SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Weekly screenings of Scott Ritter's In Shifting Sands (2002), billed as "The Truth About UNSCOM and the Disarming of Iraq," continue on weekends at noon.
SATURDAY: Dark Wave -- Intacto 2:30 p.m. Versus 5 p.m. Dark Water (Hideo Nakata, Japan, 2002) 7:30 p.m. A Dogme-style reworking of Blair Witch, The Unknown (Michael Hjorth, Sweden, 2001) 9:45 p.m. The sad story of how a Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine in Daehakroh (Nam Gee-Woong, Korea, 2001) midnight.
SUNDAY: Dark Wave -- Teenage Hooker 2:30 p.m. Dark Water 5 p.m. A ghost story, Inugami (Masato Harada, Japan, 2001) 7:30 p.m. A monster movie, Kat (Martin Schmidt, Denmark, 2001) 9:45 p.m.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: In Shifting Sands 6, 8, 10 p.m.
SHATTUCK
2230 Shattuck (at Kittredge), Berkeley, (510) 843-3456, www.landmarktheatres.com. $9. 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: Arthur Dong's Family Fundamentals (2002); see Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Oct. 18-24): Claude Chabrol's latest thriller, and 48th feature, Merci pour le chocolat (France, 2000). See Opening for review. Call for times.
STANFORD
221 University (at Emerson), Palo Alto, (650) 324-3700, www.swixo.com/stanford. $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 THROUGH FRIDAY: Preston Sturges' brilliant small-town farce The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944; 7:30 p.m.) screens with the Marx Brothers' first film, The Cocoanuts (1929; 5:40, 9:20 p.m.), in which Florida is the butt of many a joke, then as now.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Two stylish looks at class mores by Vincente Minnelli, Gigi (1958; 3:35, 7:30 p.m.) and The Reluctant Debutante (1958; 5:40, 9:35 p.m.).
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Closed.
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.
THURSDAY (Oct. 17): The San Francisco Cinematheque presents handmade films by Jeanne Liotta, billed as so fragile "these images may disappear before your very eyes." Vanishing titles include Manifesto! and What Makes Day and Night. Filmmaker in person. $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY (Oct. 18): Lech Kowalski's digital video Born to Lose (1999), about "the rock and roll Dean Martin of heroin," Johnny Thunders (d. 1991). $6 7, 9 p.m.
SATURDAY (Oct. 19): Kowalski's Boot Factory (2000) asks us to "imagine if The Sex Pistols made boots instead of music," in this documentary about Krakow bootmakers who "run their business like punk rockers, living by their own rules" 7, 9 p.m.
TUESDAY (Oct. 22): A studio record of choreographer Mat Ek's Giselle (1989), taking place in a landscape of breasts. $6 7 p.m.
