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with disabilities.” Ocean Heaven stars Jet Li as the father of an autistic boy (7 p.m. Sat., Oct. 26; Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, North Side; $25/$15 students). An Afternoon of Shorts includes films about adaptive design and an artist with Down syndrome (1 p.m. Sun., Oct. 27; Human Engineering Research Lab, Bakery Square, Larimer). A young woman with Down syndrome survives a bombing in the Argentine feature Anita (7:30 p.m. Sun., Oct. 27; Rodef Shalom Congregation, Oakland). Activist Jacks McNamara is profiled in the doc Crooked Beauty (7 p.m. Mon., Oct. 28; Rodef Shalom). Two runners — one blind, the other an ex-con — train together in the French drama The Straight Line (7 p.m. Tue., Oct. 29; Frick Fine Arts Auditorium, Oakland). All films except Ocean are $10/$5. Tickets and more info are available at www.Pittsburgh.ReelAbilities.org or 412-992-5203. FOUN D FOOTAGE FESTIVAL. Curators of forlorn video-cassettes Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett will present a program of amusing and bizarre highlights gleaned from exercise tapes, home movies, industrial training films, how-do programs and more. 9 p.m. Sat., Oct. 26. Regent Square. $12 THE EXORCIST. Time has quelled many of the shocks of William Friedkin’s 1973 film, but the subject matter — a 12-year-old girl potentially possessed by the devil — is still pretty unsettling. Plus, you can’t really be sure the good guys have triumphed. Midnight, Sat. Oct. 26. Manor (AH)
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NOSFERATU. In this 1922 silent-film Dracula re-telling from F.W. Murnau, the vampire Orlock (Max Schreck) travels to England in search of new victims. 7 p.m. Sun., Oct. 27. Oaks (AH)
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PANIC IN NEEDLE PARK. Al Pacino and Kitty Winn star in Jerry Schatzberg’s drama about a romance between two young New York City heroin addicts. The 1971 film concludes a month-long series of films examining disillusionment with the American Dream. 8 p.m. Sun., Oct. 27. Regent Square
“Media Exploring Shale Gas.” 7 p.m. Tue., Oct. 29. Melwood. $10 FREAKS. Todd Browning’s lurid 1932 melodrama tells of a dreadful comeuppance awaiting the scheming trapeze artist whose greed, pettiness and sexual manipulations wreak havoc among the circus folk. 7 p.m. Tue., Oct. 29. Oaks (AH)
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MEET YOUR MAKER. A scientist faces the survivors of a universe he unwittingly created and destroyed, in this new, locally produced short sci-fi film from Justin and Pat Francart. To be followed by a Q&A and a reception. 7:30 p.m. Tue., Oct. 29. Hollywood. $5 HOUSE ON HAUN TED HILL. Vincent Price stars in this 1959 horror classic from William Castle. Price plays an eccentric rich man who offers five strangers $10,000 each if they can spend just one night locked down in a mansion with an eerie history. 7 p.m. Wed., Oct. 30. Oaks CARNIVAL OF SOULS. This low-budget 1962 creeper from Herk Harvey is more atmospheric than nailbiting. But the story of a woman who survives a car crash only to wind up playing the organ in an eerily deserted amusement park in the Utah desert definitely gets under your skin. 7:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 30. Hollywood (AH) PSYCHO. Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1960 thriller and treatise on troubled mother-son relationships. Embezzler-on-the-run Janet Leigh picks the wrong motel to catch some rest at, though the proprietor seems friendly enough … 7:30 p.m. Wed., Oct. 30. AMC Loews. $5 (AH)
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N IGHT OF THE LIVIN G DEAD. George Romero’s 1968 depiction of flesh-munching was ground-breaking for its time, but what really makes this horror flick resonate still is its nihilism and sense of futility. 7 p.m. Thu., Oct. 31. Oaks (AH)
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LAST MAN ON EARTH. Vincent Price stars in this 1964 thriller, in which widespread disease has turned the rest of humanity into undead bloodsuckers. Ubaldo Ragona’s film is adapted from Richard Matheson’s novel I Am Legend. 7 p.m. Mon., Oct. 28. Oaks
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT. Alec Guinness stars in Alexander McKendrick’s 1951 satire about a man who accidentally invents the perfect fabric and incurs the wrath of the textile industry. The 1951 film concludes this year’s series of labor-related films presented by Battle of Homestead Foundation. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Oct. 31. Pump House, Homestead. Free. 412-831-3871
GAS RUSH STORIES. This program of short films (6-9 minutes each) by Kirsi Jansa presents multiple sides of the shale-gas drilling in Western Pennsylvania. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion,
THE BODY. Oriol Paulo directs this new Spanish horror thriller about a body that goes missing from the morgue. In Spanish, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Thu., Oct. 31. Hollywood