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Film Fest ends with 'Mysteries of Pittsburgh'
Three Rivers Film Festival
Thursday, November 20, 2008

The Three Rivers Film Festival concludes Sunday with a single, just added showing of "Mysteries of Pittsburgh." Films are screened at Pittsburgh Filmmakers' Regent Square Theater, Edgewood; Harris Theater, Downtown; and Melwood Screening Room, Oakland. For more information, go to www.3rff.com.

TODAY

Regent Square

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

FRIDAY

Regent Square

8 p.m. "The Passion of Joan of Arc" with the Bach Choir -- As our Nov. 6 review ('The Passion of Joan of Arc') noted, many consider this 1928 silent film one of the 10 greatest movies ever made. Just as many regard its title-role performance as the single most inspired in film history -- by a woman who never set foot in front of a camera again.

Harris

7:30 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.

9:30 p.m. "The Korean" -- Pittsburgh places and faces figure prominently in Thomas Dixon's debut feature about the perils of being mixed up with a mobster or his cleaner, the title character.

Melwood

8 p.m. "Mock Up On Mu" -- Hybrid of spy, sci-fi, Western and horror movies, from experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin.

SATURDAY

Regent Square

2 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.

4:30 p.m. "Tamas" -- The title refers to Tamas Szilagyi, a much-heralded history teacher at The Kiski School in Saltsburg, Indiana County. His students included David Conrad, the actor turned documentary maker who accompanied Szilagyi back to Hungary for the 50th anniversary of the revolution.

8 p.m. "Pittsburgh Reframed (at 250)" -- Program of new shorts based on a promotional 1958 film.

Melwood

2 p.m. Shorts Program A

4 p.m. Shorts Program B

SUNDAY

Regent Square

8 p.m.: "Mysteries of Pittsburgh" -- Adaptation of Michael Chabon's 1988 novel that put him on the literary map. Shot in Pittsburgh in fall 2006, it stars Jon Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Mena Suvari, Nick Nolte and the city's biggest fan, Sienna Miller. Tickets, $9, sold only at the theater, which opens at 7:30 p.m. Discounts, $3 off, for year-round Screenie subscribers or those holding a film festival pass.

First published on November 20, 2008 at 12:00 am