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Made as his follow-up to “Citizen Kane,” Orson Welles’ “The Magnificent Ambersons” is considered a flawed masterpiece by many critics. RKO Pictures took the film away from Welles after a disastrous test screening in Pomona before a largely teenage audience. The studio cut 40 minutes and re-shot the ending, leaving the narrative choppy, but was unable to ruin the striking visuals or excellent performances by Tim Holt and the director’s stock company of actors, including Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Collins and Erskine Sanford. The trimmed version bombed at the box office and the excised footage is believed to have been destroyed. Beginning Sunday, the New Beverly Cinema pairs the two films in an Orson Welles’ double feature, a chance to compare the director’s work with creative control and with studio interference.

* Orson Welles Double Feature, New Beverly Cinema, 7165 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles. “Citizen Kane,” Sunday 3:25 and 7:30 p.m., Monday and Tuesday 7:30 p.m. “The Magnificent Ambersons,” Sunday 5:45 and 9:45 p.m., Monday and Tuesday 9:45 p.m. $3 to $6. (323) 938-4038.

3pm

Performance/Multimedia

“Hollywood: Smash Cut to Nowhere--A Mixed Media Show,” features Milo Johnson’s surrealistic solo performance piece, “Recycled Starlet--The Barbara Jerome Story”; short films “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog,” “Rudy Come Home” and “The Making of ‘Dollcat in the Open City’ ”; and a small visual art exhibit in which five artists explore present-day Hollywood.

* “Hollywood: Smash Cut to Nowhere--A Mixed Media Show,” Theatre/Theater, 6425 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood. Sundays, 3 p.m. Ends Nov. 12. $10. (323) 871-9433.

7pm

Dance

Just as there’s more than one city named Paris, there’s more than one Bronx in the world--and local audiences are about to meet a 20-member performing group that delivers all the in-your-face power you’d expect from the Bronx, but with a French accent. Hailing from the Bronx of Nevers, in the industrial region of France, Les Tambours du Bronx delivers high-voltage percussion and free-form movement, using such unorthodox instruments as pickax handles and 225-liter metal oil drums--definitely heavy metal. Formed in 1987, the group has become monumentally popular during the past decade just about everywhere--except possibly Brooklyn.

* Les Tambours du Bronx, Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, 24255 Pacific Coast Highway, Malibu. 7 p.m. $35. (310) 456-4522. Also Oct. 13, 8 p.m.; Oct. 14, 2 and 8 p.m.; Oct. 15, 2 p.m. at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts, 12700 Center Court Drive, Cerritos. $30 to $45. (562) 916-8500.

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Art

The wryly titled “2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story, Part II,” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, looks at a wide range of work produced by the San Francisco-based pioneer of assemblage art. While Conner is best known for his complex assemblages of found objects, the survey--the first devoted to the artist--will also feature sculpture, intricate drawings, film, collage, prints and photographs that touch on Conner’s lifelong interest in the physical, metaphorical and metaphysical properties of light and dark.

* “2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II.” Museum of Contemporary Art, 250 S. Grand Ave., downtown Los Angeles. Ends Jan. 14. Tuesday-Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, 11 a.m.-8 p.m. $6; students and seniors, $4; children under 12, free. (213) 626-6222.

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Art

Mexican artist Jose Guadalupe Posada inspired muralists Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco, and established a visual style that influences Mexican art to this day. The exhibit “Skeletons at the Feast,” at the Central Library, includes all types of calaveras--the characterized skeletons that Posada used to satirize issues and politicians of his era.

* “Skeletons at the Feast,” Los Angeles Central Library, 650 W. 5th St., downtown Los Angeles. Open Sunday, 1-5 p.m.; Monday to Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free. (213) 228-7000.

Freebie

Pianist Kathy Sawada performs music by American composers, including Henry Cowell’s “Aeolian Harp” and Lou Harrison’s “Homage to Henry Cowell” in the Leo S. Bing Theater at the L.A. County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles. 6 p.m. (213) 485-6873.

The Laugh Factory will hold Yom Kippur services for comedians, actors and others unable to be with family for the holiday, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. and Monday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Break the fast 6 to 7 p.m. Monday. 8001 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood. Reservations required. (323) 656-1336.