Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center. Screenings are Fridays through

Sunday in Scott Hall, Room 123, College Avenue campus, near the corner

of College Avenue and Hamilton Street. Thursday screenings are in

Loree Hall, Room 024, Douglass College campus, near the corner of

Nichol Avenue and George Street; with selected free events at Borders

Books, Route 18 South, East Brunswick. All programs begin at 7 p.m.;

admission $5 to $10. Call 732-932-8482.

notorious 1960 thriller — on the big screen, $5, Thursday, March

23. American Movie, Chris Smith’s comic 1999 feature, set in

Memomonee Falls, Wisconsin, about a filmmaker’s two-year struggle

to make a movie. $5, Friday to Sunday, March 24 to 26.

Japanese New Wave

and rare films, presented by Princeton University’s East Asian Studies

Program, screens Mondays, at 7 p.m., in the James Stewart Film Theater,

185 Nassau Street. Free. 609-258-5722.

satire on capital punishment and the true story of the execution of

a young Korean worker, Monday, March 27. Man Who Left His Will

on Film , Nagisa Oshima’s haunting 1970 film about a student radical

who records his secret ambition on film before committing suicide,

Monday, April 3.

Second Chance Cinema

Weekly screenings of 13 films, Wednesdays, at 7:30 p.m., at Kresge

Auditorium, Princeton University. $5. 609-683-1101.

in a waystation to the afterlife, Wednesday, March 15. Election,

Matthew Broderick vs. Reese Witherspoon in the real story of American

success: who gets it, who doesn’t, and why. Wednesday, March 22.

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Mainstream Flicks

Confirm titles with theaters.

Mendes’ dark comedy about dysfunctional suburban families, leading

the pack with eight Oscar nominations. AMC, Loews, Mercer, Montgomery,

Regal.

about the hardships of a Catholic childhood in the slums of Ireland,

brought to the screen by Alan Parker. Destinta.

accidentally enters Malkovich’s mind in this Spike Jonze spicy fantasy,

nominated for three Academy Awards. MarketFair.

at a firm where the cost of success is high. Written and directed

by Ben Younger. AMC, Loews, Mercer, Regal.

Brandon Teena, directed by Kimberly Peirce, won her the Golden Globe

and an Oscar nomination for best actress. MarketFair, Regal.

version of John Irving’s bestseller, directed by Lasse Hallstrom,

about a doctor who plays father to a group of orphans. Nominated for

seven Oscars including best picture. AMC, Destinta, Garden, Loews,

MarketFair, Montgomery, Regal.

death of Mona (Bette Midler), a woman with more enemies than friends.

AMC, Destinta, Loews, Mercer, Regal.

Julianne Moore play an adulterous World War II couple. Montgomery.

Mercer, Regal.

star recruited by aliens to save their planet. AMC.

in a screen version of Stephen King’s prison story about an innocent

man with miraculous powers. Oscar nominee for best picture. AMC,

MarketFair.

middle-aged sisters dealing with the approaching death of their father

in Delia Ephron’s semi-autobiographical film. AMC, Loews, Mercer,

Regal.

including Gary Sinise and Tim Robbins, is sent to Mars to investigate

the mysterious disaster that knocked out the first crew. AMC,

Destinta, Loews, Mercer, Montgomery, Regal.

the Middle’ stars in this adaptation of Willie Morris’ book about

a lonely young boy who finds friendship in a Jack Russell terrier.

AMC, Destinta, Loews, Mercer, Regal.

to play a mother, with Rupert Everett as her gay friend who is also

the father of her child. AMC, Destinta, Loews, Mercer, Regal.

starring Johnny Depp. AMC, Destinta, Loews, Mercer,

pilot hosting a motley crew and passengers. AMC, Destinta, Loews,

MarketFair, Regal.

in this delayed Christmas release with Ben Affleck as a car thief

just out of jail and Gary Sinise who has a plan to get him back in.

AMC, Destinta, Loews, MarketFair, Regal.

Cox-Arquette return with the same mix of laughs and thrills that made

the first two `Screams’ a hit. AMC, Destinta, Loews.

aiding Haley Joel Osment, a boy who communicates with the dead. Six

Academy Award nominations, including best picture, and writing and

directing for M. Night Shyamalan. AMC, Regal.

Films’ frosty family comedy. AMC, Destinta, Loews, Mercer, Montgomery,

Regal.

brought to the screen by Scott Hicks, starring Ethan Hawke and Youki

Kudoh. MarketFair.

biography of a ’30s jazz guitarist played by Oscar nominee Sean Penn;

New Jersey’s Howard Alden and Bucky Pizzarelli provide the seductive

jazz. AMC, Regal.

screen. AMC, Destinta, Loews, MarketFair, Regal.

that his hoodlum friends are liable to get them all put away for life.

AMC, Destinta, Loews, Mercer.

alien seeking an obliging human to bear his child and save a planet.

AMC, Destinta, Loews, MarketFair, Montgomery, Regal.

an ex-hitman, with Matthew Perry as his nervous neighbor. AMC,

Destinta, Loews, MarketFair, Regal.

Michael Douglas learns to grow up. AMC, Garden, Loews, MarketFair,

Montgomery, Regal.

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Venues

AMC Hamilton 24 Theaters, Sloan Avenue, I-295 Exit 65A,

609-890-8307. Stadium-seating multiplex. $7; $5 matinees; $5 twilight.

Destinta, Independence Plaza, 2465 South Broad Street,

Hamilton, 609-888-4500. Stadium-seating. $6.75 adults; $5 matinees.

East Windsor Cinemas, Routes 130 and 571, 609-443-9295.

$3 adults; $2.50 matinees.

Garden Theater, 160 Nassau Street, 609-683-7595. $6.50

adults; $4 matinees.

Loews Theaters, Route 1 South, New Brunswick, 732-846-9200.

Stadium-seating multiplex. $8.50 adults; $5.25 matinees.

MarketFair-UA, Route 1 South, 609-520-8700. $7.50

adults; $4.75 matinees.

Mercer Mall General Cinemas, Route 1, 609-452-2868.

$7.25 adults; $4.75 matinees.

Montgomery Center Theater, Routes 206 and 518,

609-924-7444. $7 adults; $4.25 matinees.

Regal Cinemas Town Center, 319 Route 130 North, East

Windsor, 609-371-8470. Stadium-seating. $8; $5 matinees.

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