FLICKS FILM AND VIDEO NOTES : Guest No-Show : ‘Cinema Paradiso’ opens in Ojai; Peter Pan and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles go video.

The Ojai Film Society will draw the curtains on the new season by showing “Cinema Paradiso” at 4:30 p.m. Sunday at the Ojai Playhouse. Tickets are $6. Unlike other dates on the schedule, there will be no special guests to talk about the film.

“Well,” said Sally Janover, one of the leaders of the film group, “we couldn’t get the director to come in from Italy.”

All is forgiven.

Peter Pan and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: No, it’s not a bizarre new Disney creation. Individually, these films will hit the local video stores within the next few weeks.

“Peter Pan” will be released Tuesday and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” is scheduled to be in the stores Oct. 4. Also keep an eye out for “Glory,” which should be available Wednesday.

For those who didn’t have the chance, or the money, to visit any exotic locales this summer, the Ventura College Community Services Department is offering an alternative.

Tickets will go on sale Monday for “The Real World of Thailand,” scheduled for a Sept. 27 showing. The film, which kicks off the 1990-1991 travel series, will be narrated by Rick Howard, who lived in Thailand for five years. Films about Sweden, Africa, the Soviet Union, Spain and Alaska will round out the series. For information, call 654-6459.

The Thousand Oaks Library’s film night Saturday will feature the 1973 movie “A Doll’s House,” the cinematic version of the 1879 play by Henrik Ibsen. It is about Nora (played by Jane Fonda), a young woman who breaks with societal traditions and discovers her independence.

“It should make a good topic for discussion--independence and assertiveness,” said Amani Fliers, one of the organizers. The show time, as it is scheduled to be throughout the year at these monthly presentations, is 7 p.m.

We’ve discovered what some movie theater people are using on their popcorn, disguised as “butter.” It’s Pop Top Liquid Topping Oil, an “artificial buttery flavor dressing oil,” made from “partially hydrogenated and winterized soybean oil” and it is “artificially colored and flavored.” It smells, tastes and looks like butter, and it’s hard to get off your hands.

We’re continuing to check it out.