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Jazz Week. Rarely seen films of the great jazz performers of the '40s and '50s, at the Park Square Moviehouse. Thursday: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Gil Evans, and others. Friday: The Connection, about the drug experience, features Jackie McLean and Freddy Redd. Call 722-4100 ext. 497 for times and info.

To Have and Have Not. Lauren Bacall's first screen appearance was in this classic Bogart film. Ernest Hemingway and Director Howard Hawks worked out changes in Hemingway's novel. Then William Faulkner wrote the screenplay and Hawks directed with his tongue in his cheek. The filming was spontaneous and the plot got lost, boiling down to Bogart and his tough, sexy dame -- and Walter Brennan. "Ever get stuck by a dead bee?" 1944.

Hiroshima Mon Amour. One of the earliest and most important films of the French New Wave. Alain Resnais's film begins with a French actress who falls in love with a Japanese architect in Hiroshima. The associations of love and war provoke a dislocation of memory and time. Emmanuele Riva brings forth a tremendous range of emotion, which is very evocative even on a first viewing, before subtle complexities begin to fall into place. 1959.

Shadow of a Doubt. One of the films Hitchcock thinks his best, with Joseph Cotton playing a psychotic murderer hiding in a small town behind his mild-mannered exterior. Technically, this is one of Hitchcock's subtlest films. This lack of ostentation is what makes it so effective. 1943.

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