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BAYOU MAHARAJAH. Lily Keber’s new documentary profiles New Orleans musician James Booker, described by Dr. John as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced.” 7 p.m. Sun., April 26. Hollywood
BARRY LYNDON. The year-long look at the films of Stanley Kubrick continues with this 1975 period piece about the doings of 18th-century British aristocrats. 5 p.m. Sat., April 25; 7:30 p.m. Mon., April 27; and 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 29. Hollywood
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DRIVE-IN MONSTERAMA. Riverside Drive-In offers its annual two-night April Ghouls Monster-rama, packed with classic horror films. Friday slate includes: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), The Evil Dead (1981), Night of the Demons and Demons. On Saturday, hunker down for: Dawn of the Dead (1978), Zombie, House by the Cemetery and Toxic Zombies. Gates open at 7 p.m.; films begin at dusk. Fri., April 24, and Sat., April 25. Riverside Drive-In, Route 66 N, Vandergrift. 724-568-1250 or www.riversidedrivein. com. $10 per night; overnight camping available for an addition $10 per person
ROAR. In this cult 1981 film — now in re-release — dozens of big cats (lions, tigers, cheetahs) live with a naturalist (director Noel Marshall), and get testy when his wife (then real-life wife Tippi Hedren) and children come to visit. A glorious mess filmed over 11 years at the couple’s California ranch, with their own kids and more than 100 of their own animals. There’s virtually no plot and the acting is abysmal, but you cannot look away from scene after scene of actors being attacked (somewhat playfully, but there’s blood) by lions, tigers and elephants. To top it off, the film, with its deluded lions-are-pets premise, is supposed to foster worldwide animal conservation. Um, that lion just ripped that guy’s shirt off. This film is bat-shit crazy, even if bats are about the only wild animal not in it. 9:30 p.m. Fri., April 24. Harris. $5 (AH)
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as Jewish, and not Arab. And so gradually, and with legitimate concerns, Eyad begins to re-configure the very essence of who he is. Screens as part of JFilm. In Hebrew and Arabic, with subtitles. 9 p.m. Sat., April 25. Manor
DR. WHO AND THE DALEKS. Peter Cushing stars as Dr. Who in Gordon Flemyng’s 1965 big-screen treatment of the popular British television show. In it, the TARDIS transport Who and his companions to the Planet Skaro. 8 p.m. Fri., April 24; 9:30 p.m. Sat., April 25; and 7:30 p.m. Tue., April 28. Hollywood
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Roar is an exercise in deciding to knuckle down to life, and it’s no coincidence that Noa’s untranslatable words speak to highly personal emotional states. Screens as part of JFilm. In English, and German and Hebrew, with subtitles. 9:15 p.m. Thu., April 23. Manor (AH)
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A BORROWED IDENTITY. During the turbulent 1980s, a bright Palestinian boy named Eyad wins a place at a prodigious boarding school in Jerusalem. There, he navigates the usual travails of adolescence, while also bearing the stigma of being Arab. Yet he dates a Jewish girl and befriends another outsider — a punk-loving Jewish boy with muscular dystrophy. It’s these two relationships explored in Eran Riklis’ provocative feature that determine Eyad’s toughest lessons, and also its imperfect solution: It’s simply easier to live, be successful and treated well if one identifies
THE LAST PICTURE SHOW. In 1971, Peter Bogdanovich adapted Larry McMurtry’s bittersweet novel about some Texas teens coming of age in the early 1950s even as their small town dies around them. Picture Show has an excellent cast, including a number of young actors marked for stardom such as Jeff Bridges, Randy Quaid and Cybill Shepherd. Concludes a series of film about high school. 8 p.m. Sun., April 26. Regent Square. (AH)
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AN AMERICAN TALE. Among the many 19th-century immigrants to the U.S.A. was Fievel Mousekewitz, a Russian mouse. Don Bluth’s 1986 animated family comedy tells his story. 7:30 p.m. Wed., April 29. AMC Loews. $5 CLEO FROM 5 TO 7. The absorbing Agnes Varda tells a story, in real time, of a woman waiting to find out whether she’s dying of cancer. Released in 1961, this is the first woman-centric New Wave film; the scenes of Paris are stunning, and Varda’s inventive camera work is cool or energetic as it needs to be. In French, with subtitles. 8 p.m. Wed., April 29. Melwood. $2 (Harry Kloman) HAIRY WHO AND THE CHICAGO IMAGISTS. Leslie Buchbinder’s new documentary ambles through the1960s art scene through the eyes of the Chicago Imagists, a loose network of art collectives born out of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Of primary focus is the Hairy Who, a group of six artists (mostly painters), including Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson, whose comic-book sensibilities and surrealist illustrations helped define the burgeoning scene. Buchbinder pairs talking-head interviews with animated re-enactments and stock footage to create a charming, unhurried narrative as distinct and laidback as the artists in the film. 7:30 p.m. Thu., April 30. Hollywood (Alex Gordon) THE ILLUMINATION. Krzysztof Zanussi’s philosophically inspired 1972 film, incorporating collage, animation and documentary footage, follows the education of a young scientist. Continues a two-month series of digitally remastered Polish masterpieces, curated by Martin Scorsese. In Polish, with subtitles. 7:30 p.m. Thu., April 30, and 5:30 p.m. Sat., May 2. Harris. $5