Reps Etc.

Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr1@mindspring.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard adult admission; discounts often apply for students, seniors, and members.

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111 MINNA GALLERY

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

MONDAY (Oct. 27): The "Halloweird Edition" of the monthly "Independent Exposure Screening Series" offers 17 "odd, creepy, strange, and weird" short films, including Illeana Douglas' Devil Talk, Ignacio Ferreras' How to Cope With Death, and local filmmaker J.X. Williams' Psych-Burn 8 p.m.

ACT ONE/TWO

2128 Center (at Shattuck), Berkeley, (510) 843-FILM, www.landmarktheatres.com. $6. This duplex offers a 10-week midnight movie series (plus "drawings for valuable and coveted prizes"). For additional screenings, see our Showtimes page.

SATURDAY (Oct. 25): Teenage vampires stalk Santa Cruz in The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987) midnight.

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE

345 Bush (at Polk), 775-7755, www.afsf.com. French-language films shown on projected video. $5 donation.

WEDNESDAY (Oct. 22): A François Truffaut series continues with the timely -- given the release of Kill Bill with its arguably similar plot -- The Bride Wore Black (1966), with Jeanne Moreau as the vengeance-seeking bride 7 p.m.

SATURDAY (Oct. 25): The Bride Wore Black 2 p.m.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS

992 Valencia (at 21st Street), 824-3890, www.atasite.org for most programs, www.othercinema.com for Saturday evening programs. $5 save as noted. This venue offers all manner of strange and unusual video and film. Check out its new Web zine at atasite.org/zine; there's a free party to celebrate its debut this Thursday at 8 p.m.

FRIDAY (Oct. 24): The ATA's monthly "Open Screening" is already booked with David Cammack's Arnold Is #1 and what may (or may not) be Timothy Azarian's sequel about Gray Davis' comeback, Good vs. Evil: Part 2. More films to come, possibly including yours. $4, free for filmmakers 8 p.m.

SATURDAY (Oct. 25): Film curator Jack Stevenson offers a program of U.S. government-sponsored war propaganda, including Japanese Relocation, Survival Under Atomic Attack, and Red Nightmare. Book signing (Stevenson's Land of a Thousand Balconies) at 8 p.m., screening at 8:30 p.m.

BRIDGE

3010 Geary (at Blake), 751-3213, www.peacheschrist.com for this series. This popular little theater offers, in addition to its regular screenings (see Showtimes for listings), a "Midnight Mass" every Saturday, hosted by Peaches Christ. $8.

SATURDAY (Oct. 25): A "Halloween Season of Horror" continues with dream-powered teenagers taking on Freddy Krueger in A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (Chuck Russell, 1987). A free dream analysis is also on offer from Dr. Christ and guest star mental patient Metal Patricia Arquette midnight.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

1111 Eighth St. (at Irwin), 703-9500, www.ccarts.edu. $7.

SUNDAY (Oct. 26): An ongoing series on the "psychic effects of our cities and lands," "Psychogeographic Cinema," screens "Remote/Fantastic," a program that aims to "map the Borgesian labyrinths of constructed narrative space." Your travel guides include Chip Lord's scrambling of images from Vertigo and Bullitt in Movie Map; Peggy Ahwesh's tour of Lara Croft's visual universe, She Puppet; and Peter Greenaway's A Walk Through H 7:30 p.m.

CASTRO

429 Castro (near Market), 621-6120, www.thecastrotheatre.com, $8 save as noted. Short-run rep in a spectacular 1922 Greco-Roman-themed palace designed by Timothy L. Pflueger. Evening intermissions feature David Hegarty or Bill McCoy on the Mighty Wurlitzer.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Delphine Gleize's Carnage (France, 2003); see Ongoing for review 7, 9:35 p.m.; also Wed 1, 4 p.m.

FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Oct. 24-30): The near-miss coup against Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is documented in The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Kim Bartley, Donnacha O'Briain, 2003); see Opening for review 7, 9 p.m.; also Sat, Sun, & Wed 1, 3, 5 p.m.

CLAY

2261 Fillmore (at Clay), 267-4893, www.landmarktheatres.com; www.8tales.com for this series. A weekend midnight movie series continues. For the rest of the Clay's schedule, see our Showtimes page. $5.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY (Oct. 24 & 25): Mars Attacks! (1996) in Tim Burton's heavy-handed shuffling of bubble gum trading cards midnight.

FILM ARTS FOUNDATION

145 Ninth St. (between Mission and Howard), 552-8760, www.filmarts.org. $20.

WEDNESDAY (Oct. 22): "An Evening With Andrew Jarecki" offers the pleasure of the Capturing the Friedmans filmmaker's company as he comments on the making of his successful documentary, and the more dubious delight of "never before screened outtakes of clown footage." Please, please, not the clown footage 7 p.m.

FOREIGN CINEMA

2534 Mission (between 21st and 22nd streets), 648-7600, www.foreigncinema.com. Free with meal. This restaurant screens foreign films, usually in 35mm, on the back wall of its outdoor patio, with drive-in speakers available for the tables of those who want to watch while they dine.

DAILY (Closed Mondays): The original Dutch version, albeit no treat, of George Sluizer's thriller The Vanishing (1988) screens through Nov. 9 6:15, 8:15 p.m.; also Fri-Sun 10:15 p.m.

LA PEÑA CULTURAL CENTER

3105 Shattuck (at Prince), Berkeley, (510) 849-2568, www.lapena.org. $8.

SUNDAY (Oct. 26): The locally made, freshly re-edited Heavy in the Game (2002-03), a docudrama about gang life, with filmmaker Goldie the Poet in person 7 p.m.

LUMIERE

1572 California (at Polk), 352-0810, www.landmarktheatres.com. This multiplex is only partly a "calendar house" rep theater; for the rest of the Lumiere schedule, see our Showtimes page. $9.50.