Repertory Film Listings

Commentary by Gregg Rickman (greggr2006@yahoo.com). Times compiled from information available Tuesday; it's always advisable to call for confirmation. Price given is standard adult admission; discounts often apply for students, seniors, and members.

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ACT I & II

2128 Center (at Shattuck), Berkeley, (510) 464-5980, www.landmarktheatres.com. $9.50 save as noted. One of this venue's two screens is a "calendar house" for Landmark Theatres. For additional screenings, see our Showtimes page.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Manderlay (Lars von Trier, Denmark, 2005) 8 p.m.

FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Feb. 17-23): The Boys of Baraka (Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, 2005). See Page 32 for review. Call for times.

MIDNIGHT SHOW (Friday & Saturday): Harrison Ford suits up as Indiana Jones for the first time in Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1980). $8 (Sat show $7) midnight; also Sat noon.

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE

345 Bush (at Polk), 775-7755, www.afsf.com. French-language films shown on projected video. $6 donation save as noted.

THURSDAY (Feb. 16): French cinéaste Jean Epstein's stylized Poe adaptation The Fall of the House of Usher (France, 1928) screens with a live accompaniment by the Ahl-I Nafs. $10 7 p.m.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS

992 Valencia (at 21st Street), 824-3890, www.atasite.org. $5 save as noted. This venue offers all manner of strange and unusual video and film.

THURSDAY (Feb. 16): The ATA's monthly "Open Screening" 8 p.m.

FRIDAY (Feb. 17): "Cinematastic" offers an hour's worth of new, short, narrative films 8 p.m.

SATURDAY (Feb. 18): ATA's Other Cinema screens the Charles Manson-inspired punk puppet show Live Freaky! Die Freaky! (John Roeker, 2005) 8 p.m. Keir-la Janisse's Metal Storm, a look at Norway's black metal scene 9:45 p.m. $6.66 for one, $9.99 for both.

BALBOA

3630 Balboa (at 38th Avenue), 221-8484, www.balboamovies.com. $8.50 save as noted. This great neighborhood house shows films of all sorts.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Breaking News (Johnnie To, Hong Kong, 2005) 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15 p.m. On this venue's second screen, Munich (Steven Spielberg, 2005; 3:25, 8:15 p.m.) and the Palestinian drama Paradise Now (Hany Abu-Assad, 2005; 1:30, 6:30 p.m.).

STARTS FRIDAY: A new print of a rediscovered gangster noir, Claude Sautet's Classes Tous Risques (France, 1960), with Lino Ventura and Jean-Paul Belmondo, screens through Feb. 26. See Opening for review 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15 p.m.

CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS

Timken Hall, 1111 Eighth St. (at Irwin), 703-9500 and www.ccarts.edu for venue; 552-1990 and www.sfcinematheque.org for program. $8.

FRIDAY (Feb. 17): "Fame as Form" screens experimental takes on celebrity, including Barbie's Audition by Joe Gibbons, Marilyn Times Five by Bruce Conner, and Andy Warhol's TV Episode 6 7:30 p.m.

CASTRO

429 Castro (near Market), 621-6120, www.thecastrotheatre.com. $9 save as noted. Short-run rep in a spectacular 1922 Greco-Roman-themed palace designed by Timothy L. Pflueger. Evening intermissions feature David Hegarty on the Mighty Wurlitzer.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Far Side of the Moon (Robert Lepage, France, 2003) 7, 9:15 p.m.; also Wed 2:30, 4:45 p.m.

FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Feb. 17-23): That Man: Peter Berlin (Jim Tushinski, 2005). See Night & Day Friday, Page 21, for more Fri 7:30, 10 p.m.; Sat-Mon 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 p.m.; Tues 7, 9 p.m.

FOREIGN CINEMA

2534 Mission (between 21st and 22nd streets), 648-7600, www.foreigncinema.com. Free with meal. This restaurant screens foreign films, usually in 35mm, on the back wall of its outdoor patio, with drive-in speakers available for the tables of those who want to watch while they dine.

DAILY: Thwarted lover Dirk Bogarde melts in the sun in Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice (Italy, 1971), screening through Feb. 26. "Starts at dusk."

LARK

549 Magnolia (at Post), Larkspur, 924-5111, www.larktheater.net. This single-screen art deco theater mixes new and repertory programming. $9 save as noted.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: J. Phoenix rises again as J. Cash and carries Walk the Line (J. Mangold, 2005) Wed 6:45 p.m.; Thurs 10 a.m.

WEDNESDAY: P.S. Hoffman is T. Capote to a "T" in B. Miller's 2005 biopic 9:30 p.m.

THURSDAY: A new documentary on the relationship between breast cancer and chemical exposure, Toxic Bust (Megan Siler, 2006), previews as a benefit for Marin Breast Cancer Watch. $25 7 p.m.

STARTS FRIDAY: G. Clooney says Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) to D. Strathairn's E. Murrow. Call for times.

LUMIERE

1572 California (at Polk), 352-0810, www.landmarktheatres.com. This multiplex is only partly a "calendar house" rep theater; for the rest of the Lumiere schedule, see our Showtimes page. $9.50.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Manderlay (Lars von Trier, Denmark, 2005) 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 p.m.

STARTS FRIDAY: The Boys of Baraka (Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, 2005). See Page 32 for review. Call for times.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY

57 Post (near Market), 393-0100 and www.milibrary.org for information; phone or e-mail rsvp@milibrary.org for reservations. $7. This cultural asset of long standing continues a spring film series. Shown on projected video, with salon-style discussions to follow.

FRIDAY (Feb. 17): Michael Fox hosts the "CinemaLit" spring season. Tonight, a pre-Code series offers John Gilbert as a scheming servant in Monta Bell's witty Downstairs (1932), with former Roxie programmer Elliot Lavine as guest speaker 6:30 p.m.

NILES ESSANAY SILENT FILM MUSEUM

Edison Theater, 37395 Niles (near G Street), Fremont, (510) 494-1411 and www.nilesfilmmuseum.org. A "Midwinter Comedy Film Festival" series screens over three days in this historic theater. $5.

FRIDAY (Feb. 17): This usually silent theater hosts an evening of "Talkie Comedy Shorts" with prime Laurel & Hardy (Tit for Tat, Charles Rogers, 1935), Robert Benchley (The Courtship of the Newt, Roy Rowland, 1938), and W.C. Fields (The Pharmacist, Arthur Ripley, 1933), plus lesser efforts from Buster Keaton (The Taming of the Snood, Jules White, 1940), Harry Langdon (Sue My Lawyer, White, 1938), and the Three Stooges (Three Little Pirates, Edward Bernds, 1946) 7 p.m.