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Apr 15, 2025

Pete

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Pete has published a news story:

On This Day: April 15, 1988 – The Moderns Premiered in Theaters.

On this day April 15, 1988, the art house drama The Moderns premiered in theaters. Directed by Alan Rudolph, the film starred Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, and John Lone in a stylish and moody story set in 1920s Paris during the peak of the expatriate art scene.

Carradine played an American painter navigating love, ambition, and artistic integrity while surrounded by real and fictional versions of cultural icons from the era. The film mixed romance, satire, and noir elements with lush...

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