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. For additional Reps Etc. listings, go to sfweekly.com. We're interested in your film or video event. Please send materials at least two weeks in advance to: Film Editor, SF Weekly, 185 Berry, Suite 3800, San Francisco, CA 94107.

ARTISTS' TELEVISION ACCESS
992 Valencia (at 21st Street), 824-3890, www.atasite.org. This venue offers all manner of strange and unusual video and film. $5 save as noted.

THURSDAY (July 5): ANSWER offers a Welcome to New Orleans (Rasmus Holm, 2006), about a former Black Panther's struggle to revitalize city life after Katrina. A discussion will follow. $6 7:30 p.m.

FRIDAY (July 6): The poor lives of Palestinians in Lebanon are documented in Stolen Rights (Lamia Alami and Nadine Mourad, 2007). $6-$20 sliding scale 8 p.m.

SATURDAY (July 7): Hollywood is hijacked as Kino21 presents "The New Talkies," a "neo-benshi cabaret" program featuring live narration, music and sound to clips from films from the silent The Golem to Tom Cruise blockbusters. $10 8 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: Let's revitalize Disney's Duck franchise with Huey, Dewey and Ratatouille (Brad Bird, 2007; 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7, 9:15 p.m. ). Also screening: Evan Almighty (Tom Shadyac, 2007; 12:25, 2:20, 4:25, 6:30, 8:30 p.m. ).

STARTS FRIDAY: Call for films and times.

CASTRO
429 Castro (near Market), 621-6120, www.thecastrotheatre.com. 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. $10 save as noted.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: A new print of Gus Van Sant's debut feature, Mala Noche (1985) 7, 9 p.m.; also Wed 1:30, 3:15, 5 p.m.

FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (July 6-12): A new print of Charles Chaplin's defiant silent film in a talkie era, City Lights (1931) — still a masterpiece of comedy and pathos 7, 9 p.m.; also Fri, Sat, Sun, Wed 1, 3, 5 p.m.

DARK ROOM THEATRE
2263 Mission (between 18th and 19th "between the pawn shop and the laundromat"), 401-7987, www.darkroomsf.com. Live cabaret, plus regular film screenings with audience cat-calling encouraged. $5.

SUNDAY (July 8): "Bad Movie Night" continues a "Putting the Ick in Music" series with Gene Simmons and friends encountering Anthony Zerbe as a mad scientist in KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park (Gordon Hessler, 1978) 8 p.m.

ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA
425 Washington (at Battery), Suite 200, 788-7142, www.sfiic.org. The Istituto Italiano di Cultura promotes Italian language and culture in Northern California with occasional film screenings. Free.

TUESDAY (July 10): A retrospective of films starring Luca Zingaretti screens Prima dammi un bacio (Ambrogio Lo Guidice, Italy, 2003), a love story between a couple born inches apart who lose track of each other during the war. No subtitles 6:30 p.m.

JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO
3200 California (at Presidio), 292-1200, www.jccsf.org. This popular center offers a wide-range of programs, many of them film-oriented.

SUNDAY (July 8): Behind the Scenes, a Sneak Preview of the upcoming 27th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, offers clips, highlights, and a behind-the-scenes tour with program directors Peter Stein and Nancy Fishman. $30 1 p.m.

LUMIERE
1572 California (at Polk), 352-0810, www.landmarktheatres.com. This multiplex is only partly a "calendar house" rep theater. $9.75.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Lars Von Trier is The Boss of it All (Denmark, 2007) 4:45, 7, 9:25 p.m.

FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (July 6-12): Gypsy Caravan (Jasmine Dellal, U.S./U.K., 2007). See Opening for review. Call for times.

STARTS FRIDAY: Call for films and times.

MECHANICS' INSTITUTE LIBRARY
57 Post (near Market), 393-0100 and www.milibrary.org for information; phone or e-mail rsvp@milibrary.org for reservations. This cultural asset of long standing concludes a summer film series this week. Shown on projected video, with salon-style discussions to follow. $10.

FRIDAY (July 6): 76 trombones greet a July musicals series with The Music Man (Morton Da Costa, 1962) 6:30 p.m.

VIC
1727 Haight (at Cole), 668-3994, www.redvicmoviehouse.com. $8.50 save as noted. There's a spot on the couch for you at this collectively owned rep house.

WEDNESDAY: Closed.

THURSDAY: Got the munchies? It's the Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Matt Maiellaro and Dave Willis, 2007) movie 7:15, 9:15 p.m.

FRIDAY & SATURDAY: A semi-all-star cast (Nicholson! Dern! Susan Strasberg!) gather in the Haight for some Hollywood hippie-sploitation in Psych-Out (Richard Rush, 1968) 7:15, 9:25 p.m.; also Sat 2, 4:15 p.m.

SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: Filmmaker/visionary Hiroshi Teshigahara profiles architect/visionary Antonio Gaudi (Japan/Spain, 1985) 7:15, 9:15 p.m.; also Sun 2, 4 p.m.

ROXIE FILM CENTER
3117 and 3125 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087 and www.roxie.com for regular programs, 642-8066 and www.laborfest.net for Laborfest, here this week. Short-run repertory on two screens, separated by a bar, in this adventurous affiliate of New College. $8 for regular films, $5 for Laborfest.

WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal is documented in I Have Never Forgotten You (Richard Trank, 2007) 7, 9 p.m.; also Wed 3, 5 p.m.

WEDNESDAY: Guy Maddin's got a Brand Upon the Brain! (Canada, 2005) 7, 8:50 p.m.

THURSDAY: Laborfest, the International Working Class Film & Video Festival, screens here for a week. Tonight, Big Brother is Watching — The Other Side of Samsung (Labor News Production, Korea) and Battle of Local 5668 (Bennett) 7 p.m.

FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (July 6-12): A Crude Awakening (Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack, Switzerland, 2006). See Opening for review 7, 8:45 p.m.; also Sat, Sun 2:30, 4:30 p.m.