WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: It's hard out there for a nympho: Black Snake Moan (Craig Brewer, 2006) 7, 9:25 p.m.; also Wed 2 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: OK, could you give me those bus directions to Pomona again? Inland Empire (David Lynch, U.S.-Poland, 2006) 8 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 2 p.m.
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MONDAY: Tim Burton remakes the neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves as Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) 7:15, 9:15 p.m.TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY: Cut up those credit cards! Maxed Out (James D. Scurlock, 2006) 7, 9:25 p.m. ROXIE FILM CENTER
3117 and 3125 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087 and 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: Sacco and Vanzetti (Peter Miller, 2006) 7, 8:40 p.m.; also Wed 3, 5 p.m.
WEDNESDAY: On Screen 2, Comedy of Power (Claude Chabrol, France 2006) 6:30 p.m. The fall of Vietnam revisited in Journey from the Fall (Ham Tran, 2006) 8:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: Aliens want our waves in the "science fiction surfing movie" Invasion from Planet C (David M. Potter, New Zealand, 2006) 7:30, 9:30 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (May 11-17): On separate screens, Exterminating Angels (Jean-Claude Brisseau, France, 2006; 7, 9 p.m.; also Sat, Sun, Wed 3, 5 p.m. ) and The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (Sophie Fiennes, U.K., 2006; 7:30 p.m.; also Sat & Sun 7:30 p.m. ). See Opening for reviews. Call for other films.
SATURDAY (May 12): New College's Cine Del Barrio program of independent Latin American film screens three short films from the Mal de Ojo TV Collective. Free 11:30 a.m.
SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
Koret Visitor Education Center (unless otherwise noted), 151 Third St. (between Mission and Howard), 357-4000 and www.sfmoma.org for regular programs, (925) 866-9559 and www.sffs.org for the San Francisco International Film Festival, here Friday through Sunday. Museum screenings are free with museum admission of $12.50 save as noted; SFIFF screenings $12.
DAILY (Closed Wednesdays): Picasso and His Time (1994), daily through May 28 2:30 p.m.; also Thurs 7 p.m. Brice Marden: Four Decades (Michael Blackwood, 2006), through May 13 4 p.m.
THURSDAY (May 10): Phyllis Wattis Theater — Part One of Leni Riefenstahl's highly stylized documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Olympia: Festival of the People (Germany, 1938) 6:30 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.
THURSDAY (May 10): An "Animals are Beautiful People" series screens an obvious choice, Animals are Beautiful People (Jamie Uys, South Africa, 1974), the wildlife of the Namib desert shot for laughs noon.
SATURDAY (May 12): A Lou Harrison tribute includes a preview of the new film Lou Harrison: A World of Music (Eva Soltes, 2007) 1 p.m.
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: Red Road (Andrea Arnold, Scotland, 2006) 4:45, 7:20, 9:55 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (May 11-17): Adam's Apples (Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark, 2005). See Opening for review. Call for times.
MIDNIGHT SHOW (Friday & Saturday): Use soap! Fight Club
(David Fincher, 1999). $8.
SUNDANCE KABUKI
1881 Post (at Fillmore), 931-9800; (925) 866-9559 and www.sffs.org for the San Francisco International Film Festival, here Friday through May 9. This just-off-Geary multiplex is one site for the 50th SFIFF. See website for programs.
VICTORIA THEATRE
2961 16th St. (at Mission), 863-7576, www.victoriatheatre.org. This venerable old house frequently rents itself out for special screenings.
WEDNESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: Heidi Specogna's The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez (2007), a documentary about a "green card soldier" from Guatemala, screens through May 18. $10 Wed - Sat 7, 9 p.m.; Sun 3, 5, 7 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 (May 9): Raoul Peck's video about the martyred African revolutionary Patrice Lumumba, Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (1992) 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY (May 10): "Broken Speakers and Broken People" is offered as a "real grindhouse double-feature" of two unnamed 1970s exploitation films, at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
SUNDAY (May 13): S.F. Cinematheque hosts fifty years of films by Lawrence Jordan, a program of collages and other works from Trumpit, a 1950s "psychodrama" with Stan Brakhage, through four recent films including Blue Skies Beyond the Looking Glass. Artist in person 7:30 p.m.
