Repertory Film Listings

SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Koret Visitor Education Center (unless otherwise noted), 151 Third St. (between Mission and Howard), 357-4000, www.sfmoma.org. Screenings are free with museum admission of $12.50 save as noted.

DAILY (Closed Wednesday): Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress (Marian Cajori, 1997) through Feb. 28 4 p.m.; also Thurs 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY: A Kiki Smith exhibit offers Art:21:Stories (PBS, 2003) 2 p.m.

STARTS TUESDAY: Stones and Flies: Richard Long in the Sahara (Philip Haas, 1988) screens daily, Jan. 30-March 2 2 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY

Koret Auditorium, Lower Level, 100 Larkin (at Grove), 557-4400, http://sfpl.lib.ca.us. A weekly video program screens on Thursdays and occasional other days. Free.

THURSDAY (Jan. 26): A film series devoted to "The Beats" screens a film announced as Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats (1985), narrated by Peter Coyote, which is probably Kerouac the Movie (John Antonelli, 1985), narrated by Peter Coyote, and not What Happened to Kerouac?, also 1985, but not narrated by Peter Coyote. Got that? noon.

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.

WEDNESDAY (Jan. 25): The S.F. Jewish Film Festival screens Melting Siberia (Ido Haar, Israel, 2005), documenting the director's mother's reunion with her father, who had abandoned her many years ago in the former Soviet Union. $7 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY (Jan. 26): "mind, body, tea," a two-week series that opens the YBCA's new year, screens Tea (Franz Scheffer, 2005), based on Chinese composer Tan Dun's Tea Opera, on tea as a metaphor for the right way of life 7:30, 9:15 p.m.