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SATURDAY (April 10): The debut of an experimental, digital homage to Kenji Miyazawa's novel Milky Way Railroad, about a journey into the land of "awakened dream," Night Passage (Trinh Minh-ha, Jean-Paul Bourdier, 2004). Minh-ha in person 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. This spring's series emphasizes James Stewart, detective films, and Hollywood 1934-38. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays.

WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: Tyrone Power and Loretta Young spar in the screwball comedy Love Is News (Tay Garnett, 1937; 7:30 p.m.), screening with Rene Clair's fantasy The Ghost Goes West (1935; 5:55, 9 p.m.). American businessman Eugene Pallette moves a Scottish castle to the States and brings its ghost (Robert Donat) with it.

SATURDAY & SUNDAY: James Stewart loves Native American Debra Paget in the western romance Broken Arrow (Delmer Daves, 1950; 3:45, 7:30 p.m.), screening with Another Thin Man (W.S. Van Dyke, 1939; 5:30, 9:15 p.m.), another in the popular series about the crime-solving couple William Powell and Myrna Loy.

UC BERKELEY

Andersen Auditorium, Haas Business School, UC Berkeley campus, 788-7142 and www.ciacfest.org for this program. The Istituto Italiano di Cultura-sponsored festival of Contemporary Italian Art and Cinema screens two programs here this weekend. Free.

FRIDAY (April 9): Director Giacomo Campiotti in person with a short film 6 p.m. and his feature A Time to Love (1999) 7:30 p.m.

SATURDAY (April 10): "Looking Back at the Tradition," a program of documentaries by name filmmakers on Italian culture, screens Farewell to the Past(Marco Bellocchio, 2002), on Verdi's Traviata 6 p.m. Ettore Scola's The People of Rome (2003) looks at the city and its inhabitants 8 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 (April 7): A Goethe-Institut screening of Eye Song Augenlied (Thomas Bergmann, Mischka Popp, Germany, 2003), a documentary about the world of the blind 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY (April 9): A short series of films by "Japanese Cassavetes" Shunichi Nagasaki concludes with Heart, Beating in the Dark (1982), about a couple trying to escape memories of a horrible event. On video. $7 7:30 p.m.