Screening room

Full-price admission is listed; the * denotes discounts (or free) for students, seniors, military, members and/or children and advance purchases. Call the venue for details.

Waialua Community Association Center
732-5432, www.surfdrive-in.com; $8 per session.

• Surf Drive-In Film Festival, continues today through Sunday, with screening of more than 20 surf films, filmmaker panel discussions, awards ceremony.

East-West Center, Burns Hall, room 3121/3125
944-7778; free, part of the "Islands of Globalization" film series.

• "Aku Ingin Menciummu Sekali Saja — Birdman Tale" (2003), noon today.

UH-Manoa/Bank of Hawaii Film Series
223-0130; $5.

• "Learning to Sea," (2003), 6 p.m. today and 5 p.m. Sunday, UH-Manoa Architecture auditorium.

UH-Manoa Hemenway Theater
833-7713; free for veterans and their families, suggested donation of $10 for all others.

• "Visas and Virtue" and "Day of Independence" two short films about Japanese Americans during World War II, plus Q&A with filmmakers Chris Tashima and Tim Toyama, 7:30 p.m. today.

Doris Duke Theatre at the Academy
532-8768; $5*.

• "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" (2004), 7:30 p.m. today, Saturday and Monday; and 4 p.m. Sunday.
• "Warriors of Heaven and Earth (Tian Di Ying Xiong)" (2004; Mandarin with English subtitles, rated R), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday and Dec. 10 and 14; 1 and 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Dec. 15-16; and 4 p.m. Dec. 12.

TOP 5 DVD/VHS RENTALS, HONOLULU

1. "The Terminal"
2. "Elf"
3. "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban"
4. "The Chronicles of Riddick"
5. "The Stepford Wives"

Source: Blockbuster Video

DVD/VHS releases coming Tuesday: "Blue Collar Comedy Rides Again," "The Bourne Supremacy," "Dodgeball: a True Underdog Story" and "Species III."