Landmark Theatres release schedule in Chicago as of Feb. 25, 2008

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I just received the following updated information for movies opening in Chicago from Landmark Theatres. This information is current as of Feb. 25, 2008.

CENTURY CENTRE CINEMA

February 29, 2008

CHICAGO 10 / NR – 99 / Roadside
Writer/director Brett Morgen’s (The Kid Stays in the Picture) unique perspective on contemporary history mixes bold animation with extraordinary archival footage as it explores the Chicago Conspiracy Trial of Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, Jerry Rubin, Bobby Seale and others. At the 1968 Democratic Convention, protestors repeatedly clashed with a Chicago Police department that waged a week-long terror campaign, resulting in riots witnessed live by a television audience of over 50 million. Set to the music of revolution, it’s the story of young Americans speaking out and taking a stand in the face of an oppressive and armed government. Featuring the voices of Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Roy Scheider, Liev Schreiber and Jeffrey Wright.

March 7, 2008

THE BAND’S VISIT / PG13 – 89 / Sony Classics
This gentle culture-clash comedy, the debut feature of writer/director Eran Kolirin, is winner of 8 Israeli Film Academy Awards. When the Alexandria, Egypt police band gets lost on their way to inaugurate an Arab Cultural Center, they end up stranded in a remote Israeli town, where the residents reluctantly put them up for the night. Sasson Gabai plays the band’s stoic conductor, Saleh Bakri a suave ladies man, and Ronit Elkabetz a sexy café owner who finds them a challenge. With a deadpan humor reminiscent of Jacques Tati and Jim Jarmusch, the film sweetly embraces a hope for peace and understanding. (Fully subtitled)
http://www.thebandsvisit.com/intro.html

THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION / NRTBD / City Lights Pictures – Tentative Date!
Set in Brazil in the turbulent year of 1970, this poignant and humorous coming of age story thrusts 12-year-old Mauro (Michel Joelsas) into a maelstrom of political and personal upheaval. When his left-wing militant parents are forced to go underground, Mauro is left in the care of his Jewish grandfather’s neighbor in Sao Paulo. Suddenly finding himself an exile in his own country, he is forced to create an ersatz family from the religiously diverse and colorful population of his new neighborhood. Mauro befriends tomboyish, street smart Hanna (Daniela Piepszyk) and develops a crush on Irene (Liliana Castro), a pretty waitress. Irene works in a local bar where everyone—including Mauro, an ardent soccer fan—gathers to watch iconic star Pelé in the 1970 World Cup championship which Mauro hopes to watch with his parents if they return to Brazil in time. (Fully subtitled)

MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY / PG13 – 92 / Focus
Set in 1939 London, this sophisticated and heartfelt comedy stars Frances McDormand as Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged governess who is catapulted into the glamorous and dizzying world of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams). Taking her “social secretary” assignment to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate a love life and career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysia’s orbit: a devoted pianist (Lee Pace), an intimidating nightclub owner (Mark Strong) and an impressionable junior impresario (Tom Payne). Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe (Ciarán Hinds), a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe (Shirley Henderson)—the one person who senses that the new “social secretary” may be out of her element, and schemes to undermine her. Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will empower each other to discover their romantic destinies.
http://www.focusfeatures.com/home.html

March 14, 2008

CARAMEL / PG13 – 92 / Roadside
In Beirut, five women meet regularly in a beauty salon, a colorful and sensual microcosm of the city where several generations come into contact, talk and confide in each other. Layale loves Rabih, but Rabih is married. Nisrine is Muslim and her forthcoming marriage poses a problem: she is no longer a virgin. Rima is tormented by her attraction to women and especially to a lovely client with long hair. Jamale is refusing to grow old. Rose has sacrificed her life to take care of her elderly sister. In the salon, their intimate and liberated conversations revolve around men, sex and motherhood, between haircuts and sugar waxing with caramel. Directed and co-written by Nadine Labaki, who also stars as Layale. (Fully subtitled)

PARANOID PARK / R – 80 / IFC First Take
Writer/director Gus Van Sant (Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho) continues his exploration of alienated youth in the freewheeling style of his recent Palme d’Or winner Elephant and Last Days. Through a non-linear structure that slots together like a puzzle, Van Sant reveals the panicked mindset of a boy under great stress. Inarticulate teen skateboard punk Alex (Gabe Nevins) is somehow involved in the death of a security guard in a railway yard near the makeshift skateboarding zone the kids call Paranoid Park. But what crime did he commit, if any? The fluid camera work of Christopher Doyle (In the Mood For Love) weaves an intimate, mesmerizing atmosphere, contrasting gorgeous 35mm images with Super 8 skateboarding sequences. Based on the novel by Blake Nelson.

March 21, 2008

SNOW ANGELS / R – 106 / Warner Independent
A story of love lost and found in a small town, Snow Angels is a heartrending portrayal of three couples in various stages of life, orbiting around each other in search of connection and meaning. An unexpected act of violence disrupts the lives of these intertwined couples, revealing the profound moments in which they each realize how precarious and remarkable life can be. Starring Sam Rockwell, Kate Beckinsale, Michael Angarano, Griffin Dunne, Amy Sedaris and Olivia Thirlby. Written and directed by David Gordon Green (Undertow, All the Real Girls), based on the novel by Stewart O’Nan.

CJ7 / PG– 86 / Sony Classics
From Stephen Chow, director and star of Kung Fu Hustle and Shaolin Soccer, comes a new comedy featuring his trademark slapstick antics. Ti (Chow) is a poor father who works every day to make sure his son Dicky (Xu Jiao) can attend an elite private school. Despite his father’s good intentions, Dicky, with his tattered clothes and lack of “cool” toys, stands out from his schoolmates like a sore thumb. When Ti finds a mysterious orb and brings it home for Dicky to play with, the orb turns out to be a bizarre “pet” with extraordinary powers. Armed with his “CJ7,” Dicky seizes this chance to overcome his poor background and impress his fellow schoolmates for the first time in his life. But CJ7 has other ideas and when Dicky brings it to class chaos ensues. (Fully subtitled)

March 28, 2008

FLAWLESS (2008) / PG13 – 100 / Magnolia
From director Michael Radford (THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, IL POSTINO) comes FLAWLESS, a clever diamond-heist thriller set in swinging 1960s London. Demi Moore plays Laura Quinn, a bright, driven and beautiful executive at the London Diamond Corporation who finds herself frustrated by a glass ceiling after years of faithful employment, as man after man is promoted ahead of her despite her greater experience. Michael Caine is Hobbs, the nighttime janitor at London Diamond who is virtually invisible to the executives that work there, but over the years has amassed a startling amount of knowledge about how the company runs. Hobbs has his own bone to pick with London Diamond. Observing Laura’s frustration, he convinces her to help him execute an ingenious plan to steal a hefty sum in diamonds. But unbeknownst to Laura, Hobbs plans go even farther than he’s let on, and together they set in motion a thrilling heist of dizzying proportions, the likes of which London has never seen.
http://www.magpictures.com/

April 4, 2008

PRICELESS (HORS DE PRIX) / PG 13 – 104 / IDP Films
Jean (Gad Elmaleh), a shy young bartender, is mistaken for a millionaire by a beautiful seductress named Irene (Audrey Tautou). When Irene discovers his true identity, she abandons him, only to find that a love-struck Jean has no intention of letting her get away. Jean’s comical attempts to gain her affections gradually evolve into setting himself up as a gigolo at a luxury hotel, until Irene finally starts to warm to her persistent, persuasive suitor. Against the wildly atmospheric backdrop of the south of France, Pierre Salvadori (APRES VOUS) directs this sexy and thoroughly charming romantic comedy, which is a fresh re-imagining of the cinema classic, BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S.

April 18, 2008

THE VISITOR / Not Rated – TBD / Overture Films
In a world of six billion people, it only takes one to change your life. In actor and filmmaker Tom McCarthy’s follow-up to his award winning directorial debut The Station Agent, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as a disillusioned Connecticut economics professor whose life is transformed by a chance encounter in New York City.
http://www.overturefilms.net/

LIFE BEFORE HER EYES / NRTBD / Magnolia
Oscar-nominee Uma Thurman plays a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life and perhaps her sanity on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend. In flashbacks, Diana is a vibrant high schooler (played by Evan Rachel Wood of THIRTEEN and THE UPSIDE OF ANGER) who, with her shy best friend Maureen, plot typical teenage strategies, cutting class, fantasizing about boys and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. The older Diana, however, is haunted by the increasingly strained relationship she had with Maureen as day of the school shooting approached. These memories disrupt the idyllic life she’s now leading with her professor husband Paul and their young daughter Emma. As older Diana’s life begins to unravel and younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels. Based on the best-selling novel by Laura Kasischke.
http://www.magpictures.com/

May 30, 2008

OSS 117: CAIRO, NEST OF SPIES / NR – 99

RENAISSANCE PLACE CINEMA

(The majority of these films are not exclusive and will open with other area theatres)

February 29, 2008

CHICAGO 10 / NR – 99 / Roadside

THE COUNTERFEITERS / R – 99 / Sony Classics
The true story of Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), counterfeiter extraordinaire and bohemian. After getting arrested in a German concentration camp in 1944, he agrees to help the Nazis in an organized counterfeit operation set up to help finance the war effort. It was the biggest counterfeit money scam of all times: over £130 million in British currency was printed, under conditions that couldn’t have been more tragic or spectacular. During the last years of the war, as the German Reich saw that the end was near, the authorities decided to produce their own banknotes in the currencies of their major war enemies. At the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, two barracks were separated from the rest of the camp and transformed into a fully equipped counterfeiters workshop. “Operation Bernhard” was born. Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film. (Fully subtitled)

March 7, 2008

THE BAND’S VISIT / PG13 – 89 / Sony Classics

THE YEAR MY PARENTS WENT ON VACATION / NRTBD / City Lights Pictures – Tentative Date!

MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY / PG13 – 92 / Focus

March 14, 2008

CARAMEL / PG13 – 92 / Roadside

MARRIED LIFE / PG13 – 90 / Sony Classics
Dark humor, romantic deception and stylish melodrama—with an invigorating dash of suspense—characterize this wry, unconventional fable for grown-ups about the irresistible power and utter madness of love. After decades of marital contentment, Harry (Chris Cooper) concludes that he must kill his wife Pat (Patricia Clarkson) because he loves her too much to let her suffer when he leaves her. Harry has fallen hard for the young and lovely Kay (Rachel McAdams), but his best friend Richard (Pierce Brosnan) wants to win Kay for himself. As Harry implements his maladroit plans for murdering his wife, the other characters are entangled with their own deceptions. Directed and co-written by Ira Sachs (Forty Shades of Blue).

March 28, 2008

FLAWLESS (2008) / PG13 – 100 / Magnolia

April 4, 2008

PRICELESS (HORS DE PRIX) / PG 13 – 104 / IDP Films

April 28, 2008

THE VISITOR / Not Rated – TBD / Overture Films

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