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Movie Blog: Feline Female Double Shot
By Eric Henderson, WCCO Slinky is in season this week thanks to two presentations from Take-Up Productions. First up is tonight’s screening of Ne Change Rien, Pedro Costa’s monochromatic lovefest on...
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7th Twin Cities Arab Film Festival Opens Thursday
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — The seventh Twin Cities Arab Film Festival opens Thursday with the theme “Art in Revolution.” This year’s festival opens with the Egyptian film “18 Days.” A group of 10...
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Movie Blog: Feb. Retro Showings Movie Buffs Will Love
(credit: Universal) Valentine’s Day isn’t so far away now, and if you’re fortunate enough to be in a relationship with a movie buff, there are plenty of great options over the next few weeks to build...
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Tippi Hedren To Introduce ‘Marnie’ At Heights Theater
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota native Tippi Hedren is coming to the Twin Cities next month to introduce a free screening of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Marnie.” Hedren stars in the 1964 psychological...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
Horror classics and a beloved annual film festival are among this week’s best bets for adventurous moviegoers. Here are five suggestions for the next seven days: ——- Monday, Oct. 8: Onibaba (Trylon...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
If you aren’t among the crowd who watch the Golden Globes last night and thought to yourself, “Hey, I should probably get around to finally seeing Argo” — that is to say, if you’re fully caught up with...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
While nowhere near as crowded as last week’s smorgasbord of cinematic offerings, you’ve still gotta love a week where a double bill of gutsy noir competes for attention with two fests’ worth of Nordic...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
The Oscars are next Sunday, so if you haven’t caught some of the worthy contenders like Lincoln, Zero Dark Thirty or Amour, there’s still a little bit of time. (And, of course, if you haven’t seen the...
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Movie Blog: Twin Cities Arab Film Fest
Lines of division can be cruel and reductive, but necessary to make a point. Mediterranean cinema gets the Oscars, and Iranian cinema gets critics’ attention (and, now with A Separation, also the...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
Think you’re going to catch a fallow period for moviegoing on the eve of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival next month? Think again. There are more essential screenings going on in...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
The hits just keep coming. Upstream Color is being brought back for an encore run at the St. Anthony Main Theater on Friday, along with another pair of specialty draws. The Heights continues its...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
It’s Pride Week in the Twin Cities, and LGBT themes pop up in at least a few of the next seven days’ worth of recommended screenings. Here are your best bets for the week: ——- Monday, June 24: It’s a...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
It’s going to be a good weekend at Landmark Theaters for movie-goers who specifically seek out movies that tie into current events. The much discussed Grand Jury Prize-winner at this year’s Sundance...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
As summer starts to enter its final stretch, it’s probably time to consider kissing endless weeks of disposable entertainment adieu in favor of more substantial cinematic offerings. In that vein, you...
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Finding Minnesota: Heights Theatre Features Old-Time Charm
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (WCCO) — Before a movie starts, you’ll see ads on the screen and previews of coming attractions, but it’s an old-time attraction drawing customers to one Twin Cities theater....
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
It’s Thanksgiving week, and while I’m thankful there are so many diverse and varied new movies to check out in theaters (including 12 Years a Slave, Philomena, Nebraska, All is Lost, Mother Of George,...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
If you were hoping to get into this week’s Sound Unseen showings of The Punk Singer at the Trylon, you’re out of luck. All of the shows are now sold out, proving once again you have to be quick to get...
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Movie Blog: This Week’s Best Bets
Because studios apparently think that Oscar voters have the shortest of short-term memories, this week and next will see the release of literally dozens of movies that qualify as “must-sees” … or at...
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Local Music Tap: ‘Sherwin Linton — Forever On The Stage’
A retrospective documentary is capturing the life and times of a respected Midwest country musician who plays more than 200 gigs a year — and more amazingly — hasn’t missed one in 59 years. At 15 years...
View ArticleHeights Theatre Concert To Benefit Full Restoration Of Historic Pipe Organ
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS, Minn. (WCCO) — In the lavishly restored Heights Theatre, organist Lou Hurvitz is resurrecting musical scores from the past. “The original use for these organs was to accompany silent...
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