THURSDAY (July 26): A "Women in Love" series commemorates Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas with Waiting for the Moon (Jill Godmilow, 1987), depicting their lives over a few months in the 1930s. Linda Hunt is Toklas, Linda Bassett Stein. 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.
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WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY: Manufactured Landscapes (Jennifer Baichwal, Canada, 2006), 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:30, 9:40 p.m.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (July 27-Aug. 2): Labyrinth (Jim Henson, U.K., 1986). 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 THROUGH FRIDAY: Cary Grant's a dodgy husband for sweet Joan Fontaine in Alfred Hitchcock's underrated Suspicion (1941; 7:30 p.m.), screening with Fred Astaire finding a "Foggy Day in London Town" with Fontaine as A Damsel in Distress (George Stevens, 1937; 7:30 p.m.)
SATURDAY THROUGH TUESDAY: Billy Wilder co-scripted the fast-talking, Parisian-set comedy Midnight (Mitchell Leisen, 1939; 7:30 p.m., also Sat & Sun 3:50 p.m.), screening with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in one of their best, Swing Time (Stevens, 1937; 5:35, 9:15 p.m.)
UA BERKELEY
2274 Shattuck (at Kittredge), 1-800-FANDANGO #408 and www.uatc.com. A "Flashback Features" series screens revivals every Thursday evening. $5.
THURSDAY (July 26): See Vietnam the hard way in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987), 8 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 (July 25): Film curator Jonathan Marlow offers Further Treasures from the Cabinet of Curiosities, animated rarities from the Quay brothers, Ladislas Starevitch, Jan Svankmajer, Walerian Borowczyk and Guy Maddin. 7:30 p.m.
THURSDAY (July 26): A "Screw Netflix" series screening films not on DVD continues with an unreleased fantasy with Zack Gilligan (Gremlins) as a searcher for life's meaning, Nothing Lasts Forever (Tom Schiller, 1984). Bill Murray is featured. 7:30 p.m.
SATURDAY (July 28): Screen 360, the International Children's Film Festival, is here for two days. See www.screen360.com for details. This afternoon: "Small Kids Making Big Art", 1 p.m.; "Flying in from the East," 3:30 p.m. Screw Netflix — I can't believe this isn't on DVD! Spike Lee's first feature, She's Gotta Have It (1986), 7:30 p.m.
SUNDAY (July 29): Screen 360 — "Bay Area Progeny", films by local youth, 1 p.m. "Keen Insight," films by Holland's Ingeborg Jansen, 3:30 p.m.
