FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: Don Letts' The Clash: Westway to the World (U.K., 2000), on the other hand, merely promises "the band who made Punk real" 6, 8, 10 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 2, 4 p.m.
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: Constance Talmadge and Ronald Colman star in the rarity Her Night of Romance (Sidney Franklin, 1924; 7:30 p.m. ), which is followed by the outstanding Buster Keaton comedy Our Hospitality (Keaton and Eddie Cline, 1923; 9:05 p.m. ).
THURSDAY & FRIDAY: Marvelous child actress Margaret O'Brien is featured in Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944; 7:30 p.m. ) and The Secret Garden (Fred M. Wilcox, 1949; 5:45, 9:35 p.m.).
SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY (July 19-23): David O. Selznick's superproduction Gone With the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) 7:30 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 2 p.m.
WEREPAD
2430 Third St. (between 20th and 22nd streets), 824-7334, www.werepad.com. $8. This shagadelic venue screens vintage films in 16mm.
FRIDAY (July 18): A "Simulvision" screening -- side by side and both at once, Mary without sound -- of Richard Sarafian's Vanishing Point (1971) and John Hough's Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), two road race movies with cult reputations 9:30 p.m.
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.
WEDNESDAY (July 16): A Film Arts Foundation screening of the new DV doc Double Dare (Amanda Micheli, 2003), about Hollywood's stuntwomen, including the still active, at 62, double for Wonder Woman. $7 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY (July 17): The CineMuerte International Horror Film Festival screens movies not for the squeamish over the next three nights. Tonight, a double bill from Finland -- Geography of Fear (Auli Mantila, 2000; 7 p.m. ), about the vengeance of "radical female vigilantes," and Moonlight Sonata (Olli Soinio, 1989; 9 p.m. ), about a fashion model trapped in Lapland.
FRIDAY (July 18): CineMuerte -- Veteran goremeister Herschell Gordon Lewis' DV return to his greatest triumph, Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat (2002) 7 p.m. Lucio Fulci's infamously gory Zombie (Italy, 1979) 9 p.m. Menahem Golan's allegedly infamous musical The Apple (1980), about an evil rock impresario named Mr. Boogaloo 11 p.m.
SATURDAY (July 19): CineMuerte -- Fernando Arrabal's surreal take on the Spanish Civil War, Viva la Muerte (Mexico, 1971) 7 p.m. A man locks his family up for 18 years in Castle of Purity (Arturo Ripstein, Mexico, 1974) 9 p.m. Alucarda (Juan Lopez Moctezuma, 1975), an "excessive, bloody and sacrilegious oddity" 11 p.m.
