A Hollywood sometime gold standard, sometime tarnished relic gets buffed and polished again next month, as United Artists is saluted with a 90th anniversary touring festival that stops at the Brattle Theatre beginning Friday.

Ready for the ride of their lives
The world of top-level thoroughbred racing is an insular and esoteric one, a society of lifelong horsemen and women not much concerned with the daily vagaries of the world at large. They are focused on one thing: finding that once-in-a-lifetime horse that will give them a shot at the Kentucky Derby. This all-consuming passion and the ways in which it …

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