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  Local Hero (1983)

  Texas cash and bravado meets Scottish pluck in one of the greatest British movies of the 1980s. A Houston oil tycoon (Burt Lancaster) believes that he can buy out a little fishing village, and dispatches “Mac” McIntyre (Peter Riegert) to convince the locals to hand over their heritage. Starring Jenny Seagrove, a pre-Doctor Who Peter Capaldi, and another sci-fi great, Denis Lawson (aka Wedge from Star Wars), it’s a heartfelt love letter to the power of belonging somewhere. Plus, you’ll be humming that theme by Mark Knopfler all the way home. – Richard Whittaker

  Sat., Feb. 17, 4:30pm 

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  Beau Travail (2000)

  Claire Denis' deceptively dreamlike film about a French Foreign Legionnaire in Northern Africa is a stunning work of beauty, mystery, contemplation, and grit. Read a full review of Beau Travail.

  Sat., Feb. 17, 3:05pm

  Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

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  BloodSisters: Leather, Dykes & Sadomasochism (1995)

  Michelle Handelman's Hi8 documentary examines San Francisco's leatherdyke scene of the mid-Nineties. Screens with Catherine Gund and Julie Tolentino’s short film "B.U.C.K.L.E."

  Sat., Feb. 17, 7pm 

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  Century of Sembène

  Ousmane Sembène was 40 before he picked up a camera, and maybe that explains why his films were filled with a lifetime of wisdom, storytelling genius, and political anger. The son of a Senegalese fisherman who became a bestselling novelist in France, his films and books critiqued the colonial powers that had devastated Central Africa. Now AFS Cinema is showing four features by the father of African film: his 1965 debut Black Girl (La noire de…) Jan 30. & Feb. 3, Emitai (1971) Feb. 6 & 10, Xala (1975) Feb. 13 & 17, and his internationally acclaimed feature Ceddo (1977) Feb. 20 & 24. – Richard Whittaker

  Sat., Feb. 17, 1:45pm 

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  Lovers of the Arctic Circle (1998)

  Using impressionistic and circular strategies, this Spanish film tells the story of two lovers from the time they meet at the age of 8 to the age of 25, when they may or may not meet again. Read a full review of Lovers of the Arctic Circle.

  Sat., Feb. 17, 9:30pm 

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  William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)

  This Romeo and Juliet is a rich visual feast, besotted with the fervor of its acrobatic camerawork and kinetic staging and its mind-bending aggregation of unrelated but resonant fragments of 20th century iconography. Read a full review of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.

  Sat., Feb. 17, 9:30pm

  Alamo Drafthouse Village