A flight attendant's smackdown with the wife of mega-preacher Joel Osteen inspires a whole new set of commandments.
Today Denver, tomorrow the Twin Cities.
A country musician rescues Waylon Jennings' tour bus from the scrap heap.
The provocateur who brought you "Piss Christ" pinches off a new concept.
SUNDAY: Mill Valley – The Three Musketeers (Cimermanis, Denmark) 10 a.m. The Way I Spent the End of the World (Mitulescu, Romania) 11:30 a.m. Strong Love (Burt) and Body and Soul (Elliott) 11:45 a.m. 14 Women (Lambert) noon. The Paper Will Be Blue (Muntean, Romania) 2 p.m. "Bunnies and Butterflies" (shorts) 2:15 p.m. Things We Lost in the Fire 2:15 p.m. 365 parts 3 and 4 (Sanborn) 4 p.m. California Dreamin' (Nemescu, Romania) 4:15 p.m. TBA 4:45 p.m. London to Brighton 7:15 p.m. Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Temple, Ireland) 7:30 p.m. TBA 8 p.m.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Lust, Caution (Ang Lee, 2007) and Short Films from the Sundance Film Festival Call for times.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. $9 save as noted.
WEDNESDAY: After ten days, S.F. Doc Fest concludes with a visit to Berkeley's Monterey Market, Eat at Bill's (Brenneis) 5 p.m. The Closing Night film, Audience of One> (Jacobs) looks at a Pentecostal film auteur from Ocean Blvd. 7 p.m. Michael Moore, Manufacturing Dissent (Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine) 9:15 p.m.
THURSDAY: In Theater 1, the S.F. Cinematheque presents "Crazy Rays," a program focusing on science fiction and the avant-garde. Program One is a tribute to pulp illustrator-turned-experimental filmmaker Ed Emshwiller and includes Carol, about his author wife, and Image, Flesh and Voice (both 1970) 7 p.m. Program Two, Max Almy's video Leaving the 20th Century and Roddy Bogawa's post-punk Junk 9:30 p.m. In Theater 2, "Tattooed Buddha" offers an evening with "Dharma punk" Noah Devine, including clips of a new film on him. $7 7:30 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Manufacturing Dissent (Melnyk and Caine, 2007). See Opening for review 7:45 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 4:20 p.m. Steal a Pencil for Me (Michèle Ohayon, 2007). See Opening for review 6:30, 8:30 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 2:30, 4:30 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
1800 Market (at Octavia), 865-5555. Frameline's monthly screenings series continues. Free, arrive early due to limited seating.
THURSDAY (Oct. 11): "An infamous audience favorite," Filthy Gorgeous: The Trannyshack Story (Sean Mullens, 2005), a documentary about Heklina, her club, and her floorshows 7:30 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): A video screening of films by
Joseph Cornell runs through Jan. 6, daily at 2:30 p.m.; Tues screenings 3:30 p.m. A ten-minute profile of artist Olafur Eliasson (2007) 4 p.m.; also Thurs 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: An East German film series screens The Gleiwitz Case (Gerhard Klein, 1961), re-creating the faked incident Hitler used as an excuse to invade Poland. $5, free with museum admission 7 p.m.
FRIDAY: Program One of a more complete series of Joseph Cornell films on film includes the seminal clip job Rose Hobart (1936), a tribute to the early sound star, plus The Children's Party (1940), Nymphlight (1957) and a circa 1960 collaboration with Stan Brakhage, Gnir Rednow 3 p.m.
SATURDAY: Phyllis Wattis Theater – From East Germany, the banned as "anti-Socialist" The Rabbit Is Me (Kurt Maetzig, 1965/released 1990), about a student's affair with the judge who imprisoned her brother. $5; free with museum admission 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.
WEDNESDAY (Oct. 10): Billy Luther's Miss Navajo (2007) looks at a beauty contest in the Navajo Nation. A panel discussion follows 6 p.m.
THURSDAY (Oct. 11): A "One City Four Films" series screens the great Julianne Moore in the film of Terry Ryan's memoir The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio (Jane Anderson, 2005) noon.
SATURDAY (Oct. 13): Full-contact wheelchair rugby, documented in the Oscar-nominated Murderball (Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro, 2005) 2 p.m.
SUNDAY (Oct. 14): Lalo Guerrero: The Original Chicano (Nancy De Los Santos and Dan Guerrero, 2006) looks at the "father of Chicano music." 2 p.m.