SATURDAY: Indiefest -- Experimental filmmaker Harry Smith's remembered in American Magus noon The Austin bicycle scene's immortalized in Bike Like U Mean It 2:15 p.m. "Drawing Outside the Lines" (animation) 4:30 p.m. Controversial Gasper Noe's Irreversible (France, 2002) 7 p.m. A Canadian triangle, Inertia (Sean Garrity, 2002) 9:15 p.m. A Hong Kong s.f. adventure filmed in San Francisco, The Wesley's Mysterious File (Andrew Lau, 2002) 11:30 p.m.
SUNDAY: Indiefest -- "Salinger's Sort" (shorts about teens) noon Inertia 2:15 p.m. This Is Nowhere 4:30 p.m. The Snowflake Crusade 7 p.m. Killers Just Want to Be Alive (Ryuhei Kitamura, Japan, 2002 ) 9:15 p.m.
MONDAY: Indiefest -- "Drawing Outside the Lines" 5 p.m. Easy Listening 7:15 p.m. Monday Night at the Rock 'n Bowl (Genevieve Coleman, 2002) 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY: Indiefest -- Stuck 5 p.m. Horns and Halos 7 p.m. 12 9:30 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO CINEMATHEQUE
S.F. Art Institute, 800 Chestnut (at Jones), 822-2885, www.sfcinematheque.org. $7 save as noted. The San Francisco Cinematheque specializes in avant-garde, historical, and experimental films at venues around the Bay Area, including the Yerba Buena Center (see separate entry).
SUNDAY (Feb. 10): Filmmaker tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE in person with his "recent media manipulations" Space Ballet (condensed), Lab Rats Explain Their Veggie-Oil Powered Van and more8 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: Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann's Shanghai Ghetto (2002). See Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Feb. 7-13): Alex and Andrew J. Smith' s The Slaughter Rule (2002). See Opening for review. Call for times.
STANFORD
221 University (at Emerson), Palo Alto, (650) 324-3700, www.stanfordtheatre.org. $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 & THURSDAY: Edward G. Robinson's a ruthless editor in Five Star Final (Mervyn LeRoy, 1931; 7:30 p.m.) while reporter Lee Tracy tracks down a Blessed Event (Roy Del Ruth, 1932; 5:55, 9:10 p.m.).
FRIDAY: Tyrone Power gets lost in Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding, 1947; 7:30 p.m.) while late-career Erich von Stroheim is The Great Flamarion(Anthony Mann, 1945; 6, 9:30 p.m.).
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Lewis Milestone tracks The Strange Love of Martha Ivers(1947; 7:30 p.m.; also 3:45 p.m. Sun), screening with Nicholas Ray's very good film blanc, On Dangerous Ground (1951; 5:55, 9:40 p.m.). It's a noir that turns into a sincere tale of redemption.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.
STUDIO Z
314 Eleventh Street (at Folsom), 820-3907 and www.sfindie.com for more information on this program. $8.50
TUESDAY (Feb. 11): The Fifth Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival (SF IndieFest) screens Off the Charts (Jamie Meltzer, 2003), a documentary about the composers of "song poems" 10 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.
DAILY: Continuous loop screenings by Swedish video artists through April 13 -- On Wednesdays, Annka Ström's The Artist Live; on Thursdays, Ström's Ten New Love Songs; on Fridays, Anneè Olofsson's Ricochet and The Thrill Is Gone; on Saturdays, Annika Larsson's Cigar; on Sundays, Larsson's 40-15; on Tuesdays, Anneè Olofsson's You Need Her and You Want Her Golden Hair. Free with gallery admission 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY: The Goethe Institute sponsors Karin Jurschick's It Should Have Been Nice Afterwards (Germany, 2000), a daughter's investigation of her mother's suicide. $6 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: The San Francisco Cinematheque opens its Spring season with an in-person appearance by one tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE and his "vaudeo magazine" of shorts, "Imp Activism Issue #3" 7:30 p.m.
TUESDAY: A Bay Area Video Coalition presents David Hoffman's Bluegrass Roots (1964), a record of a tour by folklorist and musician Bascom Lamar Lunsford. $7 7:30 p.m.
