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NOW PLAYING: A guide to art house and 2nd run theaters for the week beginning Dec. 26
•indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N. State St. 312-846-2800 siskelfilmcenter.org •"The Bridge on the River Kwai" **** (U.S./U.K.; David Lean, 1957). The great pacifist WW II adventure...Tags: David Lean, Movies, Wild Child (movie), Gene Siskel, Heavy Engineering
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Sci-fi classics ready for remakes
Tribune NewspapersHollywood has already dipped into its sci-fi vault for 21st Century remakes of "The War of the Worlds," "The Planet of the Apes" and "The Day the Earth Stood Still," so what's next on the revival list? Plenty. Here's a list of projects at various stages...Tags: Stephen Sommers, Kyle MacLachlan, Darren Aronofsky, Movies, Paul Verhoeven
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to art house and 2nd run theaters for the week beginning Dec. 19
•indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. Bank of America Cinema 4901 W. Irving Park Rd. 312-904-9442 ♦"The More the Merrier" (U.S.; George Stevens, 1943)...Tags: Joel McCrea, George Stevens Jr., Music Box Theatre, Movies, Wild Child (movie)
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'Vicky Cristina Barcelona': Woody Allen's European adventures continue -- successfully
Tribune criticIt took a screenplay set among Americans in Spain for Woody Allen to make his most French film yet. " Vicky Cristina Barcelona" plays like a conscious attempt at a freewheeling artifact of the French New Wave, particularly Francois Truffaut's "Jules...Tags: Television, Film Festivals, Movies, Folk Music, Scarlett Johansson
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New York film fest highlighted by 'Che,' Eastwood
The New York Film Festival defines itself as an annual chance to take account of the state of film as art.
Last year's story line was obvious enough: American filmmakers, from Julian Schnabel to Wes Anderson, were making -- and finding ways to distribute...Tags: Mickey Rourke, Film Festivals, Culture, Kent Jones, Festive Event
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'The 400 Blows' -- 4 stars / 'Antoine and Colette' -- 3 1/2 stars (both directed by Francois Truffaut)
Tribune movie criticShot in supple black and white in widescreen Dyalscope, Francois Truffaut's 1959 masterwork "The 400 Blows" seems forever young. Why? Partly because of its casting; partly because Truffaut knew how to communicate to an audience eager for unsentimental...Tags: Music Theater, Claude Chabrol, Music Box Theatre, Movies, Jean-Paul Belmondo
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Screening process
Tribune Newspapersfew pages into "The Film Club," the smart new memoir by Canadian film critic David Gilmour, it becomes clear that if he ever saw any of MGM's squeaky-clean Andy Hardy movies while growing up, they left little impression on him. It's doubtful that the...Tags: David Gilmour, Movies, Elaine May, John Lennon, Gary Cooper
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WATCHING
1. 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' 7 p.m., AMC Director Steven Spielberg's 1977 science-fiction epic remains one of the best screen testaments to the notion "we are not alone." Richard Dreyfuss plays a power-company worker who learns...Tags: Richard Dreyfuss, Movies, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Steven Spielberg, Tom Selleck
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Blacklisted Director Jules Dassin Dies at 96
Jules Dassin, the blacklisted American filmmaker who was a master of film noir, directing such classics as "Brute Force," "The Naked City" and "Rififi," died Monday in an Athens hospital. He was 96. The cause of death was not made public. The...Tags: Music Theater, New York Times, Tatum O'Neal, Movies, Edward Dmytryk
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'Love Songs'
jan.stuart@newsday.comFrench movie musicals are an oxymoron, notwithstanding the luxuriantly camp collaborations of "Umbrellas of Cherbourg" director Jacques Demy and composer Michel Legrand back in the '60s. Christophe Honoré's flat-footed "Love Songs" does little to change...Tags: Music, Movies
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Movie review: 'Dans Paris'
Tribune arts critic3 stars (out of four) The roaming shots of the French capital and the desultory drift of modern life are right out of a 1960s New Wave classic, except that the more recent "Dans Paris" is shot in color. Clearly, director Christophe Honore intends this...Tags: Movies, Jean-Luc Godard, Romain Duris, Flannery O'Connor
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Movie review: 'Poison Friends'
Tribune movie critic3 stars (out of four) Movies set in academia, such as "The Paper Chase," often have a tendency toward self-congratulatory intellectualism and a fixation on collegiate romance. "Poison Friends" (or "Les Amities Malefiques") is instead a psychological...Tags: Film Festivals, Eric Rohmer, Movies, Gene Siskel, Cannes Film Festival
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