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International House screens black western, and more

The film program at I-House is going great guns, with `They Die By Dawn’ starring Michael K. Williams, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosario Dawson and Erykah Badu premiering Tuesday, plus new Secret Cinema noir.

“They Die By Dawn,” a just-under-an-hour western inspired by the real-life exploits of African-American cowboys, has its area debut on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at International House.The

Jeymes Samuel

written-and-directed oater is set in 1890s Oklahoma, where four gunslingers wanted by the law meet up for an epic shootout. The cast includes

Michael K. Williams

(Omar from

The Wire

, currently in

RoboCop

) ,

Giancarlo Esposito

,

Rosario Dawson

,

Isaiah Washington

and

Erykah Badu

. The Reelblack-presented program also includes the shorts “Nostalgia” by

Johnnie Hobbs III,

about an aging tap dancer, and “Underground,” the inaugural episode of a new Philly-set cop series, from

Skye Dennis

.

International House's film bookings continue to be among the eclectic and adventurous in town. On Saturday, Feb. 22, Jay Schwartz's Secret Cinema unspools a super-rare 35mm print of the forgotten 1944 thriller, Dark Waters, starring Merle Oberon and Franchot Tone. Oberon, says the Secret Cinema, blurb, plays "a woman who escaped a sinking ship on which her parents drowned, only to remain haunted by the memory – and by the weird behavior of the family members who take the orphaned woman into their Southern plantation." Andre De Toth (House of Wax, the noir classic Crime Wave) directs. For tickets for these and other I-House film events, click here.

And Wes Anderson's Oscar-nominated stop-motion animated gem, Fantastic Mr. Fox, has a family matinee showing Saturday at 2pm. This'll be great to see on the big screen in advance of Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel, which has some very Fantastic Mr. Fox-y moments in it.

The International House calendar can be found here.