Being a few inches tall has never before been such a tall order. In the Japanese animated film "The Secret World of Arrietty," Arrietty and her family have to find a way to surmount the problems associated with their size, while still remaining hidden from the humans living above them. Read more...

Tonight, the Hammer Museum will be screening a film series titled "Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs." The group of films are part of a New York-based roaming screening series that couples East and West Coast queer experimental filmmakers of the past and present. Read more...

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“Dirty Looks: Long Distance Love Affairs” will feature the work of artist and filmmaker Jonesy. One of his pieces is the five-minute long “Beauty Must Suffer,” which was created in 2010 in color and with sound.

To most modern movie stars, putting out 75 films in only 37 years would be quite a remarkable task. For Spencer Tracy, whose acting career lasted from 1930 to 1967, it wasn't. Read more...

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Spencer Tracy (right) in “The Power and the Glory” (1933). The film has been restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, which is presenting a film series on Tracy titled “Spencer Tracy: That Natural Thing.”

In a scene from the 1924 silent film "Kino-Eye," a slice of beef from the marketplace flies back into the cow. The audience sees the cow's skin come back on the bone and a knife cut across the cow's throat in reverse, bringing the cow back to life, back to the stockyard and then finally to the countryside from where it came. Read more...

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Liza Johnson's "Return" is a brilliant take on a familiar story. A soldier's return to civilian life has been the subject of countless films, though too often rehashed narratives undermine the complexity of what U.S. servicemen and servicewomen experience upon returning home. Read more...

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