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“Highsmith on Screen” plays Sept. 2 – 8! The series of films adapted from Patricia Highsmith’s work (timed to our opening of the new doc LOVING HIGHSMITH) includes PURPLE NOON, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN, THE AMERICAN FRIEND, THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY & CAROL. https://t.co/V407jexsGf https://t.co/FhAcXUH397

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Our Oscar Wilde series continues with THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1952) in 35mm, SALOMÉ (1923), with live piano accompaniment, and THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY— all screenings intro’d by Matthew Sturgis, author of Oscar Wilde: A Life. Info/tickets: https://t.co/bUS9kXbGhK https://t.co/vT0AQokeI8

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Behind the scenes of George Lucas’ STAR WARS: EPISODE IV – A NEW HOPE, “The greatest kids' picture for adults since THE WIZARD OF OZ.” -@NPR Screening Sunday, December 25 at 11am for Film Forum JR — all tickets just $11: https://t.co/qCLooYGmcB https://t.co/Ty5V4IWbrF

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With a post-film conversation with Melissa Newman, daughter of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, and film historian Foster Hirsch. Paul Newman's posthumously published memoir “The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Man (Knopf)” will be available at our concession! https://t.co/Lb3HzJdcLX

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THE CONFORMIST, Bernardo Bertolucci’s operatic political allegory adapted from the novel by Alberto Moravia, and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, opens Fri, January 6 in a 4K restoration from the original camera negative! https://t.co/lcaya7tI0w https://t.co/93moYOgr0U

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Richard Koszarski, author of “Keep ‘Em in the East”: Kazan, Kubrick & the Postwar NY Renaissance, will intro tonight's 6 pm screening of THE BIG BREAK, Joseph Strick's 1953 coming of age film, which disappeared from public view after its original release: https://t.co/gJhzmyDGsU

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✨Tomorrow at 11:00 and 4:45: Sidney Poitier leads a powerhouse cast including Ruby Dee, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett Jr., Diana Sands and Claudia McNeil in Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN: http://bit.ly/3LzFIsd https://t.co/DArVnzAqeQ

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Our Oscar Wilde series wraps up with the 1945 adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, playing tonight at 8pm (with specially recorded intro by Matthew Sturgis, the brilliant author of the new biography Oscar Wilde: A Life) and tomorrow at 2:30. https://buff.ly/34xqSCo https://t.co/815CQjmdIM

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Our Oscar Wilde series wraps up with the 1945 adaptation of THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, playing tonight at 8pm (with specially recorded intro by Matthew Sturgis, the brilliant author of the new biography Oscar Wilde: A Life) and tomorrow at 2:30. https://t.co/XozG6E1ZP3 https://t.co/815CQjmdIM

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Screening this Saturday at 2:30 & 6:35 as a part of WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY PRESTON STURGES. Author Stuart Klawans will intro the 6:35 show & sign copies of his book, “Crooked, but Never Common: The Films of Preston Sturges,” following the screening. https://t.co/fxA9VnUCbX https://t.co/w6m0C1KW8m