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Throwback Thursday

'Some Like It Hot' focuses on an all-girl band--except two members aren't girls at all (courtesy of Wikimedia Commons).

In ‘Some Like It Hot,’ Billy Wilder explores the attributes of artifice

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Jan. 18, 2019
The Ambersons spend much of their time sequestered in their magnificent mansion (courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures and The Criterion Collection.)

Orson Welles documents a family’s dizzying decline in ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Jan. 17, 2019

Sex, society and ‘Shampoo’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Jan. 14, 2019

De Palma steals from the masters in ‘Sisters’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Nov. 30, 2018

In ‘Andrei Rublev,’ Tarkovsky contemplates artistry and reality

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Nov. 28, 2018
G.W. Pabst portrays the horrors of war in unrelentingly realistic detail. (Courtesy of Janus Films and The Criterion Collection)

In ‘Westfront 1918,’ Pabst evokes the traumas of World War I

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Nov. 12, 2018

Culture and the occult: Eerie reads for Halloweek

Claire Francis
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Nov. 1, 2018

Dietrich is an extraordinary actress in ‘The Scarlet Empress’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 23, 2018
PLO Finance Minister Ahmed Qurie (J Paul Nicholas) speaks with Israeli Director-General of the Foreign Ministry Uri Savir (Paris Hunter Paul) while Norwegian mediators Terje Rød-Larsen (Mark Anderson Phillips) and Mona Juul (Erica Sullivan) look on. (Courtesy of Kevin Berne)

Marin Theatre Company’s ‘Oslo’ gives us a piece of narrated history

Olivia Popp
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Oct. 18, 2018

Satyajit Ray muses on movies and money in ‘The Hero’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 12, 2018

In ‘The Awful Truth,’ McCarey crafts a comedy about class

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 8, 2018

In ‘El Sur,’ Victor Erice contemplates childhood

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 5, 2018

Von Sternberg creates a land of light and shadow in ‘Shanghai Express’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 4, 2018

John Waters’ ‘Female Trouble’ is twisted and terrific

Amir Abou-Jaoude
  •  
Oct. 3, 2018
Insatiable appetites abound in Tony Richardson's 'Tom Jones' (Courtesy of Janus Films).

‘Tom Jones’ is strangely timeless

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 1, 2018
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Bette Davis shines in ‘The Star’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Sept. 25, 2018
Courtesy of LACMA

LACMA’s current exhibitions provide a diversity of holistically curated work

Olivia Popp
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Aug. 23, 2018

‘Won’t You Be My Neighbor?’ revives good old-fashioned love and wholesomeness

Olivia Popp
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July 11, 2018
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Stanley Donen’s ‘Charade’ provides old-fashioned fun

Abe Thompson
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June 14, 2018

Tony Award-winning ‘Jersey Boys’ brings toe-tapping nostalgia to the Bay Area

Olivia Popp
  •  
June 8, 2018
The Stanford Daily

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