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It's a fine week for looking back:

📹Get a taste of Kiarostami with Taste of Cherry at the Harris Theater

🪦Row House Lawrenceville remembers actors who passed away in 2025 with some of their classics from the 70s and 90s

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January 2, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Should old acquaintance be forgot...

🎉January 1st is always Public Domain Day, so Row House Lawrenceville celebrates with a marathon of newly PD 1930 movies, including L’Âge d’or, Marx Bros, Dietrich/von Sternberg

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December 26, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Milk and cookies for cinemagoers:

↪️Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent returns to the Harris. Plus a Fleischer animated holiday party!

🏓Now it's the *other* Safdie bro's serve. Marty Supreme opens Wednesday

🔥And I heard something about a new Avatar movie...

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On Screen This Week, 12/19/25 — Pittsburgh Cinema Planner
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December 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The theme of the week is "overdue":

🌡️The Harris is where it's at with a whopping 10 features from which to choose, including COVID releases that slipped through the cracks in 2020/2021, like Kelly Reichardt's First Cow (1st time in theaters here), and Sean Baker's Red Rocket (this one on 35mm)

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On Screen This Week, 12/12/25 — Pittsburgh Cinema Planner
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December 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This week:

🎞️We're teaming up with Orgone Archive to create an exquisite corpse of 16mm shorts at the legendary Melwood Screening Room!

🍎Reel Q is back at City of Asylum, this time with We Are Faheem & Karun

🎀Keylight parks their sleigh at Brillobox with Pee-Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

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December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
This week:

✏️On the curriculum at CMOA is Mirrored Classrooms, an intriguing program of shorts focused on educational settings

🛎️It's Wes week at Row House Lawrenceville. That means four big ones from Wes Anderson

🏚️CMU's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry hosts the too timely doc Welcome to Leith

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November 28, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Mysteries abound in theaters this week:

🚨Three Rivers Film Fest still has dozens of shorts, including a Chiller Theater-themed evening. Plus an entire filmmaker conference, with Tina Romero keynote

🦿Harris Theater delivers Jafar Panahi's latest, the Palme d'Or-winning It Was Just An Accident

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November 21, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here are just a few of Pittsburgh's cinematic offerings this week, 11/14 through 11/20:

❤️‍🔥17 years ago, Bach Choir of Pittsburgh accompanied The Passion of Joan of Arc for one of the most memorable cinema experiences. It finally happens again this weekend at Row House Hollywood

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November 14, 2025 at 8:51 PM
On screens in Pgh, 11/7-11/13:

🎉Three Rivers Film Festival begins on Wednesday, kicking off 12 days of Pgh premieres!

🧣The Harris has two new ones (Radu Jude's take on Dracula + the made-by-Pittsburghers doc In Exile) and two old ones (Bresson's Four Nights of a Dreamer + Yimou's Ju Dou)

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November 7, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Borders are always open at the movies!

🔓Row House Lawrenceville has something for everyone as they go from horror classics to the Polish Film Festival and then to noir week.

🌍Screenshot: Asia presents Taste of Pomegranate, their first festival of shorts from Southwest Asia and North Africa

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October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Many of the best horror movies are in theaters this week...

🖼️But first, queen Kelly Reichardt's new one, The Mastermind, is here at last

🎉Row House Hollywood soft opens with Night of the Living Dead, top tier Hitchcock, and Rocky Horror Picture Show

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October 24, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Some fresh picks for you this week:

🧟The Mattress Factory puts its own twist on the season with Rot and Resurrection: two films by Rebecca Shapass

💐Or you can smell the roses at CMOA with 16mm shorts by legendary experimental filmmaker Rose Lowder, courtesy of us at Pgh Sound + Image

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October 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Perfect week for cozying up with a movie:

📸Reel Q wraps up with four more, including a rare screening of Rosa von Praunheim's Transexual Menace (with photographer Mariette Pathy Allen in attendance)

🗺️april april puts Pittsburgh on the map with "An International Video Art Invitational"

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October 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This week:

🧨The Hong Kong series at the Harris adds a trio of three huge John Woo films: Hard Boiled, The Killer, and Bullet in the Head

🧟‍♀️Thriller Picture Show still has more shorts and features in store at the Lindsay Theater, including the Pgh premiere of Tina Romero's Queens of the Dead

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October 3, 2025 at 6:45 PM
I hope you're taking a vacation to the movies this week:

😵The Harris is looking like an art house multiplex. They've unlocked the Golden Princess library with their new Hong Kong Cinema Classics series, plus Linda Linda Linda, Rintaro's Metropolis, another Steel City Horror Show, and...

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September 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
This week, all roads lead to Pittsburgh cinemas:

🌏SCREENSHOT: Asia connects us with some of the best in recent Asian film

🌼Legendary experimental animator Jodie Mack joins us at Carnegie Museum of Art tonight

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September 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
⚾ Pittsburgh has been waiting for another chance to see Clemente. You now have 5 theaters from which to choose!

🎟️ The Harris Theater surprises with Don Hertzfeldt's Animation Mixtape and Ikiru

💘 Jodie Mack makes her Pittsburgh debut with a talk at CMU's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry

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September 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
This week is big:

🧛 It will probably be a couple decades before you have another chance to see in Pittsburgh Mike Kelley's Day Is Done, but you can for one night on Monday at CMOA

🦯 ReelAbilities continues through Saturday at Pittsburgh Playhouse, and then virtually for the rest of the week

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September 4, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This week in Pgh:

🗓️ Row House extends 2nd chances with "In Case You Missed It" week: Eephus, Pavements, Secret Mall Apartment, and Sinners. Plus: Etheria Film Fest returns

⛩️ At the Harris Theater: Akira Kurosawa movies continue with Sanjuro. And another very mysterious Steel City Horror Show

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August 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Just a few of your moviegoing options this week in Pgh:

🍯Ethan Coen & Tricia Cooke's latest, Honey Don't!, does its thing

🏕️Row House defines their camp canon with Clue, Hairspray, Death Becomes Her & more

🎹Tom Roberts comes to Millvale with his score for Buster Keaton masterpiece Sherlock Jr

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August 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Theaters will have you seeing double this week:

☁Harris Theater has tales from two (unrelated) Kurosawas: Kiyoshi's new one Cloud and Akira's classic High & Low

🎧The Manor and Lindsay theaters locally premiere Spike Lee's remake of said classic, Highest 2 Lowest

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August 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🏆The Harris provides art house auteurs and docs: Hiroshima Mon Amour, two more from Kurosawa, Hearts of Darkness, and the new Jeff Buckley doc

🔧CMOA Film Series continues with shorts by Hollis Frampton, Pat O’Neill, and Jud Yalkut. Plus: another chance to experience the monumental Park Lanes

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August 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
🔓Sleazy Femme Film Festival brings shorts from all over the world to the Glitterbox

😻Row House becomes Cat House with CatVideoFest, Ghibli's The Cat Returns, and Puss in Boots

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August 1, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Movie theaters are the cool place to be:

🎧Romero's Day of the Dead sees the light at the Harris

🏭Row House considers the many meanings of "steel" with T2, Flashdance, The Deer Hunter, and Zoolander

👏Night of Living Soundtracks returns! Meaning YOU can create the soundtrack to short films

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July 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The mute eloquence of memento mori jostles a wordy sales pitch for immortality in “Tempus Fugit,” a sneakily riveting video installation by Rebecca Shapass at Mattress Factory. She built it around haunting footage shot inside the empty suburban townhouse formerly occupied by her late grandmother.
'Time flies' in new art installation at Pittsburgh's Mattress Factory
The mute eloquence of memento mori jostles a wordy sales pitch for immortality in “Tempus Fugit,” a sneakily riveting video installation by Rebecca Shapass at Mattress Factory.
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July 24, 2025 at 7:31 PM