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Goldfinger

James Bond Festival

May 8, 2008

This week the Music Box presents four early Bond adventures starring Sean Connery. Jonathan Rosenbaum calls Goldfinger (1964) the best of the Connery outings, "perhaps because it's the most comic and cartoony in look as well as conception" (Fri 5/9, 5 PM; Mon 5/12, 5:10 and 9:45 PM; Wed 5/14, 7:30 PM). Dave Kehr opts for From Russia With Love (1964), commending its "screwball plotline that keeps the locales changing and the surprises coming--even when reason dictates that the picture should be over" (Sun 5/11, 7:40 PM; Tue 5/13, 7:20 PM). Kehr writes of Dr. No (1962), the inaugural film, "All the elements of the formula are there, but in pleasing moderation" (Sun 5/11, 5:35 and 9:45 PM; Tue 5/13, 5:10 and 9:30 PM). But Kehr was shaken, not stirred, by Thunderball (1965), calling it "slightly bloated . . . with too much technology and a climactic slaughter that's a little too mindless to be fun" (Mon 5/12, 7:20 PM; Wed 5/14, 5 and 9:45 PM). Music Box, 3733 N. Southport, 773-871-6604.

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