See The Kid at the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles on February 15, The Artist at the Logan Theatre on February 11, and 7th Heaven at St. John Cantius Church on February 26.
Tag: Harold Lloyd
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Renée Baker on the challenges of scoring silent race films
This fall the musician will provide live accompaniment to two mid-1920s pictures.
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Embrace of the Serpent slithers into town, plus more new reviews and notable screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Derek Zoolander, Jacques Demy, Henry James, and the rest of this week’s screenings
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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All this and air-conditioning too: the week’s movies
New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue
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Sherlock Holmes opens the Silent Summer Film Festival
John Barrymore stars as the great detective in a rarely screened silent feature
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Studio Ghibli, Jane Fonda, and other notable screenings
An overview of reviews in this week’s issue and notable screenings around town
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Now Playing: Legends of Laughter
Silent comedy classics by Chaplin, Keaton, and Lloyd screen at Park Ridge Public Library, introduced by Matthew Hoffman.
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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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Harold Lloyd opens this year’s Silent Summer Film Festival
The Silent Summer Film Festival opens tonight with Harold Lloyd’s Speedy.