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A brighter picture: Moviegoers love digital images at Becky's and Shankweiler's drive-ins
Only a few weeks have passed since digital projection systems debuted at the Lehigh Valley's drive-ins, Becky's in Berlinsville and Shankweiler's in Orefield. But audiences have already given their verdict: In the words of late film critic Roger Ebert,...
Tags: Berlinsville, Dwayne Johnson, Whitehall, Oz the Great and Powerful (movie), Orefield
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Film Independent at LACMA celebrates 'Valley Girl'
Film Independent at LACMA is holding a 1980s costume contest after the 30th anniversary screening of Martha Coolidge's endearing comedy "Valley Girl" on Thursday evening at the Leo S. Bing Theater. The romantic comedy was inspired by Frank Zappa and his...
Tags: The Tree of Life (movie), Larry Karaszewski, Sally Kellerman, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Animation (Movie Genre)
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American Cinematheque to celebrate the late Roger Ebert
Thumbs up to the American Cinematheque. The independent, nonprofit cultural organization is paying homage to the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic Roger Ebert with a new film series, "The Great Movies: A Tribute to Roger Ebert." The influential...
Tags: Brad Pitt, Vertigo (movie), Entertainment Events, The Tree of Life (movie), Journalism
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TV pitches: So I've got this idea for a show ...
Two weeks from now, TV networks will announce their new slate of shows for next season. The majority of these series will be variations on a formula. Procedurals. High-concept sci-fi and fantasy dramas. Nighttime soaps. Comedies starring familiar faces....
Tags: Media Industry, Google Inc., Redbox, Science and Technology, Jimmy Fallon
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Top 3 Lehigh Valley events: Free Comic Book Day, Philly Non-Sports Card Show, Not So Silent Cinema featuring Buster Keaton shorts
FREE COMIC BOOK DAY 1 Celebrate this weekend's fully-charged release of "Iron Man 3" by picking up a complimentary comic book 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday at Beachead Comics, 1601 W. Chew St., Allentown. The store is one of thousands of comic book shops...
Tags: Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Coca-Cola Co., Allentown, Star Wars (movie), Iron Man 3 (movie)
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Let's review: Rachel Shteir and poor Chicago
Tribune criticAnd they said the gentle art of literary criticism was dead, confined to irrelevance. Not this week, gentle reader. Not in Chicago. Not in the heat of L'affaire de Shteir. What book review in the history of Chicago literature — heck, what recent...Tags: Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Mayor, News Media, Politics, Executive Branch
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CNN Films acquires SXSW doc 'Our Nixon' to air on the network in August
Richard Nixon is hot again. Fresh on the heels of Discovery Channel's critically acclaimed documentary "All the Presidents Men Revisited," about the scandal that brought down President Nixon and the movie it inspired, CNN Films and Cinedigm have...
Tags: Satellite and Cable Service, White House, Richard Nixon, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Film Festivals
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Director Ramin Bahrani ups the creative stakes with 'At Any Price'
Expand or die. This ominous motto of economic imperialism courses throughout the film "At Any Price," set against the imperiled world of modern-day family farming. Director Ramin Bahrani, who co-wrote the screenplay with Hallie Elizabeth Newton, spent...
Tags: Agriculture, Goodbye Solo (movie), Kim Dickens, Celebrities, Arable Farming
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Ebertfest: Poignant tribute to late founder
CHAMPAIGN — Film festivals — festivals themselves, let alone films — are rarely as poignant as the one unfolding right now in this college town. The 15th Annual Roger Ebert’s Film Festival began Wednesday without its founder, who...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Politics, Ebertfest, Lobbying
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1984's 'Repo Man' possesses a healthy cynicism
Iggy Pop was living in an efficiency apartment near the Whisky a Go Go when a gangly Brit visited him, seeking a theme song for his first movie. The filmmaker was Alex Cox, a graduate of UCLA film school, and the movie was "Repo Man," which would, after a...
Tags: Reaganomics, Philosophy, Tracey Walter, Fiction, Arts and Culture
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Thoughts while watching the Cubs
South Bend TribuneIdle thoughts while watching another Cub flub and pretending to listen to my wife as she seeks input for the weekly menu: - Does anybody else figure you have spent about a year of your life loading and unloading the dishwasher and almost another one...Tags: Wrigley Field, Sports, Rachel Weisz, Basketball, Dallas Stars
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10 things you might not know about film critics
Chicago Tribune reportersA screenwriter who went by the pseudonyms of R. Hyde and Reinhold Timme died recently in Chicago. Others knew the man as Roger Ebert, film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. Ebert's death got us thinking about interesting facts involving movie critics....Tags: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc., Rob Schneider, Crime, Law and Justice, Michael Phillips, Entertainment
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