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Texas Public Radio’s twelfth annual Cinema Tuesdays series concludes with George Roy Hill’s 1973 caper The Sting, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw. It’s 1936 in Chicago and Henry Gondoroff (Newman as an experienced con artist) and Johnny Hooker (Redford as an enthusiastic small-time swindler) combine minds to cultivate the “Big Con”...
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Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s Shut Up and Play the Hits was designed to make audiences feel like one of the lucky 20,000 who witnessed firsthand LCD Soundsystem’s sold-out farewell concert, an epic ending that puzzled the exploding fanbase of a band at the apex of its fame. Likened to Martin Scorsese’s The Last...
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Two men find themselves at the mercy of a deceitful femme fatale in Gilda, a 1946 noir thriller set in Buenos Aires. Directed by Charles Vidor, the film draws a tense triangle between high-rolling casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready), down-and-out gambler Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford), and Gilda (Rita Hayworth), a quick-witted tease who...
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Decades before Harold and Kumar were going to White Castle and escaping from Guantanamo Bay, Harold and Maude were attending random funerals and bonding over a common fascination with death. Starring Ruth Gordon as a 79-year-old free spirit named Maude and Bud Cort as a morbidly theatrical young man named Harold, the 1971 film...
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Stephen Sondheim’s Company—filmed this past spring in a production by the New York Philharmonic—plays just three more screenings in San Antonio (at the Bijou, for instance), and judging by “opening night’s” performance on Wednesday, it’s a crowd-pleaser. With an all-star cast (including Neil Patrick Harris a.k.a “Doogie Howser,” Pattie LuPone, and, somewhat incredibly, Stephen...
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