Repertory Film Listings

SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: Kirk Douglas stars as a painter losing his mind in the excellent melodrama Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956; 7:30 p.m.). John Kerr's sexuality is challenged in Minnelli's tasteful melodrama Tea and Sympathy (1956; 5:15, 9:45 p.m.).

WOMEN'S BUILDING

3543 18th St. (at Guerrero), 621-4969 and www.sfindie.com for S.F. DocFest programming. $10.

SATURDAY (May 20): DocFest, the 5th Annual San Francisco Documentary Festival, screens here this weekend: Beethoven's Hair (Weinstein) 3 p.m. The Great Happiness Space (Clennell) 5 p.m. Fired! (Bradley and Labrache) 7 p.m. Reality Show (Trevorrow) 9 p.m.

SUNDAY (May 21): Deeper Than Y (Siller) 1 p.m. As Smart as They Are (Pacheco) 3 p.m. "Urban Artists" (shorts) 5 p.m. Muskrat Lovely (Nicholson) 7 p.m. The Chances of the World Changing (Metzgar) 9 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: A program of "Three New Films by William Farley" is already sold out. $7 7:30 p.m.

THURSDAY & FRIDAY: In Extremeo, a program of films by "radical Dutch experimental filmmaker" Frans Zwartjes, includes shorts and his 1979 feature Pentimento (1979), set in a concentration campÐlike building. On its release the film was "literally attacked by feminist activists, and copies were publicly destroyed" 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAY (May 21): S.F. Cinematheque presents Kidlat Tahimik's enjoyable experimental feature The Perfumed Nightmare (Philippines, 1977), on the theme of American cultural influence in his village and around the world 7:30 p.m.

FILM NOTES

Charlie Haden's Quartet West performs "A Night in Noir City" this Saturday, May 27th, at the Herbst Theatre, as a benefit for the Bay Area-based Film Noir Foundation, sponsor of the annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival. See www.sfjazz.org/concerts/spring06/artists/Jazznoir_Film_Festival.asp for more info.