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The Book of Eli -- 3 stars (15 January 11:30) |
| Starring Denzel Washington, Gary Oldman, Mila Kunis, Ray Stevenson
I used to think the apocalypse was so "tomorrow." Lately ... |
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The Lovely Bones -- 2 stars (15 January 11:30) |
| Starring Saoirse Ronan, Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Rachel Weisz, Susan Sarandon
Many people, inc... |
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The White Ribbon -- 312 stars (15 January 11:30) |
| Starring Christian Friedel, Leonie Benesch, Ulrich Tukur
Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke on... |
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The Spy Next Door -- 1 12 stars (15 January 11:30) |
| Starring Jackie Chan, Billy Ray Cyrus, George Lopez
On the ground or twirling in a stunt harness ab... |
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Talking Pictures Me and Orson Welles is worth seeking out (15 January 11:30) |
| Director Richard Linklater overcomes the small demand for niche films
Richard Linklater's film "Me ... |
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Leap Year -- 112 stars (08 January 11:30) |
| Starring Amy Adams, Matthew Goode, Adam Scott
We're told by the "Leap Year" production notes that w... |
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Why is Avatar a film of Titanic proportions Besides the James Cameron connection (08 January 11:30) |
| Some questions to consider regarding "Avatar," now the second-highest-grossing picture in history, just ahead of the third "Pirates of the Caribbean" film and the third "Lord of the Rings" p... |
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The Sun -- 4 stars (08 January 11:30) |
| Starring Issei Ogata, Shiro Sano, Robert Dawson
"The Sun" sheds only so much literal light on its c... |
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Youth in Revolt -- 12 (08 January 11:30) |
| Starring Michael Cera, Portia Doubleday, Jean Smart, Steve Buscemi
"Youth in Revolt" isn't bad -- ... |
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The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond -- 12 (08 January 11:30) |
| Starring Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Evans, Ellen Burstyn
In 1957 Tennessee Williams wrote a screenp... |
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Daybreakers -- 3 stars (08 January 11:30) |
| Starring Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill
Everything that's good about "Daybreakers" bursts forth in the scene wherein ... |
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Nothing simple about this Kazan retrospective (01 January 11:30) |
| Director's tumultuous life appears to have inspired combustible art
To many of his admirers, even, ... |
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The Joy of Singing -- 3 stars (01 January 11:30) |
| Starring Marina Fois, Lorant Deutsch
Uranium traffickers. I think. The blithely confounding narrati... |
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Interesting Burnham film lacks fireworks (11 December 11:30) |
| This hourlong documentary on architect Daniel Burnham works best as an informed primer on the visionary whose grandly ambitious "Plan of Chicago" dared the city to greatness a century ago. A... |
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A restoration that calls for a full-size viewing (11 December 11:30) |
| Was there a time in our culture when we took this mad, exquisite dream of a film for granted? (Punch line in the musical "A Chorus Line": "I never cared about 'The Red Shoes.' I don't know a... |
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Talking Pictures Amy Morton Up in the Air (11 December 11:30) |
| Chicago actress plays George Clooney's sister
Just after her guest shot on "ER" aired in March, Chi... |
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Talking Pictures Played right silent films are golden (04 December 11:30) |
| It is a good time of year for a little quiet. Not peace, necessarily, but silence. And silents.
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Teens soar story sinks (13 November 11:30) |
| Those of us who can't tell a spreadsheet from a sheet cake can only marvel at the business plans put forth by a fantastic variety of teenagers in this intensely promotional quasi-doc. Many o... |
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A splendid place to park yourself on Saturday night (13 November 11:30) |
| "Honestly, sometimes I think it's the parking lot."
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In Ten9Eight teens soar story sinks (13 November 11:30) |
| Those of us who can't tell a spreadsheet from a sheet cake can only marvel at the business plans put forth by a fantastic variety of teenagers in this intensely promotional quasi-doc. Many o... |
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Historical lens on the Muppets ageless forever young (06 November 11:30) |
| Alongside the felt-free Alain Resnais retrospective, this month the Gene Siskel Film Center is rerunning a substantial portion of "Muppets, Music & Magic: Jim Henson's Legacy," which was a s... |
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A perfect day to look behind the masks (30 October 10:30) |
| Sometime in the late 1960s my father, a very handy guy, made a pair of papier-mache Halloween masks for my brother and me. One was a sad-faced clown, only really sad -- more like anguish... |
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Michael Jacksons This Is It 8211 3 stars (29 October 10:30) |
| Features Michael Jackson, Kenny Ortega
How much of "Michael Jackson's This Is It" can we believe?
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Dafoe leaps into the taboo in Antichrist (26 October 10:30) |
| Star calls 'Antichrist' extreme and unrelenting
Strange timing: With hordes of moviegoers turning out this month for the min... |
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A Wild spectrum of opinions (23 October 10:30) |
| Like any film worth its salt, "Where the Wild Things Are" has split audiences (and critics) in fascinating ways. Check chicagotribune.com/talkingpictures for the full range of responses thus... |
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Mississippi Damned takes top Chicago Film Festival prize (19 October 10:30) |
| Under a jury headed by Jacqueline Bisset, the 45th Chicago International Film Festival awarded the 1980s-era coming-of-age drama "Mississippi Damned" the Gold Hugo for best feature Saturday.... |
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Mulligans predecessors (18 October 10:30) |
| Carey Mulligan's turn in "An Education" has drawn comparisons to a variety of performers and performances through the years. Among them:
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Films 4 you storybook sports electronics and neuro-wizardry (17 October 10:30) |
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Festival judge is a cool customer (16 October 10:30) |
| Actress and glamour icon Jacqueline Bisset, whose work before the cameras has provoked countless hormonal disturbances for decades, is presiding over this year's five-member Chicago Internat... |
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Playing today at the Chicago International Film Festival (13 October 10:30) |
| 'Police, Adjective' ★★★★ Exquisitely methodical black comedy from Romania, and one of the very best of that country's amazing recent crop of pictures exploring the ef... |
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Today at the fest (10 October 10:30) |
| 'Vincere' ★★★1/2 The adjective "operatic" has become almost meaningless through overuse, but it really does apply to the rich, absorbing "Vincere." Director Marco Bellocchi... |
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10 TO SEE (04 October 10:30) |
| Many of the titles competing for your time, money and interest in the 45th annual Chicago International Film Festival, beginning Thursday and concluding Oct. 22, arrive having already had th... |
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10 Films to see at Chicago International Film Festival (04 October 10:30) |
| Many of the titles competing for your time, money and interest in the 45th annual Chicago International Film Festival, beginning Thursday and concluding Oct. 22, arrive having already had th... |
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A minor masterpiece rises from the vault (25 September 10:30) |
| Each year, the UCLA Film & Television Archive rescues another disparate batch of movies from the ignobility of disrepair and potentially life-threatening conditions, striking new prints and ... |
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No Impact could have a significant one (18 September 10:30) |
| Late in 2006, a Manhattan-based writer named Colin Beavan set out to help save the planet and live for one year "without making any net impact on the environment." Along for the ride were hi... |
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Well tell you this Informant rocks (18 September 10:30) |
| Film stars Matt Damon, Scott Bakula, Joel McHale, Melanie Lynskey
There's a scene in the deliciousl... |
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How bad do you want it (18 September 10:30) |
| Film stars Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, Adam Brody
From her earlier days and nights ... |
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Roundup (18 September 10:30) |
| 'What's the Matter With Kansas?' ★★★ More a sequel to than an adaptation of Thomas Frank's 2004 bestseller, this documentary succeeds because it tells the right number of s... |
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Julie and Julia The September Issue The Baader Meinhof Complex Alien (12 September 10:30) |
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Underground downtown Barbarella hip-hop (11 September 10:30) |
| So, how underground is a film fest really if it's being held at one of the more prominent art houses in town?
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Alien is back better than ever (11 September 10:30) |
| Thirty years ago, director Ridley Scott's "Alien" introduced one of the better movie marketing taglines in recent history -- "In space, no one can hear you scream" -- and what's astonishing ... |
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Harold and Maude aging gracefully (04 September 10:30) |
| Midnight class at Facets examines the cult film's enduring influence
Twenty-year-old Harold is in l... |
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Tell us when you fell in love with movies (04 September 10:30) |
| If only I could remember, definitively, the first time I set foot inside a movie theater. Did my folks take my brother and me to "Mary Poppins" back in 1964? Possible, but unconfirmed. A ye... |
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Roundup Still Walking 4 stars! Confessions of an Ex-Doofus Itchy-Footed Mutha (04 September 10:30) |
| 'Still Walking' ★★★★
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Filmmaker keeps it real and retro (28 August 10:30) |
| "I have a love-hate relationship with what I've done."
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Siskel Center revival opens up a new wave time capsule (28 August 10:30) |
| Two years before she became the object of every man's lustful gaze (including the director's) in Henri-Georges Clouzot's mad, unfinished "L'Enfer," Romy Schneider starred in "Le Combat Dans ... |
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Pearl Jam rocks the United Center (24 August 05:10) |
| Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam perform at the United Center on Sunday. (Anthony Robert La Penna / For the Chicago Tribune)
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Talkin bout whose generation (24 August 10:30) |
| It's getting hard to argue that any age group dominates pop
Rev Jones of Mountain performs at a con... |
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Foxworthy Fifth-graders smarter than you think (24 August 10:30) |
| You might be a redneck legend if your name is Jeff Foxworthy.
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Assistants battle it out on Rachel Zoe Project (24 August 10:30) |
| LOS ANGELES -- There are tortured assistants, and there is Taylor Jacobson. Jacobson, a petite, bleached blond workaholic, does the torturing.
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