Repertory Film Listings

SUNDAY (Aug. 19): Black LGBT Festival - "Episode Mark" of The DL Chronicles (LeNear and Gossett, 2007), Don't Go (Sharp, 2007) and more, 2 p.m. No Regret (Riggs, 1992), The Ceremony (Fulcher, 2007), Flower Fokes (Sullivan, 2007) and more, 5 p.m.

MIDNIGHT SHOW (Saturday): Barely Legal's live presentation of The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975). $6.

RAFAEL FILM CENTER
1118 Fourth St. (at A Street), San Rafael, 454-1222, www.cafilm.org. This three-screen repertory theater, officially the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, is operated by the California Film Institute. Programs are complex; check carefully and call for confirmation. $9.50 save as noted.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: La Vie en Rose (Olivier Dahan, France 2007), 6:30 p.m. A new print of Armenian-Georgian legend Sergei Paradjanov's earth-intoxicated Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Ukraine/U.S.S.R., 1964), 6:45, 9 p.m. My Best Friend (Patrice Leconte, France 2006), 7, 9:15 p.m. Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer and Peter Djigirr, Australia, 2007), 9:30 p.m.

STARTS FRIDAY: Call for films and times.

FRIDAY: A new print of Armenian-Georgian legend Sergei Paradjanov's earth-intoxicated Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (Ukraine/U.S.S.R., 1964). Call for time.

RED VIC
1727 Haight (at Cole), 668-3994, www.redvicmoviehouse.com. There's a spot on the couch for you at this collectively owned rep house. $8.50 save as noted.

WEDNESDAY: Satoshi Kon's delightfully bizarre anime Paprika (Japan, 2006). 2, 7:15, 9:15 p.m.

THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY: A call girl catches a bullet and becomes a genius in The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai (Meike Mitsuru, Japan, 2003). 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 2, 4 p.m.

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY (Aug. 21 & 22): A Sicilian engineer (Alberto Sordi) is caught up in the old ways in Mafioso (Alberto Lattuada, Italy, 1962). Highly recommended. 7:15, 9:30 p.m.; also Wed 2 p.m.

ROXIE FILM CENTER
3117 and 3125 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com. Short-run repertory on two screens, separated by a bar, in this adventurous affiliate of New College. $8; $10 for Dead Channels.

WEDNESDAY: Dead Channels, a festival of fantastic cinema, continues on both screens. "Cosmic Hex's Free Secret Screening" of a TBA film, 3 p.m. Hot Baby (Roenning), 5:15 p.m. Nuit Noire (Smolders, Belgium), 5:15 p.m. Belleville Book of the Dead (Joudiau, France) and shorts, 7:15 p.m. The 4th Dimension (Mattera and Mazzoni), 7:15 p.m. The District! (Gauder, Hungary), 9:30 p.m. The World Sinks (Except Japan) (Kawasaki, Japan), 9:30 p.m.

THURSDAY: Dead Channels: "Cosmic Hex's Free Secret Screening", 3 p.m. No babies allowed! ZPG (Michael Campus, 1970), 5:15 p.m. The closing night gala premiere of the multi-episode Trapped Ashes (2007), with episodes by Joe Dante, Monte Hellman, and Ken Russell, among others, 7:15 p.m. The Devil Dared Me To (Stapp, New Zealand), 9:30 p.m. On screen 2, a Green Movie Night screening of Suzuki Speaks (Tony Papa, Canada, 2004), a filmed address by "scientist and visionary" Dr. David Suzuki, 6:30 p.m.

STARTS FRIDAY: Crossing the Line (Daniel Gordon, 2006). See Opening for review. 7, 8:45 p.m.; also Sat, Sun, Wed 3, 5 p.m. On screen 2, Lady Chatterley (Pascale Ferran, France, 2006). Call for times.

SATURDAY: El Grito de la Misión presents Mission Voices Summer. a community screening of video by youth. Free; noon.

SAN FRANCISCO CAMERAWORK GALLERY
Second floor, 657 Mission (at Third St.), 512-2020, www.sfcamerawork.org for venue, www.kino.org for event sponsor. $5.

THURSDAY (Aug. 16): Kino21 presents veteran experimental filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky in person with his 16mm films Triste (1974-96), about the "struggle of the film material itself to become a Film,"and Threnody (2004), "a somber but luminous progression through a delicate articulation of earthly phenomena." 7 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Koret Visitor Education Center (unless otherwise noted), 151 Third St. (between Mission and Howard), 357-4000, www.sfmoma.org. Free with museum admission of $12.50 save as noted.

DAILY (Closed Wednesdays): Henri Matisse: Figure, Color, Space (Edith Jud, 2006), through Sept. 16 at 2:30 p.m. A television documentary, Richard Avedon: Darkness and Light (1996); through Aug. 31; 4 p.m.; also Thurs 7 p.m.

THURSDAY (Aug. 16): Phyllis Wattis Theater: A "Jean Renoir in the Thirties" series continues with the beloved anti-war masterwork La Grande Illusion (France, 1937). Annie Hall to the contrary, this film is not better stoned. $7. 6:30 p.m.

SUNDAY (Aug. 19): Phyllis Wattis Theater: La Grande Illusion. $7. 3 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
Koret Auditorium, Lower Level, 100 Larkin (at Grove), 557-4400, http://sfpl.lib.ca.us. A weekly video program screens on Thursdays and occasional other days. Free.

THURSDAY (Aug. 16): A "San Francisco Opera Season Preview" series screens Verdi's Macbeth, as performed by the Gran Teatre di Liceu in 2004. Noon.

SATURDAY (Aug. 18): Al Gore's chalk talk An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, 2005) screens with Chinese subtitles, with discussion to follow led by bilingual staff from the city's Department of Environment. (Are they, like the federal EPA, directed to mention Gavin Newsom on every page?) 2 p.m.

SHATTUCK
2230 Shattuck (at Kittredge), Berkeley, (510) 464-5980 ext. 5, www.landmarktheatres.com. $9.50. This venerable theater assigns one of its eight screens to repertory programming.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: This is England (Shane Meadows, U.K., 2006), 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 p.m.

FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Aug. 17-23): These Foolish Things (Julia Taylor-Stanley, U.K., 2006). See Opening for review. Call for times.