In the interest of supporting and promoting a Los Angeles institution and in encouraging others to do the same for their local revival movie theaters, here’s the first of what I hope becomes a semi-regular LiC feature: New Beverly Nights, wherein I will sample some of the cinematic double-feature bounty The New Beverly Cinema serves [...]

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Daniel Day-Lewis and Gordon Warnecke in My Beautiful Laundrette
Set in the cauldron of conflict between classes, races, sexes and sexualities in ’80s Thatcher-era London, Stephen Frears’ My Beautiful Laundrette is not only a terrific slice of life drama, it’s also a sort of time capsule from another time and place and a quintessential art film [...]

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John Boorman’s 1967 film Point Blank begins with a bang. Two of them. Gunshots. With each shot, a title:

The target of the gunshots is a man named Walker (Lee Marvin). The shooter is Walker’s friend Mal Reese (John Vernon). Mal owes money to a shady group referred to only as “The Organization” and he’s enlisted [...]

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