Reps Etc.

SATURDAY (Sept. 18): San Quentin escapee Humphrey Bogart tries to prove his innocence with the aid of Lauren Bacall in Delmar Daves' thriller Dark Passage (1947), shot in this park's immediate area. BYO pillows and blankets; chairs discouraged. Shorts by local filmmakers, followed by feature, all starting at 7:30 p.m.

YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS

701 Mission (at Third Street, in Yerba Buena Gardens), 978-2787, www.YerbaBuenaArts.org. $7 save as noted. This venue's Screening Room is a home for film and video programs of all sorts.

WEDNESDAY (Sept. 15): A Film Arts Foundation screening of Voting in America (2004), a compilation of nine short films about changing nonvoters' minds. $7 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY (Sept. 17): A September "Giant Monster Attack" series continues with the latest entry in the venerable cycle, Godzilla Tokyo S.O.S. (Masaaki Tezuka, Japan, 2003), with a less pacific beast taking on Mechagodzilla, Mothra, twin Mothra larvae, and the Japanese navy 7:30 p.m.

FILM NOTES

The Danger and Despair Knitting Circle continues a series devoted to the noirs of 1941 with Among the Living, Stuart Heisler's film about two twins, one of whom has been kept locked up for years. He escapes. It screens Thursday, Sept. 16, at 8 p.m. For more info, see www.noirfilm.com; to make a reservation and get directions to the screening locale, contact 552-1533 or e-mail darkmarc@msn.com.