SATURDAY: IndieFest - Margarita Happy Hour noon. "Animation Extravaganza" 2:15 p.m. "Love Sex Desire" (shorts, including one by actress Sarah Polley) 4:30 p.m. Penelope Spheeris' latest rock doc, We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'N Roll 7 p.m. The New Women 9:15 p.m. Bio-Cops 11:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: IndieFest - To Protect and Serve noon. "The Global Village" (shorts) 2:15 p.m. Kanadiana 4:30 p.m. Mary/Mary 7 p.m. Bill Plympton's latest, Mutant Aliens 9:15 p.m.
MONDAY: IndieFest - Kanadiana 5 p.m. Margarita Happy Hour 7:15 p.m. Listen With Pain 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY: IndieFest - South West 9 5 p.m. Alcatraz Avenue 7:15 p.m. "Animation Extravaganza" 9:30 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: The animated Metropolis (Rintaro, Japan, 2001). See Ongoing for review 2:30, 5, 7:30, 9:50 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Feb. 1-7): Surreal master of animation Jan Svankmajer's Little Otik (Czech Republic, 2000); see Ongoing for review 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:55 p.m.
STANFORD
221 University (at Emerson), Palo Alto, (650) 324-3700, www.swixo.com. $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: An anti-war story set amid fighter pilots in World War I, The Eagle and the Hawk (1933; 7:30 p.m.) is credited to Stuart Walker but reputedly largely directed by Mitchell Leisen. Elfin Nancy Carroll is The Woman Accused (Paul Sloane, 1933; 6:05, 8:55 p.m.).
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Squat, fireplug-shaped character actor Ed Brophy co-directed Cary Grant (!) in the first film to topline Grant, Gambling Ship (Brophy and Louis J. Gasnier, 1933; 7:30 p.m.; also Sun 4:25 p.m.). It screens with Mae West's I'm No Angel (Wesley Ruggles, 1933; 5:50, 8:55 p.m.) - she's the auteur, no matter the credited director.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.
STUDIO Z
314 11th St. (at Folsom), 820-3907 and www.sfindie.com for more information on this program. $8.
MONDAY (Feb. 4): The fourth annual S.F. Independent Film Festival plays here through next Thursday; see Night & Day, Page 33, for more. Tonight, Two Days Till Tomorrow 2:45 p.m. Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth 5 p.m. "Chock Full of Notes" (shorts) 7:15 p.m. 97 Brooks 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY (Feb. 5): IndieFest - Listen With Pain 2:45 p.m. Living in Missouri 5 p.m. "At the Molehills of Madness" (shorts) 7:15 p.m. FinalCut.com 9:30 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.
FRIDAY (Feb. 1): A series of the works of Senegalese master filmmaker Ousmane Sembene continues with two films charting the intersection of Islam, Christianity, colonialism, and tradition - Ceddo(1977; 7 p.m.), about the effect of a king's conversion to Islam in turn-of-the-century Senegal, and Guelwaar (1993; 9:15 p.m.), a comedy tracing the effects of the accidental burial of a Christian in a Muslim cemetery.
