SATURDAY: Hip Hop -- Nobody Knows My Name (director not listed, appropriately enough), with Medusa 2:15 p.m. A Hip Hop Shorts Program features Spike Jonze's What's Up Fat Lip? 4 p.m. A preview screening of Soundz of Spirit (Joslyn Rose Lyons, 2003), with KRS-One, Blackalicious and more. Director in person 9:15 p.m.
SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: The Red Vic has booked The Trials of Henry Kissinger (2002); now when will someone book Kissinger? 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4 p.m.
ROXIE
3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com. $8. Short-run repertory in one of the most adventurously programmed theaters in the U.S.A.
DAILY: Roland Suso Richter's Cold War drama The Tunnel (Germany, 2001); see Opening for review 6, 9 p.m.; also Wed, Sat, & Sun 2:30 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: Blind Spot: Hitler's Secretary (André Heller, Othmar Schmiderer, Austria, 2002); see Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (March 14-20): Im Kwon-Taek's Chi-hwa-seo (Painted Fire, Korea, 2000); 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: Ruth Chatterton runs an auto plant and picks her men at will in Female (Michael Curtiz and William Dieterle, 1933; 7:30 p.m.) while Barbara Stanwyck is the Night Nurse (William Wellman, 1931; 6:05, 8:40 p.m.) protecting her charge from kidnapper Clark Gable.
FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: Two excellent films noir, both directed by Nicholas Ray, In a Lonely Place (1950; 7:30 p.m.; also Sun 3:55 p.m.), a very mature film about Hollywood and its doings with Humphrey Bogart and Gloria Grahame, and They Live by Night (1949; 5:40, 9:15 p.m.), a great story of two young lovers (Farley Granger, Cathy O'Donnell) on the run.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 Mission (at Third Street, in Yerba Buena Gardens), 978-2787, www.YerbaBuenaArts.org. $6 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, Annika 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, Olofsson's You Need Her and You Want Her Golden Hair. Free with gallery admission 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY (March 12): The Latino Film Festival screens Eliseo Subiela's Don't Die without Saying where You're Going (Argentina, 1995), a tale of reincarnated lovers over centuries from the director of Man Facing Southeast." Subiela in person. $8 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY (March 13): The S.F. Cinematheque offers a program of "Post-Industrial Speculations" by Gibbs Chapman (An Examination of Exhibits A(1) -- E(5); congressional hearings reordered in Your Tax Dollars at Work) and James T. Hong (Behold the Asian: How One Becomes What One Is). Filmmakers in person. $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: "Dirty Poole," a two week series of films by gay adult film director Wakefield Poole, commences with the pioneering gay porn films Boys in the Sand (1971; 7 p.m.) and Bijou (1972; 9 p.m.).
SATURDAY: More "Dirty Poole" -- his one "straight" porn film, The Bible (1974) starred Georgina Spelvin in a spoof of silent films 7 p.m.
TUESDAY: An Arab Film Festival screening of Tawfik Saleh's The Dupes (Al Makhdu'un, Iraq, 1972), about three Palestinian refugees in an early film on the theme of exile. $7 7:30 p.m.
FILM NOTES: Local author Rebecca Solint lectures on still photographer Eadweard Muybridge at the S.F. Cinematheque, 800 Chestnut, on Sunday March 16 at 7:30 p.m. Her discussion of her new book, River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West will be accompanied with an illustrated lecture. Call 822-2885 for more info.
