*indicates a capsule review from Chicago Tribune archives.
(diamond) indicates a film that is not reviewed, but of interest.
After Hours Film Society
Tivoli Theatre
5021 Highland Ave.
Downers Grove
630-534-4528
afterhoursfilmsociety.com
*’The Last Mistress’ *** 1/2 (France; Catherine Breillat, 2007). As the feral courtesan whose lover is about to marry a respectable virginal aristocratic type, Asia Argento tears up the screen in writer-director Breillat’s adaptation — free, sharp, intimate and sexually frank — of the 19th Century French novel. The flash points between love and lust, lust and rage, and rage and desolation are explored fully and well here. 7:30 p.m. Mon.
BACinema
Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th St.
773-445-3838
beverlyartcenter.org
*’Brick Lane’ ** (U.K.; Sarah Gavron, 2007) Whittled down from Monica Ali’s expansive 2003 novel into a glossy but overly efficient drama, “Brick Lane” stars Tannishtha Chatterjee as Nazneen, a Bangladeshi transplant to East London. Like Nazneen’s older, corpulent husband (Satish Kaushik), this rendering is ultimately too ineffectual to make much of a dent. 7:30 p.m. Wed.
Bank of America Cinema
4901 W. Irving Park Rd.
312-904-9442
*’Dancing Lady’ *** (U.S.; Robert Z. Leonard, 1933). Backstage musical co-starring Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Fred Astaire and (believe it or not) The Three Stooges. 8 p.m. Sat.
Landmark’s Century Centre Cinema
2828 N. Clark St.
773-509-4949
landmarktheatres.com
‘Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild’ * (U.S.; Todd Stephens, 2008) Sequel to the grimly raunchy “Another Gay Movie” is even bleaker, with stale non-stop gross-out humor and sex that couldn’t seem less sexy. Stephens’ stabs at contrasting pathos come off as merely maudlin. Tired cameos by drag queens RuPaul and Lady Bunny and other celebs don’t help. The sad irony for Stephens is that these two “Anothers” — and there’s apparently a third in the works — will almost surely be seen by more people than his first two, better, efforts, “Edge of Seventeen” and “Gypsy 83.” Opens Fri., various times. — Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times.
Northbrook Public Library
1201 Cedar Lane
847-272-6224
northbrook.info/lib(underscore)programs(underscore)films.php
(diamond) ‘Flesh and Blood’ (U.S.; Irving Cummings, 1922). Lon Chaney plays a lawyer wrongfully imprisoned who breaks out and disguises himself as he plots his revenge in this silent classic. With piano accompaniment by David Drazin. 1, 7:30 p.m. Wed.
