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Among the films being screened are Jack Conway’s 1935 “A Tale of Two Cities,” John Huston’s 1942 “In This Our Life,” Julien Duvivier’s 1942 “Tales of Manhattan,” William Friedkin’s 1973 “The Exorcist,” and Norman Jewison’s 1967 “In the Heat of the Night.”

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