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Film Independent at LACMA celebrates 'Valley Girl'
Film Independent at LACMA is holding a 1980s costume contest after the 30th anniversary screening of Martha Coolidge's endearing comedy "Valley Girl" on Thursday evening at the Leo S. Bing Theater. The romantic comedy was inspired by Frank Zappa and his...
Tags: The Tree of Life (movie), Chicago Sun-Times, Ed Wood (movie), Entertainment Events, Animation (Movie Genre)
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American Cinematheque to celebrate the late Roger Ebert
Thumbs up to the American Cinematheque. The independent, nonprofit cultural organization is paying homage to the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert with a new film series, "The Great Movies: A Tribute to Roger Ebert." The influential...
Tags: The Tree of Life (movie), Chicago Sun-Times, Brad Pitt, Awards and Prizes, Roger Ebert
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Old movies still draw a crowd
When it comes to old films, Robert Osborne is hard to stump. But this time he had to consult his notes. "Hold on, it's so obscure, even I don't remember the name of it," said Osborne, who has served as the main on-air host of Turner Classic Movies for...
Tags: Ben Mankiewicz, Festive Events, Academy Awards, Mel Brooks, Mad Men (tv program)
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Remembrance: Roger Ebert, film's hero to the end
This post has been corrected. See below for details. It seems like only yesterday — in fact, it was only yesterday — that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer...
Tags: Gene Siskel, Sundance Film Festival, Colleges and Universities, Reviews, Movies
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Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic
Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...
Tags: Chicago Sun-Times, Weight, Urbana (Champaign, Illinois), Francois Truffaut, Sundance Film Festival
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Donald Richie dies at 88; interpreted Japan for the West
Donald Richie, an American expatriate in Japan who became that country's preeminent Western interpreter, explaining its culture — from cinema to Zen to tattoos — in books and essays that illuminated the author's psyche as much as that of his...
Tags: Orson Welles, Tokyo (Japan), Literature, Francis Ford Coppola, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Richard Collins dies at 98; onetime blacklisted screenwriter
Richard Collins, a screenwriter during the McCarthy era who was blacklisted for several years before he cooperated with the Communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee, died Thursday in Ventura. The onetime Communist Party member was 98...
Tags: William Randolph Hearst, Rentals, Politics, Marion Davies, Pneumonia
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When H.G. Wells met Orson Welles, Or: How typos lead to neat things
The strangest part of this story may be that in the middle of World War II, 74-year-old British author H.G. Wells took a train to Texas to speak to a meeting of the United States Brewers Assn. I can't quite figure out why he was tapped to speak there;...
Tags: Authors, YouTube, Orson Welles, Radio Industry, Social Media
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Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood
First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...
Tags: Waffles, Hattie McDaniel, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Entertainment, Cirque du Soleil
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Patricia Medina dies at 92; Briton was '50s Hollywood leading lady
Patricia Medina, a British-born actress whose Hollywood career as a leading lady in the 1950s spanned the talking mule comedy "Francis" and Orson Welles' crime-thriller "Mr. Arkadin," has died. She was 92.
Medina, the widow of actor Joseph Cotten, died...Tags: Orson Welles, Jennifer Jones, Alan Ladd, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Medina (Saudi Arabia)
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'The Artist': Critics speak up to praise silent film
24 FramesIn a time when CGI spectacle and dizzying 3-D effects dominate the box office, an unlikely new silent black-and-white movie — by a French filmmaker, no less — is captivating critics. "The Artist," written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius,...
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