BACinema
Beverly Arts Center
2407 W. 111th St.
773-445-3838
beverlyartcenter.org
“The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” ??1/2 (Sweden; Niels Arden Oplev, 2010) Feminist heroine or hypocrisy in black leather? There’s an interesting debate regarding “the girl” at the center of “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” the film version of the internationally popular novel. Without giving too much away, it involves a disgraced Stockholm investigative journalist and a volatile computer hacker as they follow the trail of a decades-old series of miserable sex crimes, hinging on the disappearance 40 years earlier of the reporter’s own baby sitter. 7:30 p.m. Wed.
Bank of America Cinema
4901 W. Irving Park Road
312-904-9442
*”Stars and Stripes Forever” (U.S.; Henry Koster, 1952) Film biography of composer John Philip Sousa stars Clifton Webb. 8 p.m. Sat.
Doc Films
University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 E. 59th St.
773-702-8575
docfilms.uchicago.edu
“Hail the Conquering Hero” ???? (U.S.; Preston Sturges, 1944) Sentimental World War II veterans engineer a swindle to make hapless home-fronter Woodrow Lafayette Pershing Truesmith (Eddie Bracken) look like a hero. 7, 9 p.m. Fri.
The Music Box Theatre
3733 N. Southport Ave.
773-871-6604
musicboxtheatre.com
“Wet Hot American Summer” ?1/2 (U.S.; David Wain, 2001) A parody of the summer camp genre (see exemplar “Meatballs”), “Wet Hot American Summer” is set in 1981, during the final day of the season at Maine’s Camp Firewood. While everyone prepares for the “big talent show,” unfinished business and the sexual frustrations of the staff boil over into interlocking story lines. Midnight Fri., Sat.
Northbrook Public Library
1201 Cedar Lane
847-272-6224
northbrook.info/lib_programs_films.php
*”Clambake” (U.S.; Arthur Nadel, 1967) Elvis Presley plays a millionaire’s son who trades places with a water-skiing instructor on Miami’s shapeliest beaches 1, 7:30 p.m. Wed.
*indicates a film not reviewed by the Chicago Tribune, but of interest.
