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This year’s virtual TCM Classic Film Festival is underway, taking place on multiple platforms with movies and talks happening both on the Turner Classic Movies cable channel and the HBO Max streaming platform. The selections on HBO Max will be available throughout May. I, for one, am looking forward to watching Patricia Birch’s “Grease 2,” the documentary “Nichols and May – Take Two” and Chantal Akerman’s “News From Home” and “La Chambre.”
Available virtually via Film Forum (and playing in L.A. at the Laemmle NoHo) is a new restoration of Melvin Van Peebles’ 1968 debut feature “The Story of a Three Day Pass,” starring Harry Baird and Nicole Berger in the tale of a Black American G.I. on leave in Paris. Taking stylistic cues from the French New Wave, the film introduces Van Pebbles’ distinct voice and vision, which would develop into such future projects as “Watermelon Man” and “Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song.”