Film & Video Wednesday 3/7 ACID ANIMATION SERIES Series kicks ...
ACID ANIMATION SERIES
Series kicks off w/Fritz the Cat...if you've got a beer, drink it. If you've got an Allman Brothers' album, put it on; Screening Room, 54 Varick St. (Canal St.), 212-334-2100; call for times & prices [through 3/24].
CINEMA ITALIAN STYLE
Tonight, from the country that's won the most Foreign Film Oscars, Cinema Paradiso. It's not cinematically inventive, but it has one hell of a tearjerker plot gimmick at the end; Symphony Space, 2537 B'way (95th St.), 212-864-5400; 7, call for price.
NEW SWEDISH FILM SERIES
Director Josef Fares introduces Jalla! Jalla!, a comedy about interracial relationships; Scandinavia House, 58 Park Ave. (37th St.), 212-779-3587; 6, call for price.
NY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL
Begins today, feat. Plaster Caster: A Cockumentary Film, a doc. about tribute bands plus some other stuff that has nothing to do w/music at all; Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5110 or 212-505-5181; call for prices & complete sched. [through 3/12].
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 3/9
WANG XIAOSHUAI'S SO CLOSE TO PARADISE DEBUTS
Originally titled Girl From Vietnam, this film about brothels in Shanghai caught beef from the nasty Chinese govt.; Screening Room, 54 Varick St. (Canal St.), 212-334-2100; call for times & prices [through 3/15].
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 common thread of humanity which runs through us all!; Screening Room, 54 Varick St. (Canal St.), 212-334-2100; 12 a.m., call for price [repeats Sat.].
Saturday 3/10
A TREASURY OF FRENCH FILM
This week, Rene Clement's Gervaise (1945); YWCA, 610 Lexington Ave. (53rd St.), 212-735-9717; 4:30, call for price [repeats Sun.].
Sunday 3/11
THE LEGACY FILM FESTIVAL
Series which began Saturday celebrates films bearing witness to the Holocaust. Today, Soleil (1997) & Europa, Europa (1991); Regal Cinemas Battery Park, 102 North End Ave. (Vesey St.), 212-968-1800; call for times, prices & complete sched.
SWEET SWEETBACK'S BAADASSSSS SONG
Melvin Van Peebles' groundbreaking 1971 indie flick about a black, pre-Shaft stud who gives two racist pigs a taste of their own medicine; Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-708-9781; 1, free w/mus. adm.
Monday 3/12
THE DEN OF CIN
Weekly cult classic series begins w/New Faces (1954), the movie that launched Eartha Kitt's career; Den of Cin beneath Two Boots, 44 Ave. A (betw. 3rd & 4th Sts.), 212-254-1441; 8, call for price.
Tuesday 3/13
NICK PARK'S WORLD: THE ECCENTRIC ADVENTURES OF WALLACE & GROMIT
Ninety minutes of Wallace & Grommit claymation, incl. British commercials & three films; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6600; call for times, free w/mus. adm. [through 5/13].