*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
*’Man on Wire’ **** (U.K.-U.S.; James Marsh, 2008). On a misty day in August 1974, French wire-walker Philippe Petit spent 45 minutes gliding back and forth between the south and the north towers of the World Trade Center, eight crossings in all. “Man on Wire” captures the renegade artistry and poetic audacity of Petit’s performance. 7:30 p.m. Mon.
Bank of America Cinema
4901 W. Irving Park Rd.
312-904-9442
*’Humoresque’ *** (U.S.; Jean Negulesco, 1946). Sleek soap opera about a violin virtuoso (John Garfield) and his self-destructive patron (Joan Crawford). 8 p.m. Sat.
Fermilab International Film Society
Ramsey Auditorium, Wilson Hall, Fermilab
630-840-8000
www.fnal.gov/culture/film(underscore)society.html
(diamond) Stars on the Land’ (India; Aamir Khan, 2007). Ishaan is an 8-year-old boy whose parents send him off to boarding school, where he sinks into a depression until a new art teacher reaches out to him. In Hindi with English subtitles. 8 p.m. Fri.
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St.
312-846-2800
siskelfilmcenter.org
*’Last Year at Marienbad’**** (France; Alain Resnais, 1961). One of the most perplexing and emblematic entries in the mid-century European experimentalist film movement, “Last Year at Marienbad” remains as dreamy, creepy, enigmatic and maddening as in its own time. 3 p.m. Sat., 6 p.m. Tue.
The Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
773-871-6604
musicboxtheatre.com
*’Chinatown’ **** (U.S.; Roman Polanski, 1974). One of the quintessential private-eye yarns and one of the finest films of the ’70s. Jack Nicholson plays the dapper private investigator who takes on what seems like a routine case of infidelity and gets suckered into a labyrinth of treachery and revenge. With Faye Dunaway and John Huston. Midnight Fri., Sat.
Northbrook Public Library
1201 Cedar Lane
847-272-6224
northbrook.info/lib(underscore)programs(underscore)films.php
*’Beaufort’ *** 1/2 (Israel; Joseph Cedar, 2007). New-York-born, Israel-raised Cedar has constructed a kind of Israeli “Apocalypse Now,” a brooding examination of the nature of war. 7 p.m. Tue.
