Film: Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screenings

Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour

The road show of award winning shorts from the Alberta, Canada festival of films about mountain sports and the environment returns, courtesy of Las Vegas' Desert Space Foundation. Titles: Focused (U.S., 10 min.) Shane McConkey's antics on snow; Xtreme Tramping: The Lord of the Springs (Canada, 7 min.) Trampoline mockumentary; Eiger North Face: In the Footsteps of its First Climbers (Switzerland, 52 min.) Climbers recreate the first, 1938 ascent of the infamous face using vintage equipment; Rockstars (Switzerland, 12 min.) Mountain bike escapades; French Fries to Go (U.S., 15 min.) A man, a truck powered by used vegetable oil and cameos by Daryl Hannah and Dennis Weaver; Falling (U.S. 6 min.) Waterfall kayaking; Janica Kostelic (U.S., 23 min.) Profile of Yugoslav alpine skiing champ; Front Range Freaks: Biscuit (U.S., 3 min.) A small dog with an appetite for big climbs. Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3459 or www.desertspace.org, free. Fri., Mar. 12 7 p.m.

The Rocky Horror Picture Show

(R, 95 min.) Jim Sharman's perennial, 1975, kinky, audience-participation, mock-horror hit. Sci-Fi Empire, 4133 W. Charleston Blvd. (next to Skinny Dugans), 314-0330) or www.divinedecadencelorg, $6. Sat., Mar. 13 midnight. (Next screening, Sat., Mar. 27.)

The Story of Vernon & Irene Castle

(NR, 93 min.) Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers play another pair of legendary dancers, the titular husband-and-wife dance team, in H.C. Potter's 1939 musical biopic. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3459, free. Tue., Mar. 16 1 p.m.

Sherman's March

(NR, 157 min.) In his quirky, 1985 documentary, Ross McElwee sets out to trace the lingering effects of Union Gen. William Sherman's trail of destruction during the Civil War, but detours into meditations about women, nuclear war and Burt Reynolds. NOTBAD (Nevadans Organized To Better Address Diversity) presents All Talk film series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3459, free. Tue., Mar. 16 7 p.m.

The Hours

(PG-13, 114 min.) Nicole Kidman (in an Oscar-winning turn as Virginia Woolf) Julianne Moore and Meryl Streep head the stellar cast of Stephen Daldry's masterful 2002 drama, adapted by David Hare from Michael Cunningham's novel about three generations of women whose lives are connected by Woolf's novel Mrs. Dalloway. With Stephen Dillane, John C. Reilly, Ed Harris, Allison Janney, Claire. National Women's History Month series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3400, free. Thur., Mar. 18 7 p.m.-AA