with the past. Filmmakers in person for this and other programs in the series 7:30 p.m.
PARAMOUNT
2025 Broadway (at 20th Street), Oakland, (510) 465-6400, www.paramounttheatre.com. $5. This beautifully restored picture palace's ongoing "Movie Classics Series" regularly includes a feature plus a newsreel, cartoon, previews, and a few spins of the Dec-O-Win prize wheel.
FRIDAY (Feb. 28): Billy Wilder's adept mix of schmaltz and cynicism, The Apartment (1960), marked career highs for all, including Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, and Fred MacMurray as three sides of an office triangle 8 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. 27): A pimp moonlights as a suburbanite in Candy Tangerine Man (Matt Cimber, 1975) 9:15 p.m.
TUESDAY (March 4): Chris Horvath's Leisure (2003), a comedy about the good folks at Cato's Pub on Piedmont. Big-screen DVD. See www.LEISUREthemovie.com for more 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: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (Russia, 2002) 6:30, 8:30 p.m. Rabbit-Proof Fence (Phillip Noyce, Australia, 2002) 6:45, 8:45 p.m. Ownership of a Portuguese hotel binds three sisters together against their sister-in-law in the Dutch comedy Zus & Zo (This and That, Paula van der Oest, 2002) 7, 9 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer, Austria, 2002); see Opening for review. Russian Ark and Rabbit-Proof Fence continue. Call theater for show times.
SUNDAY: A "Beyond Borders" series of films for children (over 10 years old, in this case) continues with In Desert and Wilderness (Gavin Hood, Poland, 2002), about two kids kidnapped by Egyptian rebels in 1890. In Polish; English translation available over earphones 1 p.m.
