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Classic film club wraps up next Thursday

Addison County Independent 13 Mar 2025
The March 20, screening will feature “His Girl Friday” — a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, ...
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Classic films in rare 70mm, plus screwball comedies, coming up at Camelot in Palm Springs

Desert Sun 12 Mar 2025
Academy Award winner Adrien Brody received the Desert Palm Achievement Award, Actor, for his role in "The Brutalist" at the Palm Springs International Film Awards. Calling all film buffs ... Four worthy films have been selected to mark the occasion.
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Disney didn't copy 'Moana' from a man's story of a surfer boy, a jury says

Chatanooga Times Free Press 12 Mar 2025
... Disney's 2016 hit animated film about a questing Polynesian princess ... Animal guides go back to movies as early as 1940's "Pinocchio" and appear in all of Musker and Clements' previous films, he said.
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Disney cleared of plagiarism in Moana lawsuit

RTE 11 Mar 2025
... 2016 hit animated film about a questing Polynesian princess ... Animal guides go back to movies as early as 1940’s Pinocchio and appear in all of Mr Musker and Mr Clements’ previous films, he said.
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Disney wins $10 billion lawsuit alleging it 'copied' Moana from surfer boy story, but sword ...

Hindustan Times 11 Mar 2025
... and Disney’s 2016 hit animated film about a questing Polynesian princess ... Animal guides go back to movies as early as 1940's Pinocchio and appear in all of Musker and Clements’ previous films, he said.
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Jurors to decide whether 'Moana' came from a famed Disney duo or a man's story of a surfer boy

North Shore News 10 Mar 2025
... was the basis for the hit 2016 animated film ... Many others, including animal guides, go back to Disney movies as early as 1940's “Pinocchio” and appear in all of Musker and Clements’ previous films.
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Disney didn’t copy ‘Moana’ from a man’s story of a surfer boy, a jury says

The Los Angeles Times 10 Mar 2025
... hit animated film about a questing Polynesian princess ... Many others, including animal guides, go back to Disney movies as early as 1940's “Pinocchio” and appear in Musker and Clements’ previous films.
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‘Keeps me optimistic’: why You’ve Got Mail is my feelgood movie

The Guardian 10 Mar 2025
Based on the 1940 film The Shop Around the Corner, and centred on two competing booksellers – Ryan’s Kathleen Kelly, who runs her mother’s independent children’s bookstore, and Hanks’s Joe Fox, the ...
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Roy Ayers, Legendary Jazz Vibraphonist Behind ‘Everybody Loves the Sunshine,’ Dies at 84

The Wrap 06 Mar 2025
He was 84 years old ... On top of his success with the group, Ayers – who was born in Los Angeles in 1940 – also composed for film. He wrote and produced the soundtrack for the 1973 blaxploitation film “Coffy” which starred Pam Grier ... .
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First, catch your (CGI) dragon: hope that visual effects breakthrough can reanimate UK film industry

The Observer 02 Mar 2025
The UK film ... He is optimistic that there are “green shoots” of recovery but the casualties have been firms such as Technicolor, which worked on films from Disney’s 1940 Pinocchio to last year’s Mufasa.
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The Most Awarded Actors in Oscar History

The Times of India 02 Mar 2025
He was nominated four times in the Best Supporting Actor category and won three—for Come and Get It (1936), Kentucky (1938), and The Westerner (1940).
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All 96 Best Picture Winners, Ranked by Tomatometer

Rotten Tomatoes 02 Mar 2025
See where all the films place in our guide to Best Picture Winners, Ranked by Tomatometer! #1 ... Rebecca (1940) ... The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I by their.
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This week’s agenda: Feb. 28-March 6

Aspen Times 28 Feb 2025
The film traces the life and survival of the renowned painter through her powerful paintings — from her rise to international stardom in 1920s Paris to her move to the United States, fleeing fascism in 1940 to her revival in the current art market.
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VFX giant Technicolor lays off more than 200 workers in Culver City

The Los Angeles Times 27 Feb 2025
The 110-year-old business —which famously brought color to the big screen — worked on such film classics as “The Wizard of Oz,” Disney’s 1940 film “Pinocchio” and “The Lion King.” In recent years, the ...
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