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August 8, 2008

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Film: Baghead

Friday August 08, 2008 - Sunday August 10, 2008
Rated: R

Magnolia at the Modern presents the quirky comedy / drama Baghead, an indie from Austin’s Duplass brothers.

Four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. Problem is: What happens when their story idea – a horror flick about a group of friends tormented …

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Film: Street Angel

Thursday August 14, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a restored print of director Frank Borzage’s 1928 classic, Street Angel.

Janet Gaynor won the very first Academy Award in the category of Best Actress for her portrayal of the “good girl forced to go bad” in this beautifully photographe…

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Film: The Iron Mask

Friday August 15, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a preserved print of director Allan Dwan’s 1929 classic, The Iron Mask.

Legendary actor and athlete Douglas Fairbanks wrote the script for this fast-paced adventure under the pseudonym “Elton Thomas”. He also stars as the swashbuckling…

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Film: The Big Trail

Friday August 15, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a fully restored print of director Raoul Walsh’s classic western, The Big Trail (1930).

A 23-year-old John Wayne delivers his first starring performance as a wagon train scout leading pioneers through perilous territory to Oregon; but the real sta…

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Film: The Love Parade

Saturday August 16, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a beautifully preserved print of director Ernest Lubitsch’s first talking picture, The Love Parade (1929).

Songstress Jeanette MacDonald made her screen debut in this charming and sophisticated musical comedy about the antics of a newly wedded roy…

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Film: His Girl Friday

Sunday August 17, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a meticulously restored print of director Howard Hawk’s fast paced comic gem, His Girl Friday (1940).

Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell star in this wacky satire about a newspaper editor who uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-w…

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Film: Brute Force

Sunday August 17, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a beautifully restored print of the dark classic, Brute Force (1947).

This brutally violent prison movie was directed by Jules Dassin (Riffi and Night and the City), famous for his visually innovative “noirs” – black and white movies t…

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Film: The Boy with Green Hair

Thursday August 21, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a newly restored print of Joseph Losey’s postwar allegory, The Boy with Green Hair (1948).

When his parents die in the London Blitz, an orphaned boy’s (Dean Stockwell) hair suddenly turns green in this parable about bigotry, fascism and the …

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Film: Alice in Wonderland

Friday August 22, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a newly restored print of the 1950 version of Alice in Wonderland, a collaboration between Great Britain and France.

In this colorful adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale, live actors are combined with puppets to tell the story of the girl wh…

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Film: The Set Up

Friday August 22, 2008
Rated: NR

Magnolia at the Modern, in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, presents a preserved print of director Robert Wise’s 1949 masterpiece, The Set Up.

Unfolding in “real time,” Wise’s powerful film noir exposes the corruption of the boxing underworld and vilifies the mobsters who control it. Robert Ryan t…

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