Friday, March 19, 2004
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Film: Beyond the Multiplex

This week's special screenings

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.

Of Mice and Men

(NR, 107 min.) Lon Chaney, Jr. plays mentally retarded giant Lonnie Small and Burgess Meredith his migrant worker guardian George Milton, in Lewis Milestone's classic, 1939 version of John Steinbeck's Depression era morality tale. Tuesday Afternoon at the Bijou series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3459, free. Tue., Mar. 23 1 p.m.

Songcatcher

(PG-13, 105 min.) Janet McTeer gives a superb performance as a dauntless, early 20th century musicologist Dr. Lily Penleric, who discovers a treasure trove of ancient Scots-Irish ballads in Appalachia. Maggie Greenwald's enchanting, 2001 drama also stars Aidan Quinn and Emmy Rossum. National Women's History Month series, Enterprise Library, 25 E. Shelbourne Ave., 507-3760, free. Tue., Mar. 23 7 p.m.

Waking Life

(R, 99 min.) Texas auteur Richard Linklater (The School of Rock, Before Sunrise) uses revolutionary animation "rotoscoped" over live video, in his vaguely pretentious 2001 talkfest featuring a young man discussing philosophical issues with assorted strangers. NOTBAD (Nevadans Organized To Better Address Diversity) presents All Talk film series, Clark County Library, 1401 E. Flamingo Road, 507-3459, free. Tue., Mar. 23 7 p.m.-AA