New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue.
Tag: Alfred Hitchcock
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Robert Osborne at the Music Box
Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne and actor Eva Marie Saint appear at the Music Box on March 30 to introduce a screening of North by Northwest.
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Madam, I’m Adam
In this week’s issue, Cliff Doerksen reviews Max Mayer’s romantic comedy Adam, with Hugh Dancy as a young man who suffers from Asperger’s syndrome and Rose Byrne as the young woman who finds him attractive. “Like many films of its genre,” Cliff writes, “it’s less interesting as a movie than as a map of gender […]
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The happy revolutionary
“Fetish expert” Robert Dunlap screens his documentary “Xaviera Hollander, ‘The Happy Hooker’ – Portrait of a Sexual Revolutionary,” Thursday at the Portage Theater.
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I left my heart in the 400 Theater, and my gum under the seat
The long-shuttered Village North in Rogers Park reopens tonight as the New 400 Theater. Plus this week’s new movie reviews.
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Backyard Ethics
Rear Window Rating **** Masterpiece Directed by Alfred Hitchcock Written by John Michael Hayes With James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Raymond Burr, Wendell Corey, Judith Evelyn, Ross Bagdasarian, Georgine Darcy, and Irene Winston. Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest movie, Rear Window, is as fresh as it was when it came out, in part, paradoxically, because of […]