Thursday, January 01, 2004
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Film: Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screening

Aimée & Jaguar

(NR, 125 min.) In 1943, while her philandering husband (Detlev Buck) is away on the Eastern Front, Berlin housewife Lilly Wust (Juliane Kšhler) begins a passionate affair with Felice Schragenheim (Maria Schrader), a Jewish woman working clandestinely in a Nazi newspaper office. Max FŠrberbšck's nostalgic, 1999 drama is based on a 1994 book by Erica Fischer in which octogenarian Wust (pet name Aimée) recounted her memories of her illicit wartime relationship. Women of the World film series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3459, free. Thur., Jan. 8 7 p.m.
Film: New This Week
New This Week
Adrenaline Rush: The Science of Risk

(NR, 38 min.) Not to be confused with Albert Pyun's 1996 killer-virus flick Adrenalin: Fear the Rush, Marc Fafard's 2002 Imax movie examines the risks of skydiving and base jumping, and includes footage of an experimental jump using a pyramid-shaped parachute based on a 1485 design by Leonardo da Vinci. Filmed in the Mojave Desert, the Florida Keys and the fjords of Norway. Luxor Imax Theatre, Fri. to Sun. only.

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