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...Brattle begins its Film Noir 101 program with arguably the first and the best film noir. Legendary director John Huston (Key Largo, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre) debuts with his own adaptation of Dashiell Hammett’s 1929 classic pulp fiction novel of the same name. Hard-boiled San Francisco detective, Sam Spade (Bogart), goes head to head in search for the elusive statuette against the femme fatale (Astor), the “fat man” (Greenstreet), and his fair-weather partner (Lorre). It was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor and Best...
...Bolshoi Ballet and Orchestra are performing Raymonda, the classic romance featuring the timeless pas de deux “Grand Pas Hongrois.” In an earlier review of a performance at London’s Coliseum, Ballet.co magazine said, “The choreography and its execution was elegant and refined.” Tickets $45-92, available at www.wangcenter.org. 7:30 p.m. Wang Center for the Performing Arts, 270 Tremont St., Boston...
Passion. Politics. Pride. In times of fundamental threats to the security of a nation, at what point does the state’s safety take precedence over the individual freedoms and personal consciences of its citizens? In this gritty new adaptation of a classic story of a young woman who must follow her own heart and defy the law of the land, the timeless themes and uneasy questions of loyalty, patriotism and personal morality are illuminated afresh in a vivid contemporary context. Tickets...
...title of Young Buck's first solo project, Straight Outta Ca$hville, is a throwback to 1989's Straight Outta Compton, the classic gang life manifesto from N.W.A. (Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Easy-E, M.C. Ren and D.J. Yella). N.W.A.'s depictions of violence, often directed against the police, put Los Angeles on the hip hop map. Hailing from Nashville, Buck hopes to do for the Dirty South with Ca$hville what Compton did for the Wild West...
...Laimer. "You lose the real sense of driving." Their German-based company, Nostalgic, simply drops the key in the client's palm and hands over a map and guidebook. "There are people who have the money and the desire but not the knowledge or the time to own a classic car," notes Pichler. "Now a businessman in London gets on a plane and three hours later he is driving a vintage Alfa Romeo through the hills of Chianti." It's almost hard to stop for lunch...