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THE CITY DARK (NR) — Ian Cheney’s documentary examines the prevalence of light pollution and its implications around the world. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 6 p.m. Friday-Sunday and Feb. 7-9, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net KING OF DEVIL’S ISLAND (NR) — A 17-year-old inmate at the Bastoy Boys Home correctional facility in Norway leads the other inmates in a violent uprising. The film screens with Al Mackay’s short Bale. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 7:30 p.m. Friday-Sunday and Feb. 7-9, Zeitgeist Multi-Disciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www. zeitgeistinc.net
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LE HAVRE (NR) — When a young African refugee finds himself in a French harbor city, a bohemian shoe-shiner embraces him while the community calls for the boy’s deportation. Tickets $6.50 New Orleans Film Society members, $8.50 general admission. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Chalmette Movies, 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, 304-9992
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MADE IN DAGENHAM (R) — The drama is based on the 1968 strike at a Ford auto factory in England, where female factory workers fought for equal pay for equal work. The screening includes a discussion with Newcomb College Institute executive director Sally J. Kenney. The screening is part of the Newcomb Feminist Film Series. Free admission. 7 p.m. m Fri., Feb. 3, Tulane University, Woldenberg Art Center, Freeman Auditorium, 314-2200; www.tulane.edu ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA (NR) — In the Turkish drama that was cowinner of the Grand Prix at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival, a group of men search for a dead body on the Anatolian steppe. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 7:30 p.m. Tuesday-Wednesday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net PLAYER HATING: A LOVE STORY (NR) — New Orleans filmmaker Maggie HadleighWest’s documentary follows a hip-hop artist and his friends in Brooklyn’s Albany Housing Projects as they struggle to escape poverty and violence through music. Tickets $5 New Orleans Film Society members,
Le Havre
It’s not hard to understand why Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki’s Le Havre has become a major hit on the international film festival circuit and found a spot on a number of critics’ top-10 lists for 2011. The film starts out gloomy — a man is inexplicably shot in a train station, and the wife of the hero, ex-bohemian shoeshine guy Marcel (Andre Wilms), becomes seriously ill. But Le Havre has a few tricks up its sleeve. When a cargo container bound for London mistakenly arrives at the French port city of Le Havre and is found to contain African refugees, a boy escapes and a police manhunt begins. Gloom gradually turns to whimsy, and deadpan humor softens otherwise harsh reality as the warm-hearted and life-affirming Le Havre gears up. At a time when hysteria rules discussion of immigration-related issues, human decency appears a most welcome guest at the table. The New Orleans Film Society (NOFS) and Chalmette Movies present the film. Tickets $8.50, $6.50 NOFS members. — KEN KORMAN
7:30 p.m. Tuesday Chalmette Movies, 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, 304-9992 www.chalmettemovies.com
$10 general admission. 6 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Feb. 10-11 and Feb. 25-26, Cafe Istanbul, New Orleans Healing Center, 2372 St. Claude Ave.; www. neworleanshealingcenter.org
REBECCA (NR) — Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine star in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 adaptation of the Daphne Du Maurier novel. Tickets $5.50. Noon Saturday-Sunday and Feb. 8, La Divina Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302-2692; www. ladivinagelateria.com SOUL PLANE (R) — Snoop Dogg and Method Man appear in the comedy about the maiden voyage of an airline with sexy stewardesses, a dance club and a bathroom attendant. Tickets $8. Midnight Friday-Saturday, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.theprytania.com THE WEIRD WORLD OF BLOWFLY (NR) — The documentary explores both sides
of Clarence Reid, a renowned R&B songwriter who also has a alter-ego in the gonzo rapper Blowfly. DJ Soul Sister hosts the screening, and a Q&A with Reid follows. Tickets $5 New Orleans Film Society members, $7 general admission. 7 p.m. Thursday, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 827-5858; www.zeitgeistinc.net AMC Palace 10 (Hammond), (888) 262-4386; AMC Palace 12 (Clearview), (888) 262-4386; AMC Palace 16 (Westbank), (888) 262-4386; AMC Palace 20 (Elmwood), (888) 262-4386; Canal Place, 363-1117; Chalmette Movies, 304-9992; Entergy IMAX, 581IMAX; Grand (Slidell), (985) 641-1889; Hollywood 9 (Kenner), 464-0990; Hollywood 14 (Covington), (985) 893-3044; Kenner MegaDome, 468-7231; Prytania, 891-2787; Solomon Victory Theater, National World War II Museum, 527-6012