Thursday, May 29, 2003
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Film: Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screenings

The Sadist

(NR, 81 min.) Arch Hall, Jr. is the titular psycho (based on real-life killer Charles Starkweather) who, with his girlfriend (Marilyn Manning), terrorizes three travelers at a roadside junkyard. James Landis' 1963 thriller, shot by Vilmos Zsigmond, co-stars Richard Alden, Helen Hovey, and Don Russell. B-Movie Night, Cafe Espresso Roma, 4440 S. Maryland, Pkwy., 369-1540, free. Thu., May 29 9 p.m. (Next week's movie: Brain Dead, 1990)

Starlight Movie Series

Family flicks al fresco in Duck Creek Park (S. Maryland Pkwy at Pebble Rd.), free. Advance program details unavailable for contractual reasons. Info: 455-8278. Fri., May 30 8:30 p.m.

Death of a Bureaucrat

(NR, 85 min.) [La Muerte de un burócrata] NOTBAD (Nevadans Organized To Better Address Diversity) launches its retrospective of the films of late Cuban master Tomás Gutiérrez Alea with Alea's surreal, 1966 social satire about a man daring to take on the inefficiencies of Castro's regime. With Manuel Estanillo, Salvador Wood. [Spanish dialogue, English subtitles] Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., 507-3459, free. Tue., June 3 7 p.m.

American Movie

(R, 107 min.) Chris Smith's 1999 profile of Wisconsin filmmaker Borchardt's dogged attempt to make his latest horror B-flick is a gem. It feels like a mockumentary, but isn't. Without insulting his subject, he records the irrepressible spirit of a true original who refuses to abandon the pursuit of his part of the American Dream. Roving Eye documentary series, Winchester Theater, 3130 S. McLeod Drive, 455-7340, $3. Wed., June 4 7 p.m.

Seven Years in Tibet

(PG-13, 136 min.) In Jean-Jacques Annaud's sumptuous 1997 widescreen epic, Brad Pitt plays Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer whose 1939 expedition to the Himalayas, interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, eventually led him to Lhasa, where be befriended the young Dalai Lama. Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave., 507-3630, free. Wed., June 4 6:15 p.m.--AA