Thursday, July 31, 2003
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Film: Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screenings

The Wizard of Oz

(NR, 101 min.) Dorothy (Judy Garland) knows she's not in Kansas anymore, Toto. MGM's beloved 1939 musical plays at Crown Neonopolis, 450 E. Fremont St., 383-9600, free. Thu., July 31 10 a.m. (Next week's movie: The Wild Thornberrys.)

Kandahar

(NR, 85 min.) [Safar e Ghandehar] Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf's 2001 docudrama, charting Afghan journalist Niloufar Pazira's search for her sister, mixes stark photography with searing social comment and predates the Taliban-toppling war. (Farsi, English and Polish dialogue, with subtitles.) UNLV's CBC A106, 895-3547, free. Thu., July 31 7 p.m. (Next week's movie: Israel's Late Marriage.)

Antz

(PG, 83 min.) Neurotic ant (voiced by Woody Allen) loves princess Sharon Stone and helps save the colony from scheming general Gene Hackman, in DreamWorks' 1998 animated adventure. With Sylvester Stallone, Christopher Walken. Family film series, Jaycee Park, S. Eastern at St. Louis, 229-6328, free. Thu., July 31 8 p.m.

Starlight Movie Series

Family flicks al fresco, phone 455-8278 for details, Mountain Crest Park, Lone Mountain and Durango, free, Fri., Aug. 1 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. 2 11:30 p.m.

Coup de torchon

(NR, 128 min.) [Clean Slate] Philippe Noiret (reuniting with the director of The Clockmaker) is the harassed police chief of an African colonial town, in Bertrand Tavernier's darkly-comic 1981 film of Jim Thompson's thriller Pop. 1280. With Isabelle Huppert. (French dialogue, with subtitles.) UNLV's CBC A108, 895-3431, free. Mon., Aug. 4 7 p.m.

Annie

(PG, 128 min.) "The sun will come out tomorrow," for Depression-era orphan Aileen Quinn, in John Huston's 1982 film of the Broadway musical. With Albert Finney, Bernadette Peters. Moonlight, Movies and Music series, Rainbow Library, 3150 N. Buffalo Dr., free, 507-3710. Mon., Aug. 4 8 p.m.

Free Family Film Series

Regal Cinemas' Colonnade, Boulder, Sunset and Texas Stations. Details: 221-2283. Tue./Wed. Aug. 5-6 10 a.m.

Koyaanisqatsi/Powaqqatsi

(NR, 87 min.) and (G, 99 min.) Godfrey Reggio's haunting, non-narrative 1983 and 1988 art flicks, (the titles are Hopi Indian for "Life out of Balance," and "Life in Transformation,") feature slow-mo and time-lapse photography and mesmerizing music by Philip Glass. NOTBAD (Nevadans Organized To Better Address Diversity) presents Visual Poetry series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., 507-3459, free. Tue., Aug. 5 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.

Viva Las Vegas

(NR, 86 min.) Race car driver Elvis Presley moonlights as a singing waiter and meets curvaceous Ann-Margret, in George Sidney's 1963 musical. Songs include "The Yellow Rose of Texas," "Come On, Everybody," and the titular Sin City anthem. Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave., 507-3630, free. Wed., Aug. 6 7 p.m.--AA