Film & Video Wednesday 3/14 ACID ANIMATION ...
ACID ANIMATION SERIES
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].
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].
RENDEZ-VOUS WITH FRENCH CINEMA
Festival celebrating France's ongoing film renaissance begins w/Jeanne Labrune's comedy, Tomorrow's Another Day (2000); Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, 165 W. 65th St. (B'way), 212-469-3809 for times, prices & complete sched. [through 3/18].
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].
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].
Friday 3/16
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 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 3/17
DRAMA QUEENS: WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA
Series pairs legendary Hollywood movies w/current experimental shorts. Today, Craig's Wife (1936), directed by Dorothy Arzner, about an ambitious woman who marries money to further her agenda, plus film & video by Francesca Talenti, Silvia Gruner & more; Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave. (89th St.), 212-423-3587; call for times, free w/mus. adm.
A STORM FROM THE MOUNTAIN: THE ZAPATISTAS TAKE MEXICO D.F.
Two-hour doc. chronicling Zapatista caravan from Chiapas jungle to Mexico City; 235 W. 23rd St. (betw. 6th & 7th Aves.), 212-942-8899; 6, $10.
Sunday 3/18
THE LEGACY FILM FESTIVAL
Series continues celebrating films which bear witness to the Holocaust. Today, the Academy Award winning British documentary?Anne Frank Remembered (1995) & The Summer of Aviya (1989). Or you could always rent Louis Malle's subtle, unforgettable feature Au revoir les enfants, based on his childhood in occupied France; Regal Cinemas Battery Park, 102 North End Ave. (Vesey St.), 212-968-1800; call for times, prices & complete sched.
WOMEN'S FILM FESTIVAL
Shorts incl. Sewing Woman, about the filmmaker's mother?a Chinese immigrant who worked in garment factories for 30 years & Live, Nude, Girls, UNITE!, on the Exotic Dancers Alliance; Brooklyn Arts Exchange, 421 5th Ave. (8th St.), 718-832-0018; 6, call for price.
Monday 3/19
MONDAY NIGHT FILMS
Feat. I Went to the Dance: The Cajun & Zydeco Music of Louisianna; NY Public Library, 425 6th Ave. (10th St.), 212-243-4334; 6, free.
Tuesday 3/20
NEW DIRECTIONS IN FRENCH FILM
Today, 100% Arabica (1997), about Paris neighborhood populated by African immigrants fighting to keep Algerian Rai music alive against corruption & hard-line Islamic forces; the French Institute's Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59t h St. (betw. Madison & Park Aves.), 212-355-6160; 12:30, 3:30, 6:30 & 9, $8, $6 st.