*indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives.
(diamond) indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest.
BACinema
Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th St.
773-445-3838
beverlyartcenter.org
*’Singin’ in the Rain’ **** (U.S.; Gene Kelly/Stanley Donen, 1952). Hollywood’s greatest musical is set, magically, in the silent-to-talkie transition years, with Kelly as a Doug Fairbanks-style swashbuckler, Donald O’Connor as his best song-and-dance pal, Debbie Reynolds as his “lucky star” and Jean Hagen as his co-star-nemesis, the voracious Lina Lamont. 7:30 p.m. Wed.
Doc Films
University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
773-702-8575
docfilms.uchicago.edu
*’Flowers of St. Francis’ **** (Italy; Roberto Rossellini, 1950) Film applies the rigorous tactics of Italian neorealism to a re-creation of the lives of St. Francis and his followers during the time of the Renaissance — creating a vision of pure spiritual idealism faced with everyday problems. 7, 9 p.m. Sat.
The Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
773-871-6604
musicboxtheatre.com
*’Ghostbusters’ *** 1/2 (U.S.; Ivan Reitman, 1984) Three whimsical chaps in professional pursuit of beasties and ghosties and things that go bump in the night. Bill Murray and co-stars/co-writers Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis brave spooks and slime in one of the funniest of the big-budget ’80s super-comedies. Midnight Fri., Sat.
*’Barry Lyndon’ **** (U.S.-Britain; Stanley Kubrick; 1975). Kubrick’s beautiful adaptation of the William Thackeray novel follows a young Irish romantic adventurer (Ryan O’Neal) though a painterly 18th Century English landscape of frozen elegance and upper-class hypocrisy. With Marisa Berenson, Hardy Kruger and Patrick Magee. The painterly tableaus of life high and low are stylistically sumptuous but also austere. 11:30 a.m. Sat., Sun.
Northbrook Public Library
1201 Cedar Lane
847-272-6224
northbrook.info/lib(underscore)programs(underscore)films.php
*’The Raven’ *** (U.S.; Roger Corman, 1963). The best of all Corman’s Poe adaptations — and the one that owes the least to its original (poem) source. A fantastic horror movie parody about haunted castles, black magic, enchanted birds and dueling sorcerers Vincent Price and Boris Karloff. Is it sober? Nevermore! Scripted by Richard Matheson; with Peter Lorre as the Raven and Jack Nicholson as a deranged juvenile. 1, 7:30 p.m. Wed.
