First 20 movies at Chicago Film Fest announced
Running Oct 7-21 at the AMC River East 21 and environs, the 46th Chicago International Film Festival presented by the nonprofit Cinema/Chicago has announced its first 20 titles, including the winner of this year’s Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, the Palme d’Or.
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Titanic [VHS] $1.98 When the theatrical release of James Cameron’s Titanic was delayed from July to December of 1997, media pundits speculated that Cameron’s $200 million disaster epic would cause the director’s downfall, signal the end of the blockbuster era, and sink Paramount Studios as quickly as the ill-fated luxury liner had sunk on that fateful night of April 14, 1912. Some studio executives were confident, ot… |
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To Have & Have Not [VHS] $4.45 Yes, it’s true: you can virtually see Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall falling for each other in this Howard Hawks variation on Casablanca but adapted from–as legend has it–Ernest Hemingway’s self-declared “worst novel.” (The story goes that Hawks told Hemingway he could make a movie of the author’s least work, and Hemingway gave him the rights to this story.) The script by William Faulkner and… |
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What Dreams May Come $3.57 Killed in an accident, Chris Nielsen tries to remain close to his mortal wife, Annie, even after she commits suicide…. |
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The Return (Widescreen Edition) $2.48 The Return is a drowsy, mildly creepy and unexpectedly well-crafted supernatural thriller that lays off the cheap thrill and gore factor in favor of the slow build up to fright and a twist ending that, while effective, may hit viewers as mostly out of left field. The Sixth Sense it ain’t, but there’s enough texture, style and ladled-on art direction to keep the eeriness palpable even through some … |
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Divine Comedy, Cary’s Translation, Hell $4.00 IN the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e’en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Renews, in bitterness not far from death. … |
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Divine Comedy, Longfellow’s Translation, Hell $4.00 Inferno: Canto I Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straightforward pathway had been lost.Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear…. |
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