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Il Postino (The Postman): The recent foreign-language...

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Il Postino (The Postman): The recent foreign-language hit focuses on a regular guy who woos the local beauty with the help of poet Pablo Neruda. G.

* Screens today at 7 and 9 p.m. as part of Cal State Fullerton’s “Spring Film Series,” at the University Center’s Titan Theatre, 800 N. State College Blvd. Free. (714) 773-3501.

Some Like it Hot: Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon don’t get much better. This 1959 film from Billy Wilder puts them in drag and in an all-women band as they hide out from mobsters. NR.

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

La Strada: Federico Fellini’s great sentimental classic from 1954. The director’s wife, Giulietta Masina, plays the sad clown who travels the countryside with a brutish carnival strongman played by Anthony Quinn. NR.

* Screens Friday at 7 and 9 p.m. at UC Irvine’s Student Center Crystal Cove Auditorium near Bridge Road and Pereira Drive. $2-$4. (714) 824-5588.

Follow the Boys: Released in 1944 with an all-star cast: Orson Welles does a magic act, with the likes of Marlene Dietrich, George Raft, W.C. Fields and Jeanette MacDonald waiting in the wings. NR.

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

A Kiss to This Land: A documentary following the lives of seven Jews who emigrate from Europe and the Middle East to Mexico. NR.

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* Screens Sunday at 9:30 a.m. as part of the Orange County Jewish Film Festival at the AMC MainPlace Six in the MainPlace mall, Santa Ana. $20. (714) 553-3535.

Un Coeur en Hiver (A Heart in Winter): This 1992 French film, directed by Claude Sautet, tells the story of two men who make musical instruments together, and fall in love with the same woman. NR.

* Screens Monday at 7 p.m in Room 208 of Chapman University’s Argyros Forum, 333 N. Glassell St., Orange. Free. (714) 997-6593.

Pixote: Hector Babenco’s hard-to-watch but compelling 1981 film about a boy trying to survive the mean streets of Brazil. NR.

* Screens on Tuesday at 7 p.m. as part of the Chapman Film Classics series in Room 208 of Chapman University’s Argyros Forum. Free. (714) 744-7018.

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