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SPECIAL SCREENINGS AN AMERICAN IN PARIS (NR) — Gene Kelly stars as an
exuberant American expatriate in Paris in the 1951 classic. Tickets $5.50. Noon SaturdaySunday and July 13, Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.theprytania.com
CONAN O’BRIEN CAN’T STOP (NR)— Rodman Flender‘s film
documents the comedian and TV host’s 32-city music and comedy show following his much publicized departure from NBC’s Tonight Show. Tickets $7 general admission, $6 students and seniors, $5 members. 7:30 p.m. TuesdayThursday, Zeitgeist MultiDisciplinary Arts Center, 1618 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd., 8275858; www.zeitgeistinc.net
NOLA DRIVE-IN — The group
presents an outdoor drive-in screening of Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Visit www.neworleansfilmsociety.org for details. Admission is free, but there is a $5 suggested donation. The event opens at 7 p.m., and the screening starts at 8:30 p.m. Friday, Old Schwegmann’s parking lot on the corner of St. Claude and Elysian Fields avenues.
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New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival hosts an outdoor screening of the 1972 cult classic The Harder They Come that also features Jamaican barbecue, rum cocktails, a trivia competition and music by DJ Prince Pauper. Tickets $5. Doors open at 6 p.m., screening at 9 p.m. Saturday, The Old Ironworks, 612 Piety St., 908-4741 A SHOT IN THE DARK (NR) — Peter Sellers stars in the 1964 comedy. Free admission. 7:30 p.m. Monday, La Divina Gelateria, 621 St. Peter St., 302-2692; www.ladivinagelateria.com TRUST (R) — David
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Schwimmer directs the drama about a teenager who is seduced by a 41-year-old online predator. Tickets $6.50 New Orleans Film Society members, $8.50 general admission. 7:30 p.m. Monday and July 19, Chalmette Movies, 8700 W. Judge Perez Drive, 304-9992
FILM FESTIVALS NEW ORLEANS FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL — The New
Orleans Film Society and The Consulate General of France in New Orleans’ festival includes screenings of Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life, L’Amour Fou, Love Crime and six other films. Visit www. neworleansfilmsociety.org for the full schedule and other details. Tuesday-Thursday,
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The French thriller Rapt offers a hard economic lesson: Even ransoms are subject to market valuation. While a family may consider a member priceless, other people have fixed ideas about what a life is worth. Nominated for four Cesar awards (France’s Oscars), including best picture and actor, Rapt chronicles the kidnapping of Stanislas Graff (Yvan Attal), a multimillionaire who heads a massive corporation based in Paris. The criminals are in it purely for profit, and they want 50 million euros for his return. They cut off one of his fingers to demonstrate how serious they are, and they humiliate and terrorize him for no extra charge. Negotiations get tense when Graff’s wife and the corporation can come up with only 20 million euros. The kidnappers are ruthless and efficient, but in the end, a dead body is worth nothing to them. The situation becomes more complicated as the police and government get involved. One lawyer suggests not negotiating, essentially risking paying the price of one human life to close down the industry. As the press swarms to the story, tabloids reveal Graff had multiple mistresses and lost a lot of money while gambling. This humiliates his wife and family and encourages the captors to believe anyone with alleged losses in the millions of Euros must have access to the grand sum they demand. The crass calculations also extend to the corporation, which would prefer the public and unions don’t see Graff as an overpaid playboy who barely impacted operations while collecting extravagant fees. Graff’s wife Francoise (Anne Consigny) remains committed to preserving her family, ostensibly at any cost, but she becomes increasingly aware that she barely knew her husband. The thriller runs in the French Film Festival, sponsored by the New Orleans Film Society and French Consul General. Tickets $9 general admission, $7 New Orleans Film Society members. — Will Coviello
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Rapt 7:30 p.m. Wednesday; noon Thursday Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 8912787; www.neworleansfilmsociety.org
Prytania Theatre, 5339 Prytania St., 891-2787; www. theprytania.com 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, 581-IMAX; 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 Compiled by Lauren LaBorde
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