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Three Rivers Film Fest schedule: Week 2

Three Rivers Film Fest schedule: Week 2

Films are screened at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Regent Square Theater, Edgewood; Harris Theater, Downtown; and Melwood Screening Room, Oakland.

TODAY

REGENT SQUARE

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7 p.m. "My Father My Lord" -- Three-character drama set within Israel's ultra-Orthodox community.

8:45 p.m. "Three Monkeys" -- Tale of a family brought low by a twisted chain of deceits.

HARRIS

7 p.m. "Jazz on a Summer's Day" -- New print of Bert Stern's remarkable portrait of the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival.

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9 p.m. "The Sky Turns" -- Documentary about a Spanish village on the path to extinction.

MELWOOD

8 p.m. Ernie Gehr in person (with recent work).

FRIDAY

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7:30 p.m."Tricks" -- Variety called this seriocomic Polish film, about a fatherless boy who tries to tempt fate, a realistic yet poetic gem.

10 p.m. "Repo! The Genetic Opera" -- A horror-musical spoof set in 2056, when organs are being sold and sometimes repossessed.

HARRIS

7:30 p.m. "Ballast" -- Sundance Film Festival winner about an uneasy human triangle in the Mississippi Delta.

9:30 p.m. "Jazz on a Summer's Day"

MELWOOD

10 p.m. to 5 p.m. -- Day-long symposium devoted to the short film with a dozen speakers, including experimental filmmaker and educator Ernie Gehr.

7:30 p.m. "Momma's Man" -- Azazel Jacobs' film about a man visiting his parents in New York who is inexplicably, and symbolically, unable to return to his wife and infant in California.

9:30 p.m. Shorts Program A

SATURDAY

REGENT SQUARE

2 p.m. "Have Rocket, Will Travel" -- New print of Stooges adventure with Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Joe DeRita.

4:30 p.m. "Three Monkeys"

7 p.m. "Katyn" -- Oscar nominee about Soviet troops who captured, imprisoned and executed Polish officers and intellectuals in 1940.

10 p.m. "JCVD" -- Reality/fiction drama about, and starring, Jean-Claude Van Damme.

HARRIS

1:30 p.m. "How About You" -- Ireland provides the backdrop for this movie pitting four grumpy oldsters against a newcomer in charge of a residential home at Christmas.

3:45 p.m. "The Sky Turns"

6:15 p.m. "Ballast"

8:30 p.m. "Song Sung Blue" -- Documentary that tells the alternately inspiring and tragic love story of a Milwaukee husband and wife who pay tribute to the music of Neil Diamond.

MELWOOD

3:15 p.m. "The Exiles" -- Restored 50-year-old movie chronicling 12 hours in the life of American Indians.

5 p.m. "Momma's Man"

7 p.m. "The Pool" -- A boy who cleans hotel rooms and sells plastic bags on the street in India is mesmerized by a private pool in this look at the gulf between rich and poor.

SUNDAY

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1 p.m. "Katyn"

3:30 p.m. "My Father My Lord"

8 p.m. "The Last Command" -- Alloy Orchestra provides live music to Josef von Sternberg's 1928 film.

HARRIS

Noon "How About You"

2 p.m. "The Sky Turns"

MELWOOD

Noon "The Exiles"

2 p.m. "The Korean" -- Pittsburgh places and faces figure prominently in Thomas Dixon's debut feature about a mob boss bent on revenge after being betrayed. He's a Filmmakers alumnus and a Robert Morris University grad.

MONDAY

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8 p.m. "Cherry Blossoms" -- Yet another reminder that man plans and God laughs, as a middle-age couple go on vacation when the wife learns her husband is ill.

HARRIS

7:30 p.m. "Infallible System" -- Lighthearted story about a retired French teacher who secretly gambles.

MELWOOD

7:30 p.m. Shorts Program B

TUESDAY

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8 p.m. "A Warm Heart" -- A dark comedy from Poland about heart disease, heartbreak, heart transplants and a fallen angel.

HARRIS

7:30 p.m. "Infallible System"

MELWOOD

7:30 p.m. "The Korean"

WEDNESDAY

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7 p.m. "One Day You'll Understand" -- Story of a Frenchman's search for the truth about his Jewish parents' wartime decisions. With Jeanne Moreau.

9 p.m. "A Warm Heart"

HARRIS

7:30 p.m. "Song Sung Blue"

MELWOOD

7:30 p.m. Early works of Ernie Gehr.

The festival continues through Nov. 22. Information: www.3rff.com.

First Published: November 13, 2008, 10:00 a.m.

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