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SPANGENBERG THEATRE
Gunn High School Campus, 780 Arastradero (at Foothill Expressway), Palo Alto, (650) 354-8263, www.spangenbergtheatre.com. This newly refurbished Center for the Arts offers a 35mm film series on a large 30-foot screen. $5.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY (April 30 & May 1): And the word was Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) 7 p.m.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY (May 3 & 4): Grease Sat 3:30 p.m.; Sun 2:30 p.m.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 Mission (at Third Street, in Yerba Buena Gardens), 978-2787, www.YerbaBuenaArts.org. $6 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 of three DVDs, part of the visual arts exhibition "Time After Time: Asia and Our Moment," run through July 13 -- From China, Chinese Utopia and Living Elsewhere, plus Haunted Houses, on Thai soap operas 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY (April 30): The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screens Gebürtig (Robert Schindel & Lucas Stepanik, Austria, 2001), a Holocaust-themed film about a now-successful refugee's return to Austria to testify against a former concentration camp manager. $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY (May 2): "On Fire," a monthlong series of recent Korean films, begins with Hong Sang-soo's comedy Turning Gate (2002), about an actor traveling across the country after his latest movie bombs. $6 7 p.m.
SATURDAY (May 3): "On Fire" -- Park Chan-uk's JSA-Joint Security Area (2000), a very popular drama set on the border between North and South. $6 7:30 p.m.
