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The four-day convention celebrates all things tiki and midcentury with a full schedule of parties, markets, seminars and tours.

JoJolion character launches on Friday with early access on Wednesday

San Francisco Silent Film Festival features iron-masked swashbuckling, flabbergasting twists, sexy farce, visual beauty, and strong women staring into the camera.

A beginner’s path through the work of one of cinema’s most notorious director-geniuses, whose staggeringly ambitious projects were infamously curbed by Hollywood.

– Death notices for April 7-11. Courtesy of Blue Sky Cremation Service and Dignity Memorial:

August 27 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of writer Theodore Dreiser in Terre Haute, Indiana. Dreiser was the author of a number of the most important American novels ever written.

Classic American movies “Some Like It Hot” and “Sunset Boulevard” emerged from the tumult and horror of interwar Germany

Billy Wilder: from poor Austrian journalist to Hollywood superstar The director’s newly translated writings reveal how his life as a penniless reporter shaped his hit movies Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane, singer and ukulele player for the female band in Some Like It Hot. Photograph: APL Archive/Alamy Marilyn Monroe as Sugar Kane, singer and ukulele player for the female band in Some Like It Hot. Photograph: APL Archive/Alamy DonnaFerguson Sun 18 Apr 2021 03.30 EDT In an arresting scene from ...