days, but little prepared America for David Lynch’s moody, maddening and occasionally marvelous mystery series Twin Peaks. The owls were not what they seemed, and neither was much else. Catch the entire series — all 30 episodes — at this Twin Peaks Marathon, part of Hollywood Theater’s ongoing tribute to Lynch. Season 1 Pilot: 7:30 p.m. Thu., March 20; Season 1, Episodes 2-8: 7 p.m. Fri., March 21; Season 2, Pilot and Episodes 1-5: 10 a.m. Sat., March 22; and Season 2, Episode 6-22: 10 a.m. Sun., March 23. Hollywood. $7 per day ($20 Black Lodge marathon pass at www.showclix.com)
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BURSTING AT THE SEAMS WITH QUICK WIT, FAMOUS FACES, AND WES ANDERSON’S PATENTED AESTHETIC DELIGHTS.” ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
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THE SQUARE. Jehane Noujam’s Academy Awardnominated documentary follows events in Egypt’s Tahrir Square through the eyes of several participants, from the euphoria of Mubarak’s resignation through increasing frustration over the pace of change. In English, and Arabic, with subtitles. 4:30 p.m. Sat., March 22. McConomy, CMU campus, Oakland WEB JUNKIE. This new documentary from Shosh Shlam and Hilla Medalia looks at “re-training” camps in China, where young people addicted to online activities learn to re-embrace the actual world. Screens as part of CMU’s Faces of Work. In Mandarin, with subtitles. 7:15 p.m. Sat., March 22. McConomy, CMU campus, Oakland
Wed., March 26. Melwood. $2
AGE OF PANIC. Modern French life — from the political to the domestic — is examined through the day of one woman, a reporter trying to juggle election coverage with child care. Justine Triet directs this new dramedy. In French, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Sun., March 23. Oaks
REALITY. A fishmonger opts to go on a Big Brother-type reality-TV show in this 2011 comedy from Matteo Garrone. The film opens a threeweek Italian Film Festival. In Italian, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Thu., March 27. Frick Fine Arts, Pitt campus, Oakland. Free. www.italianfilmfests.org
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE. In Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess’ satiric novel, we follow the exploits of young Alex (Malcolm McDowell), a troubled youth of the near future with a penchant for ultra-violence, who is ordered by the authorities to undergo “reconditioning.” The film continues a month-long, Sunday-night series of popular films that never won an Oscar. 8 p.m. Sun., March 23. Regent Square
SWING LOWE SWEET CHARIOTE. A young African-American woman struggles to maintain her family amid the troubles of her poor urban neighborhood. David C. Snyder’s new drama was filmed in Cleveland. 7:30 p.m. Thu., March 27. Hollywood. $5
HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES. Two teenage brothers in a small rural town find their lives and perspectives altered after a neighborhood tragedy in this new indie drama from writer-director Daniel Patrick Carbone. 7:30 p.m. Tue., March 25. Hollywood TIP TOP. This new screwball comedy from Serge Bozon, and starring Isabelle Huppert, uses the tropes of a mismatched-cops police investigation into the death of an Algerian informant to comment on post-colonial France. In French and Arabic, with subtitles. 7 p.m. Wed., March 26. Oaks EAT SLEEP DIE. In this new feature film from Gabriela Pichler, a young Muslim immigrant worker from Eastern Europe working in Sweden struggles to get by after losing her factory job. Screens as part of CMU’s Faces of Work. In various languages, with subtitles. 7:15 p.m. Wed., March 26. McConomy, CMU campus, Oakland A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. Geena Davis, Rosie O’Donnell and Tom Hanks star in this affectionate 1992 comedy about women’s baseball teams of the 1940s. Penny Marshall directs. 7:30 p.m. Wed., March 26. AMC Loews. $5 UN CHIEN ANDALOU and L’AGE D’OR. Don’t miss this double-feature of avant-garde cinematic collaborations between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, ground-breaking surrealist films that influence filmmakers to this day. “Un Chien Andalou” (1929, 16 min.) features unsettling images including ants crawling out of a hand, and one infamous eyeball. Their second collaboration, “L’Age d’Or” (1930, 60 min.), intercuts the travails of frustrated lovers with blasphemous images of the Catholic Church, scorpions and dogs. 8 p.m.
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BEST OF SYNC’D. A music-and-film event in which local short silent films are screened while an original score plays live. This program features films with recorded soundtracks from the last five Sync’d events, plus live music from Gangwish. 8 p.m. Thu., March 27. Melwood. $5 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
The Quiet Man (1952) - 3/20 @ 2pm - $5 Matinee! Twin Peaks Marathon! - 3/20 from 7pm-10pm (Season 1 Pilot), 3/21 from 7pm-12:30am (Season 1, Episodes 2-8), 3/22 from 10:30am3pm (Season 2, Episodes 1-5), 3/23 from 10:30am-Midnight (Season 2, Episodes 6-22)
“ WES ANDERSON MAKES ‘ THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL’
Twin Peaks Party/Silencio Concert! - 3/22 @ 7pm Hide Your Smiling Faces - 3/25 @ 7:30pm
A FOUR-STAR DELIGHT.”
Hide Your Smiling Faces vividly depicts the young lives of two brothers as they abruptly come of age through the experience of a friend’s mysterious death.
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