After Hours Film Society
Tivoli Theatre
5021 Highland Ave.,
Downers Grove
630-534-4528
afterhoursfilmsociety.com
“Vincere” ✭✭✭ (Italy; Marco Bellocchio, 2010) The story of Ida Dalser, Mussolini’s secret wife, and his first-born son, Benito, unfolds on two levels — the personal and the public — with Bellocchio moving between the two to sometimes confusing effect. 7:30 p.m. Mon.
BACinema
Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th St.
773-445-3838
beverlyartcenter.org
“North Face” ✭✭1/2 (Germany; Philipp Stolzl, 2010) Three years into the Third Reich, and seven years after actress and future director Leni Riefenstahl starred in the 1929 Alpine drama “The White Hell of Pitz Palu,” mountaineers Toni Kurz and Andi Hinterstoisser confronted their own white hell and tried to climb the north face of the Eiger, in the Bernese Swiss Alps. 7:30 p.m. Wed.
Block Cinema
Northwestern University
40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston
847-491-4000
blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/block-cinema
“Au Hasard Balthazar” ✭✭✭✭ (France; Robert Bresson, 1966). One of the cinema’s great religious films. With supreme austerity and artistry, Bresson gives us the biography of a donkey, Balthazar, who patiently endures a life of brutal hardship and change, brightened by brief happiness and final grace. 7 p.m. Thu.
Doc Films
University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
773-702-8575
docfilms.uchicago.edu
“Me and Orson Welles” ✭✭✭1/2 (U.S.; Richard Linklater, 2009) Linklater’s film version of the Robert Kaplow novel tells a fairy tale based in fact. Strolling the Manhattan theater district one day in 1937, the story’s fictional protagonist, a New Jersey high school student played by Zac Efron, stumbles into Orson Welles (Christian McKay), John Houseman and their Mercury Theatre associates. In an eye-blink, young Richard is hired to play the role of Lucius in Welles’ modern-dress revival of “Julius Caesar.” 6:30, 9, 11:30 p.m. Fri., 1 p.m. Sun.
The Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
773-871-6604
musicboxtheatre.com
“The Lost Boys” ✭✭ (U.S.; Joel Schumacher, 1987) The “lost boys” are bike punks, led by a chillingly vacant Kiefer Sutherland, who terrorize a small resort community in northern California. Midnight Fri., Sat.
Northbrook Public Library
1201 Cedar Lane
847-272-6224
northbrook.info/lib_programs_films.php
“Border Incident” ✭✭✭1/2 (U.S.; Anthony Mann, 1949) Immigration agents Ricardo Montalban and George Murphy battle a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers. 1, 7:30 p.m. Wed.
