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close xIf you want to catch a midnight screening this evening of a cross-dressing musical that's not "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" at the Rialto, you can always go to the Griffith Film Theater at Duke and catch that 2001 transgender rock opera "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." It starts at 11:59, and it's free. Details: www.duke.edu/web/movies
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Also at the Griffith Film Theater on Monday, the Latin American Film Festival will hold a screening of the 2008 Mexican sci-fi flick "Sleep Dealer." Director Alex Rivera will be around to take questions afterward. It starts at 7, and admission is free. Details: 660-3030; fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety.
On Wednesday night, the N.C. State film studies department rounds out its NOTfiction Film Series, over at the college's Witherspoon Cinema, with "Rocaterrania," a 2009 documentary on visionary artist and Raleigh resident Renaldo Kuhler. Kuhler, along with director Brett Ingram ("Monster Road"), will introduce the film and take questions afterward. It starts at 7, and admission is free. Details: 515-5146; www.ncsu.edu/cinema.
It's time to put on some big, white, platform shoes, jump on a bar top and dance to "Tequila." Yes, sir, "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" will be playing at the Colony, also this Wednesday night. It's starts at 8, and admission is $5. Details: 847-5677; www.therialto.com.
At Duke's Richard White Lecture Hall, there will be a screening of "Morning Sun," a 2003 documentary chronicling the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the '60s and '70s, on Thursday night. Co-director Carma Hinton will be on hand for a post-screening Q&A. It starts at 7, and admission is free. Details: 660-3030; fvd.aas.duke.edu/screensociety.
Finally, also on Thursday night, the N.C. Museum of Art's "Get Rich Quick" film series at Cary's Galaxy Cinema will shut down (for now). The final film will be Oliver Stone's 1987 greed screed "Wall Street." It starts at 7:30, and admission is $5 ($3.50 for museum, Cinema Inc. or Galaxy Cinema members). Details: 463-9959; ncartmuseum.org/interim/events.php.
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