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TUESDAY: Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) would be about old enough now to be president ... Hmmm 8 p.m.
MECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY
57 Post (near Market), 393-0100 and www.milibrary.org/events for information; phone or e-mail rsvp@milibrary.org for reservations. $5. This cultural asset of long standing offers a March series of courtroom dramas on projected video, with salon-style discussions to follow.
FRIDAY (March 14): Otto Preminger's absorbing Anatomy of a Murder (1959), with James Stewart of all people in a seamy tale of rape 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: The Son (Dardenne Brothers, Belgium, 2002); see Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (March 14-20): Im Kwon-Taek's Chi-hwa-seo (Painted Fire, Korea, 2000); 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: Roberto Rossellini's neorealist classic Open City (Italy, 1945) 3 p.m. The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival concludes its run here with Refugee (Spencer Nakasako, 2002) 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: "Rock the Projects," experimental films from UCB undergrads 7 p.m.
FRIDAY: A New Japanese Cinema series commences with Chicken Heart (Hirioshi Shimizu, 2002), a comedy about three losers from Beat Takeshi's longtime A.D. 7:30 p.m. A melancholy love story set in a roadside diner, Hole in the Sky (Kazuyoshi Kumakiri, 2001) 9:15 p.m.
SATURDAY: New Japanese Cinema -- A Korean-Japanese teen awakens to social prejudice in Sang-Il Lee's Blue Chong (1999) 5 p.m. Lee's second feature, Borderline (2002), interweaves three stories 7 p.m. Chicken Heart 9:20 p.m.
SUNDAY: "For the Love of It," the Fifth Annual Celebration of Amateur Film Clubs, screens locally made homemade films from 1964-2002 3 p.m. New Japanese Cinema -- Documentary filmmaker Seiichi Motohashi's Alexei and the Spring (2002) revisits Chernobyl 5:30 p.m. Hiroshi Shinomiya's God's Children (2001) records the effects of a landslide in a Philippines garbage dump where people scavenge for a living 7:35 p.m.
MONDAY: Theater closed.
TUESDAY: A program of Polish Avant-Garde shorts made in 1930-45, including The Adventure of a Good Citizen (Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, 1937), which inspired Polanski's Two Men and a Wardrobe 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 (March 13): The scheduled Thrillville screening of The Brain from Planet Arous has been cancelled; in its place will rise Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (Charles Lamont, 1953). Live and in person, a Metaluna Mutant 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) 8:45 p.m. Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer, Austria, 2002) 7, 9 p.m.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: The American Film Theatre series of filmed plays screens Edward Albee's A Delicate Balance (Tony Richardson, 1973), with Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield, Lee Remick, Joseph Cotton -- wow Fri 7 p.m.; Sat 4 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Call for other films and times.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: AFT -- For whatever reason, Lee Marvin was cast in the role supposedly owned by Jason Robards, Hickey in the AFT film of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (John Frankenheimer, 1973), and by all accounts was more than credible. The great cast includes Robert Ryan, Jeff Bridges, Fredric March, and Moses Gunn Sat 7 p.m.; Sun 2 p.m.
SUNDAY & MONDAY: AFT -- Harold Pinter's The Homecoming (Peter Hall, 1973), with Cyril Cusack and Ian Holm 7 p.m.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY (March 18-19): AFT -- Alan Bates stars as a bisexual teacher in the bitterly witty Butley (Harold Pinter, U.K., 1974), with Jessica Tandy 7, 9:35 p.m.
RED VIC
1727 Haight (at Cole), 668-3994, www.redvicmoviehouse.com.; www.hiphopfest.com for Thursday-Saturday programs. $6.50 save as noted. There's a spot on the couch for you at this collectively owned rep house.
WEDNESDAY: Hilary Birmingham's small-town drama Tully (2002) 2, 7:15, 9:25 p.m.
THURSDAY: A three-day Hip Hop Film Fest opens with Tony Greer's Word, on New York's indie scene, featuring Company Flow, MOP, Eminem, and others 7:15 p.m. Isreal's The Freshest Kids tells the "unknown history of hip hop's first dance" 9:15 p.m.
FRIDAY: Hip Hop -- Street Legendz with Mystic Journeymen and Living Legends Crew; director Todd Hickey in person 7:15 p.m. Joey Garfield's Breath Control: The History of the Human Beatbox, director in person 9:15 p.m.
SATURDAY: Hip Hop -- Nobody Knows My Name (director not listed, appropriately enough), with Medusa 2:15 p.m. A Hip Hop Shorts Program features Spike Jonze's What's Up Fat Lip? 4 p.m. A preview screening of Soundz of Spirit (Joslyn Rose Lyons, 2003), with KRS-One, Blackalicious and more. Director in person 9:15 p.m.
SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: The Red Vic has booked The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002); now when will someone book Kissinger? 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4 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.
