SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: The many years of musical collaboration of Jerry Garcia and Dave Grisman is commemorated in Gillian Grisman's Grateful Dawg (2000) 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4 p.m.
ROXIE
3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com. $7 save as noted. Short-run repertory in one of the most adventurously programmed theaters in the U.S.A.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Hans Petter Moland's Aberdeen (Norway, 2000). See Ongoing for review 7, 9:15 p.m.; also Wed 2, 4:30 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Jan. 25-31): Italian Marxist filmmaker Gillo Pontecorvo, best known for The Battle of Algiers, debuted with a late neo-realist picture with melodramatic overtones, The Wide Blue Road (1957), screening in a new print. See Opening for more 6, 8, 10 p.m.; also Sat, Sun, & Wed 2, 4 p.m.
SAN RAFAEL FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
9 Ross Valley (at Greenfield), San Rafael, 668-1151 and www.ForAllLife.org for more information on this program.
THURSDAY (Jan. 24): Eddie Lama, a construction worker, explains how his encounter with a kitten converted him into an animal activist and vegetarian in The Witness. Free, discussion to follow 7:30 p.m.
SHATTUCK
2230 Shattuck (at Kittredge), Berkeley, (510) 843-3456, www.landmarktheatres.com. $8.25. This venerable theater assigns one of its eight screens to repertory programming. For the rest of the Shattuck's schedule, see our Showtimes page.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Stephanie Black's Life and Debt(2001). See Ongoing for review 2:30, 5, 7:10, 9:20 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Jan. 25-31): Metropolis(Rintaro, Japan, 2001). See Opening for review 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:50 p.m.
STANFORD
221 University (at Emerson), Palo Alto, (650) 324-3700. $6. This handsomely restored neighborhood palace usually screens pre-1960 Hollywood fare in the best available prints, with excellent projection and a courteous staff.
WEDNESDAY: Closed.
THURSDAY & FRIDAY: Marlene Dietrich is Josef von Sternberg's Blonde Venus(1932; 5:40, 8:55 p.m.), married to Herbert Marshall, but willing to dally with gambler Cary Grant in a good cause, while Nancy Carroll is the victim of small-town gossip in Hot Saturday(William A. Seiter, 1932; 7:30 p.m.).
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Grant is the missing Pinkerton in Marion Gering's Madame Butterfly (1932; 7:30 p.m.; also Sun 4:35 p.m.), with Sylvia Sidney suffering in the title role. Mae West makes the men, including Grant, do the suffering in the hugely popular She Done Him Wrong (Lowell Sherman, 1933; 6:10, 9:05 p.m.).
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.
21 GRAND
21 Grand (at Broadway), Oakland, (510) 444-7263. See www.zfilmfestival.com for more information on this program. $8.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY (Jan. 25 & 26): The Chicago-based Best of the Second Annual Z Film Festival offers "slimy and messy internal organs of filmmaking pulled from steaming slits in bodies and brains," and also such films as Damian Wolinsky's Lavada de Cabeza (Headwash, from Argentina), about three boys who visit a whorehouse; Lee Fearnside's Re-construction, which documents the process of taxidermy; and several more 9 p.m.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 Mission (at Third Street, in Yerba Buena Gardens), 978-2787, www.YerbaBuenaArts.org. $5 save as noted. This venue's Screening Room is a home for film and video programs of all sorts. Closed Mondays.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: "Directors of the Board," video screenings of short films about skateboarding, plays thrice daily through Jan. 27. Free with YBCA admission noon, 2:05, 4:15 p.m.
WEDNESDAY (Jan. 23): The S.F. Jewish Film Festival screens the U.S. premiere of Mosaic(Deborah Phillips, 2001). $6 8 p.m.
FRIDAY (Jan. 25): A series of the works of Senegalese master filmmaker Ousmane Sembene continues with two early social protest dramas, the half-hour Tauw(1969), about a dockworker, and Mandabi(The Money Order, 1968), screening together at 7 p.m. The tragic World War II-era drama Emitai (1971; 9 p.m.) follows. Admission for both programs is $6.
