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Thursday, January 22, 2004 Film: Beyond the Multiplex
This week's special screenings
4 Little Girls (NR, 102 min.) Spike Lee's Oscar-nominated 1997 documentary details the Sept. 14, 1963 bombing of an African-American Baptist church in Birmingham, Ala., which killed four girls and galvanized the civil rights movement. Interviewees include Coretta Scott King, Walter Cronkite, Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young and former Gov. George Wallace. Martin Luther King Film Tribute, West Las Vegas Arts Center, 947 W. Lake Mead Blvd., 229-4800, free. Sat., Jan. 24 3 p.m.
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (R, 95 min.) Jim Sharman's perennial, 1975, kinky, audience-participation mock-horror hit. Sci-Fi Empire, 4331 W. Charleston Blvd., 314-0330, $6. Sat., Jan. 24 midnight (Next screening: Sat., Feb. 14.)
The Big Sleep (NR, 114 min.) As Raymond Chandler's hardboiled private eye Philip Marlowe, Humphrey Bogart gets embroiled in a convoluted murder/blackmail thriller plot involving sultry Lauren Bacall and her rebellious kid sister Martha Vickers. Howard Hawks' seminal 1946 noir bristles with pungent dialogue by William Faulkner, Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett, and also stars John Ridgely, Dorothy Malone and Elisha Cook, Jr. Women of American Noir series, Sahara West Library, 9600 W. Sahara Ave., 507-3630, free. Sun., Jan. 25 3 p.m.--AA |
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