Friday May 31

Days of Heaven (Egyptian, 4:30 p.m., FREE!)--Terrence Malick's breathtaking 1978 elegy to the American frontier.

David Hockney: Secret Knowledge (Broadway Performance Hall, 4:30 p.m.)--The famous painter argues, controversially, that the old masters used crude projectors to help them paint.

Cinemania (Broadway Performance Hall, 7:00 p.m.)--Documentary about pitiful losers who let movies soak up their lives. Hey, wait a second!

Girls Can't Swim (Broadway Performance Hall, 9:30 p.m.)--A brilliantly creepy character study of the hormonal imbalance in the young and restless.

Cockettes (Harvard Exit, 9:30 p.m.)--Documentary about the rise and fall of the late '60s radical gay midnight movie burlesque company from San Francisco.


Saturday June 1

Sunshine State (Egyptian, 6:30 p.m.)--The latest from John Sayles.

I Will Not Be Sad in This World (Broadway Performance Hall, 4:00 p.m.)--Documentary of a 90-year-old survivor of the Ottoman genocide against the Turkish Armenians in WWI.


Sunday June 2

McCabe & Mrs. Miller (Egyptian, 1:45 p.m., FREE!)--Altman's miserable masterpiece of a Warren Beatty Western.

Inner Tour (Broadway Performance Hall, 4:00 p.m.)--Documentary of homeless Palestinians on a bus trip through Israel. (Also Tues June 4.)

Afghan Alphabet (Broadway Performance Hall, 6:30 p.m.)--Makhmalbaf's examination of Mujahedeen education. (Also Wed June 5.)

Lawless Heart (Harvard Exit, 6:30 p.m.)--Intelligent comedy-drama about interconnected lives on the Isle of Man. (Also Wed Jun 5.)

Biggie & Tupac (Pacific Place, 4:00 p.m.)--Nick Broomfield documentary about the murdered rival rap stars.


Monday June 3

Merci Pour le Chocolat (Egyptian, 7:00 p.m.)--The latest from French suspense-maître Claude Chabrol.


Tuesday June 4

Biggie & Tupac (Egyptian, 9:30 p.m.)--See Sunday June 2.

I Will Not Be Sad in This World (Broadway Performance Hall, 4:30 p.m.)--See Saturday June 1.

Super-8 Stories by Emir Kusturica (Harvard Exit, 4:30 p.m.)--Political/musical chronicle of late '70s Eastern European punk rockers the No Smoking Orchestra. Features Kusturica and Joe Strummer.