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: On separate programs, the 2006 Academy Award Nominated Animated Short Films (1:35, 5:30, 9:20 p.m.) and the 2006 Academy Award Nominated Live Action Short Films, at 3:30, 7:30 p.m.
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FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (Feb. 23-March 1): Family Law (Daniel Burman, Argentina, 2006). Call theater for times.
MIDNIGHT SHOW (Friday & Saturday): The Knights of the Round Table dance when e'er they're able in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Jones, 1975). $8.
STANFORD
221 University (at Emerson), Palo Alto, (650) 324-3700, www.stanfordtheatre.org. $7. This handsomely restored neighborhood palace usually (but not always) screens pre-1960 Hollywood fare in the best available prints, with excellent projection. Closed Monday & Tuesday.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY: A noir/horror series sees a mute Dorothy McGuire stalked on The Spiral Staircase (Robert Siodmak, 1946; 7:30 p.m. ). The legendary Val Lewton production I Walked with a Zombie (Jacques Tourneur, 1943; 6:10, 9:05 p.m. ) is set in Haiti and is nothing if not atmospheric.
SATURDAY & SUNDAY: The last collaboration of Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich is a love affair only Sade could enjoy but Rembrandt could paint, The Devil is a Woman (1935; 4:20, 7:30 p.m. ). It screens with the delightful musical Monte Carlo (Ernst Lubitsch, 1930; 5:50, 9 p.m. ), with Jeanette MacDonald wooed by hairdresser Jack Buchanan.
VICTORIA THEATRE
2961 16th St. (at Mission), 863-7576, www.victoriatheatre.org. This venerable old house frequently rents itself out for special screenings. 18 plus only. $9.
THURSDAY THROUGH SATURDAY: Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted Festival of Animation opens Feb. 22 and runs on these days through April 25 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.YerbaBuenaArts.org. $8 save as noted. This venue's Screening Room is a home for film and video programs of all sorts.
WEDNESDAY (Feb. 21): The Arab Film Festival screens Once Upon a Time: Beiruit (Joclyne Saab, Lebanon, 1994), about two women who find two reels of film that reclaim their country's past 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY (Feb. 22): Jem Cohen documents the Dutch punk band The Ex in Building a Better Mousetrap (2003). Filmmaker in person 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY (Feb. 25): S.F. Cinematheque presents "Starting in San Francisco," a program of works by recent San Francisco Art Institute graduates including Minyong Jang's The Breath, Taeko Horigome's Facing the Dragon, and several films by Christina Battle, including Traveling With Eyes Closed Tight, The Distance Between Here and There, and Migration 7:30 p.m.
FILM NOTES
A launch party for the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival is this Thursday, Feb. 15, at 111 Minna Gallery, 111 Minna Street, San Francisco, from 8 p.m. to midnight. Three bands, live music, $5... Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum offers a Mid-Winter Comedy Festival this weekend, Feb. 16-18, with many great programs. See www.nilesfilmmuseum.org for the schedule... New York film maker Jem Cohen lectures at the San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut St., San Francisco, on Monday Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m.
