Schedules are for Wed/16-Tues/22 except where noted. Director and year are given when available. Double and triple features are marked with a •. All times p.m. unless otherwise specified.
ARTISTS’ TELEVISION ACCESS 992 Valencia, SF; www.atasite.org. $5-10. “Periwinkle Queer Cinema: Food!,” adults-only shorts program, Wed, 8. “Beautiful Moving Images,” shorts program, Thurs, 8. SF Cinematheque presents: “Once It Started It Could Not End: Cut-Ups and Collage by Sears, Cox, Kennedy, and Rosentrater,” Fri, 7:30. “Other Cinema:” works about place and the sensibility it informs by Angela Reginato, Greg Berger, and others, Sat, 8:30.
BALBOA 3630 Balboa, SF; www.brownpapertickets.com. $17.50-20. “Opera and Ballet at the Balboa Theatre:” Adriana Lecouvreur, performed by the Royal Opera House, London, Wed, 7:30; Esmeralda, performed by the Bolshoi Ballet, Sat-Sun, 10am; Tues, 7:30.
CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS Timken Lecture Hall, 1111 Eighth St, SF; www.cca.edu. Free. “Cinema Visionaries: An Evening with Barry Jenkins,” short film screening and discussion, Tues, 7.
CASTRO 429 Castro, SF; (415) 621-6120, www.castrotheatre.com. $7.50-10. “Woody Wednesdays:” •Crimes and Misdemeanors (Allen, 1989), Wed, 3, 7, and Deconstructing Harry (Allen, 1997), Wed, 5, 9. “Greta Garbo Double Feature:” •Ninotchka (Lubitsch, 1939), Thurs, 2:45, 7, and Grand Hotel (Goulding, 1932), Thurs, 4:45, 9:05. Dark Country in 3D (Jane, 2009), Fri, 7:30. With director-star Thomas Jane in person. “Harry Potter Marathon:” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Columbus, 2001), Sat, noon; Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Columbus, 2002), Sat, 2:50; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Cuarón, 2004), Sat, 6; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Newell, 2005), Sat, 8:35; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Yates, 2007), Sun, noon; Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Yates, 2009), Sun, 2:30; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1 (Yates, 2010), Sun, 5:30; Part 2 (2011), Sun, 8:10. Thirty-minute break between Secrets and Prisoner on Sat and Prince and Hallows — Part 1 on Sun; $12 each day for all four films.
CHRISTOPHER B. SMITH RAFAEL FILM CENTER 1118 Fourth St, San Rafael; (415) 454-1222, www.cafilm.org. $6.75-10.25. Le Havre (Kaurismäki, 2011), Wed-Thurs, call for times. The Help (Taylor, 2011), Thurs, 6:30. With filmmakers and stars Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer in person; tickets, $20. Melancholia (von Trier, 2011), Nov 18-24, call for times. M*A*S*H* (Altman, 1970), Sun, 2. With Elliot Gould in conversation with Norman Solomon. “The Films of John Korty:” Funnyman (Korty, 1967), Sun, 7. “A Century Ago: The Films of 1911,” hosted by Randy Haberkamp with piano accompaniment by Michael Mortilla, Mon, 7.
EMBARCADERO CENTER CINEMA One Embarcadero Center, SF; www.sffs.org. $12-20. “New Italian Cinema:” The Jewel (Molaioli, 2011), Wed, 6:30 and Fri, 1; This World Is for You (Falaschi, 2011), Wed, 9:15 and Sun, 3:30; The Father and the Foreigner (Tognazzi, 2010), Thurs, 6:30 and Sun, 12:30; Some Say No (Avellino, 2011), Thurs, 9:15 and Sat, 9:30; A Quiet Life (Cupellini, 2010), Fri, 6:30; 20 Cigarettes (Amadei, 2010), Fri, 9:30; One Life, Maybe Two (Aronadio, 2010), Sat, 4; The First Assignment (Cecere, 2010), Sat, 6:30; Habemus Papam (Moretti, 2011), Sun, 6:30, 9:15.
FOUR STAR 2200 Clement, SF; lntsf.com/chinese_american_film_festival_2011. $5. “Chinese American Film Festival,” new films from China and Hong Kong, Nov 16-22.
PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE 2575 Bancroft, Berk; (510) 642-5249, bampfa.berkeley.edu. $5.50-9.50. “Alternative Visions:” “Space is the Place: Recent Avant-Garde Shorts,” Wed, 7:30. “Behind the Scenes: The Art and Craft of Cinema: Phil Tippett, Special Effects Master:” Starship Troopers (Verhoeven, 1997), Thurs, 7; The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (Jurad, 1958), Fri, 7. With Tippett in person. “Southern (Dis)Comfort: The American South in Film:” The Story of Temple Drake (Roberts, 1933), Fri, 9:10; Suddenly, Last Summer (Mankiewicz, 1960), Sat, 8:15. “Abbas Kiarostami: The Fragility of Life:” Through the Olive Trees (1994), Sat, 6; A Taste of Cherry (1997), Sun, 4:30. “Kino-Eye: The Revolutionary Cinema of Dziga Vertov:” Three Songs of Lenin (1935/38), Sun, 2.
ROXIE 3117 and 3125 16th St, SF; (415) 863-1087, www.roxie.com. $5-9.75. N.A.S.A.: The Spirit of Apollo (Garon and Spiegel, 2011), Wed, 7:30, 9:30. X: The Unheard Music (Morgan, 1986), Thurs, 7, 9:30. Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (Star, 2010), Wed-Thurs, 6:45. Gainsbourg: The Man Who Loved Women (Forneri, 2011), Wed-Thurs, 9:15. Dragonslayer (Patterson, 2011), Nov 18-24, call for times. The Woodmans (Willis, 2010), Nov 18-24, 7, 9 (also Sat-Sun, 3, 5).
SFFS | NEW PEOPLE CINEMA 1746 Post, SF. Pipe Dreams (Iwerks, 2011), Wed, 7. Benefit for the San Francisco Green Film Festival. Contact info for this event www.sfgreenfilmfest.org; tickets $15-25. California State of Mind: The Legacy of Pat Brown (Rice and Armstrong, 2011), Thurs, 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Contact info for this event www.sffs.org; tickets $10-11.
VICTORIA 2961 16th St, SF. Yogawoman (Clere, 2011), Thurs, 7. Contact info for this event yogawoman.eventbrite.com; tickets $15. “Fall 2011 San Francisco Underground Short Film Festival:” “Act One,” Sat, 7:30; “Act Two: After Dark,” Sat, 10:30. Contact info for this event www.peacheschrist.com; tickets $15-20.
YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS 701 Mission, SF; (415) 978-2787, www.ybca.org. $6-8. Love Streams (Cassavetes, 1984), Thurs, 7:30; Sun, 2.