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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Jimmy Wang Yu's martial arts classic Master of the Flying Guillotine (Hong Kong, 1975); call for times.

STARTS FRIDAY: Nijinsky (Paul Cox, Australia, 2000). See Opening for review. Call for times.

MINNA STREET GALLERY

111 Minna (between New Montgomery and Second streets), 864-0660 and www.microcinema.com for information on this program. $5.

TUESDAY (July 30): The "All Men Edition" of the monthly Independent Exposure Screening Series offers 12 short films and videos by male directors including Alfonso Alvarez's Calling All Cars (from Berkeley), Part 1 of Roger Beebe's Strip Mall Trilogy (Gainesville, Fla.), and David Blumenstein's Shit Party (Melbourne, Australia) 8 p.m.

PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE

2575 Bancroft (at Bowditch), Berkeley, (510) 642-1124, www.bampfa.berkeley.edu. $7, second show $1.50. The East Bay mecca for film scholars, part of UC's Berkeley Art Museum, thrives at its on-campus location, up the steps on Bancroft between Telegraph Avenue and the Hearst Gym.

WEDNESDAY: A "Higher Education" series of college-based films screens the Marx Brothers in their very funny Horse Feathers (Norman McLeod, 1932) 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY: A "Second Chance" series of PFA-screened films that were sold out or otherwise deserve another showing continues with a new print of the Rod Serling adaptation Requiem for a Heavyweight (Ralph Nelson, 1962), a nicely mounted, TV-based character drama with Anthony Quinn as the boxing patsy 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY: A Jean Gabin series screens the working-class hero's POW masterpiece Grand Illusion (Jean Renoir, France, 1937; 7 p.m.) together with Max Ophuls' episode film Le Plaisir (France, 1952; 9:15 p.m.), in which Gabin's featured.

SATURDAY: Preston Sturges' brilliant, quasi-autobiographical Hollywood satire Sullivan's Travels (1941; 4:30, 9:05 p.m.) screens with the equally brilliant, icy cold comedy of jealousy Unfaithfully Yours (1948; 7 p.m.).

SUNDAY: An Armenian film series offers I Will Not Be Sad in This World (Karina Epperlein, 2001; 5:30 p.m.), a documentary portrait of a 94-year-old survivor of the Turkish genocide of 1915, screening with Sergei Paradjanov's Ashik Kerib (U.S.S.R., 1988; 7:15 p.m.), a tale of a wandering minstrel.

MONDAY: Theater closed.

TUESDAY: The first half (six half-hour episodes) of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Mieville's TV series France/tour/detour/deux/emfants (1978) 7:30 p.m.

PARAMOUNT

2025 Broadway (at 20th Street), Oakland, (510) 465-6400, www.paramounttheatre.com. $5. This beautifully restored picture palace's ongoing "Movie Classics Series" regularly includes a feature plus a newsreel, cartoon, previews, and a few spins of the Dec-O-Win prize wheel. Doors open at 7 p.m.

FRIDAY (July 26): Pile those potatoes high, in a new print of Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) 8 p.m.

PARKWAY

1834 Park (at Lake Merritt), Oakland, (510) 814-2400, www.picturepubpizza.com. $5 save as noted. Pizza, beer, and movies on two screens. Call theater for programs, booked a week in advance. The Parkway also offers occasional scheduled special programs.

THURSDAY (July 25): Will Viharo's "Thrillville" offers "Cult Vegas Night" with a screening of the musical doc Louis Prima: The Wildest (Don McGlynn, 1999) plus Vegas-themed shorts including French TV's Viva Las Vegas?, a record of Viharo's protest against the pointless and unnecessary Ocean's Eleven remake. Cult Vegas author Mike Weatherford co-hosts. $6 9:15 p.m.

TUESDAY (July 30): Roko Belic's hugely popular documentary Genghis Blues (2000), about a blind American throat-singer's trip to Tuva, makes its local debut as a benefit for MUST (Music in Schools Today). Director in person. $8 6:30, 9:15 p.m.

MIDNIGHT SHOW (Saturday): The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), with live performance by Barely Legal. $6.

RAFAEL FILM CENTER

1118 Fourth St. (at A Street), San Rafael, 454-1222, www.finc.org. $8.50. This three-screen repertory theater is operated by the Film Institute of Northern California. Programs are complex; check carefully and call for confirmation.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: My Wife Is an Actress 9 p.m. Rivers and Tides 6:45, 8:45 p.m. The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) 8 p.m. Elling 6 p.m. William Wyler's solid film version of the Sinclair Lewis novel Dodsworth (1936), with Walter Huston and Mary Astor 7 p.m.

THURSDAY: My Wife Is an Actress 7, 9 p.m. Rivers and Tides 6:45, 8:45 p.m. The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat) 8 p.m. Elling 6 p.m.

STARTS FRIDAY: Sex and Lucia, see Opening for review; and Conrad Rooks' adaption of Hermann Hesse's tale of spiritual enlightenment, Siddhartha (1972). Call for times and other films.

SUNDAY: William Wyler's feathery romantic comedy Roman Holiday (1953), with Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck 7 p.m.

RED VIC

1727 Haight (at Cole), 668-3994, www.redvicmoviehouse.com. $6.50 save as noted. There's a spot on the couch for you at this collectively owned rep house.

WEDNESDAY: Before he was Miramax's house director, Lasse Hallström was Abba's, directing the band's feature Abba: The Movie (Australia/Sweden, 1977) 2, 7:15, 9:25 p.m.

THURSDAY: Obey the injunction! Destroy All Monsters! (Ishiro Honda, Japan, 1968) -- screening to celebrate the Red Vic's 22nd birthday 7:15, 9:15 p.m.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY: Ishiro Honda's Godzilla (Japan, 1954) -- the one, the only, the original 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4 p.m.

SUNDAY & MONDAY: Claire Denis' face-eating love story Trouble Every Day (France, 2001) 7:15, 9:30 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4:15 p.m.

TUESDAY: Never mind the bollocks, it's Spice World (Bob Spiers, U.K., 1998) 7:15, 9:15 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.

DAILY: Thomas Riedelsheimer's Rivers and Tides (U.K., 2000), held over for a fifth week, will continue screening indefinitely. See Ongoing for review 6, 8, 10 p.m.; also Wed, Sat, & Sun 2, 4 p.m.