WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Street Fight (Marshall Curry, 2005) 6:15 p.m. CSA: The Confederate States of America (Kevin Willmott, 2005) 8, 9:45 p.m.; also Wed 2, 4:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY: The San Francisco Irish Film Festival screens here for three nights. Tonight, "Festival Opening" 6:30 p.m. Mickybo & Me (Terry Loane) 7 p.m. Winter's End (Patrick Kenny) 8:45 p.m.
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THURSDAY: Irish Film Festival -- "Irish Horror Night" featuring Boy Eats Girl (Stephen Bradley) with director and star Samantha Mumba in person 7 p.m. Isolation (Billy O'Brien) 9 p.m. See Night & Day Thursday, Page 20, for more on this program.
FRIDAY: Irish Film Festival -- "Magners & Shorts" offers a free Magners for attendees of this shorts program 7 p.m. The Mighty Celt (Pearse Elliott) 9 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Rap Dreams (Kevin Epps, 2006). See Opening for review 7, 9 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 4 p.m. Call for other films.
SAN FRANCISCO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER
1800 Market (at Octavia), 865-5555; www.frameline.org for this program. "Frameline at the Center," a free monthly film series, continues.
THURSDAY (March 9): Israeli Oscar Best Documentary winner Keep Not Silent (Illil Alexander, 2005), about the struggles of three Orthodox Jewish women for acceptance. Filmmaker in person 7:30 p.m.
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 Wednesdays): "Early Films of San Francisco: Before and After the Great Earthquake and Fire, 1896-1915" 2 p.m. An interactive presentation, Making Sense of Modern Art: Magritte and Surrealism 3:30 p.m. American Masters: Alexander Calder (Roger Sherman, 1998) 4 p.m.; also Thurs 7:30 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.
WEDNESAY (March 8): An ITVS Community Cinema screening of Trudell (Heather Rae, 2004), about the Native American activist John Trudell. A panel discussion follows 6 p.m.
THURSDAY (March 9): An "Escape to Alcatraz" series screens Alcatraz Is Not an Island (James Fortier, 2002), a documentary on the island's occupation in the early 1970s noon.
VICTORIA THEATRE
2961 16th St. (at Mission), 863-7576, www.victoriatheatre.org for venue; www.spikeandmike.com for this program. This venerable old house frequently rents itself out for special screenings. $9.
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: Spike and Mike's 2006 edition of their Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation takes up residence here through April 29 7, 9 p.m.; also Sat 11 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.
WEDNESDAY (March 8): California Newsreel screens a Senegalese version of Carmen, Karmen Gei (Joseph Gaï Ramaka, 2001). $7 7:30 p.m.
FRIDAY (March 10): The Human Rights Watch Festival screens Winter in Baghdad (Javier Corcuera, 2005), a portrait of ordinary Iraqis under occupation 7, 8:45 p.m.
SATURDAY (March 11): The Women of Color Film Festival screens two programs of shorts, "seeking same," about displaced individuals 7 p.m. International filmmakers are "Tempest Tossed" 9 p.m. Separate admission.
SUNDAY (March 12): "Peripheral Histories," a program of experimental video documentaries from South Korea's Soon-Mi Yoo -- Ssitkim: Talking to the Dead, about Korean veterans who fought in Vietnam, and ISAHN, about "the state approved photographs placed in stereoscopes on the North and South Korean border so that exiles can see' home" 7:30 p.m.
FILM NOTES
This Thursday the Danger and Despair Knitting Circle resumes its series of 16mm rarities at 8 p.m. in an undisclosed location (say hello to Dick Cheney!). March 9's film is a World War spy drama with Herbert Marshall, Till We Meet Again (Robert Florey, 1936). For more info, see www.noirfilm.com; to make a reservation and get directions to the screening locale, e-mail screenings@hotmail.com. ... San Jose's Cinequest film festival screens this week at the California Theater, Camera 12, and other South Bay venues. See www.cinequest.org for information.
