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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-Ever (Sweden, 2002). See Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (May 2-8): Damian Pettigrew's documentary portrait Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (France, 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 for regular programs; 931-FILM, www.sffs.org, and $10 for SFIFF programs. The 46th San Francisco International Film Festival screens at this venue through May 1. 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: SFIFF -- Hukkle (Pálfi, Hungary) 7 p.m. We Are the Music (Paris, Cuba) 9 p.m.
THURSDAY: SFIFF -- Women's Prison (Hekmat, Iran) 7 p.m. The midlife crisis of a Sunday painter foregrounds Monday Morning (Iosseliani, France) 9:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: A series of classic Chinese martial arts films opens with King Hu's debut, Come Drink With Me (Hong Kong, 1966), which created a new form by blending Chinese opera and Japanese samurai films. New print 7:30, 9:25 p.m.
SATURDAY: Another key early Chinese martial arts film, Zhang Che's One-Armed Swordsman (H.K., 1967), introduced kung fu 2:15, 7 p.m. Che's sequel to Come Drink With Me, Golden Swallow (H.K., 1968) 4:30, 9:15 p.m.
SUNDAY: Eisner Award-winning short films from UCB students 5:30 p.m.
MONDAY: Theater closed.
TUESDAY: "The Inquiring Camera," a new series of documentaries, opens with Kenneth Anger's The Man We Want to Hang (2002), about occultist Aleister Crowley, and Chris Marker's Remembrance of Things to Come (France, 2002), on photographer Denise Bellon's work. Also screening is Marker's Embassy (France, 1974), on the coup in Chile 7 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 (May 2): Oakland is to Brooklyn as San Francisco is to Manhattan -- Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) includes some Brooklyn childhood flashbacks, so it passes as Oakland entertainment. Doors open at 7 p.m., film at 8 p.m.
RAFAEL FILM CENTER
1118 Fourth St. (at A Street), San Rafael, 454-1222, www.cafilm.org. $9 save as noted. This three-screen repertory theater, now officially the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, is operated by the California Film Institute. Programs are complex; check carefully and call for confirmation.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Aki Kaurismäki's The Man Without a Past (Finland, 2002) 6:45, 9 p.m. Andrzej Wajda's Zemsta (Poland, 2001) 6:30 p.m. Nowhere in Africa (Caroline Link, Germany, 2002) 7:30 p.m. Pedro Almodóvar's Talk to Her (Spain, 2002) 8:45 p.m. See Ongoing for reviews.
STARTS FRIDAY: Lars von Trier's Medea (Denmark, 1988); see Opening for review. Call for times and other films.
SUNDAY (May 4): The family series "Beyond Borders" screens Tony Collingwood's animated The King's Beard (U.K., 2002), about a king whose beard won't stop growing and an evil sorcerer voiced by Jim Broadbent 1 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: Young woman, dead boyfriend -- Lynne Ramsay's Morvern Callar (U.K., 2002) 2, 7:15, 9:25 p.m.
THURSDAY: Eat it and like it -- Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, France, 1991) 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Jeunet and Caro's sinister dream The City of Lost Children (France, 1995). There's quite a difference between these dark early works and the sweetness and light of Jeunet's Amélie -- but the love of coincidence remains the same 7:15, 9:40 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4:20 p.m.
SUNDAY & MONDAY: Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Teshigahara's look at Catalan architect Antonio Gaudi (1985) 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4 p.m.
TUESDAY: Early Scorsese -- Mean Streets (1973), when all involved were lean and mean 7, 9:20 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.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Monika Treut's Warrior of Light (Germany/Brazil, 2001); see Ongoing for review 6, 8, 10 p.m.; also Wed 2, 4 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (May 2-8): Lars von Trier's Medea (Denmark, 1988); see Opening for review 6:15, 8, 9:30 p.m.; also Wed, Sat, & Sun 2, 4 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO 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 here, its home base.
SATURDAY (May 3): A seven-hour marathon of the films and sound experiments of Jun Jalbuena, "Bridge Pattern for Apology," with artist in person. Titles include The Experience of Airplanes and Tourists Around the World, Cars Animal People, and The Sound of Kids or the Moonless Nights of March 4 p.m.
SF LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
1800 Market (at Octavia), 865-5555. "Free admission, hot popcorn, cold drinks every last Wednesday of the month." Captioned.
WEDNESDAY (April 30): You're invited to "sing along in black fishnet stockings with party favors provided" at The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1977) 7 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: Lukas Moodysson's Lilya 4-Ever (Sweden, 2002). See Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (May 2-8): Damian Pettigrew's documentary portrait Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (France, 2002). See Opening for review. Call for times.
