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Repertory Film Listing

Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr2006@yahoo.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard adult admission; discounts often apply for students, seniors, and members. For additional Reps Etc. listings, go to sfweekly.com.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS

992 Valencia (at 21st Street), 824-3890, www.atasite.org. This venue offers all manner of strange and unusual video and film. $6 except as noted.

THURSDAY (Sept. 27): Kino 21 offers a 16mm print of Situationist Guy Debord's We Turn in the Night, Consumed by Fire (In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimir Igni, France, 1978), a denouncement of modern life, with an English soundtrack. $6-$10 donation 8 p.m.

FRIDAY (Sept. 28): A "Bootleg" series of rare, out of print films screens Oliver Stone's portrait of Fidel, Commandante (2003) 8 p.m.

SATURDAY (Sept. 29): Other Cinema screens "Switched-On Grimm," live music accompanying fairy stories courtesy of Brutallo.com. $8 ($1 off if you dress as your favorite fairy tale character) 8:30 p.m.

BALBOA

3630 Balboa (at 38th Avenue), 221-8484, www.balboamovies.com. This great neighborhood house shows films of all sorts. $8.50.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Get your fistful of quarters ready for 3:10 to Yuma (James Mangold, 2007) noon, 2:20, 4:40, 7, 9:20 p.m. A "joyous" double-bill of the street musician romance Once (John Carney, Ireland, 2006; noon, 3:45, 7:30 p.m.) and pie-making Waitress (Adrienne Shelly, 2007; 1:40, 5:25, 9:10 p.m.).

STARTS FRIDAY: Call for films and times.

BERNAL HEIGHTS PARK

Bernal Heights Blvd. at Folsom (north slope), 695-5006, www.bhoutdoorcine.org for more information. Bernal Heights Outdoor Cinema offers screenings by local filmmakers. BYO blankets, lawn chairs, and picnics. Free.

FRIDAY (Sept. 28): Hypatia Porter's For the Price of a Cup of Coffee follows the trail of a paper cup; Asian Pacific inmates raise funds in Emiko Omori's 75,000 Miles to Redemption, and more 7:30 p.m.

CASTRO

429 Castro (near Market), 621-6120, www.thecastrotheatre.com. Short-run rep in a spectacular 1922 Greco-Roman-themed palace designed by Timothy L. Pflueger. Evening intermissions feature David Hegarty on the Mighty Wurlitzer. $10 except as noted.

WEDNESDAY: A 70mm series screens HAL the way you want to see that big red eye in 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1968) 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:10 p.m.

THURSDAY: The Governator blows his mind in Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990; 7 p.m.) and saves the world in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991; 9:10 p.m.).

FRIDAY: A series paying tribute to composer Jerry Goldsmith opens with The Omen (Richard Donner, 1976; 2:45, 7 p.m.) and Seconds0x2028(John Frankenheimer, 1966; 4:55, 9:10 p.m.), a bizarre science fiction film about the California notion of living forever young.

SATURDAY: Goldsmith – Two exercises in 1960s camp, Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1968; 2:40, 7 p.m.) and Our Man Flint (Daniel Mann, 1966; 12:30, 4:50, 9:10 p.m.).

SUNDAY: Goldsmith – More fantasy/science fiction with Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise, 1979; 2:30, 7 p.m.) and Twilight Zone: The Movie (John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Joe Dante, George Miller, 1983; 12:30, 5, 9:25 p.m.).

MONDAY: Closed.

TUESDAY: Goldsmith – And still more fantasy/science fiction with Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982; 7 p.m.) and Outland (Peter Hyams, 1981; 9:10 p.m.).

CHINESE CULTURE CENTER

Auditorium, Hilton Hotel, Third Floor, 750 Kearny (at Merchant), 986-1822, www.c-c-c.org. This cultural center often shows films. $6; this screening free to members.

SATURDAY (Sept. 29): A documentary film series screens Floating Life (Huang Weikai, 2005), about a street singer's struggles in the underground passages of Guangzhou 1 p.m.

CLAY

2261 Fillmore (at Clay), 267-4893, www.landmarktheatres.com; 346-1124 for theater box office. "The Late Night Picture Show," a midnight movie series, continues. $9.75.

SATURDAY (Sept. 29): The Bawdy Caste hosts The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975). midnight.

FOREIGN CINEMA

2534 Mission (between 21st and 22nd sts.), 648-7600, www.foreigncinema.com. This restaurant screens foreign films, usually in 35mm, on the back wall of its outdoor patio, with drive-in speakers available for the tables of those who want to watch while they dine. Free with meal.

DAILY: Ralph Fiennes practices his skinless, noseless, Voldemort impersonation as The English Patient (Anthony Minghella, U.K., 1996). "Starts at dusk."

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO

3200 California (at Presidio), 292-1200, www.jccsf.org. This popular center offers a wide range of programs, many of them film-oriented. Free, reservations required.

TUESDAY (Oct. 2): Two mothers grieve for their lost children in Hilla Medalia's documentary of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, To Die in Jerusalem (2007). Filmmaker in person 7 p.m.

LARK

549 Magnolia (at Post), Larkspur, 924-5111, www.larktheater.net. This single-screen art deco theater has reopened with a policy mixing new and repertory programming. $8.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY:

Death at a Funeral (Frank Oz, U.K., 2006) Wed 7, 9 p.m.; Thurs 8 p.m.

STARTS FRIDAY: Call for films and times.

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