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Paranormal / Film Get weird with Fantastic Planet on Saturday

Posted by Luca Cimarusti on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 12:22 PM

Odd Obsession's Foreign Film Series is featuring a viewing of 1973's Fantastic Planet this Saturday, January 28, at the Whistler. Produced in both France and Czechoslovakia, this animated classic, based on the French novel Oms en Serie, tells the story of a distant planet where humans are enslaved and exterminated by gigantic blue aliens. Along the way you witness an array of strange creatures, spooky alien meditation rituals, and a miniature human uprising.

The film's dull colors, disconnected voice-overs, and surreal imagery provide either the perfect cannabis companion or intense nightmare fodder or both, depending on what you're into. The viewing begins at 9 PM and is free.

You can view the trailer for Fantastic Planet after the jump.

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Film This week's movie action

Posted by J.R. Jones on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:00 AM

A Separation

The year's first masterpiece opens Friday. A Separation, the fifth feature of Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi (Fireworks Wednesday, Beautiful City, Dancing in the Dust), was nominated for an Oscar this week in the category of Best Foreign Film, but it's head and shoulders above many of the American movies nominated for Best Picture. Check out our long review and make a beeline for this one.

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Film Coming soon: Miss Bala

Posted by Ben Sachs on Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:01 PM

First, the good news: one of the best movies to play at last October’s Chicago International Film Festival, Gerardo Naranjo’s Miss Bala, begins its local theatrical run tomorrow. The bad news is that it will play at only one theater, Evanston’s Century 12 and CineArts 6, and likely not for very long, since there’s been next to no advertising for the release. I have no idea why Twentieth Century Fox would show such little support for Bala—which, in addition to being Mexico’s official submission for the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, boasts a wicked sense of humor and some of the most astonishing action sequences of recent movies. I’d strongly encourage Chicago cinephiles to make the trek north while it’s still on a big screen.

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