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  42 Like many Hollywood sports movies, this Jackie Robinson biopic seems to be pitched at high schoolers, but writer-director Brian Helgeland still manages a pretty absorbing … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lawndale 10, Logan, River East 21 and Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings

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  About Sunny The terror of living from paycheck to paycheck pervades this 2011 indie drama about the working-poor of Las Vegas. Lauren Ambrose, in an impressively unsentimental … Facets Cinematheque
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  All I Desire A failed actress and mother of three (Barbara Stanwyck) returns to the husband (Richard Carlson) and family she deserted years before in this superior 1953 … Portage Theater
• American Diner University of Chicago graduates Isaac Ottoni Wilhelm and Allison Radomski directed this 2012 documentary about three small-town diners across the U.S. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Bless Their Little Hearts Scripted and photographed by Charles Burnett and directed by his former film-school classmate Billy Woodberry, this wonderful neorealist look at a working-class black family in … Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
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  Blues Films Three rare shorts on American blues: Samuel Charters's The Blues (1973, 20 min.), Bill Ferris's Give My Poor Heart Ease: Mississippi Delta Bluesmen (1975, 21 … Black Cinema House
• Bombal Marcello Ferrari directed this 2011 biopic of Chilean author María Luisa Bombal. In Spanish with subtitles. Facets Cinematheque
• Breakfast at Tiffany's Blake Edwards's 1961 film of Truman Capote's novel is one of his best-known efforts but far from his best—it's one of the few that he … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• The Breakfast Club John Hughes's 1985 film seems meant to explain 80s youngsters to yesterday's youth, and comes to the comforting conclusion that they're just as alienated, idealistic, … Logan
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  Burden of Dreams Les Blank's 1982 documentary on the making of Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo. The film suggests Herzog's own documentaries about visionaries—The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Steiner, … Comfort Station

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• Cannibal Holocaust A film crew shooting a documentary on cannibalism disappears in the South American jungle, and film footage, recovered later, shows what happened. Ruggero Deodato directed … Music Box
• Cleopatra Century 12 and CineArts 6
• Coast Modern Documentary makers Mike Bernard and Gavin Froome travel along the Pacific coast from Los Angeles to Vancouver, visiting landmark homes by the pioneers of West … Chicago Filmmakers and Studio BE Theatre
• The Company You Keep Robert Redford directed and stars in this boomer drama about the Weather Underground, impressive for its cast of aging talents (Julie Christie, Susan Sarandon, Nick … Wilmette
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  Compensation Shot on the cheap in Evanston and Chicago, this 1999 drama by Zeinabu Irene Davis manages to surmount its budget limitations through the beauty and … Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
• The Croods Kirk De Micco and Chris Sanders directed this animated feature about a prehistoric family whose misadventures inadvertently lead to the invention of fire, the wheel, … Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Ford City, Lawndale 10 and Logan

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• Disconnect This dour would-be art movie posits that social media might be alienating people from each other rather than bringing them together. (Spoiler alert: the title … Logan
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  Films by Stephen Dwoskin Four features by by Stephen Dwoskin, whose films "scrutinize the body and its discontents, rooted partly in his long struggle with polio." Screening are his … Museum of Contemporary Art

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• Epic Chris Wedge directed this animated adventure about a teenage girl who discovers mythical creatures living in a forest. With the voices of Amanda Seyfried, Colin … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• Epic 3D Chris Wedge directed this animated adventure about a teenage girl who discovers mythical creatures living in a forest. With the voices of Amanda Seyfried, Colin … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• Evil Dead The cabin-in-the-woods setting of Sam Raimi's cult classic The Evil Dead (1981) has been so widely copied that, for this remake, the screenwriters (among them … Ford City and Logan

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  Fast & Furious 6 In this sixth installment of the action franchise, the auto-racing roughnecks (Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez) team up with a federal agent (Dwayne Johnson) … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lake, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off Chicago has rarely looked more radiant than it does in Tak Fujimoto's cinematography, but otherwise this 1986 comedy is standard John Hughes, with a few … Logan
• First: The Story of the London 2012 Olympic Games Century 12 and CineArts 6, City North 14, River East 21, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• Fitzcarraldo A lot of folie de grandeur, on the part of both hero and director, and very little basic filmmaking skill—the skill necessary to make the … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Frances Ha Comparable to Woody Allen's imitations of Bergman and Fellini, this black-and-white comedy by Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale, Greenberg) is basically an extended … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre

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• The Goonies More puberty blues from producer Steven Spielberg in a children's adventure film (1985) so overloaded with Freudian imagery that the good doctor himself might feel … Logan
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  The Great Gatsby 3D The Great Gatsby will always be an unfilmable novel, because most of its drama resides in the space between the characters' snappy dialogue and their … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby will always be an unfilmable novel, because most of its drama resides in the space between the characters' snappy dialogue and their … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11

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  The Hangover Part III Zach Galifianakis takes center stage for this final installment in the party-boy franchise, which wisely drops the narrative gimmick of alcohol-induced amnesia that made the … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• Happy Monster Day Video projection of kid-friendly horror relics, with collectibles for sale in the lobby. Screening are Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde> (noon), … Portage Theater
• How Much Does the Trojan Horse Weigh? At 40, Zosia (Ilona Ostrowska) has a happy second marriage, a well-adjusted daughter, a good career, and a comfortable home in Warsaw. But as she … Chicago Cultural Center

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  The Iceman Michael Shannon stars Richard Kuklinski, the New Jersey hit man believed to have killed more than 100 people in the decades leading up to his … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Landmark's Century Centre and River East 21
• In the House A stuffy high school teacher (Fabrice Luchini) latches onto a talented young writing student (Ernst Umhauer) and waits with bated breath for the boy's journal … Landmark's Century Centre
• Iron Man 3 None of the Iron Man movies has been as good as The Dark Knight (2008), but their mix of spectacle and droll comedy goes down … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
• Iron Man 3 3D None of the Iron Man movies has been as good as The Dark Knight (2008), but their mix of spectacle and droll comedy goes down … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11

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  Jacquot Agnes Varda's 1991 tribute to her husband Jacques Demy (who died of AIDS about six months before this premiered at the Cannes Film Festival) combines … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films

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  The Kings of Summer In this new comedy, three teenagers decide to spend the summer building themselves a house in the woods. Jordan Vogt-Roberts directed. Northwestern University Block Museum of Art
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• Kon-Tiki A longtime pet project for producer Jeremy Thomas (who's collaborated with Nicolas Roeg, Bernardo Bertolucci, and David Cronenberg), this British-Norwegian coproduction recounts the 1947 voyage … Landmark's Century Centre
• Kryptonite Chicago Cultural Center
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  Kryptonite! Ivan Cotroneo directed this 2011 Italian drama about a Neapolitan child during the free-wheeling 1970s. In Italian with subtitles. Chicago Cultural Center

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  L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema Short works by Don Amis, Zeinabu Irene Davis, Alicia Dhanifu, Alile Sharon Larkin, and Monona Wali, screening as part of a retrospective series on Afro-centric … Univ. of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts
• The Last Reef: Cities Beneath the Sea 3D Navy Pier IMAX
• The Lone Funmen: An Evening With Dimestore Films A BYOB party featuring comedy shorts by Christian Gridelli and Hunter Norris. Chicago Filmmakers
• Love Is All You Need Director Susanne Bier and screenwriter Anders Thomas Jensen take a break from piercing ethical drama (Open Hearts, Brothers, After the Wedding, In a Better World) … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre

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• Matilda In this modern fairy tale (1996), adapted from a Roald Dahl novel, a gifted girl (Mara Wilson) with stupid and neglectful parents (Danny DeVito and … Patio Theater
• The Misfits The morbid air that hangs over John Huston's 1961 film isn't all his doing—it was the last picture show for stars Clark Gable and Marilyn … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Mud After the impressive Take Shelter, writer-director Jeff Nichols takes on the sort of swampy southern gothic that David Gordon Green handled so masterfully in Undertow … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Davis, Logan and Webster Place 11

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  Notorious The Hitchcock classic of 1946, with Cary Grant as a charming and unscrupulous government agent and Ingrid Bergman as a woman of low repute whom … Northbrook Public Library

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• Oblivion In the late 21st century, after space invaders have forced mankind to push the button, a lonely security guard (Tom Cruise) patrols an evacuated earth … Century 12 and CineArts 6, City North 14, Ford City, Lawndale 10, Logan, Patio Theater, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings and the Vic
• Olympus Has Fallen North Korean terrorists storm the White House and take the President hostage. This ludicrous actioner strives to be as loud, violent, and patriotic as possible; … the Vic
• One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das Directed by Jeremy Frindel, this 2012 documentary tells the story of Blue Oyster Cult rocker Jeffrey Kagel and his metamorphosis into New Age musician Krishna … Gene Siskel Film Center
• Our Irish Cousins Writer Mike Houlihan documents his efforts to promote his book Hooliganism around Chicago and across Ireland. Beverly Arts Center
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  Oz the Great and Powerful Sam Raimi brings the jokey, adolescent sensibility of his Drag Me to Hell to this lavish Wizard of Oz prequel, and the result is as … Northbrook Public Library

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• Pain & Gain Michael Bay tries his hand at satire, targeting the sort of hollow excess most of his movies epitomize. Based on true events, it tells the … Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings and Showplace ICON
• Pastoral: Hide and Seek Terayama Shuji directed this 1974 Japanese feature, inspired by his own 1964 poetry collection. Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Peeples A sweet-natured underachiever (Craig Robinson) follows his ambitious lawyer girlfriend (Kerry Washington) to her family's resort home in the hope of winning over her father … Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings and Showplace ICON
• Pieta After the relatively mellow Airirang and Amen (both 2011), Korean shock auteur Kim Ki-duk returns to form with this brutal, unyielding exploitation film. Complicated and … Facets Cinematheque
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  The Place Beyond the Pines A motorcycle stunt rider (Ryan Gosling) discovers that the woman he loved and left a year earlier (Eva Mendes) has given birth to a son … Landmark's Century Centre and Logan
• Portrait of Jason Shirley Clarke's 1967 study of a black male prostitute, Jason Holliday, was a pioneering study of the cinema verite movement—a 105-minute record of Jason conversing, … Portage Theater
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  Post Tenebras Lux Booed at the Cannes film festival, this stony art film by Carlos Reygadas (Battle in Heaven, Silent Light) announces its Calvinist intentions early on with … Gene Siskel Film Center
• Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey National Geographic meets off-Broadway theater in this 2002 Imax movie inspired by Steve McNicholas and Luke Cresswell's long-running dance revue Stomp. Exploiting the 60-foot screen … Navy Pier IMAX

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• Quartet The premise may sound insufferable, but this light comedy about a nursing home for retired classical musicians isn't half-bad. Ronald Harwood's script (adapted from his … Beverly Arts Center and Gene Siskel Film Center

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  The Reluctant Fundamentalist Mira Nair is so effective and important as a chronicler of the South Asian experience in America (Mississippi Masala, The Namesake) that one hates to … Landmark's Century Centre
• Renoir If you love the paintings of Auguste Renoir or the films of his son Jean, there's a good chance you'll sit through this slow-moving prestige … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Music Box

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  Safety Last The most famous image of silent comedy—Harold Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock, 12 stories above the streets of Los Angeles—represents only one … Music Box
• The Sapphires Aboriginal sisters form a girl group and tour Vietnam in this genial, entertaining, cliché-ridden showbiz story from Australia. After hearing the girls sing in a … Century 12 and CineArts 6
• Scary Movie V Contemporary horror movies are spoofed in this comedy directed by Malcolm D. Lee. With Charlie Sheen, Ashley Tisdale, and Simon Rex. Ford City, Lawndale 10 and the Vic
• Scatter My Ashes at Bergdorf's Matthew Miele directed this documentary about the Manhattan department store. 600 N. Michigan
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  Sid and Nancy For all the furious acting out on view, Alex Cox's 1986 feature about rock-scene burnouts Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen (Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb) … Delilah's
• Side Effects This neatly executed mystery is just the sort of thing Hollywood craves from Steven Soderbergh: genre entertainment as cool, clean, and impersonal as a Formica … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• Sightseers With Down Terrace (2009), Kill List (2011), and now this gory black comedy, British director Ben Wheatley has carved out a niche all his own, … Music Box
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  Silver Linings Playbook Following a detour into heavy drama with The Fighter, David O. Russell returns to his distinctive brand of neurotic screwball comedy, and like his early … the Vic
• The Song Remains the Same Peter Clifton and Joe Massot directed this frankly titled Led Zeppelin rockumentary, filmed in 1973 at Madison Square Garden and released three years later. 137 … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Star Trek Into Darkness The starship Enterprise blasts off again, going boldly where it's gone innumerable times before. As in the successful 2009 reboot, the blockbuster machinery overwhelms everything … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Davis, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, Lawndale 10, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Star Trek Into Darkness 3D The starship Enterprise blasts off again, going boldly where it's gone innumerable times before. As in the successful 2009 reboot, the blockbuster machinery overwhelms everything … 600 N. Michigan, Century 12 and CineArts 6, Chatham 14, Cicero Showplace 14, City North 14, Crown Village 18, Ford City, Harper Theater, Lake, New 400, River East 21, Showplace 14 Galewood Crossings, Showplace ICON and Webster Place 11
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  Star Trek Into Darkness: An IMAX 3D Experience The starship Enterprise blasts off again, going boldly where it's gone innumerable times before. As in the successful 2009 reboot, the blockbuster machinery overwhelms everything … Crown Village 18 and Navy Pier IMAX
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  Stories We Tell For years Sarah Polley was teased by older siblings about her lack of resemblance to her dad, but only in her late 20s did she … Landmark's Century Centre
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  Superstarlet A.D. The big-haired women in this cagey 2000 sci-fi movie ride horses and carry machine guns, clad in panties and sometimes bras—clothes as we know them … Delilah's

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  Taxi Driver Martin Scorsese put all the city dweller's irrational, guilty fears into this 1976 story of a New York taxi driver (Robert De Niro) on a … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• This Is Spinal Tap Rob Reiner's 1984 satire on rock documentaries has the deadly verisimilitude of a Harvard Lampoon magazine parody: every cliche is in place, from the grainy … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
• Tyler Perry's Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor An ambitious businesswoman is lured into a steamy affair in this drama directed by Tyler Perry. With Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lance Gross, and Kim Kardashian. Chatham 14 and Lawndale 10

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  Voyage to the Planet of Prehistoric Women Peter Bogdanovich (aka Derek Thomas) directed this 1968 sci-fi feature for producer Roger Corman, adding new scenes with Mamie Van Doren and others to footage … Delilah's

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• Wayne's World "Bill & Ted's Aurora Adventures" might almost serve as the subtitle for this very silly but enjoyable 1992 comedy, developed from characters introduced on Saturday … Univ. of Chicago Doc Films
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  Wet Hot American Summer The title of this inventive absurdist comedy is meant to mislead—it's not a sex movie but a parody, and the loose feel is part of … Logan
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  What Maisie Knew Selfishness and cruelty never go out of style, which might explain why this millennial update of Henry James's 1897 novel works so well. Screenwriters Nancy … Century 12 and CineArts 6 and Landmark's Century Centre
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  Wings of Desire Wim Wenders's ambitious and audacious feature (1988) focuses mainly on what's seen and heard by two angels (Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander) as they fly … Logan

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• Zoolander The premise of this contemptible comedy—the fashion industry conspires to remove world leaders who oppose child labor—isn't absurd enough to be funny. Director Ben Stiller, … Landmark's Century Centre
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  Zoolander Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson are pouting male supermodels and runway rivals in this priceless 2001 farce, which purports to satirize the fashion economy (the … Landmark's Century Centre