WEDNESDAY: Kirby Dick takes on the MPAA in This Film is Not Yet Rated (2006) 2, 7:15, 9:20 p.m.
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: Animation genius Jan Svankmajer's latest, Lunacy (Czech Republic, 2006) mingles meat, Poe and Sade 7, 9:25 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4:30 p.m.
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SUNDAY & MONDAY: Closed for the holidays.
TUESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY (Dec. 26-30): Cinematographer Ron Fricke's world tour Baraka (1992) 7:15, 9:30 p.m.; also Wed 2 p.m.; Sat 2, 4:15 p.m.
ROXIE FILM CENTER
3117 and 3125 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com. $8 save as noted. Short-run repertory on two screens, separated by a bar, in this adventurous affiliate of New College.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Shut Up and Sing (Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck, 2006) 7 p.m.; also Wed 2 p.m. The Departed (Martin Scorsese, 2006) 8:50 p.m.; also Wed 4 p.m. In Theater 2, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (Stanley Nelson, 2006) 7, 8:45 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Dec. 22-28): Call theater for program.
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 and this Monday): Tina in Mexico (Brenda Longfellow, 2002) 2:30 p.m. Expressionism (Reiner Moritz, Austria, 1991) 4 p.m. THURSDAY: A program of Films by Charles and Ray Eames 7 p.m.
SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 4
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 (Dec. 21): A "Stories for the Screen" series screens Bill Murray getting Scrooged (Richard Donner, 1988) in this uneven farce noon.
SHATTUCK
2230 Shattuck (at Kittredge), Berkeley, (510) 843-3456, www.landmarktheatres.com. $9.50. This venerable theater assigns one of its eight screens to repertory programming.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Off the Black (James Ponsoldt, 2006) 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:35 p.m.
STARTS FRIDAY: Call for films and times.
STANFORD
221 University (at Emerson), Palo Alto, (650) 324-3700, www.stanfordtheatre.org. $6. This handsomely restored neighborhood palace usually (but not always) screens pre-1960 Hollywood fare in the best available prints, with excellent projection. A Twentieth Century Fox series concludes this week.
WEDNESDAY: It's just like the one you used to know White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954; 7:30 p.m. ) screening with the Fox holiday classic Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947; 5:45, 9:40 p.m. ).
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: Ernst Lubitsch's deservedly beloved holiday perennial The Shop Around the Corner (1940; 7:30 p.m. ) screens opposite Alastair Sims' definitive version of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol (Brian Desmond-Hurst, U.K., 1951; 5:50, 9:25 p.m. ).
SUNDAY: Merry Christmas, Mr. Packard! The Stanford's annual Christmas Eve screening of It's a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) 9 p.m.
MONDAY & TUESDAY: Theater closed.