FRIDAY: The Latino Film Festival screens Wedding Days (Pinzás, Spain) 6:30 p.m. One or the Other (Sisniega, Mexico) 9:10 p.m.
SATURDAY: Latino Film Festival -- For families, Oscar's Magic Adventure (Sanchez, Venezuela) noon. Despite Treblinka (Stawsky, Uruguay) 2:20 p.m. From Cuba in 1964, We Are the Music (Paris) 4:45 p.m. Red Bear (Caetano, Argentina) 7 p.m. A Beautiful Secret (Laborde, Mexico) 9:15 p.m.
SUNDAY: Latino Film Festival -- Havana Feelings (Heufelder, Cuba) noon. The Photographer (Alarcón, Chile) 2 p.m. Lefty (Salcés, Mexico) 4:25 p.m. Lua Cambará on the Staircases of the Palace (Cariry, Brazil) 6:50 p.m. Rita Hayworth takes the title role in Gene Kelly's breakout film as dancer/choreographer, Cover Girl (1944) 7 p.m.
RED VIC
1727 Haight (at Cole), 668-3994, www.redvicmoviehouse.com. $6.50 save as noted. There's a spot on the couch for you at this collectively owned rep house.
WEDNESDAY: Stephen Frears' Dirty Pretty Things (U.K., 2003) 2, 7:15, 9:25 p.m.
THURSDAY: A "Surf Film Night" screens "real" surf films; www.wavefest.com for more 7:15, 9:15 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: The world of backyard wrestling is explored in Paul Hough's documentary The Backyard (2002). Where's Tyler Durden when you need him? See Opening for more 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 2, 4 p.m.
ROXIE
3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com. $8 save as noted. Short-run repertory in one of the most adventurously programmed theaters in the USA.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Thomas Riedelsheimer's Rivers and Tides (2001) profiles time-sculpting Andy Goldsworthy; see Ongoing for review 7, 9:30 p.m.; also Wed 2, 4:30 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Nov. 7-13): A double bill of Hidden in Plain Sight (John H. Smihula, 2002; 7 p.m.; also Sat, Sun, & Wed 2 p.m.), about the notorious School of the Americas -- Hogswarts for torturers; and Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure (Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohey, 2003; 9:30 p.m.; also Sat, Sun, & Wed 4:30 p.m.). See Opening for reviews.
SHATTUCK
2230 Shattuck (at Kittredge), Berkeley, (510) 843-3456, www.landmarktheatres.com. $9.25. 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: John Carlos Frey's The Gatekeeper (2002). See Ongoing for review. Call for times.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Nov. 7-13): José Padilha's Bus 174 (Brazil, 2002). See Opening for review. Call for times.
SPANGENBERG THEATRE
Gunn High School Campus, 780 Arastradero (at Foothill Expressway), Palo Alto, (650) 354-8263, www.spangenbergtheatre.com. This recently refurbished Center for the Arts offers a 35mm film series on a large 30-foot screen. $5.
THURSDAY & FRIDAY: Three battlefield survivors with different languages must live together in The Cuckoo (Kukushka, Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Russia, 2002). See Ongoing for review Thurs 7 p.m.; Fri TBA.
SATURDAY: Closed.
SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: The Cuckoo Sun TBA; Mon & Tues 7 p.m.
STANFORD
221 University (at Emerson), Palo Alto, (650) 324-3700, www.stanfordtheatre.org. $6. This handsomely restored neighborhood palace usually (but not always) screens pre-1960 Hollywood fare in the best available prints, with excellent projection. The theater has begun to program films by Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray with Hollywood classics.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: Two by Satyajit Ray, Home and the World (1984; 7:30 p.m.), about a woman's life in 1907 India, and Tagore (1961; 6:25, 10 p.m.), a documentary about the Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, author of the novel Home and the World.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: Ray's comedy about a clerk who finds The Philosopher's Stone (1958; 3:30, 7:30 p.m.) -- which turns lead to gold -- screens with Samuel Goldwyn's lavishly produced The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (Norman Z. McLeod, 1947; 5:30, 9:35 p.m.), with Danny Kaye in an adventure drawn from James Thurber's fable about a middle-aged dreamer.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.
UA GALAXY
1285 Sutter (at Van Ness), 474-8700 for venue, 554-5525 and www.aifisf.com for this program. For regular screenings at this multiplex, see our Showtimes page. The 28th annual American Indian Film Festival screens here this Sunday through Thursday (Nov. 9-13).
SUNDAY (Nov. 9): Films for young people, including Thomas Yeahpau's Doe's Fascination With Words, $5 11 a.m. Documentaries on Don Burnstick and Winona LaDuke, $5 2 p.m. Two films on American Indian dance, including Dancing on the Moon, $7 7 p.m.
MONDAY (Nov. 10): Documentaries including Tribal Journey: Celebrating Our Ancestors, $5 noon. Documentaries including We're Still Here, $6 7 p.m.
TUESDAY (Nov. 11): Documentaries including Penobscot Basket Maker, $5 noon. The People Go On and A Seat at the Table, $7 7 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.
WEDNESDAY (Nov. 5): The Goethe-Institut screens Memory of Berlin (John Burgen, 1998), about an adoptee's search for his birth mother. $6 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY (Nov. 6): Visiting German filmmaker Klaus Eisenlohr's "Slow Spaces," on "the spatial practices of filmmaking," includes his short films The Sky Above Alexanderplatz and Local Time + 2 1/2. $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY (Nov. 7): "Ten Perfect Moments," a series of highlights from 10 years of the YBC's screenings, offers Kent Harris' Beaver Trilogy (1975-95), three films recording Olivia Newton-John impressions from, respectively, the original imitator, Sean Penn, and Crispin Glover 7 p.m. S.R. Bindler's Hands on a Hard Body (1996) records a bizarre monster-truck competition in Texas 9 p.m.
