Film & Video Wednesday 2/14 BAD COMPANY Till the day you die, ...
BAD COMPANY
'Till the day you die, right? It's also a new French film about mad love & teenage obsession; Film Forum; 209 W. Houston St. (6th Ave.), 212-727-8110; call for times & prices [through 2/20].
CINEMA CLASSICS CELEBRATES THE NEW WAVE
Tonight, Beauty & the Beast directed by Jean Cocteau (1946); Cinema Classics, 332 E. 11th St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.), 212-971-1015; 8 & 9:50, $5.50.
FROM CLASS CLOWN TO SOCIAL CRITIC: THE TELEVISION COMEDY OF GEORGE CARLIN
Ninety minutes of Carlin's best clips, sprinkled w/his commentary, incl. "Seven Words You Can Never Use on Television"; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6600; call for times, free w/mus. adm. [through 3/1].
KRZYSZTOF KIESLOWSKI'S THE DECALOGUE
Ten-part series, w/each episode commenting on one of the Commandments, shown two parts at a time; BAM, 30 Lafayette Ave. (Ashland Pl.), 718-636-4157; call for times & prices [through 2/22].
NORTHERN EXPOSURE: RECENT FILMS FROM NORWAY
"I wonder...is Jesus Bulletproof?"?tagline of Odd Little Man (2000), presented today in Norwegian w/English subtitles; Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave. (37th St.), 212-779-3587; 6:00, call for price.
WEDNESDAYS AT VOID
Tonight, Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief (1948) screens at Void, 16 Mercer St. (Howard St.), 212-941-6492; 8, free.
Thursday 2/15
TO BE YOUNG, GIFTED & BLACK: A PORTRAIT OF LORRAINE HANSBERRY IN HER OWN WORDS
Actors portray Hansberry's life through her plays, like A Raisin the Sun & re-tellings of her participation in the civil rights movement; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6600; call for times, free w/mus. adm.
TRAFFIK
Five-part British television series that inspired the movie; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6600; call for times, free w/mus. adm. [through 4/29].
Friday 2/16
THIS IS SPINAL TAP
If you haven't seen Rob "meat head" Reiner's classic, you're not only an enemy of the comic muse, but of that thread of common humanity which runs through us all!; Screening Room, 54 Varick St. (Canal St.), 212-334-2100; 12 a.m., call for price [repeats Sat.].
YOM YOM
Amos Gitai's modern drama about man from Arab-Israeli family, start of a week-long engagement at Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5110 call for times & prices [through 2/22].
Saturday 2/17
SCOPITONE PARTY
See collection of music films from 60s originally viewed in French jukebox-type-deal called a Scopitone; Alfred Lerner Hall, Columbia University, 114th St. (B'way), 212-854-8200; 5, $5.
THINKFILM
Series recognizes Black History month w/Gordon Park's Solomon Northurp's Odyssey: Half Slave, Half Free (1984), based on true story of free man kidnapped into slavery, played by Deep Space Nine's calm black captain, Avery Brooks; Brooklyn Museum of Art, 200 Eastern Pkwy. (Washington Ave.), Brooklyn, 718-638-5000; 12 & 2, $2 w/mus. adm.
Sunday 2/18
KISS ME DEADLY
Robert Aldrich's 1955 noir; Cinema Classics, 332 E. 11th St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.), 212-971-1015; 6, 8 & 10, $5.50.
Tuesday 2/20
HAMMERING IT OUT: WOMEN IN THE CONSTRUCTION ZONE
Film documents political/social trials our girls face on male work sites. Hmmm, sounds like my job; Bluestockings, 172 Allen St. (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.), 212-777-6028; 7, $3.
NEW DIRECTIONS IN FRENCH FILM
Listen up girls, if you didn't catch it at the Quad last year, take a friend & some kleenex to Erick Zonca's The Dream Life of Angels (1999); this week at the French Institute's Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St. (betw. Madison & Park Aves.), 212-355-6160; 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 & 9, $8, $6 st.