Jan. 21: “The Water Front” (Liz Miller, 2007) Documentary about the public resistance to a water privatization scheme in Highland Park. Q&A. This film is also shown at the U-M Museum of Art at 5 p.m. today (see listing below).

Interfaith Center for Spiritual Growth. $5 suggested donation. 327-0270. 704 Airport Blvd., 8 p.m.

Jan. 9: “Spiritual Cinema.” Screening of a feature film or several shorts TBA with spiritual themes. Followed by discussion.

Michigan Theater Foundation. Unless there is a live show in the main theater, 2 or 3 different films are shown, usually twice or more, almost every night. For complete, updated schedules, see michtheater.org or call 668-TIME. Tickets (unless otherwise noted): $9 (children, students, seniors, & veterans, $7; MTF members, $6.50). Michigan Theater, times TBA unless otherwise noted.

Jan. dates TBA: “Young Victoria” (Jean-Marc Vallee, 2009). Historical drama about the first years of Queen Victoria’s rule. Emily Blunt.

Jan. dates TBA: “Up in the Air” (Jason Reitman, 2009). Comedy that stars George Clooney as a guy who travels constantly for his job firing other people’s employees.

Jan. 9: “Repatriation” (Dong-won Kim, 2006). Documentary about the director’s relationship with a former long-term political prisoner charged with being a North Korean communist spy. Korean, subtitles. Sponsored by the U-M Center for Korean Studies. FREE. 2 p.m.

Jan. 10: “The Great Muppet Caper” (Jim Henson, 1981). Miss Piggy and other Muppets set out to solve a London jewel robbery. Kids age 12 & under, FREE. 1:30 p.m.

Jan. 15-21: “The Maid” (Sebastian Silva, 2009). A maid struggles to keep her job with an affluent Chilean family she has served for 20 years. Spanish, subtitles.

Jan. 22-31: “Crazy Heart” (Scott Cooper, 2009). Drama that stars Jeff Bridges as an alcoholic country singer who forms a relationship with a sympathetic young journalist.

Jan. 28: “Cyrus” (Jay and Mark Duplass, 2009). Sundance Film Festival official screening and world premiere of this comedy about a recently divorced guy who meets the woman of his dreams and her very interesting son. John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Catherine Keener. $15 in advance at the Michigan Union Ticket Office, Ticketmaster.com, and all other Ticketmaster outlets. To charge by phone, call (800) 745-3000. 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 29 & 31 and Feb. 1 & 2: “Skin” (Anthony Fabian, 2008). Biopic about Sandra Laing, a South African woman whose race was classified by the government as white and then later reclassified as black.

Jan. 29 & 31 and Feb. 1 & 2: “The Damned United” (Tom Hooper, 2009). Biopic about the contentious 44-day reign of the abrasive Leeds United football coach Brian Clough.

Jan. 23: “The Game of Their Lives” (Daniel Gordon, 2002). Documentary about the 1966 North Korean soccer team that made it to the World Cup quarterfinals. Korean, subtitles. Sponsored by the U-M Center for Korean Studies. FREE. 2 p.m.

Projectorhead/U-M Screen Arts & Cultures. FREE. 615-0445. U-M Museum of Art Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State, 7 p.m.

Jan. 14: “RiP: A Remix Manifesto” (Brett Gaylor, 2009). Documentary about copyright issues, mash-ups, and the sometimes blurred line between user and producer.

Jan. 28: “Louvre City” (Nicolas Philibert, 1990). A behind-the-scenes documentary about the Louvre.

Temple Beth Emeth. FREE. 665-4744. 2309 Packard, 1 p.m.

Jan. 12: “Lemon Tree” (Eran Riklis, 2008). A Palestinian woman tries to keep her lemon grove from being uprooted by the Israeli secret service. Arabic, Hebrew, French, and English; subtitles. Child care available by reservation.

U-M Center for Chinese Studies. Chinese Documentary Film Series. FREE. 764-6308. Angell Hall Auditorium A (entrance at the Fishbowl on the east side of the bldg.), 7 p.m. Mandarin, subtitles.

Jan. 30: “24 City” (Jia Zhangke, 2008). Documentary about the recent transformations in Chinese society told through the story of the conversion of a state-owned munitions factory into modern high-rise luxury apartments.

U-M Center for Faith and Scholarship. FREE. 668-7421. Campus Chapel, 1236 Washtenaw Ct., 8 p.m.

Jan. 23: “After the Wedding” (Susanne Bier, 2006). When the Danish director of an orphanage in India returns to Denmark to raise funds, an invitation to his patron’s daughter’s wedding leads to an unexpected and unwelcome meeting with an old flame. Danish, Swedish, Hindi, & English; subtitles.

U-M Center for Russian & East European Studies. FREE. 764-0351. UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State. 6-7:30 p.m.

Jan. 24 & 31: “Dekalog po Dekaloga” (2008). Six documentary films (3 on Jan. 24 & 3 on Jan. 31) inspired by Krysztof Kieslowski’s Decalogue series of films about sin in the lives of ordinary Warsaw citizens. Polish, subtitles.

U-M Japanese Animation Film Society. U-M campus admission policy: No one under 18 admitted without an adult. FREE. umichanime.com. MLB, 812 E. Washington at Thayer, 10 a.m.-midnight.

Jan. date TBA: “Animania.” Monthly anime-a-thon of feature films and episodes from TV series.

U-M Museum of Art. FREE. 764-0395. UMMA Helmut Stern Auditorium, 525 S. State, different times.

Jan. 21: “The Water Front” (Liz Miller, 2009). See Jan. 21 AADL listing above. Followed by a discussion with the film’s producer, Curtis Smith. 5 p.m.

Jan. 31: “Herb and Dorothy.” Documentary about postal clerk Herb Vogel and librarian Dorothy Vogel who built a huge contemporary art collection with their modest income. In conjunction with the current exhibit The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. 3 p.m.

U-M Rackham Graduate School MLK Day Film Series. FREE. 647-2644. Rackham Amphitheatre, various times.

Jan. 18: “Adam Clayton Powell” (Richard Kilberg & Yvonne Smith, 1989). Documentary about the influential and flamboyant Harlem 1930s-1950s congressman and civil rights leader. 3:10 p.m. “We Shall Not Be Moved” (Bernie Hargis, 2006). Documentary about the influential role in the civil rights movement of the Montgomery, AL, church where Martin Luther King served as pastor. 4:10 p.m. “King” (NBC News, 2008). Tom Brokaw interviews prominent public figures such as Bill Clinton and Condoleeza Rice on Martin Luther King’s influence on the civil rights movement. 5:10 p.m.

WCBN-FM. FREE admission. 763-3500. Arbor Brewing Company (114 E. Washington), 8:30 p.m. Jan. 13: A collage of 1930s jazz shorts.

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