Gunn High School campus, 780 Arastradero (at Foothill Expressway), Palo Alto, (650) 354-8263, www.spangenbergtheatre.com. This refurbished Center for the Arts offers a 35mm film series on a large 30-foot screen. $5.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Look at Me (Agnes Jaoui, France, 2004) 6 p.m. Million Dollar Baby (Clint Eastwood, 2004) 7:40 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Call theater for program.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS
701 Mission (at Third Street, in Yerba Buena Gardens), 978-2787, www.ybca.org. $8 save as noted. This venue's Screening Room is a home for film and video programs of all sorts.
FRIDAY (July 1): The Winterfilm Collective's Winter Soldier (1972), a record of U.S. soldiers confessing to Vietnam atrocities 7:30 p.m.
FILM NOTES
This Thursday the Danger and Despair Knitting Circle returns with a new series of 16mm films noir, beginning with The Weapon (Val Guest, U.K., 1947), about the fate of a gun found by a small boy. Noir icons Lizabeth Scott and Herbert Marshall star. 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.