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Neighbors Screenings continue through Sun., May 25, and include: Awful Nice, a comedy about two brothers; Amka and the Three Golden Rules, a coming-of-age story from Mongolia; a comedy about Hollywood, He’s Way More Famous Than You; a stoner comedy, Oliver, Stoned; and Grantham & Rosie, in which two troubled teens take a road trip. Also playing: a pair of shorts, “Young Americans,” about teens planning a robbery, and “Shipbreakers,” an eye-opening documentary about laborers who dismantle ships by hand. All films screen multiple times; see website for complete schedule. 644 Broadway Ave., McKees Rocks. 412-766-1668 or www.parkwaytheater.org. $7 single ticket, or various passes ($11-45).
in the next three decades of sci-fi films, starting with Star Wars. Now a lively 85, Jodorwosky (El Topo) is generous and phlegmatic about the outcome of his never-to-be masterwork. “From this supposed failure came a lot of creation,” he says, referring to the team he assembled who went on to other projects. In English, and various languages, with subtitles. Regent Square (AH)
BRAZIL. Terry Gilliam’s dystopian, gloriously quirky 1985 adventure finds a fantasy-driven government drone (Jonathan Pryce) crashing into reality after a Big Brother-ish computer malfunctions. Michael Palin and Robert DeNiro co-star. Screens as part of a monthlong, Sunday-night series of 1980s adventure films. 8 p.m. Sun., May 18. Regent Square HORROR REALM FILM FESTIVAL. The fourday festival of horror films begins tonight with a reception; screenings and other events follow Fri., May 23, through Sun., May 25. Full details at www. horrorrealmcon.com, with advance tickets at www. showclix.com. 8 p.m. Thu., May 22. Hollywood ANDY WARHOL FILMS. Selections from Warhol’s Factory Diaries series (1971-75) and other shorts screen. Ongoing. Free with museum admission. Andy Warhol Museum, North Side. www.warhol.org
ONGOING JODOROWSKY’S DUNE. An entertaining and fascinating documentary from Frank Pavich about “the greatest movie never made,” Alejandro Jodorowsky’s mid-1970s adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune. But because it was a film that got planned — and a project full of ambitious ideas and images that lived on in other films — there’s a valid argument for one participant’s claim that “It was the greatest movie ever made … even though it was never made.” Pavich’s documentary takes us through the planning stages — the visions, fortuitous encounters and mad obsessions that gave shape to Jodorowsky’s film. Today, studying the artifacts of pre-production and getting swept up in Jodorowsky’s enthusiasm, this Dune looks fantastic — full of grand ideas and even grander visuals. But in mid-1970s Hollywood, there was no market for an expensive sci-fi headtrip, though it’s clear that Jodorowsky’s evocative storyboards made the rounds and were noted: Explicit scenes and visual themes from Dune would surface
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Fading Gigolo NEIGHBORS. After Seth Rogen and buddies made last year’s meta-comedy This Is the End, which combined a vulgar bro comedy with a critique of the same, I hoped that Rogen (who has shown his sensitive side in indies) would move on. Well, color me wrong. Nicholas Stoller’s R-rated college kegger stars Rogen and Rose Byrne as new parents who engage in an all-out pranks war with the boozy frat house, headed by Zac Efron, that has moved in next door. It’s Animal House + The Hangover + Ridiculousness – Efron’s shirts = Same Stupid Jokes. Oops, my bad: Proving that there’s always something new to be scraped out of the bottom of the comedy barrel, we get extended jokes about DIY dildos and milking your wife. (AH) FADING GIGOLO. This new film from writer-directoractor John Turturro offers at its heart a gentle if predictable light comedy, which is unfortunately wrapped in a very bad concept. Turturro plays Fioravante, a Manhattanite at loose financial ends — he loses one of his part-time jobs when his buddy Murray (Woody Allen) is forced to close his used bookstore. But Murray has a proposition: Fioravante can be a $1,000-a-go gigolo for rich professional women. Only in a world of movies made by men does any of this make sense. It’s too bad your mind will be consumed with these skeevier aspects, which will likely overshadow the sweeter story about a relationship Turturro develops with a lonely Hasidic widow (Vanessa Paradis). Manor (AH)