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.
SUNDAY (May 20): Phyllis Wattis Theater — Parts One and Two of Leni Riefenstahl's highly stylized documentary of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Olympia (Germany, 1938). Part One 1:30 p.m. Part Two 4:30 p.m.
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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 17): An "Animals are Beautiful People" series screens Black Beauty (Jamie Uys, South Africa, 1994) 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: Adam's Apples (Anders Thomas Jensen, Denmark, 2005) 2:50, 5:05, 7:25, 10 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (May 18-24): Fay Grim (Hal Hartley, 2006). See Opening for review. Call for times.
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 and Tuesday.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Katherine Hepburn stars as the socially ambitious Alice Adams (George Stevens, 1935; 7:30 p.m.) and the cheerleader for a non-ambitious Cary Grant in Holiday (George Cukor, 1938; 5:45, 9:20 p.m. ).
FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY: Attorney Hepburn battles her judicial husband Spencer Tracy as Adam's Rib (Cukor, 1949; 4:45, 7:30 p.m. ), screening with Judy Holliday, Hepburn's client in Adam's Rib, as a would-be celebrity in It Should Happen to You (Cukor, 1954; 5:50, 9:20 p.m. ). Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin wrote both films.
VICTORIA THEATRE
2961 16th St. (at Mission), 863-7576, www.victoriatheatre.org. This venerable old house frequently rents itself out for special screenings.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Heidi Specogna's The Short Life of Jose Antonio Gutierrez (2007), a documentary about a "green card soldier" from Guatemala. $10 7, 9 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 16): A transgender tale of two identical twins, Red Without Blue (Brooke Sebold, Benita Sills and Todd Sills, 2007)? 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY (May 17-20): Every screening of the local premiere of soccer doc Zidane (Douglas Gordon and Philippe Parreno, U.K., 2006) is sold out. Now that's a real butt in the head! $10 7:30 p.m.; also Sun 2 p.m.
SUNDAY (May 20): A S.F. Cinematheque screening, Excavations of the Recordable World, includes Brook Hinton's "extra-temporal" study of Union Square, Transit, Katherin McInnis' Landscapes in Alphabetical Order and more by both artists. $8 7:30 p.m.
