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Thursday, May 15, 2003 New This Week
This week's special screenings
Asian Cinefest Independent Film Festival Asian Cinevision's 25th anniversary tour of its Asian-American film festival continues with another program of short films: Add Boiling Water (4 min.), Motomichi Nakamura; Cat Fight Tonight (4 min.), Greg Pak; Dirty (6 min.), Jean Joson; Shirts & Skins (21 min.), S. Caspar Wong; Missing (4 min.), Susie Jin Lee; Pissed (12 min.), Charmaine Cruz; Who Could Try Chopsticks (7 min.), Shingo Sasaki; Profiles in Science (5 min.), Wes Kim; Where's the Peanut Butter (7 min.), Leah Taguba; None of the Above (22 min.), Erika Surat Anderson. See www.lvccld.org for plot synopses. West Charleston Library, 507-3940, free. Sat., May 17 6 p.m. (A final short film program is set for Whitney Library May 24.)
Black Orpheus (NR, 103 min.) [Orfeu Negro] Remember, don't look back. Streetcar conductor and musician Breno Mello and country girl Marpessa Dawn fall in love during the Carnival in Rio De Janeiro. French master Marcel Camus' 1959 update of the legend of Orpheus and Euridice has a vibrant bossa nova and samba soundtrack. Co-starring Lourdes de Oliveira. Oscar: best foreign language film. [Portuguese dialogue, English subtitles] West Las Vegas Arts Center, 947 West Lake Mead Blvd., 229-4800, free. Sat., May 17 3 p.m.
Salesman (NR, 85 min.) Celebrated as the fathers of direct cinema, the American answer to France's cinéma vérité, Albert Maysles and his brother David capitalized on the advent of lightweight sync-sound cameras to develop a revolutionary filmmaking style. Co-directed by Charlotte Zwerin, their groundbreaking 1969 portrait of four door-to-door salesmen trying to sell expensive illustrated Bibles is a real-life Death of a Salesman. Winchester Theater, 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 455-7340, $3. Wed., May 21 7 p.m.--AA |
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