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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ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia (at 21st Street), 824-3890, www.atasite.org. $5 save as noted.

SATURDAY: Other Cinema presents a program devoted to "Kaiju," the giant rubber monsters of the Godzilla films and their spinoffs 8:30 p.m.

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: For your consideration, For Your Consideration (Christopher Guest, 2006) 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20 p.m. In Theater 2, Helen Mirren is The Queen (Stephen Frears, U.K., 2006), and don't you forget it 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7, 9:10 p.m.

STARTS FRIDAY: Call for films and times.

CASTRO

429 Castro (near Market), 621-6120 and www.thecastrotheatre.com. $10 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: A double-bill of Albert & David Maysles' documentaries about two faded Northern belles, Grey Gardens (1975; 3:20, 7 p.m. ) and the premiere of The Beales of Grey Gardens (2006; 1:30, 5:05, 9:10 p.m. ), leftover footage of the eccentric mother and daughter, passing time in a run-down mansion. Beale visitor and documentary supporting player Jerry Torre in person after Grey Gardens this evening.

THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: Do is for dear, Ray's a drop of golden sun in Sing-a-Long Sound of Music, the 1964 Robert Wise musical presented with subtitles so you too can join in with the nuns and the kids. $15 7 p.m.; also Fri, Sat, Sun 1 p.m.

MONDAY: A retreospective of the films of Hiroshi Teshigahara opens with Tatsuya Nakadai finding himself with The Face of Another (Japan, 1966) 7, 9:30 p.m.

TUESDAY: An unstoppable hitman strides through a mining town in Teshigahara's debut feature, Pitfall (1962) 7, 9:15 p.m.

CLAY
2261 Fillmore (at Clay), 267-4893 for Landmark theaters, 346-1124 for theater boxoffice, www.landmarktheatres.com. A midnight movie series continues this weekend at this single-screen jewel. $9.75.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY: The more complete, European release version of Terry Gilliam's prescient satire of our totalitarian future, Brazil (1985) midnight.

DAVIES SYMPHONY HALL
201 Van Ness (at Grove), 864-6000, www.sfsymphony.org. $31-$114 for this special event.

WEDNESDAY: Charlie Chaplin's silent classic City Lights (1931) screens with his excellent score played live by the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra 8 p.m.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY: City Lights, live music 8 p.m.

EL RIO
3158 Mission (at Precita near Cesar Chavez), 282-3325, www.elriosf.com; www.madcatfilmfestival.org for the MadCat Festival. This neighborhood bar often screens programs on its outdoor patio (or indoors if it rains). 21 and over only.

TUESDAY (Nov. 28): The Heads Up Collective screens a program of "short films by and about native youth" as a benefit for HOMEY (Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth). "Bring your mittens" 8 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 35 mm, 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: Life is or is not a Cabaret (1972), in Bob Fosse's Weimar musical "Starts at dusk."

LUMIERE
1572 California (at Polk), 352-0810, www.landmarktheatres.com. This multiplex is only partly a "calendar house" rep theater. $9.50 save as noted.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Language is a four letter word in Fuck (Steve Anderson, 2005) 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 p.m.

FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Nov. 24-30): Cave of the Yellow Dog (Byambasuren Davaa, Mongolia, 2005). See Opening for review. Call for times.

PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE
2575 Bancroft (at Bowditch), Berkeley, (510) 642-1124 and www.bampfa.berkeley.edu, $8, second show $2. The East Bay mecca for film scholars, part of UC Berkeley's Art Museum, thrives at its on-campus location, up the steps on Bancroft between Telegraph Avenue and the Hearst Gym.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Closed.

FRIDAY: A festival of new 35 mm prints from classics film distributor Janus Films screens The Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatozov, U.S.S.R., 1957) a tragic wartime love story told with a plethora of flying cranes 7 p.m. Ingmar Bergman made his first international mark with Monika (Sweden, 1953) 9 p.m.

SATURDAY: A family matinee screening of the Marx Brothers college comedy Horsefeathers (Norman C. McCleod, 1932). Whatever it is, we're against it 2 p.m. A Jacques Rivette series screens his debut feature, Paris Belongs to Us (France, 1959) 7:30 p.m.

SUNDAY: All four parts of Masaki Kobayahsi's Japanese ghost story anthology Kwaidan (1964) set a high water mark for J-horror. No stringy-haired girls on video here! 3 p.m.

MONDAY: Closed.

TUESDAY: Lebanese video artist Akram Zaatari introduces an early, sympathetic look at Palestine's cause Ici et ailleurs (Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin, France, 1974), shot in 1970 and re-edited after the 1972 Munich terrorist event into a commentary on terror "here and elsewhere" 7:30 p.m.

PARKWAY
1834 Park (at Lake Merritt), Oakland, (510) 814-2400, www.parkway-speakeasy.com. $5 save as noted. This friendly neighborhood theater serves beer, pizza, and more with its films. 21 and over.

TUESDAY: The premiere of a documentary about TV horror show hosts, America Scary (Sandy Clark, 2006) featuring John Stanley and Mr. Lobo 9:15 p.m.