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In Clint Eastwood's Changeling, Angelina Jolie tunes in to the seventh Academy Awards on the radio and roots for her favourite film, It Happened One Night, to win best picture.

Here is a little midweek treat, showing next Monday, and again at the end of the month, at London's BFI Southbank as part of its Passport to Cinema strand.

Not taking to the open road this Fourth of July? The road-trip movie genre has endless offerings.

All the way down at number 46 on the 2007 version of the AFI Top-100 Film list, we get to It Happened One Night , a romance wrapped in an adventure.

The Library of Congress Mount Pony Theater inside the Packard Campus of the National Audio Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper presents its first foreign language film Friday night at 7:30. The molto bello selection is the Oscar-winning "Cinema Paradiso," an endearing Italian film about the movies by director Giuseppe Tornatore.

I can't tell you how refreshing it is to see a movie like "Moscow, Belgium" in which the actors look like real people, proudly sporting wrinkles , flabby arms and receding hairlines.

The Film: Though we've seen several strong on-screen projections of many dynamic historical figures, Cleopatra's story is one that's evaded an ideal translation.

The 1930's had enough reporter movies to fill this whole list. Every actor capable of spitting out snappy dialogue was given a fedora and a press card to stick in his hatband; nearly every actress played some frail being pursued by a newsman.

Looking at the early Hollywood talking pictures, it is staggering to think about what American cinema might have produced if puritanical censorship had not paralysed the industry.

DISC set of early-'30s Paramount films titled Pre-Code Hollywood Collection and released as part of the Backlot Universal Series provides some absolute mulch along with the rarities from the days before the rigid enforcement of the puritanical Production Code.

"Who is this poisonous snake that racks our men, Caesar first, and then Antony?" The answer, of course, is Cleopatra first, and then Claudette Colbert, who starred in 1934's Cleopatra .

Starring Claudette Colbert , Henry Wilcoxon. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Released by Universal.

PICK OF THE WEEK "Doubt" : One of last year's finest films won't suffer much from the transition to the small screen, as it relies heavily the performances of three actors whose faces convey a wealth of emotion and calculation in close-up. OTHER TOP PICKS "Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra" : A 75th Anniversary edition of the version starring not ...

Posted by Michael H. Kleinschrodt, DVD columnist, The Times-Picayune April 06, 2009 12:05PM A 75th anniversary edition of director Cecil B. DeMille's " Cleopatra " is among the DVDs scheduled for release on April 7. In the 1934 film, Claudette Colbert stars as the queen of the Nile, whose lovers include Julius Caesar and Marc Antony .

A strict nun suspects a progressive priest of pedophilia in this unsettling, splendidly acted if stagey 2008 drama.

Classic Cinemas' flagship Tivoli Theatre has for a second year been voted "best movie theater" by readers of West Suburban Living magazine.

NO TIME FOR LOVE is a terrific romantic comedy starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray.

The Great Depression: bad for the economy, good for movies. The 1930s proved to be a prosperous time for Hollywood, with several film genres coming of age and resonating with audiences looking for any kind of escape.

Women can't find Prince Charming because he's married to me. Sunday, March 15, 2009 Silver Gloria Dickson, 1937-1944. Some of these images via Trouble in Paradise , It'll Take The Snap Out Of Your Garters! and ...

"It Happened One Night," a comedy starring Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert, was made before the movie code that forbid actors from getting sexy on screen.