MIDNIGHT SHOW (Saturday): The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975), with live performance by Barely Legal. $6.
RAFAEL FILM CENTER
1118 Fourth St. (at A Street), San Rafael, 454-1222, www.cafilm.org. $9 save as noted for regular programs; (925) 225-9490 and www.sfjff.org for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, $11 save as noted. This three-screen repertory theater, now officially the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, is operated by the California Film Institute. Programs are complex; check carefully and call for confirmation.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet, France, 2005) 4:15, 5:30, 6:30, 7:45, 8:40 p.m. Saraband (Ingmar Bergman, Sweden, 2004) 4:30, 6:45 p.m. Wheel of Time (Werner Herzog, Germany, 2003) 9 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: March of the Penguins and Wheel of Time continue. Call for times and other films.
FRIDAY: The 25th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival screens this weekend at this venue -- Anya (Marzynski) noon. Isn't This a Time! (Brown) 2:15 p.m. The First Time I Was 20 (Levy, France) 4:30 p.m. Rashevski's Tango (Garbarski, Belgium) 6:45 p.m. The Talent Given Us (Wagner) 9 p.m.
SATURDAY: Jewish Film Festival -- Two documentaries about the state of things in the occupied territories, On the Objection Front (Tsur, Israel) noon and Wall (Bitton, France/Israel) 1:45 p.m. Campfire (Cedar, Israel) 4 p.m. Le Grande Role (Suissa, France) 6:15 p.m. Metallic Blues (Verete, Canada) 8:30 p.m.
MONDAY: The blacklist is revisited with Dan Bessie, son of screenwriter Alvah Bessie, with Dad's anti-Nazi film Hotel Berlin (Peter Godfrey, 1945) 6:30 p.m. Go for Zucker! (Levy, Germany, 2004) 8:45 p.m.
RED VIC
1727 Haight (at Cole), 668-3994, www.redvicmoviehouse.com. $7 save as noted. There's a spot on the couch for you at this collectively owned rep house.
WEDNESDAY: That's the real Paul Green, not Jack Black, as the impresario of Rock School (Don Argott, 2005) in this documentary 2, 7:15, 9:15 p.m.
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: Do the Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, Hong Kong, 2004) 7:15, 9:25 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4:20 p.m.
SUNDAY & MONDAY: Tony Jaa is Ong Bak: The Thai Warrior (Prachya Pinkaew, Thailand, 2003) 7:15, 9:25 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4:15 p.m.
TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY (Aug. 9 & 10): It's thumbs up for Garth Jennings' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (U.K., 2005) 7, 9:20 p.m.; also Wed 2 p.m.
RODA THEATRE
Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2025 Addison (near Shattuck), (510) 647-2949; (925) 225-9490 and www.sfjff.org for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. $11 save as noted. This legit theater hosts the 25th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival.
WEDNESDAY (Aug. 3): The First Time I Was 20 (Levy, France) noon. Arye (Kachanov, Israel) 2 p.m. A blacklisting series screens Montgomery Clift's debut, The Search (Fred Zinnemann, 1948) 4 p.m. Hotel Berlin (Peter Godfrey, 1945) 6:30 p.m. The Talent Given Us (Wagner) 9 p.m.
THURSDAY (Aug. 4): A Cantor's Tale (Anjou) 12:30 p.m. Maidan, Nave of the World (Janelidze, Georgia) 2:45 p.m. Isn't This a Time! (Brown) 5:45 p.m. Or (Yedaya, Israel) 7:45 p.m. Jericho's Echo (Nord, Israel) 9:45 p.m.
SATURDAY (Aug. 6): Odessa ... Odessa! (Boganim, France) noon. Professional Revolutionary (Montell) 2:30 p.m. Commune (Berman) 4:45 p.m. The festival's only screening of The Protocols of Zion (Levin), an exposé of anti-Semitism 6:45 p.m. Go for Zucker! (Levy, Germany) 9 p.m.
ROXIE
3117 and 3125 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com. $8 save as noted. Short-run repertory on two screens, separated by a bar, in one of the most adventurously programmed theaters in the USA.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Occupation: Dreamland (Garrett Scott and Ian Olds, 2005) 6:15, 8, 9:30 p.m.; also Wed 2, 4 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Aug. 5-11): Or (Keren Yedaya, Israel, 2004). See Opening for review 7, 9 p.m.; also Sat, Sun, & Wed 2, 4:30 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Koret Visitor Education Center (save as noted), 151 Third St. (between Mission and Howard), 357-4000, www.sfmoma.org. Screenings are free with museum admission of $12.50.
DAILY (Closed Wednesdays): "Photographers in Focus," a program of shorts 11 a.m. Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist (Chris Maybach, 2005) 1 p.m.; also Thurs 7 p.m. Episodes 236 and 365 of the vampire soap Dark Shadows (1967) 3 p.m.
SPANGENBERG THEATRE
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: Machuca (Andrés Wood, Chile, 2004) 5 p.m. Plan your escape from East Berlin via The Tunnel (Roland Suso Richter, Germany, 2001) 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: Ladies in Lavender (Charles Dance, U.K., 2004) 5:15 p.m. The Tunnel 7:30 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Call for program.
VICTORIA THEATRE
2961 16th St. (at Mission), 863-7576, www.victoriatheatre.org; www.thisdividedstate.com for this film. This venerable old house frequently rents itself out for special screenings.
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: This Divided State (Steven Greenstreet, 2005), documenting Michael Moore's appearance at Utah State Valley College amid attendant controversy, plays weekends through Aug. 28. $10 7, 9 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 5 p.m.
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.
DAILY (Closed Mondays): "4 x 4," commissioned videos by Ellen Bruno, Bill Daniel, Sam Green, and Caveh Zahedi, screens daily through Sept. 25. Free with gallery admission of $6 3 p.m.
WEDNESDAY (Aug. 3): Green Cine presents Doris Wishman's nudist colony crime spree Hideout in the Sun (1960). Introduced by what we are led to believe will be a fully clothed Eddie Muller 7:30 p.m.
