Commentary by Gregg Rickman (email@example.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.
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ACT I & II
2128 Center (at Shattuck), Berkeley, (510) 464-5980, www.landmarktheatres.com. $9.25 save as noted. One of this venue's two screens is a "calendar house" for Landmark Theatres. A midnight series continues. For additional screenings, see our Showtimes page.
FRIDAY THROUGH THURSDAY (April 29-May 5): 16 Years of Alcohol (Richard Jobson, U.K., 2003). See Opening for review. Call for times.
1881 Post (at Fillmore), 931-9800 for venue; (925) 866-9559, www.sffs.org for the S.F. International Film Festival. This just-off-Geary multiplex is one site for the San Francisco International Film Festival. $12 save as noted. For more on the SFIFF, see Page 33. For the rest of the Kabuki fare, see our Showtimes page.
WEDNESDAY: SFIFF screenings of A Doula Story (Alpert) 10 a.m. "Boxers and Ballerinas" (shorts) 2 p.m. Into the Picture Scroll (Haneda, Japan) 3:15 p.m. Beyond Our Ken (Pang, Hong Kong) 3:30 p.m. Tempus Fugit (Folch, Spain) 4:30 p.m. Omagh (Travis, Ireland) 5:45 p.m. Black Friday (Kashyap, India) 6 p.m. La Petite Chartreuse (Jean-Pierre Denis, France) 6:15 p.m. The Search for the Captain (McEnery) 7:15 p.m. Dealer (Fliegauf, Hungary) 8:30 p.m. The Intruder (Claire Denis, France) 8:45 p.m. Hawaii, Oslo (Poppe, Norway) 9:15 p.m. My Mother, the Mermaid (Park, Korea) 9:30 p.m.
THURSDAY: SFIFF -- Duck Season (Eimbcke, Mexico) 10 a.m. "Revelations" (shorts) 12:45 p.m. Champions (Najbrt, Czech Republic) 3:45 p.m. King's Game (Arcel, Denmark) 3:45 p.m. In the Battlefields (Arbid, Lebanon) 4 p.m. Shepherds' Journey Into the Third Millennium (Langjahr, Switzerland) 5 p.m. Of Love and Eggs (Nugroho, Indonesia) 6 p.m. "Exquisite Luminance" (shorts) 6:15 p.m. Almost Brothers (Murat, Brazil) 6:30 p.m. Princess of Mount Ledang (Hin, Malaysia) 8 p.m. A Social Genocide (Solanas, Argentina) 8:45 p.m. Film as a Subversive Art (Cronin, U.K.) 9:15 p.m. Up Against Them All (Moreira, Brazil) 9:30 p.m.
FRIDAY: SFIFF -- "Small Tails and Tall Tales" (shorts) 10 a.m., 6 p.m. Hawaii, Oslo 12:45 p.m. The Search for the Captain 12:45 p.m. The Boys of Baraka (Ewing and Grady, USA/Kenya) 1 p.m. Harvest Time (Razbezhkina, Russia) 1:45 p.m. Relativity (Kovrig, Canada) 3:15 p.m. My Mother, the Mermaid 3:45 p.m. The Intruder 4 p.m. Days and Hours (Zalica, Bosnia) 4:15 p.m. Duck Season 6:30 p.m. Murderball (Shapiro and Rubin) 7 p.m. Czech Dream (Klusák and Remunda, Czech Republic) 7:15 p.m. "Split Screen" (shorts) 8:45 p.m. Delamu (Tian, China) 9:15 p.m. Mouth to Mouth (Murray, U.K.) 9:30 p.m. The Riverside (Amini, Iran/Iraq) 9:45 p.m. Phil the Alien (Stefaniuk, Canada) midnight.
SATURDAY: SFIFF -- The Boys of Baraka 12:45 p.m. Layer Cake (Vaughn, U.K.) 1 p.m. Dear Enemy (Xhuvani, Albania) 1:30 p.m. Paul Haggis offers a master class in screenwriting using his new film Crash 2 p.m. The Forest for the Trees (Ade, Germany) 3:45 p.m. "Youth Voices and Visions" (shorts) 3:45 p.m. Duck Season 4:15 p.m. Sepet (Ahmad, Malaysia) 6 p.m. Abel Raises Cain (Abel and Hockett) 6:30 p.m. The Cuban omnibus Three Times Two (Giroud, Hamlet, Insausti) 6:45 p.m. Champions 7 p.m. Crónicas (Cordero, Ecuador) 9 p.m. Kept and Dreamless (Fogwill and Desalvo) 9:15 p.m. Life in a Box (Cheslik) 9:15 p.m. Midwinter Night's Dream (Paskaljevic, Serbia) 9:45 p.m. Izo (Miike, Japan) midnight.
SUNDAY: SFIFF -- The Gravel Road (Menon, Malaysia) 1:15 p.m. The Riverside 1:30 p.m. Adam Curtis receives the Persistence of Vision Award and screens his latest, The Power of Nightmares 2 p.m. Nelson Freire (Salles, Brazil) 3 p.m. In the Battlefields 3:30 p.m. Relativity 3:45 p.m. Whisky Romeo Zulu (Piñeyro, Argentina) 6 p.m. Harvest Time 6:15 p.m. "Boxers and Ballerinas" 6:30 p.m. The Joy of Life (Dodge) 6:45 p.m. Almost Brothers 8:45 p.m. Me and You and Everyone We Know (July) 9 p.m. Following Sean (Arlyck) 9:15 p.m. Monday Morning Glory (Woo, Malaysia) 9:15 p.m.
MONDAY: SFIFF -- Czech Dream 12:30 p.m. The White Diamond (Herzog, Germany) 12:45 p.m. Phil the Alien 1:15 p.m. Film as a Subversive Art 2:45 p.m. The Forest for the Trees 3 p.m. Up Against Them All 3:15 p.m. Take My Eyes (Bollain, Spain) 3:30 p.m. Tempus Fugit 5:45 p.m. Omar and Pete (Lending) 6 p.m. Omagh 6:30 p.m. The Hero (Gamboa, Angola) 8:45 p.m. Rolling Family (Trapero, Argentina) 9 p.m. The Real Dirt on Farmer John (Siegel) 9:15 p.m. In Casablanca, Angels Don't Fly (Asli, Morocco) 9:30 p.m.
TUESDAY: SFIFF -- Izo 12:45 p.m. "Boxers and Ballerinas" 1 p.m. Kept and Dreamless 3 p.m. "Split Screen" 3:15 p.m. Mouth to Mouth 3:45 p.m. Off to War (Renaud and Renaud) and Facing the Dead (Pfeiffer, Germany) 5:15 p.m. Nelson Freire 5:45 p.m. Crónicas 6:45 p.m. A Doula Story 7 p.m. The World (Jia, China) 8:30 p.m. Private (Costanza, Italy/Palestine) 9 p.m. Waves (Fei, Italy) 9:15 p.m.Days and Hours 9:45 p.m.
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