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  Robert Bresson Retrospective at the Aero

  By Nick Pinkerton

  There is a moment at the end of Robert Bresson's penultimate film, The Devil, Probably (1977), when Charles (Antoine Monnier), a young man who... More >>

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  I Wish Review

  By Alison Willmore

  Bullet Train Dreams: Koreeda's I Wish Japan's Hirokazu Koreeda has always been an astute observer of all human behavior, but his greatest gift as... More >>

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  High and Low: Postwar Japan in Black and White at LACMA

  By Doug Cummings

  Beginning this weekend and continuing June 8-9, LACMA will offer a series of postwar Japanese films rarely screened in L.A. While the museum's... More >>

• L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival

  By Ernest Hardy

  There are a lot of solidly crafted films on the program of this year's Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival — movies that are well shot,... More >>

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  Dark Shadows and God Bless America Reviewed

  By Nick Pinkerton

  A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts:... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  By Veronika Ferdman

  Thursday, May 10 The UCLA Film and TV Archive has silent films about two hot-button issues in store for tonight, with Traffic in Souls... More >>

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  The Avengers Review

  By Karina Longworth

  At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially... More >>

• Noir City 2012 at the Egyptian

  By Philippe Garnier

  There exists a body of Hollywood films made in 1932-33 — a narrow window just before and after Franklin Roosevelt's election — that... More >>

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  Vampire Double Feature at Cinefamily

  By Veronika Ferdman

  Named after a famous witch, music duo Demdike Stare (aka Miles Whittaker and Sean Canty) are known for their ghostly electronic sounds of... More >>

• Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  By Veronika Ferdman

  Thursday, May 3 World-renowned though he may be, Peter Greenaway's films are rarely screened on the local repertory circuit, which makes the New... More >>

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  Bernie Review

  By Nick Pinkerton

  Richard Linklater's Bernie is the rarest of rarities: a truly unexpected film. It might be classified as a black comedy, for it deals with the... More >>

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  Here Review

  By Karina Longworth

  Will (Ben Foster) — a lone-wolf American cartographer on a contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite maps in Armenia's... More >>

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  Brit Marling in Sound of My Voice

  By Karina Longworth

  Twenty-something Silver Lake couple Peter (Christopher Denham) and Lorna (Nicole Vicius) talk their way into an unnamed cult that meets in the... More >>

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  LACMA Presents Abstract Animated Films by Oskar Fischinger and Others

  By Doug Cummings

  LACMA's animation screenings have been unusually strong this year, including a sold-out UPA show in March and an upcoming Paramount show on... More >>

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  Experimental LGBT Film and Video at the Egyptian

  By Ernest Hardy

  “Same Sex/Different Sex: Queer Identity and Culture” is one of the final installments in L.A. Filmforum’s nearly yearlong... More >>

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