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19 July 2010

Travis Banton undresses Miriam Hopkins

threeonthebed

Costume designer Travis Banton, perpetrator of slinky pre-code evening gowns at Paramount Studios, was a genius. His work on view in LACMA’s Lubitsch film series now.

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9 July 2010

Ernst Lubitsch’s 90-minute tour of paradise

Dietrich, Cooper, Desire

Tonight opens LACMA’s 16-film retrospective of the American-made comedies either produced or directed by Ernst Lubitsch [...]

5 May 2010

Musuraca put the noir into film noir

wheredangerlives

LACMA’s upcoming retrospective of film noir cinematographer Nicholas Musuraca looks great! [...]

1 April 2010

Our exigent film-viewing life in Los Angeles

Movie Audience 2

It’s tough living in Los Angeles. If you are a film lover, there’s simply too much to see in April 2010. [...]

14 June 2009

film noir francais

purple-noon

Alain Delon plays the sinister Tom Ripley in Rene Clement’s brilliant 1960 version of Patricia Highsmith’s “The Talented Mr. Ripley” called Plein Soleil. [...]