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Event
Postcards from the Edge (1990) + Defending Your Life (1991) [double feature]
Sunday and Monday, Jan. 26-27, 2014:
Karina Longworth, author of the new book
MERYL STREEP: ANATOMY OF AN ACTOR, will introduce the screenings on one of the nights (check back for date)
POSTCARDS FROM THE EDGE
1990, USA, 101 minutes, 35mm, Sony Pictures Repertory
Directed by Mike Nichols
Written by Carrie Fisher
Starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid,
Gene Hackman, Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfuss
Music by Carly Simon
Sun & Mon: 7:30 pm
"Streep gives the most fully articulated comic performance of her career, the one she's always hinted at and made us hope for."
- Hal Hinson, Washington Post
"In this era of postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy."
- Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine
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PLUS, on the same program:
DEFENDING YOUR LIFE
1991, USA, 112 minutes, 35mm, Warner Bros.
Written and directed by Albert Brooks
Starring Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep, Rip Torn, Lee Grant, Buck Henry
Sun & Mon: 9:45 pm
"This is definitely Brooks's day in court, and he makes comic heaven of it."
- Desson Thomson, Washington Post
"The movie is funny in a warm, fuzzy way, and it has a splendidly satisfactory ending."
- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"One of Brooks' warmest and wittiest projects. Nice to see such a soft side of Streep."
- Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com
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This is a double feature:
your ticket admits you to BOTH films!
Screening formats: 35mm
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LocationNew Beverly Cinema (View)
7165 W. Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
United States
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