Circumstance, a new movie about an Iranian family navigating the Islamic Revolution, screens this week at Landmark’s Century Centre.
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John C. Reilly lays down the law in Terri
For the title character, growing up is hardly worth the effort
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Hey, These Things Are Heavy
Reader film critic J.R. Jones discusses the 2011 Oscar nominees in a free panel discussion at Gene Siskel Film Center.
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Down Under, Up Above
Reader staff writer J.R. Jones leads a discussion after Cinema/Chicago screening of My Year Without Sex.
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This Week’s Movie Action
Debra Granik’s new drama, Winter’s Bone, is part suspense movie, part ethnography, and the two are closely linked: without its persuasive landscape of an Ozarks mountain community in the 21st century, it wouldn’t be nearly as tense. It’s the subject of this week’s long review.
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Sherlock Holmes, Bee Raiser
What you’ll learn from The Sherlock Holmes Handbook: The Methods and Mysteries of the World’s Greatest Detective
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I don’t get Lars von Trier but he makes people write interesting things
Ebert on von Trier’s Antichrist, screening Monday at River East 21 as part of the Chicago International Film Festival: “Von Trier’s original intention, it’s said, was to reveal at the end that the world was created by Satan, not God: That evil, not goodness, reigns ascendant. His finished film reflects the same idea, but not […]
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Size Does Matter
Masaki Kobayashi’s ten-hour WWII epic “The Human Condition” opens tonight at Film Center. Would you trust a movie about the human condition that wasn’t at least five or six hours?
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Anvil rocks the Box
The Canadian speed-metal band, fresh from its Wednesday gig at Metro, drops in for Friday screenings of the critically acclaimed “Anvil! The Story of Anvil” at Music Box. Also this week: “The Informers,” final weeks of the Latino and Palestine film festivals, and new reviews by Cliff Doerksen, Andrea Gronvall, Josh Katzman, and Michael Wilmington.
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Spend this lovely day in a darkened room
This week: the Latino and Palestine film festivals, the latest from the writer-directors of “Half Nelson,” a pair of political prison dramas, and lawyers gathering at 9 AM to talk “12 Angry Men.”