Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screenings

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

(PG-13, 129 min.) In Steven Spielberg's 1997 sequel to his 1993 action adventure hit, based on Michael Crichton's novel, Jeff Goldblum and Julianne Moore visit the second island in Richard Attenborough's dinosaur theme park. With Pete Postlethwaite, Vince Vaughn. East Las Vegas Community/Senior Center, 250 N. Eastern Ave., 229-1515, free. Thur., Apr. 29 4 p.m.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

(R, 95 min.) Jim Sharman's perennial, 1975, kinky, audience-participation, mock-horror hit. With live cast. Tropicana Cinemas, 3330 E. Tropicana Ave. (at Pecos Road), 450-3737 or 314-0330, $5. Sat., May 1 midnight.

L'homme du train

(R, 90 min.) [The Man on the Train] In Patrice Leconte's 2002 drama, French rocker Johnny Hallyday is the grizzled gangster sent to a small town to rob the local bank, who stays with retired schoolteacher Jean Rochefort. The men soon realize that each might have been better suited for the other's way of life. (French dialogue, English subtitles.) French Film Club series, Building D, Room 152, West Charleston Campus, CCSN, 6375 W. Charleston Blvd., 528-4013, free. Sun., May 2 3 p.m.

Duck Soup

(NR, 70 min.) Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo Marx star in Leo McCarey's zany 1933 comedy, with Groucho as Rufus T. Firefly, leader of bankrupt Freedonia, which declares war on neighboring Sylvania for no particular reason. With Margaret Dumont. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., 507-3459, free. Tue., May 4 1 p.m.

Putney Swope

(R, 84 min.) Robert Downey Sr.'s bittersweet, 1969 satire, about African Americans taking over a Madison Ave. ad agency, includes witty spoof commercials and acerbic insights into race relations and corporate politics. With Arnold Johnson, Antonio Fargas, Allen Garfield, Pepi Hermine. NOTBAD (Nevadans Organized To Better Address Diversity) presents In Celebration of Malcolm X series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Rd., 507-3459, free. Tue., May 4 7 p.m.

In the Name of the Father

(R, 127 min.) Daniel Day Lewis and Pete Postlethwaite star in Jim Sheridan's 1993 drama, based on Gerry Conlon's autobiographical book Proved Innocent, about a petty thief from Belfast who, with his father, was wrongly imprisoned for an IRA pub bombing, near London, that they had nothing to do with. With John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Emma Thompson. 7 Oscar noms, incl. picture, screenplay, actor. Man's Inhumanity to Man series, Charleston Heights Arts Center, 800 S. Brush St., 229-6383, $3. Tue., May 4 7 p.m.

Mildred Pierce

(NR, 109 min.) Joan Crawford gives a tour-de-force performance in Michael Curtiz's 1945 drama, based on James M. Cain's novel about a housewife-turned-waitress who becomes a successful restaurateur, but competes with her daughter Ann Blyth for the love of playboy Zachary Scott. Oscar: actress Crawford. Wonder Women film series, Winchester Center, 3130 S. McLeod Dr., 455-7340, $3. Tue., May 4 7 p.m. (with subtitles for the hearing impaired); Wed., May 5 7 p.m. (with intro by Mercury critic Anthony Allison).

Jurassic Park III

(PG-13, 93 min.) William H. Macy persuades paleontologist Sam Neill to return to the infamous dinosaur breeding ground, in Joe Johnston's 2001 installment of the Michael Crichton-inspired adventure. With Téa Leoni, Alessandro Nivola, Laura Dern. East Las Vegas Community/Senior Center, 250 N. Eastern Ave., 229-1515, free. Thur., May 6 4 p.m.--AA