FILM & VIDEO Wednesday 5/2 BITTERSWEET MOTEL (2000)Film about Phish, who ...

BITTERSWEET MOTEL (2000)

Film about Phish, who are dirty, dirty hippies; Makor, 35 W. 67th St. (Central Park W. & Columbus Ave.), 212-601-1000; 7:30 & 9:30, $8 [through 5/3].

NICK PARK'S WORLD: THE ECCENTRIC ADVENTURES OF WALLACE & GROMMET 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].

Thursday 5/3

HERBERT ACHTERNBUSCH RETROSPECTIVE

Begins today w/Das Andechser Gefuhl (1974); Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Ave. (2nd St.), 212-505-5181; call for times, prices & complete sched. [through 5/6].

SECOND ACT: FOURTH SEASON Screenings of postwar Italian films never released or no longer distributed. Today, Il mafioso (1962); Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-708-9400; call for times & complete sched., free w/adm.

Friday 5/4

3 FILMS BY JACK SMITH

Celebrate dumbya's first 100 days w/No President (1967), Song for Rent & Midnight at the Plaster Foundation; 57 Jay St. (betw. Front & Water Sts.), Bklyn., 718-670-3719; 8 & 11, $5.

THROUGH THE LENS CLEARLY: A RETROSPECTIVE LOOK AT THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JOHAN VAN DER KEUKEN More than 50 films span four decades; Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-708-9400; call for times, prices & complete sched. [through 5/13].

Saturday 5/5

MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO 2001 DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL

Incl. discussion w/famed documenter Albert Maysles, plus What's Happening: the Beatles in the USA & Orson Welles?Spain screen; Museum of Television & Radio, 25 W. 52nd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-621-6800 for times, prices & complete sched. [through 5/20].

THE RESPONSIVE EYE: THE FILMS OF BRIAN DE PALMA Today, Greetings (1), plus panel discussion & screening of Blow-Out (3:15) w/Armond White; American Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Ave. (36th St.), Astoria, 718-784-4520; call for price & complete sched. [through 5/27].

Sunday 5/6

MY HAND OUTSTRETCHED: 3 FILMS BY ROBERT BEAVERS

Avant-garde type discusses his work after screening; Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center, 165 W. 65th St. (B'way), 212-875-5600; call for times, $9.

Tuesday 5/8

FIRST RUN FEATURES

Retrospective from 1979 to 2001 begins today w/Petits freres (1999), from Jacques Doillon, director of Ponette; Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-708-9400; 6, free w/adm. [through 6/19].