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Movie review: 'Disappearances'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) The sometimes magical people who populate the movie "Disappearances"--primarily a feisty Vermont clan on a raid to steal illegal Canadian whiskey from a notorious whiskey pirate during Prohibition--obviously don't know their own...Tags: William Sanderson, J. Todd Harris, Luis Guzman, Kris Kristofferson, Movies
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Movie review: 'Vanaja'
Tribune arts critic3 stars (out of four) "Vanaja," a film exploring the tensions of the caste system in contemporary rural India, boasts a compelling story on-screen and off. It tells of a 14-year-old girl who takes on domestic work in the home of a wealthy landlady, both...Tags: Dance, Cinderella (fictional character), Charles Dickens, Hinduism, Dancing
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Movie review: 'Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman
Tribune staff reporter2½ stars (out of four) We all have one: that friend who is so profoundly narcissistic, so unabashedly self-involved in her admittedly entertaining life, that we occasionally find ourselves wondering why we've remained in this person's exhausting presence...Tags: Romance (genre), Sex, Pakistan, Cinema Industry, Human Rights
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Movie review: 'Flanders'
Tribune movie critic3½ stars (out of four) In the coming year, filmgoers will be confronted by a string of dramas inspired by America's involvement in the remaking of Afghanistan and Iraq, to go with the recent string of war documentaries. The best of them so far have...Tags: Documentary (genre), Movies
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Movie review: 'In Search of Mozart'
4 stars (out of four) The hoopla surrounding Mozart's 250th birthday anniversary may have waned, but the celebration of the composer's genius is eternal. No more important, or more beautifully filmed, documentary about Mozart's life and music has emerged...Tags: Music Industry, Juliet Stevenson, Documentary (genre)
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Movie review: 'Helvetica'
Tribune movie critic4 stars (out of four) The wonderful new documentary "Helvetica" introduces us to a global array of typographers and design wonks delving into the subject of the world's most familiar typeface, the one used to brand everything from IRS tax forms to...Tags: Internal Revenue Service, Music Industry, American Airlines, Inc., Swiss Confederation, Documentary (genre)
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Movie review: 'Rock the Bells'
Tribune staff reporter3 stars (out of four) "Making-of" films have a glorious history of heroic impediments to be overcome: the boat in "Burden of Dreams," Marlon Brando in "Hearts of Darkness" and in "Rock the Bells," a recalcitrant Bastard. "Bells," a documentary opening...Tags: Mickey Rooney, The Rolling Stones (music group), Death, Judy Garland, Documentary (genre)
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Movie review: 'War and Peace'
Tribune movie critic4 stars (out of four) Leo Tolstoy's "War and Peace" is, by fairly common consent, the greatest novel ever written: an incredible display of literary, historical and psychological gifts. It's a saga of 19th Century Russia during the Napoleonic Wars that...Tags: Literature, Death, Audrey Hepburn, DVDs and Movies, Russia
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Bozo's Circus on WGN-TV
Chicago TribuneThe debut of "Bozo's Circus" on WGN-TV in Chicago on this date signaled the beginning of an enduring city-clown alliance. Bozo is not the only clown to come out of Chicago, but he is surely the most affecting. Technically speaking, however, he is not a...Tags: NBC (tv network), Roger Ebert, Oprah Winfrey, Death, WGN
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Charles Teitel dies at 93; theater operator fought censors as he brought foreign art films to Chicago
Charles Teitel, who operated one of the first foreign art houses in Chicago, screening such seminal films as "The Bicycle Thief" and "Z" as well as movies that city censors tried to ban for racy content, died of congestive heart failure April 4 at his...Tags: Akira Kurosawa, World War II (1939-1945), Death, Ingmar Bergman, Vittorio de Sica
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'Ballerina' --3 stars
Dance aficionados will be sent over the moon by this compelling documentary from director Bertrand Norman, chronicling what it takes to be a prima ballerina in the Mariinski Theatre, better known as the Kirov. It's no small thing that Norman actually...Tags: Documentary (genre), Movies
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