Recommended Film Screenings
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Osamu Tezuka is known as the Japanese Walt Disney, but the prolific artist and animator tended toward grittier, more sophisticated storytelling than his American counterpart. Beyond his iconic character Astro Boy, Tezuka created numerous films that explored the depths of human nature through witty social commentary. This showcase of his short films features nine succinct pieces, including the anti-war leaning "Tales Of The Street Corner," the visually stunning treatise on environmental destruction, "Legend Of The Forest," and his love letter ...
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off ranks alongside The Blues Brothers as the movie most associated with Chicago, but whether it’s any good is another question. Some take it as the greatest school-skipping fantasy ever conceived, with Matthew Broderick’s unflappable Ferris as the ideal tour guide; others might be inclined to agree with South Park’s Eric Cartman, who cleverly appropriated one of the film’s pieces of voiceover philosophy. (“Life goes pretty fast. If you don’t stop ...
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Viewers usually approach Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Shining with mixed expectations, hoping for either a Kubrick film to match the formal rigor of his classics 2001 and A Clockwork Orange or a horror movie ...
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Long before Tootsie, and eons before such derivative drivel as Sorority Girls, Billy Wilder blessed us with Some Like It Hot, easily the best cross-dressing comedy ever made. Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as musicians forced to hide out ...
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Sorry, Troll 2. The newest, most viable contender for “best worst movie” is director Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, a shockingly inept, unabashedly self-indulgent piece of cinema that’s found new life as the heir to Rocky Horror Picture Show ...
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Though not as charming as The Dark Crystal, Jim Henson’s follow-up feature, Labyrinth, is more polished visually and conceptually while still retaining a homemade, handcrafted, meticulously realized charm. A 14-year-old Jennifer Connelly stars as a self-absorbed teenager immersed in ...
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Woody Allen’s black-and-white love letter to New York, set to the music of George Gershwin and painted on a widescreen canvas, Manhattan may be the only one of his films that’s essential to experience on the big screen ...
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Crosstalk Ferris Bueller: True to Chicago?
November 20, 2009 | 12:00am -
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feature Remembering why we like Robin Williams
November 20, 2009 | 12:00am -
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Interview The "God of Manga," humanized
November 11, 2009 | 12:00am -
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Contest Win tickets to the Found Footage Festival at Arlington Cinema 'N' Drafthouse
November 3, 2009 | 4:35pm -
