TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY (Nov. 25-28): Donald O'Connor is remembered with a memorial screening of Singin' in the Rain (Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, 1952). Call for times.
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: The Polish Brothers' Northfork (2003), about potential evacuees awaiting a flood 2, 7:15, 9:15 p.m.
THURSDAY: Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson's investigation of how animals saved from factory farms can thrive is documented in The Emotional World of Farm Animals (2003). Masson in person 7 p.m.
FRIDAY & SATURDAY: The disastrous Rolling Stones concert at Altamont that "ended the '60s" is documented in Gimme Shelter (David and Albert Maysles, Charlotte Zwerin, 1970) 7:15, 9:20 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4:15 p.m.
SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: The S.F. premiere of Giuseppe Asaro's A Voice from Heaven (1999), documenting the "most beautiful voice in the world" of musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also 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: A double bill of Hidden in Plain Sight (John H. Smihula, 2002), and Plan Colombia: Cashing in on the Drug War Failure (Gerard Ungerman and Audrey Brohey, 2003) screen together; see Ongoing for reviews 7 p.m.; also Wed 2, 4:30 p.m. An Australian-filmed rock doc, Coldplay Live 2003 9:30 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Call theater for program.
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY
Coppola Theater, Fine Arts Building, 1600 Holloway (at 19th Avenue), (650) 802-9873 and www.irhsf.net/gold for more information. $5.
SUNDAY (Nov. 23): Two teenagers from the future "time raft" their way through history and witness the Exodus, the Crucifixion, Buddha, and "the truth about Hermes" in The Golden Laws (Japan, 2003), written and produced by Ryuho Okawa 12:30, 3:30 p.m.
SHATTUCK
2230 Shattuck (at Kittredge), Berkeley, (510) 843-3456, www.landmarktheatres.com. $9.25. This venerable theater has been assigning one of its eight screens to repertory programming; as of this Friday East Bay Landmark screenings will be at the Act One & Two. For the rest of the Shattuck's schedule, see our Showtimes page.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Diego Lerman's Suddenly (Argentina/Netherlands, 2002). 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: Ridley Scott's conmen comedy Matchstick Men (2003) 7 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Call for program.
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 works by Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray with Hollywood classics.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: Satyajit Ray's The Music Room (1958; 7:30 p.m., about an impoverished aristocrat and his love for music, screens with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers creating their own kind of music in Top Hat (Mark Sandrich, 1935; 5:40, 9:20 p.m.).
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: A young woman waits for an expected proposal in the mountain resort Kanchenjungha (Ray, 1962; 4:25, 7:30 p.m.), screening with Ray's documentary Sikkim (1971; 6:20, 9:25 p.m.)
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.
WEDNESDAY (Nov. 19): A SF Jewish Film Festival screening of Facing Arthur (Stefan Knerrich, Michael Rey and Amy Rubin, 2001), about the friendship of a German conscientious objector and a 100-year-old Polish refugee. $7 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY (Nov. 20): The S.F. Cinematheque screens Forevermore (Eric Saks, 1989), a "postobjective documentary" about toxic waste. Filmmaker in person. $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY (Nov. 21): "Ten Perfect Moments," a series of highlights from 10 years of the YBC's screenings, screens Charles Burnett's Let It Rain (1995) and Ousmane Sembene's Emitai (Senegal, 1971), recording France's role drafting Africans to fight during World War II 7:30 p.m.
