{"id":422456,"date":"2026-08-03T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422456\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T10:33:11","slug":"where-to-see-unfaithful-the-prestige-and-other-l-a-rep-movies-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422456\/","title":{"rendered":"Where to see &#8216;Unfaithful,&#8217; &#8216;The Prestige&#8217; and other L.A. rep movies in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It\u2019s never a bad time to return to Glenn Close\u2019s vicious, magisterial turn in Stephen Frears\u2019 1988 period drama, better known for inspiring \u201cCruel Intentions.\u201d But go back to the original, which is somehow fresher and younger. Consider it homework for a comeback that\u2019s just about to unspool: John Malkovich, sure to dominate awards discussion this fall for \u201cWild Horse Nine,\u201d should have won everything for his performance as Valmont, a character who is, by turns, vengeful, toying and, at the last possible second, openhearted. \u201cIt\u2019s beyond my control,\u201d he repeats, and you believe him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDangerous Liaisons\u201d is playing Aug. 21 at Vidiots. <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/vidiotsfoundation.org\/movies\/dangerous-liaisons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tickets here.<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s never a bad time to return to Glenn Close\u2019s vicious, magisterial turn in Stephen Frears\u2019 1988 period&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[46026,7273,168616,22367,6205,46028,168617,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,3906,4287,46027,46025,62173,52746,46024],"class_list":["post-422456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-archival-print","tag-august","tag-behind-the-wheel-inspiration","tag-few-people","tag-guide","tag-handy-catch-all","tag-joan-crawford-melodrama","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-month","tag-movie","tag-other-surprise","tag-rich","tag-ryan-gosling","tag-screening","tag-special-guest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}