Army of Shadows (Tue., Oct 3, 7 p.m., County Theater; Thu., Oct. 5, 7 p.m., Ambler Theater) The County/Ambler/Bryn Mawr's Fall Cinematheque season is in full swing, and one of its highlights is this moody, noirish tale of the French Resistance, getting its first U.S. release not quite 30 years late. Shot in between 1967's Le Samouraï and 1970's Le Cercle Rouge, Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows is the WWII thriller as existential gangster movie. There are no comic-book Nazis, no rousing choruses of "La Marseillaise," just a grim, faceless struggle against something worse than death.

Also this week, the Inky's Carrie Rickey turns up at the Bryn Mawr (Oct. 4, 7 p.m.) for a clip-and-talk examination of the career of Elizabeth Taylor. Pray for something from Boom!

Army of Shadows

When the Levees Broke (Wed., Oct. 4, 7 p.m., $10, International House) If you missed Spike Lee's epochal Katrina doc on HBO (or just didn't feel like giving Comcast a zillion dollars), Scribe's screening gives you a chance to see the second and third of Levees' four "acts," along with a talk by producer and supervising editor Sam Pollard, whose history with Lee goes back to Mo' Better Blues, and whose other credits include the Eyes on the Prize series.

Secret Cinema: Curator's Choice 2 (Fri., Sep. 29, 8 p.m., $6, Moore College of Art and Design) SC's Jay Schwartz digs into his vaults and comes out with a handful of even-for-him obscurities. Among the curiosities on display will be a 1961 educational short called The Meaning of Patriotism, which ponders whether teachers and housewives can be true patriots (we're guessing yes), and a collection of footage from what Schwartz says "was going to be either an unusually arty softcore sex film, or an unusually adult student film."