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TALKING PICTURES: Digital tech does a service for 'Godfather' films
The following is a dire warning from film preservation expert Robert A. Harris. "You have millions of young families today," he says. "They got married; they have kids. Their weddings, the birthdays are all on digital photography. And I will bet you that...Tags: Tom Jones, Paramount, DreamWorks Animation SKG Incorporated, Renovation, Manhattan (New York City)
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Madeleine Martin: An 'old pro' at 15, she's happy as troubled teen Becca on 'Californication'
AP Television WriterNEW YORK (AP) _ "Californication" is replete with sexed-up, misbehaving characters who act first and think later (like the morning after, through a pounding hangover). This Showtime comedy boasts a fast crowd of consenting adults — in particular,...Tags: Richard Chamberlain, Theater, Estelle Parsons, Oklahoma, Celebrity Mothers
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'Shoot the Piano Player': Francois Truffaut's 2nd film struck casual magic (4 stars!)
Tribune criticThe determined jollity of Georges Delerue's saloon piano score, which later opens up to encompass a wide world of romanticism, sets the tone for Francois Truffaut's audacious second feature, made in 1960. It stars popular vocalist Charles Aznavour as a...Tags: Francois Truffaut, Quentin Tarantino, Movies
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'Patti Smith: Dream of Life': Chronicle of Patti Smith's life worth visiting
Chicago Tribune criticPatti Smith recalls that she once found herself face-to-face with a Modigliani portrait, and the poet, artist and rock goddess couldn't help herself: She had to touch it, to "feel the texture." Smith herself, in the days of "Horses" and now, resembles a...Tags: Manhattan (New York City), Folk Music, Sam Shepard, New York, Movies
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to area art house and 2nd run theaters for the week of Sept. 26
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 beverlyartcenter.org •' Diminished...Tags: Alan Alda, Francois Truffaut, Curtis Hanson, Bank of America Corp., Gene Siskel
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{} {{lsquo}The Wrestler,' 'Slumdog' to premiere at Chicago International Film Fest}
Chicago Tribune criticHot off their presentations at the Toronto festival earlier this month, the Mickey Rourke comeback picture "The Wrestler" and the rousing rags-to-riches fable "Slumdog Millionaire" make their Midwest premieres at the 44th Chicago International Film...Tags: Theater, Wrestling, Film Festivals, Jada Pinkett Smith, Organized Crime
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Spike TV finishes shooting pilot on North Side
"Peep Show," a pilot for Spike TV, wrapped production Friday in Chicago. Dylan Kidd ("Roger Dodger") directs Chicago natives Rob Chester Smith ("The Ghost Whisperer") and Brad Morris (Second City's "No Country for Old White Men") in this translation...Tags: Logan Square, Ira Glass, Wrigleyville, Rogers Park, Second City
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to area art house and 2nd run theaters for the week of Sept. 19
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. After Hours Film Society Tivoli Theatre 5021 Highland Ave., Downers Grove 630-534-4528...Tags: Theater, Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Civil Unrest, Man on Wire
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NOW PLAYING: A guide to area art house and 2nd-run theaters for the week of Sept. 12
NOW PLAYING •indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives. ♦indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest. BACinema Beverly Arts Center 2407 W. 111th St. 773-445-3838 www.beverlyartcenter.org •'The Visitor'***...Tags: Virginia Cherrill, Walter Matthau, Charles Chaplin, New York, Robin Williams
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'I Served the King of England': Misses its chance to craft a WWII classic
Chicago Tribune criticStupid as it is to generalize about regional humor, here goes: The mordant wit and paradoxical melancholic bounce you find in a great many Eastern European filmmakers informs every joke and rosy sexual encounter in the work of Czech writer-director Jiri...Tags: Little Village, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Prisons, Evanston, Movies
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An urban haven by the lake
Special to the Chicago TribuneLakeview is arguably the most walkable neighborhood in the city, but there's nothing pedestrian about it. Bordered by the great lake and rising to encompass the second largest neighborhood in Chicago, Lakeview has it all. But then, it always has. Back in...Tags: Minority Groups, Theater, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Gays and Lesbians, Baseball
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ROUNDUP: 'Mister Foe,' 2 stars -- 'Beautiful Losers,' 1 1/2 stars -- 'Last Stop for Paul,' 2 stars
' Mister Foe' 2 stars A plaintively messed-up young man with an ardent devotion to voyeurism, newly arrived in Glasgow and obsessed with a hotel co-worker, is the subject of this prettily photographed but relationally science-fictional coming-of-age...Tags: Harmony Korine, Mister Foe, Family, Jamie Bell, Newspapers
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