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Street Players: This full-length Chinese film (with subtitles) tells of the struggles of a street performer and his family. Part of the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art’s Chinese Cinema Series. NR.

* Screens today at 7:30 p.m at the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, 2002 N. Main St., Santa Ana. Free with museum admission ($4.50 for adults, $3 for seniors and students, $1.50 for ages 12 and under). (714) 567-3600.

Europa Europa: Agnieszka Holland’s 1991 film centers on the emotional story of a young Polish Jew who survives World War II by passing as a devout member of the Hitler Youth. Based on Solomon Perel’s autobiography. PG.

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* Screens Friday at 7 p.m. as part of Saddleback College’s foreign film series at the Science/Math Building, Room 313, 28000 Marguerite Parkway, Mission Viejo. FREE. (714) 582-4788.

His Girl Friday: A classic newsroom comedy directed by Howard Hawks and released in 1940. Cary Grant stars as the editor willing to do anything to get the story, and Rosalind Russell is his top reporter, who hopes to settle into sweet domesticity with her bland husband-to-be. The editor won’t let that happen, of course. NR.

* Screens Friday at 6:30 p.m. at the Newport Harbor Art Museum, 850 San Clemente Drive, Newport Beach. $5; $3 for members, students and seniors. (714) 759-1122.

Birth of the Blues: Bing Crosby is at center stage in this 1941 musical. As a singer organizing a jazz band in New Orleans, he croons through such tunes as “St. James Infirmary” and “Melancholy Baby.” With Mary Martin and Brian Donlevy. NR.

* Screens Friday at 12:45 p.m. at the Cypress Senior Citizen Center, 9031 Grindlay St. FREE. (714) 229-6776.

Bonnie and Clyde: Considered something of a landmark in movie realism, Arthur Penn’s 1967 film features Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the two Depression-era criminals who robbed from the rich (banks, mostly) and gave to themselves. NR.

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* Screens Tuesday at 7 p.m. as part of the Chapman Film Classics series at Chapman University’s Argyros Forum, Room 208, 333 N. Glassell St., Orange. FREE. (714) 744-7018.

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