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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: Mayne Stage, Michigan Avenue, South Shore, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Education
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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: Stanley Kubrick, Movies, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Arts and Culture, The Shining (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: Stanley Kubrick, Stamford, Arts and Culture
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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: Science Fiction (Movie Genre), Disconnect (movie), Jonah Bobo, Oblivion (movie), The Place Beyond the Pines (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: Science Fiction (Movie Genre), Movies, Oblivion (movie), Total Recall (movie, 2012), 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, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Room 237 (movie), The Holocaust (1934-1945)
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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: BBC, Easter, Elizabeth Perkins, Lori Loughlin, Anthony Hopkins
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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: Hobbies, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Artists, Museums, Japan
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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, Robert Wise, Richard Brooks, Vertigo (movie), Kenneth Branagh
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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...
Tags: Academy Awards, Movies, Spartacus (tv program), CBS Corp., Vertigo (movie)
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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: BBC, United Kingdom, Tony Randall, Artists, George Lucas
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Public text messages should be no-brainer
Local governments are so befuddled about how to archive public officials' cellphone text messages that we're left to guess what kind of conversations are taking place about the public's business. Was Orange County Commissioner Jennifer Thompson...Tags: Amusement and Theme Parks, Orange County (Florida), Travel Alerts, Government, State Road 408
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