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‘History Detectives’ review: Invaluable

In the terminology of the antiques and art world, “History Detectives” probes the provenance of various objects, taking full advantage of the concentration of information on the Internet as well as tracking down people who may be able to authenticate the items.

If there’s anything amiss with the first “History Detectives” episode of the season, which airs on many PBS stations but is pre-empted for pledge period programming on KQED, it may be that it opens with the biggest of its three cases: whether a 1964 Stratocaster electric guitar with a sunburst design is the instrument used by Bob Dylan when he took to the stage of Newport Folk Festival in July 1965 and, instead of performing his acoustic signature songs, plugged in and changed the course of American pop music forever.

The instrument is owned by a woman named Dawn Peterson, whose late father was said to have been a pilot for several acts in the ’60s, including Peter, Paul and Mary, the Band and Dylan himself.

To determine whether the guitar was Dylan’s, “History” hosts Elyse Luray and Wes Cowan talk to a Dylan expert at Rolling Stone, a former road manager for the band, and a guitar expert in Rochester, N.Y., who carefully compares blown-up photographs of Dylan performing at Newport with the actual guitar, going so far as to see if the wood grain in the body and neck of the guitar matches.

The season premiere sticks with rock music history with two other investigations, one involving a photograph and a room service menu from Miami’s Deauville Hotel, where the Beatles performed in 1964.





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‘The Amazing Spider-Man’ review: Amazingly, good

Movie review Brattier Peter Parker brings it on with amazing special effects, 3-D [...] the bottom line, then we’ll fill in the details: “The Amazing Spider-Man” is a good Spider-Man movie. The new movie benefits from recent strides in computer graphics, so that now, finally, when Spider-Man swings from building to building, he no longer looks like a little stick figure bobbing up and down on a computer screen. The effects are convincing in both long and medium shot, such that you stop thinking of them as effects and start reacting to them, getting weak-kneed as Spider-Man teeters from the edge of skyscrapers. Part of the fun of any first Spider-Man installment is in waiting for Peter to recognize his newfound Spider-Man abilities, and yet the revelation scene in “The Amazing Spider-Man” is a disappointment. In this scene and others, first-time feature director Marc Webb has too much of a tendency to film action scenes with a series of tight close-ups. Suffice it to say, there are nuances to the villainy here, worthy of a good comic book, and not a bad cartoon, even if the stakes are as extreme as the possible destruction of New York City and the genetic corruption of the human species. Denis Leary, who has made a good career out of grumpiness, plays Gwen’s dad, the New York City police chief, and he’s exactly the right kind of unsmiling guy that no teenage boy would want as his girlfriend’s father.





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‘Emilie’ review: Adept experiment in science, love

For a leading figure of the French Enlightenment, the pioneer physicist and mathematician Émilie du Châtelet has been undergoing quite a theatrical renaissance in the Bay Area of late. Just a year after a taste of her…



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‘Letters From the Big Man’ review: Lush and humane

The mythic figure of Sasquatch, who also goes by Bigfoot or yeti, has long been represented as a malignant monster haunting the forest. But in “Letters From the Big Man,” Christopher Munch’s odd and heartwarming film,…



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‘Chimpanzee’ review: Nature doc that’s natural

Score one for the filmmakers of “Chimpanzee” over their counterparts in “The Hunger Games.” When it comes time for the chimps to stalk and kill some weaker primates, the humans in post-production don’t resort to a…



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‘Girls’ review: HBO’s groundbreaking sitcom

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Girls, comedy series, 10:30 p.m. Sunday, HBO Lena Dunham just may be the future of television. If not, she comes thrillingly close with Sunday’s premiere of her groundbreaking sitcom “Girls” on…



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‘You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here’ review

RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) You’re Looking at Me Like I Live Here and I Don’t: An “Independent Lens” broadcast. 11 p.m. Thurs. on KQED. “The world is something that one does not know that much enough,” says Lee Gorewitz,…



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‘Napoleon’ review: Rich feast of images, emotions

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Napoleon: Historical drama. Starring Albert Dieudonné and Vladimir Roudenko. Directed by Abel Gance. (Unrated. 330 minutes. At the Paramount Theatre in Oakland.) There is no other movie like “…



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‘Certitude and Joy’ review: Modern passion play

Chapter 22 of Genesis tells how God commanded Abraham to sacrifice his beloved son Isaac, a command Abraham was fully prepared to obey. In 2005, a young schizophrenic woman from Oakland named Lashaun Harris – acting on…



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‘Mad Men’ review: Season 5 premiere is a stunner

RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) Mad Men: Dramatic series. Season 5 premiere 9 p.m. Sun. on AMC. Even if creator Matthew Weiner hadn’t threatened to unleash the hounds of AMC hell on anyone who divulges virtually anything about…



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