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FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Nov. 7-13): José Padilha's Bus 174 (Brazil, 2002). See Opening for review. Call for times.
MARIN CIVIC CENTER
Showcase Theatre, 3501 Civic Center (at Avenue of the Flags), San Rafael, 499-6800 and www.italianfilm.com for this series. The 2003 Italian Film Festival screens at this Frank Lloyd Wright-designed complex for six weeks. $10.75.
SATURDAY (Nov. 8): The truth about a man's father upends his life in Truth and Lies (Piergiorgio Gay, 2002) 7, 9:15 p.m.
MECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY
57 Post (near Market), 393-0100 and www.milibrary.org for information; phone or e-mail rsvp@milibrary.org for reservations. $5. This cultural asset of long standing hosts an ongoing film series on projected video, with salon-style discussions to follow.
FRIDAY (Nov. 7): A John Garfield series opens with the film that marked him as a rebel without a cause for the Roosevelt era, Four Daughters (Michael Curtiz, 1938). The film also features the Lane sisters, memorable targets of Elmer Fudd's endearments: "Wose-mawy Wane ... Pwissiwa Wane ... Wowa Wane!" 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. $9.25.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Writer/director John Carlos Frey plays a border-patrol agent who goes undercover among the illegals in The Gatekeeper (2002). See Ongoing for review. Call for times.
STARTS FRIDAY: Call for films and 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: Program 1 of "Standby," a five-week series of video art made in New York City, 1983-93, includes Flaubert Dreams of Travel But the Illness of His Mother Prevents It (1986), with Willem Dafoe 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: A free screening of The Good Wife of Tokyo (Kim Longinotto, Claire Hunt, U.K., 1993), about a singer for a British rock band who returns home to marry 5:30 p.m. The annual Margaret Mead Film Festival of anthropological works opens here with David MacDougal's The New Boys (Australia/India, 2003), about 12-year-olds in their first year of a prep school for India's elite 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: Maziar Bahari's Football, Iranian Style (Iran, 2001) probes soccer's popularity there 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY: A two-day "History of Polish Animation" screens Program 1, films made from 1962-85, including Jan Lenica's Labyrinth (1962) 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: "Polish Animation," Program 2 includes films by Lenica and Walerian Borowczyk, including their collaboration House (1958), in films made from 1958-71, plus Lenica's The Island of R.O. (2001) 5:30 p.m.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.
PALACE OF FINE ARTS
3301 Lyon (at Bay), 567-6642 for venue, 554-5525 and www.aifisf.com for this program. The 28th annual American Indian Film Festival screens here for three days, with a different admission fee each day.
THURSDAY (Nov. 6): The festival opens with Jan Egleson's Coyote Waits (2003), $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY (Nov. 7): Steve Barron's Dreamkeeper (2003), free 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY (Nov. 8): The American Indian Motion Pictures Awards Show, with guests including Bill Miller, Cindy Minker, and Eagle & Hawk. $15 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 (Nov. 6): A "Thrillville" screening of producer Charles K. Feldman's campy James Bond spoof Casino Royale (U.K., 1967), with five directors and dozens of writers and stars, including David Niven, Peter Sellers, and Woody Allen as evil little Jimmy Bond. Preceded by a live set from the theremin lounge act Project: Pimento. $8 9 p.m.
SATURDAY (Nov. 8): Pepepalooza! screens a program by local filmmaker Pepe Urquijo, including Fruit of Labor, Pimpin' Fruit, and Of Mexican Descent. See www.pepelicula.com for more. $8 3 p.m.
SUNDAY (Nov. 9): Last spring's anti-war protests are documented in We Interrupt This Empire... (2003) 3 p.m.
TUESDAY (Nov. 11): "A birthday party for a former mental patient turns into a whirlwind of sex, chaos and violence" in local filmmaker Jovani G's Sinfully Sane 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 Death of Klinghoffer (Peggy Woolcock, U.K., 2003) 6:30, 9 p.m. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain, 2003) 7 p.m. Bubba Ho-Tep (Don Coscarelli, 2003) 8:40 p.m. Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion (Tom Peosay, 2003) Wed 6:45, 8:50 p.m.; Thurs 9:10 p.m. See Ongoing for reviews.
THURSDAY: A Rita Hayworth series screens Only Angels Have Wings (Howard Hawks, 1939), an air adventure film with an unusually stern Cary Grant, an unusually dithery Jean Arthur, and Hayworth in a key supporting role 7 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised continues. Call theater for other films and show times.
FRIDAY: The Latino Film Festival screens Wedding Days (Pinzás, Spain) 6:30 p.m. One or the Other (Sisniega, Mexico) 9:10 p.m.
SATURDAY: Latino Film Festival -- For families, Oscar's Magic Adventure (Sanchez, Venezuela) noon. Despite Treblinka (Stawsky, Uruguay) 2:20 p.m. From Cuba in 1964, We Are the Music (Paris) 4:45 p.m. Red Bear (Caetano, Argentina) 7 p.m. A Beautiful Secret (Laborde, Mexico) 9:15 p.m.
