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DAILY (Closed Mondays): Wim Wenders' angelic Wings of Desire (Germany, 1988) screens through Nov. 30 6:30, 8:15 p.m.; also Fri-Sun 10:45 p.m.
FOUR STAR
2200 Clement (at 23rd Avenue), 666-3468, www.hkinsf.com/4star/. $7.50. This enterprising theater hosts occasional special screenings. A "Midnites for Maniacs" series continues on Saturdays. For the Four Star's regular schedule, see our Showtimes page.
SATURDAY (Nov. 15): Jon Olsen's video feature Ape Canyon (2003); director in person 11:59 p.m.
GOETHE-INSTITUT
530 Bush (at Grant), 263-8760. The place to go for German cultural events. $5.
SUNDAY (Nov. 16): A program of films by Jörg Fockele, co-founder of the Hamburg Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, includes the documentary Rules of the Game (1998-2000) and a pair of tributes to early German cinema. Filmmaker in person 7:30 p.m.
KENNEDY'S PUB
1040 Columbus (at Chestnut), 441-8855. Curry and drinks available. Free.
THURSDAY (Nov. 13): Lance Carnes and Marc Dolezal offer a film noir series screening classics on 16mm shot at least in part in San Francisco. A bandaged Humphrey Bogart escapes from San Quentin and finds a good deal in plastic surgery in Delmer Daves' Dark Passage (1947) 8 p.m.
LA PEÑA CULTURAL CENTER
3105 Shattuck (at Prince), Berkeley, (510) 849-2568 for venue, www.latinofilmfestival.org for information on this program. The Latino Film Festival continues its annual event here and at other venues around the Bay Area this week. $9.
SATURDAY (Nov. 15): Filmmaker Gregorio Valverde hunts The Lost Reels of Pancho Villa (Mexico, 2002), missing footage shot by Hollywood in the teens (also the subject of a recent telefilm with Antonio Banderas) 8 p.m.
LUMIERE
1572 California (at Polk), 352-0810, www.landmarktheatres.com. This multiplex is only partly a "calendar house" rep theater; for the rest of the Lumiere schedule, see our Showtimes page. $9.50.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: José Padilha's Bus 174 (Brazil, 2002). See Ongoing for review. Call for times.
STARTS FRIDAY: Anything But Love. 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 final program of the 2003 Italian Film Festival screens at this Frank Lloyd Wright-designed complex. $10.75.
SATURDAY (Nov. 15): Spiro Scimone and Francesco Sframeli direct and star as Two Friends (2002), a comedy about mismatched roommates 7 p.m. screening sold out; tickets still available for the 9:15 p.m. show.
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. 14): John Garfield discovers They Made Me a Criminal (1938), an unlikely but effective teaming of the urban actor, the Dead End Kids, and director Busby Berkeley, mixing Depression-era fatalism and Garfield's proto-noir persona 6:30 p.m.
MISSION CULTURAL CENTER
2868 Mission (at 25th Street), 821-1155 and www.missionculturalcenter.org for venue; www.latinofilmfestival.org for information on this program. The Latino Film Festival screens videos here this week. $5.
SUNDAY (Nov. 16): National Stadium (Luz, Chile) 11:15 a.m. The Sapphires (DeStefano) 1 p.m. Lefty (Salces, Mexico) 3:15 p.m. The Photographer (Alarcón, Chile) 5:30 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.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Nov. 14-20): Diego Lerman's Suddenly (Argentina/Netherlands, 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. 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 2 of "Standby," a five-week series of video art made in New York City, 1983-93, includes Kathy High's feminist medical exposé I Need Your Full Cooperation (1989) 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: The annual Margaret Mead Film Festival of anthropological works continues with The Day I Will Never Forget (Kim Longinotto, 2002), on genital mutilation in Kenya 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: Margaret Mead -- Thunder in Guyana (2003), on that country's president, Janet Rosenberg Jagan, and The Queen Mother (Idrissou Mora-Kpai, Benin/France, 2002), about the filmmaker's mother, a queen 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY: A "History of Polish Animation" continues with Program 3, films made from 1963-85 by Ryszard Czekala and others, plus Jerzy Kucia's Tuning the Instruments (2000) 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: "Polish Animation," Program 4, features films by Piotr Dumala and Zbigniew Rybczynski, including the latter's classic Tango (1980) 5:30 p.m.
MONDAY: Theater closed.
TUESDAY: Sharon Lockhart's exploration of the Japanese landscape, Nö (2003), and of Japanese schoolgirls playing basketball, Goshogaoka (1997) 7:30 p.m.
PALACE OF FINE ARTS
3301 Lyon (at Bay), 567-6642 and www.palaceoffinearts.org/events.html for venue; 421-8497 for this program. This nine-decade-old remnant of a World's Fair has an excellent auditorium, often used for film programs. $15.50.
THURSDAY & FRIDAY (Nov. 13 & 14): Warren Miller's Journey (2003), a ski/snowboard compilation film Thurs 6, 9 p.m.; Fri 6:30, 9:30 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. 13): Sing along with Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) as a musical benefit for Absolute Dragons. $8 6:30, 9:15 p.m.
TUESDAY (Nov. 18): A "genius filmmaker's" movie about crime puts his production on the lam in F Stops (2003), billed as a cross between Spinal Tap and NBK 9:15 p.m.
MIDNIGHT SHOW (Saturday): The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), with live performance by Barely Legal. $6.
