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Access Contemporary Music: Resident ensemble Palomar is joined by Strawdog Theatre Company actors to present "1,001 Afternoons in Chicago," a play for voices and instruments based on legendary Chicago journalist Ben Hecht's newspaper columns. 7 p.m....Tags: Arts and Culture, South Shore, Culture, Colleges and Universities, Mayne Stage
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Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick redux at LACMA
With the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's expansive "Stanley Kubrick" exhibition set to close on June 30, the museum's film department is revisiting several key movies in the maverick filmmaker's oeuvre. Each of the director's films in the series...Tags: The Shining (movie), Stanley Kubrick, Movies, Arts and Culture, Paths of Glory (movie)
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"2001: A Space Odyssey" Showing at Avon Theatre Film Center in Stamford
2001: A Space Odyssey may be the most epic movie of all time, a dated but romantic vision of the future directed by the great Stanley Kubrick in 1968. Signs of extraterrestrial intelligence are discovered, and astronauts are sent on a secret mission to...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Stanley Kubrick, Stamford
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Ray Harryhausen, Special Effects Master, Dies at 92
ReutersMay 07 (TheWrap.com) - Special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen has died. He was 92. Despite shifts in popular tastes and production techniques, Harryhausen's monsters and other-worldly creatures dazzled movie-goers for roughly four decades and showed...Tags: Clash of the Titans (movie), Tom Hanks, Jurassic Park (movie), Steven Spielberg, James Cameron
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Reel Critics: 'Oblivion' a thinking man's thriller
Big-budget science-fiction movies are often vehicles for selling toys to kids and merchandise to adult fans. But there was a time when these films offered compelling visions of a strange future far beyond conventional thinking. "Forbidden Planet" in 1956,...
Tags: Blade Runner (movie), Science Fiction (Movie Genre), Max Thieriot, The Place Beyond the Pines (movie), Life of Pi (movie)
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Tom Cruise, 'Oblivion' going nowhere, glacially ★★
Something's wrong. Tom Cruise, or, rather, Jack Harper, his character in the placid new science-fiction adventure "Oblivion," can't shake his dreams of a woman giving him the big eyes on the observation deck of the Empire State Building. It's 2077....
Tags: Tron Legacy (movie) , Arts and Culture, Science Fiction (Movie Genre), To the Wonder (movie), Fiction
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Digging deep into 'The Shining'
There is nothing especially frightening about Room 350 at the Standard Hotel on the Sunset Strip. It overlooks the pool, with colorful mod décor pleasantly bathed in bright window light. Inside, documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher is prepared to discuss...
Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Movies, A Clockwork Orange (movie), The Shining (movie), Symbols and Symbolism
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TV This Week: March 31 - April 6: 'Mr. Selfridge' on PBS
Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of March 31 - April 5, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies -------------------- SUNDAY Technically, it's the day...
Tags: Jessica Biel, Texas Rangers, Brad Garrett, Sharon Stone, Doctor Who (tv program)
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LACMA's overhaul is a work in progress
Seven years ago last month, when Michael Govan was named the sixth director in the relatively brief history of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, his mandate was clear: overhaul the place. The ambitious plan was to make LACMA the nation's only...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Artists, The Getty, Japan, Sculpture
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Music Box festival celebrates 70mm projection
It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive...
Tags: Tobe Hooper, Arts and Culture, Paul Thomas Anderson, Lincoln Center, Robert Wise
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Someday prints will come, in pink
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" was pink. But we'll get to that in a minute. Music Box Theatre general manager Dave Jennings considers himself fortunate to have such a "smart, forgiving audience" for the current and very popular 70mm retrospective. The...
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Stuart Freeborn dies at 98; 'Star Wars' makeup artist
It was no accident that British makeup artist Stuart Freeborn resembled his most famous movie creation — Yoda, the wrinkled, ancient sage from the "Star Wars" films. "I looked at myself in the mirror and decided that I was comic, with all these...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, Artists, Science and Technology, Peter Sellers
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