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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
Warren Beatty plays a hedonistic hairdresser in Hal Ashby's "Shampoo" (courtesy of Sony Pictures and The Criterion Collection).

Sex, society and ‘Shampoo’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Jan. 14, 2019
Brian de Palma's "Sisters" centers around a mysterious murder (courtesy of Janus Films).

De Palma steals from the masters in ‘Sisters’

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Nov. 30, 2018
Anatoly Solonitsyn plays a renowned Russian painter in Andrei Tarkovsky's "Andrei Rublev" (courtesy of Janus Films).

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
In Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," Heathcliff is a haunted antihero (ZINC CARAS/Flickr).

Culture and the occult: Eerie reads for Halloweek

Claire Francis
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Nov. 1, 2018
Marlene Dietrich is "The Scarlet Empress" in Josef von Sternberg's 1934 film (courtesy of The Criterion Collection and Universal Pictures).

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
Uttam Kumar plays a struggling film star in Satyajit Ray's "The Hero" (courtesy of The RDB Organization and The Criterion Collection).

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

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 12, 2018
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne play a conflicted, comedic couple in "The Awful Truth" (courtesy of Sony Pictures and The Criterion Collection).

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

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 8, 2018
Victor Erice examines mysteries and memories in "El Sur" (courtesy of Video Mercury and The Criterion Collection).

In ‘El Sur,’ Victor Erice contemplates childhood

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 5, 2018
n Josef von Sternberg's "Shanghai Express," Marlene Dietrich seems divine (courtesy of Universal Pictures and The Criterion Collection).

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

Amir Abou-Jaoude
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Oct. 4, 2018
Divine and David Lochary star in John Waters' "Female Trouble" (courtesy of Warner Bros. and The Criterion Collection).

John Waters’ ‘Female Trouble’ is twisted and terrific

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

‘Tom Jones’ is strangely timeless

Amir Abou-Jaoude
  •  
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
Fred Rogers in "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." (Courtesy of Focus Features)

‘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
(Left to right) Corey Greenan, Tommaso Antico, Jonny Wexler and Chris Stevens in "Jersey Boys." (Courtesy of Joan Marcus)

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

Olivia Popp
  •  
June 8, 2018
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