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You can still catch Oscar-winner 'Taxi'
Tuesday, February 26, 2008

If you want to see "Taxi to the Dark Side," the dark-horse winner in the Oscar documentary race, it is playing at the Harris Theater, Downtown, through March 6.

Filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room") uses the homicide of an Afghani taxi driver at Bagram air base in 2002 to examine torture and corruption of the human spirit.

Pittsburgh Filmmakers also will bring back the Oscar-nominated shorts Monday through March 6 at the Regent Square Theater. If you catch both the animated and live-action portions, you can see the winners, "Peter & the Wolf" and "The Mozart of Pickpockets."

"Peter & the Wolf" also will air at 8 p.m. March 26 on "Great Performances" on WQED-TV. And if you're a pay-channel subscriber, "Taxi" will turn up on HBO in September and "Freeheld," Oscar winner in the documentary short category, will play on Cinemax in June.

"Freeheld" follows the landmark legal battle of Lt. Laurel Hester, a dying lesbian New Jersey police officer who fights to transfer her pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree.

Unless something changes, "No Country for Old Men" is scheduled to arrive on DVD March 11.

-- Barbara Vancheri, Post-Gazette movie editor

First published on February 26, 2008 at 12:00 am
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