Film
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HOME SWEET HOME
A film critic for the New York Press, Matt Zoller Seitz, is the writer and director of “Home,” a comedy-drama set at a Brooklyn party. It makes its premiere as part of the Brooklyn Underground Film Festival. Tonight, 6:15 p.m., Brooklyn Lyceum, 227 Fourth Ave. at Union Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn, www.brooklynunderground.org, $8.
ON THE INSIDE
David Bagnall and George Stoney’s film “Getting Out” is a look at prison arts programs. The documentary focuses on Sing Sing and features appearances by former inmates and poets Robert Sanchez and Carlos Santiago along with fledgling artists who are still in prison. Aspiring playwright David Wayne, whose testimony ends the film, is expected at the screening – pending permission from his parole officer. Tonight, 6 p.m., New York University, Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th St., between Greene Street and University Place, 212-998-6840, free. Note: Seating is limited and distributed on a firstcome, first-served basis.
YIN AND YANG
Tenth-century Kyoto is the setting for “Onmyoji” (2001), in which a member of the Onmyoji order, who has mystical interpretive powers of the yin and yang, battles a man who is threatening the emperor’s court. It is screened as part of “Otaku Cinema Slam!” which features recent Japanese films that celebrate otaku – geeks with monomaniacal pop-culture obsessions. Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., Japan Society, 333 E. 47th St., between First and Second avenues, 212-752-3015, $10 general, $5 seniors and students. Note: The film is in Japanese with English subtitles.
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