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Switzerland's Locarno Film Festival will celebrate Columbia Pictures' centennial with a major retro titled 'The Lady With the Torch.'

The retrospective will be unveiled at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday. 

'Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust' asserts that only films will remain to bear witness to the Holocaust, and Hollywood bears responsibility for educating and reminding the world about this epochal moment in history.

HAVING RESURFACED late in life due to a revival of her sex films, an eighty-nine-year-old Doris Wishman, clad in leopard print and wedge sandals, appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 2002. Conan is flummoxed by Wishman’s spiky retorts and willfully evasive manner. Affecting sheepishness when asked for the name of her latest (penultimate) film, she finally discloses the title: Dildo Heaven. Sensing discomfort, Wishman asks, “Conan, are you afraid of me?” The other guest, Roger Ebert, enters the fray to discuss Wishman’s work, announcing his familiarity with Deadly Weapons (197...

Silent screen star Marion Davies makes these two restored films by directors George Hill and Sidney Franklin irresistibly delightful.