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TUESDAY: AFF -- Whispering Sand 12:15 p.m. Eliana, Eliana 2:25 p.m. Kwam Rian 4:15 p.m. Double Agent 7:15 p.m. Ichi the Killer 9:35 p.m.
MOVIE PALACE AUCTION SALES ROOM
2700 Saratoga (near West Red Line), Alameda, (510) 740-0220, www.auctionsbythebay.com. $7. A new series of classic films screening in 35mm plays this summer in the Alameda facilities of Auctions by the Bay.
FRIDAY (Aug. 15): The ever-popular wartime romance Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) 7, 9:30 p.m.
SATURDAY (Aug. 16): The ever-popular Hollywood musical Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly, Stanley Donen, 1952) 7, 9:30 p.m.
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: A two-month series of campy takes on immorality, "Excess of Evil," screens The Brotherhood of Satan (Bernard McEveety, 1971), with Strother Martin leading a pack of Satanists -- and who better than one of Sam Peckinpah's stock company of berserkers? 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: A children's dance troupe in war-torn Chechnya is the subject of Jos De Putter's documentary The Damned and the Sacred (Netherlands, 2002) 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: A Czech horror-fantasy series screens Zbynek Brynych's highly praised The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (1965; 7:30 p.m. ), set in Nazi-occupied Prague, and Karel Kachyna's The Ear (1969; 9:30 p.m. ), a very good film about a communist functionary and his wife who suspect that they're being bugged.
SATURDAY: The third stanza of Wang Bing's nine-hour documentary about China's northeastern industrial zone, Tie Xi Qu: West of the Tracks -- Part Three: Rails (2003) 7 p.m.
SUNDAY: W.C. Fields stars in his justly praised late comedy The Bank Dick (Edward Cline, 1940) -- he's the Prospero of this Tempest 5:30 p.m.
MONDAY: Theater closed.
TUESDAY: Hungarian documentarian Péter Forgács' study of political thinker István Bibó, A Bibó Reader (2001; 7:30 p.m. ), screens with Chris Marker's new cine-essay Remembrance of Things to Come (France, 2002; 9 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 (Aug. 14): An evening of "Tiki-sploitation" features the live dance troupe the Devil-Ettes, shorts by Otto Von Stroheim, and Roger Corman's She Gods of Shark Reef (1957). $8 7:30, 10 p.m.
SUNDAY (Aug. 17): "Black in the Life," the 2003 Oakland International Black Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Film Festival, screens features and shorts on projected video. Programs begin at 3 p.m. Features include Kali's Vibe (Shari Carpenter, 2001; 3:15 p.m. ) and Dakan (Mohamad Camara, Guinea, 1997; 6 p.m. ). See http://www.clubrimshot.com/filmfestival.html for more.
TUESDAY (Aug. 19): Local filmmaker Brien Burroughs' Suckerfish (1999), a black comedy set in the world of pet supplies 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), 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: The Weather Underground (Sam Green and Bill Siegel, 2003) Wed 9 p.m.; Thurs 6:45, 8:50 p.m. A spelling bee leaves kids Spellbound (Jeff Blitz, 2003) 6:30 p.m. Jacques Perrin's Winged Migration (France, 2002) 7, 9 p.m. Capturing the Friedmans (Andrew Jarecki, 2003) 8:35 p.m. See Ongoing for reviews.
WEDNESDAY: A Wednesday/Sunday Claudette Colbert series screens Frank Capra's classic It Happened One Night (1934) 7 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: The Secret Lives of Dentists (Alan Rudolph, 2003); see Ongoing for review. The Weather Underground, Spellbound, Winged Migration, and Capturing the Friedmans continue. Call for times.
SATURDAY: The fine cinematographer László Kovács appears in person to discuss his career (from Easy Rider through My Best Friend's Wedding) and screen Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich, 1973). $10 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: Mick LaSalle introduces the very interesting Pre-Code film Torch Singer (1933), with Claudette Colbert 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 & THURSDAY: David Lynch's signature film, Blue Velvet (1986), screens in a new print -- the flip side of Reagan's America 7, 9:30 p.m.; also Wed 2 p.m.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Jim Jarmusch's cult anti-western Dead Man (1995), with Johnny Depp a very unjolly prairie pirate 7, 9:25 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4:25 p.m.
SUNDAY & MONDAY: Damien Pettigrew's directorial portrait Fellini: I'm a Born Liar (Italy, 2002) 7:15, 9:30 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4:15 p.m.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY (Aug. 19 & 20): Direct from the Western White House, it's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper, 1974) 7:15, 9:15 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 USA.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Nabil Ayouch's Arab street-kid drama Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (Morocco, 2000) 6, 8 p.m.; also Wed 2 p.m. Separate-admission screenings of The Weather Underground (Sam Green and Bill Siegel, 2003); see Ongoing for review 9:45 p.m.; also Wed 4 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Aug. 15-21): OT: Our Town (Scott Hamilton Kennedy, 2001); see Opening for review 6:30, 8, 9:45 p.m.; also Sat, Sun, & Wed 2, 4:15 p.m.
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.
