FILM & VIDEO Wednesday 12/6 A HARD DAY’S NIGHT And Ringo’s been ...

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT

And Ringo's been working like a dog. We hear he's the "star" because no other Beatle could get it together to show up for shooting on time. But Sta was there every morning at 9 on the dot. Like clockwork; Film Forum; 209 W. Houston St. (6th Ave.), 212-727-8110; call for times & prices [through 12/21].

 

ITALIAN CINEMA: A NEW GENERATION

NYU's Casa Italiana hosts screening of Tano da morire (Tano, To Die For), discussion w/director follows; 212-998-8739 for location & price; 6.

 

NEW FILMMAKERS

Animation program feat. works by Heiko Lueg, Enrique Nieto & Sookyeon Kim; Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5110; 7, call for prices.

 

Thursday 12/7

MADE IN NORTHERN IRELAND

Series highlighting "new wave of Irish cinema" comes to NYC w/shorts & doc.; call 212-505-5110 or 212-998-3950 for location & complete sched.; free [repeats Fri.].

 

Friday 12/8

FEVER IN THE ARCHIVES

Program highlighting work by AIDS activists continues w/Native Americans: Two Spirits & HIV, AIDS in the Bario: Eso No Me Pasa a Mi & Diana's Hair Ego: AIDS Info Up Front; Guggenheim, 1071 5th Ave. (88th & 89th Sts.), 212-423-3500; 7, free w/mus. adm.

 

GENESIS

Film by Salif Keita, artist-in-residence at NYU's Institute for African-American Affairs, discussion follows; 721 B'way (Waverly Pl.), 212-998-4222; 6:30, free.

 

OSEN: HOT SPRINGS IN JAPANESE CINEMA

Series continues w/Hiroshi Shimizu's comedy Hairpin (1941) about a woman, a bathtub & a solider; Japan Society, 333 E. 47th St. (betw. 1st & 2nd Aves.), 212-752-3015; 6:30, $10, $5 st./s.c.

 

Saturday 12/9

BERLIN-CINEMA (TITRE PROVISOIRE)

NYC premiere of doc. about cinema in present day Berlin narrated by Wim Wenders & Jean-Luc Godard; American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Ave. (36th St.), Astoria, 718-784-4520; call for time & price [repeats Sat.].

 

COLLECTING FREE LAUGHS

Kid friendly double bill incl. Coney Island starring Buster Keaton & Fatty "what champagne bottle" Arbuckle plus From Soup to Nuts w/Laurel & Hardy; New-York Historical Society, 2 W. 77th St. (Central Pk. W.), RSVP 212-873-3400; 11 a.m., free.

 

RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER

Series continues w/subtitled Katzelmacher (1969); YWCA, 610 Lexington Ave. (53rd St.), 212-755-9717; 4:30, $7 [repeats Sun.].

 

Sunday 12/10

WOMEN FILMMAKER'S GROUP AT BLUESTOCKINGS

Screen your own work or offer feedback to others; 172 Allen St. (betw. Stanton & Rivington Sts.), 212-777-6028; 7, free.

 

Monday 12/11

SUBIDA AL CIELO (MEXICAN BUS RIDE)

Luis Bunuel retrospective continues w/feat. about young couple who must part directly after nuptials. Presented in Spanish with English subtitles; Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-708-9750; 6, free w/adm.