Film Showtimes for the week of October 6-12, 2010

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Artists' Television Access. "Eight-Track Mind"": Other Cinema: 8-track-related films. Sat., Oct. 9, 8:30 p.m. $6. UNIFEM Screening: Monthly film series examining women's rights and development issues. Discussion follows each film. Oct. 10, 7 p.m. $6. 992 Valencia (at 21st St.), 824-3890, www.atasite.org.

Castro Theatre. Psycho and Dressed to Kill: Double feature. Oct. 6. $7.50-$10. Inception: Sci-fi thriller stars Leonardo DiCaprio. Oct. 7. $7.50-$10. Let the Right One In and Antichrist: Double feature. Oct. 8. $7.50-$10. Scary Cow Film Festival: Audience watches and votes on which film-producing teams should get funding from Bay Area film co-op Scary Cow. Oct. 10, 3 p.m. $15-$50. screening.scarycow.com. 429 Castro (at Market), 621-6120, www.thecastrotheatre.com.

Dark Room Theater. Bad Movie Night: This 2009 feature, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans, is about the feud between vampires and a race they once enslaved. Oct. 10, 8 p.m. $5. 2263 Mission (at 18th St.), 401-7987, www.darkroomsf.com.

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. Saving the Bay: Narrated by Robert Redford. Mon., Oct. 11, 7 p.m. 3200 California (at Presidio), 292-1200, www.jccsf.org.

Oddball Films. The Sensitive '70s: Empathetic Self-Help and Social-Problem Films from the Disco Decade: These 16mm films include treatments of the perils of addiction, suicide prevention, and the emotional lives of children. Oct. 9, 8:30 p.m. $10. 275 Capp (at Mission), 558-8117, www.oddballfilm.com.

Red Vic Movie House. Fresh: Ana Joanes' food-system documentary. Through Oct. 7. $6-$9. Donnie Darko: Richard Kelly's cult favorite. Oct. 8-9. $6-$9. Toy Story 3: Pixar animation. Oct. 10-12. $6-$9. Bioneers Moving Image Festival: An Ecology of Mind by Nora Bateson. Sun., Oct. 10, 1:45 p.m. $10. 1727 Haight (at Cole), 668-3994, www.redvicmoviehouse.com.

Roxie Theater. Stoked and Broke: An eight-day D.I.Y. surf journal through San Diego. Oct. 6. $6-$10. Exit Through the Gift Shop: Documentary including British street artist known as Banksy. Through Oct. 14. $6-$10. Art Institute of California — San Francisco Student Film Festival: Oct. 7, 6 p.m. varies. Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods: Documentary on the man behind comics including Arkham Asylum, All Star Superman, Doom Patrol, and The Filth. Oct. 8-14. $6-$10. Who Is Harry Nilsson (and Why Is Everybody Talkin' About Him?): Documentary about the Beatles' favorite American musician. Oct. 8-13. $6-$10. Mesrine: Killer Instinct: Film about French gangster Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), directed by Jean-François Richet. Oct. 8-11. $6-$10. Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1: Second film about French gangster Jacques Mesrine (Vincent Cassel), directed by Jean-François Richet. Oct. 9; Mon., Oct. 11; Wed., Oct. 13. $6-$10. The Other City: Documentary examines the HIV/AIDS rate in Washington, D.C.; filmmakers will be present. Sun., Oct. 10. $6-$10. 3117 16th St. (at Valencia), 863-1087, www.roxie.com.

SFMOMA. Philip Guston: A Life Lived: Narrated by the artist. Through Oct. 13, 4 p.m. 151 Third St. (at Mission), 357-4000, www.sfmoma.org.

The Vortex Room. The Vortex Invasion: The Alien Factor (1978) and Night Caller from Outer Space (1978). Oct. 7, 9 p.m. $5. 1082 Howard (at Seventh St.), www.myspace.com/thevortexroom.

VIZ Cinema. Live with Honor, Die with Dignity: Junichi Suzuki's film about Japanese-American soldiers in WWII. Through Oct. 7, 2:15 p.m. $13. Sayonara Itsuka: Goodbye, Someday: John H. Lee's romance. Through Oct. 7, 4:30 & 7:15 p.m. Redline: U.S. premiere of the racing animation film; simultaneous release in Japan. Oct. 8-10. $10. 39's Giving Day: Footage from a live collaboration in Tokyo between a band and virtual idol Hatsune Miku. Mon., Oct. 11, 7:15 p.m. $20. 1746 Post (at Webster), 525-8600, www.newpeopleworld.com.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. More Muppet Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy: Clips from the children's television shows. Through Oct. 30. $8. "Tough Guys: Images Of Jewish Gangsters In Film": Curated by Nancy K. Fishman. Through Oct. 24. $8. Solaris: In conjunction with Ralph Lemon's performances; this 1972 film follows the mission of a cosmonaut forced to confront his own past. Oct. 10, 4:30 p.m. $8. 701 Mission (at Third St.), 978-2787, www.ybca.org.

 
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