Thursday, November 06, 2003
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Film: Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screenings

The Business of Fancydancing

(NR, 103 min.) A gay Native American poet confronts his past when he returns from Seattle to the Spokane reservation of his youth, to attend the funeral of a friend (Swil Kanim). The 2002 directorial debut by Spokane/Coeur d'Alene novelist Sherman Alexie, who scripted Chris Eyre's enchanting Smoke Signals (1998), is based on Alexie's poems. Native Voices film festival, West Charleston Library, 6301 W. Charleston Blvd., 507-3940, free. Thur., Nov. 6 7 p.m. (Next week's movie, at Enterprise Library, Nov. 13: Chris Eyre's Skins.)

Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

(NR, 83 min.) Three strippers engage in a crime spree, involving murder, kidnapping and attempting to steal a disabled farmer's stash of cash. This notorious, 1966 romp by trashmeister Russ Meyer (Beyond the Valley of the Dolls) is a bad-taste satire skewering Hollywood's usual pulp-fiction suspects. B-Movie Night, Cafe Espresso Roma, 4440 S. Maryland Pkwy., 369-1540, free. Thur., Nov. 6 9 p.m.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

(R, 95 min.) Jim Sharman's perennial, 1975, kinky, audience-participation mock-horror hit. Flex, 4371 W. Charleston Blvd., 314-0330, $6.50. Fri., Nov. 7 midnight; Special 28th anniversary celebration, Huntridge Theater, 1208 E. Charleston Blvd., 678-6800 or 314-0330. Sat., Nov. 8 7 p.m.

The Dinner Game

(PG-13, 32 min.) [Le d”ner de cons] This 1998 comedy by Francis Veber (who co-wrote La cage aux folles and directed 2001's The Closet) stars Thierry Lhermitte as a snobbish Paris publisher who organizes a contest with his obnoxious friends to invite idiots to dinner. But just when he thinks he's found the ultimate moron (Jacques Villeret), he unexpectedly gets his comeuppance. Conclusive proof that nobody does farce better than the French. (French dialogue, with subtitles.) French Club Sandwich film series, Winchester Theater, 3130 S. McLeod Drive (at Desert Inn Rd.), 455-7340, free. Introduced by Mercury critic Anthony Allison. Wed., Nov. 12 7 p.m.

Chinese Chocolate

(NR, 95 min.) Canadian filmmaker Yan Cui co-wrote, directed and stars (with Diana Peng) in this 1996 film of Qi Chang's novel Luo Niao, about two Chinese immigrant women living in Toronto. (English dialogue.) Women of the World film series, Clark County Library, 507-3400, free. Wed., Nov. 12 7 p.m.--AA
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