Film
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WHEN TURTLES ATTACK “Otaku Cinema Slam!” features recent Japanese films that celebrate otaku – geeks with monomaniacal pop-culture obsessions. The final screening is “Gamera 3: Revenge of Iris” (1999), the last installment in a monster-turtle film series that began in 1965. In the culminating battle, a tentacled flying monster fights Gamera, who has been portrayed as both a destroyer and protector of the Earth. Friday, 6:30 p.m., Japan Society, 333 E. 47th St., between First and Second avenues, 212-752-3015, $10 general, $5 seniors and students.
SAND AND SEA A screening series celebrates French director Francois Ozon. This weekend’s highlight is “Under the Sand” (2000), a quiet story about a sudden disappearance. Charlotte Rampling, who also stars in Mr. Ozon’s “Swimming Pool,” plays a middle-aged woman whose husband vanishes while on a summer holiday (Saturday, 4 p.m.). Douglas Sirk’s lush melodrama “Imitation of Life” (1959), selected by Mr. Ozon, is also screened this weekend (Sunday, 4 p.m.). Both screenings: Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 seniors and students, free for members.
COCKTAILS WITH THE CAT Blake Edwards’s “The Pink Panther” (1963) is shown as part of the Cabaret Cinema series of screenings enhanced by cocktails. Peter Sellers stars as the inept Inspector Clouseau. A new version of the seemingly unreproducible film will be released in July. Saturday, 7-9 p.m., Rubin Museum of Art, 150 W. 17th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-620-5000, free admission, $12 drink minimum.
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