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Three Rivers Film Festival schedule
Thursday, November 02, 2006

The Three Rivers Film Festival opens tonight and runs through Nov. 16. Most tickets are $7, except where noted.

The festival uses three Pittsburgh Filmmaker locations: Regent Square Theater, 1035 S. Braddock Ave., Edgewood; Melwood Screening Room, 477 Melwood Ave.; and Harris Theater, 809 Liberty Ave., Downtown.

Anyone who buys a ticket to any festival movie will get one ticket to a Nov. 15 party at the Strip District nightclub Pure Pittsburgh, 108 19th St. The first 75 guests will get complimentary food and drink.

For more details, go to www.3rff.com or call Pittsburgh Filmmakers at 412-681-5449.

Today

REGENT SQUARE

7:30 p.m.: "Pittsburgh" -- Jeff Goldblum's comic documentary about returning home to star in CLO's "The Music Man." Reception afterward at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Tickets, $35.

Friday

REGENT SQUARE

7:30 p.m.: "Old Joy" -- Two friends reunite for a camping weekend in Oregon.

9:30 p.m.: "Climates" -- Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan moves from the warmth of western Turkey to its snowy eastern border as a marriage collapses.

HARRIS

7:15 p.m.: "Princesas" -- Two determined women struggle to survive as prostitutes in Madrid.

9:30 p.m.: "Wassup Rockers" -- Larry Clark ("Kids") tackles Latino skaters from South Central LA.

MELWOOD

7:15 p.m.: "Stolen" -- Documentary about 1990 theft of paintings by Rembrandt, Degas, Manet and Vermeer from Boston.

9:15 p.m.: "49 Up" -- Michael Apted updates us on the English men and women he first introduced at age 7.

Saturday

REGENT SQUARE

2:30 p.m.: "Climates"

4:45 p.m.: "The Aura" -- Argentinian heist movie in which a shy taxidermist secretly dreams of the perfect robbery.

7:30 p.m.: "The Cave of the Yellow Dog" -- A 6-year-old girl in Mongolia tries to hide the stray dog she finds near her family's yurt.

9:30 p.m. "The Guatemalan Handshake" -- Slamdance Film Festival favorite, shot in Harrisburg, about a demolition derby driver who disappears.

HARRIS

2:15 p.m.: "Princesas"

4:45 p.m.: "Wassup Rockers"

7:15 p.m.: "Invisible Waves" -- Gritty Asian crime thriller about a sous chef ordered to kill his boss's wife.

9:45 p.m.: "Brothers of the Head" -- Conjoined twins who are musicians get the "This Is Spinal Tap" treatment.

MELWOOD

1:30 p.m.: "49 Up"

4:15 p.m.: "Stolen"

6:15 p.m. "Requiem" -- German film inspired by the same events dramatized in "The Exorcism of Emily Rose."

8:30 p.m.: "An Independent Portrait" -- Director Robert Young sits for a first formal portrait with Spanish painter Felix de la Concha, and Point Breeze's Jose Muniain chronicles it.

Sunday

REGENT SQUARE

12:15 p.m.: "Old Joy"

2:15 p.m.: "The Guatemalan Handshake"

8 p.m.: "Pandora's Box" -- 1929 film starring Louise Brooks as a temptress. With music by Philip Carli, introduction by PG's Barry Paris. Tickets, $10.

HARRIS

12:15 p.m.: "Princesas"

2:45 p.m.: "Brothers of the Head"

MELWOOD

2 p.m.: "Appalshop Films" -- Coal-themed films from a Kentucky arts and education center.

4 p.m.: "49 Up"

Monday

REGENT SQUARE

7:15 p.m.: "The Cave of the Yellow Dog"

9:15 p.m. "Old Joy"

HARRIS

7:15 p.m. "Wassup Rockers"

9:30 p.m.: "Invisible Waves"

MELWOOD

7:15 p.m. "Appalshop Films"

9:15 p.m. "Requiem"

Tuesday

REGENT SQUARE

7:15 p.m. "Words of My Perfect Teacher" -- Documentary about three students on a quest for wisdom.

9:15 p.m. "The Aura"

HARRIS

7:15 p.m.: "The Motel" -- Character study of 13-year-old Chinese-American boy who lives and works in a dingy motel run by his mother.

9 p.m.: "Brothers of the Head"

MELWOOD

7:15 p.m.: "The Case of the Grinning Cat" -- Experimental French filmmaker Chris Marker searches for stenciled "grinning cats" images.

9:15 p.m.: "An Independent Portrait"

Wednesday

REGENT SQUARE

7:15 p.m.: "Avenue Montaigne" -- French romantic comedy about a waitress who rubs elbows with characters at crossroads.

9:15 p.m.: "The Aura"

HARRIS

7:00 p.m.: "Home Front" -- Year-long look at recovery of a Blairsville man severely injured in Iraq. This showing is Wounded Warrior Project fund-raiser. You can buy a ticket, $75, at the door with cash or check (no credit cards).

9:15 p.m.: "The Motel"

MELWOOD

7:30 p.m.: "The Chelsea Girls" -- Andy Warhol's 210-minute record of denizens of the Chelsea Hotel.

First published on November 2, 2006 at 12:00 am
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