Also this issue: Crack Shot A hopped-up Brazilian gangster yarn hits the target dead-on. -Sam Adams Gangs of Brazil City of God&'s director talks about his brand of “new neorealism.” -Sam Adams TV or Not TV? Was The Gong Show's Chuck Barris a CIA assassin? Says Confessions of a Dangerous Mind: Maybe. -Cindy Fuchs Screen Picks -Sam Adams New Continuing Showtimes

January 23-29, 2003

repertory film

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THE BALCONY 1003 Arch St., 215-922-LIVE 24 Hour Party People (2002, U.K., 115 min.) The story of Factory Records and Madchester in the late '70s and early '80s. Mon., Jan. 27, 8 p.m., free.

CHESTNUT HILL LIBRARY 8711 Germantown Ave., 215-901-3771, www.armcinema25.com/chfg.html Badlands (1973, U.S., 95 min.) Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a murderous couple in 1950s Montana. Tue., Jan. 28, 7:30 p.m., free.

COUNTY THEATER 20 E. State St., Doylestown, 215-345-6789, www.countytheater.com Betty Boop Bonanza (1930-35, U.S., 80 min.) A collection of short films from Betty's heyday in the 1930s. Sat., Jan. 25, 12:45 p.m., free.

INTERNATIONAL HOUSE 3701 Chestnut St., 215-895-6542 War Is… : Films of Conflict, Resistance and Hope The series continues with The Fall of Otrar (1990, Kazakhstan, 176 min.) The story of Otrar, a 13th-century East Asian civilization about to be destroyed by Genghis Khan. Fri., Jan. 24, 8 p.m., $5-$6. Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1959, France, 90 min.) Marguerite Duras scripted this Alain Resnais film about the love affair between a Japanese architect and a French actress in post-war Hiroshima. Sat., Jan. 25, 8 p.m., $5-$6. Lessons of Darkness (1992, Germany, 50 min.) Werner Herzog's document of the devastation in Kuwait after the Gulf War unveils an apocalyptic scene. Preceded by On the Heights All is Peace (1998, Italy, 72 min.) This documentary uses found footage and the diaries of World War I combatants to tell the story of those who lost their lives in the Italian/Austrian Alpine war zone. The same filmmakers made Diana’s Looking Glass (1996, Italy, 31 min.), which examines two events in modern Italian history: Mussolini's draining of Lake Nemi to uncover two galleys made by Caligula; and Il Duce's construction of a museum dedicated to ancient ships, which was destroyed by Germans four years later. Sun., Jan. 26, 7 p.m., $5-$6. See Screenpicks p. XX.

MARATHON GRILL 1839 Spruce St., 215-731-0800 True Romance (1993, U.S., 120 min.) Quentin Tarantino's bloody, brutal tale of hookers, pimps, cocaine and guns, starring Christian Slater and Patricia Arquette. Wed., Jan. 29, 9 p.m., free.

N. 3RD 801 N. Third St., 215-413-3666 Flix @ N. 3rd Local filmmakers screen their short films at this Northern Liberties watering hole. Tue., Jan. 28, 8 p.m., free.

PRINCE MUSIC THEATER 1412 Chestnut St., 215-569-9700 Chumley & Carlota Present Airport (1970, U.S., 137 min.) The disaster film to end all disaster films with the dizzy duo. Fri., Jan. 24, 8 p.m., $5-$8.50. Kurosawa and Mifune Retrospective Ten-film festival featuring the works of director Akiro Kurosawa and actor Toshirô Mifune. Yojimbo (1961, Japan, 110 min.) A Japanese Western set in rural 19th-century Japan. Sat., Jan. 25, 5 p.m.; Tue., Jan. 28, 7 p.m., $5-$8.50. Seven Samurai (1954, Japan, 203 min.) Epic tale of the once-proud samurai who fall from favor in 16th-century Japan. Sat., Jan. 25, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 26, 3:30 p.m.; Wed., Jan. 29, 7 p.m., $5-$8.50. Sanjuro (1962, Japan, 96 min.) Satirical comedy taking on the wilds and corruption of the rural Japanese landscape, with a lone roaming samurai. Fresh Frames presents the Philadelphia premiere of Maggie Growls (U.S., 2002, 60 min.), a documentary portrait of Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers, a senior citizen social activist group, featuring interviews with Ralph Nader and Studs Terkel. Thu., Jan. 30, 7:30 p.m., $5-$8.50.

SECRET CINEMA at Moore College of Art & Design, 20th and Race sts., 215-568-4515 Fun in the Sun Double Feature Wild, Wild Winter (1966, U.S., 80 min.) College kids head to the mountains for an intercollegiate ski race with a love triangle on the slopes. Features musical performances by The Beau Brummels, The Astronauts and Jackie and Gayle. Followed by It’s A Bikini World (1967, U.S., 86 min.) This beach movie with a feminist twist pits Mike (Tommy Kirk) against Delilah (Deborah Walley) in a coed athletic contest highlighted by on-screen musical performances by The Castaways, The Animals and The Toys. Fri., Jan. 24, show starts at 8 p.m., $6.

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY 800 Lancaster Ave., 610-519-4750, www.culturalfilms.villanova.edu Kandahar (2001, France/Iran, 85 min.) An Afghani journalist goes on a search for her sister, and on the way reveals the Taliban's treatment of women in Afghanistan with brutal realism. Sat., Jan. 25, 7 p.m.; Sun., Jan. 26, 3:30 and 7 p.m.; Mon., Jan. 27, 7 p.m., $3-$4. (Monday night guest speaker: Eran Preis on "Veils of Fear.")