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Screen Grabs: Sound on film, from Beirut bombings to messages from the dead

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Plus: The mystery of Pink Floyd's lysergic genius Syd Barrett, and the pitter-patter of Preston Sturges at BAMPFA
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Screen Grabs: Beyond Barbenheimer lies the behemoth ‘Beanie Bubble’

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Plus: If you aren't suffering a pink hangover, 'Barbie Nation' illuminates while '20 Days in Mariupol' provides a harrowing antidote
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Screen Grabs: The campus rebels who kept film culture alive

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A new book details Ann Arbor's essential cinema underground. Plus: Soviet director Yuliya Solntseva gets her due, more
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Jewish Film Fest spotlights Bella Abzug, Gene Wilder, and a host of fresh features

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43rd installment also takes on hot topics, in movies like 'H2: The Occupation Lab,' 'Israelism,' and 'The Conspiracy'
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Screen Grabs: Blazing a Black trail in pro sports, then and now

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Plus: Floods and quicksand, zombies and rabbits, and even more 'Bird Box' in this week's movie reviews
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Silent Film Fest kicks off with a Douglas Fairbanks swan song

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26th installment includes Mae Murray, Laurel & Hardy, Sessue Hayakawa, Mary Philbin Norma Shearer—all with live music
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Screen Grabs: An ingenious tale—and a delicious role—in ‘The Lesson’

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Plus: YouTube's corrosive effects on political discourse, and two French movies tackle the search for personal identity
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Screen Grabs: Saluting the legacies of Luis Buñuel, Béla Tarr, and… Lindsey Lohan

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'Viridiana' still scathes, 'Satantango' still mesmerizes, and 'Mean Girls' still delights.
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Screen Grabs: The night the Cramps played a Napa mental hospital

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Historic 1978 concert screened at the Roxie, with Mutants in tow. Plus: Quirky 'Will-o'-the-Wisp' and enlightening 'Close to Vermeer'
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Screen Grabs: Bodies on the line, from ‘Give Me an A’ to ‘A Woman Kills’

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Abortion shorts, drag liberation, intersex community, a woman-directed Spaghetti Western, The Boz, and Rock Hudson on screens.

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