Thursday, August 07, 2003
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Film: Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screenings

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

(PG, 85 min.) Nickelodeon's breezy TV spinoff has the titular animated family on safari in Africa and a worthy environmental message. Voices of Tim Curry, Rupert Everett, Lynn Redgrave, Marisa Tomei. Crown Neonopolis, 450 E. Fremont St., 383-9600, free. Thu., Aug. 7 10 a.m. (Next week's movie: Agent Cody Banks.)

Late Marriage

(NR, 102 min.) [Hatuna Meuheret] Lior Ashkenazi plays a Tel Aviv grad student whose parents (Moni Moshonov and Lili Kosashvili) desperately want him to find a wife, unaware he's already found his soulmate (Ronit Elkabetz). Georgia-born Israeli Dover Kosashvili's bittersweet 2001 debut features a memorably frank, messy and earthy love scene. (Hebrew and Georgian dialogue, with subtitles.) UNLV's CBC A106, 895-3547, free. Thu., Aug. 7 7 p.m. (Next week's movie: Guillermo Del Toro's The Devil's Backbone.)

Starlight Movie Series

Family flicks al fresco, phone 455-8278 for details, Mountain Crest Park, Lone Mountain and Durango, free, Fri., Aug. 8 8:30 p.m.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

(R, 95 min.) The perennial, kinky, audience-participation mock-horror hit. Sci-Fi Empire, 4331 W. Charleston Blvd., 314-0330, $6. Sat., Aug. 9 11:30 p.m.

La Femme Nikita

(R, 117 min.) [Nikita] After killing a cop, junkie Anne Parillaud is recruited by French intelligence to become a ruthless undercover assassin. Luc Besson's stylish, 1990 cult hit, with Jean Reno, Tcheky Karyo and Jeanne Moreau, was remade with Bridget Fonda as Point of No Return. UNLV's CBC A108, 895-3431, free. Mon., Aug. 11 7 p.m.

Free Family Film Series

Regal Cinemas' Colonnade, Boulder, Sunset and Texas Stations. Details: 221-2283. Tue./Wed. Aug. 12-13 10 a.m.

Dog Star Man/Begotten

Two experimental films by prolific, influential, American avant-garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage (who died in March). Dog Star (1961-64) is a five-part work for the 1960s acid generation, a creation myth exploring inner-space; Begotten charts the trek of one tribe to the ritual crucifixion of their leader. (NOTBAD (Nevadans Organized to Better Address Diversity) presents Visual Poetry series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., 507-3459, free. Tue., Aug. 12 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.--AA