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Film News: Third ‘Noir City: Chicago’ Festival Opens at Music Box Theatre
Submitted by mattmovieman on August 11, 2011 - 8:25am.CHICAGO – Diabolical twins, obsessed journalists and jail-breaking thugs are heading their way to the Music Box Theatre. The Film Noir Foundation’s third installment of “Noir City: Chicago” features no less than sixteen restored 35mm prints of must-see cinematic rarities.
Blu-Ray Review: ‘The Leopard’ Basks in the Bittersweet Glow of Nostalgia
Submitted by mattmovieman on July 7, 2010 - 9:12am.CHICAGO – Many great films have been made about the changing of eras and the passing of power from one generation to another. But few are as masterfully conceived and as lovingly detailed as Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti’s 1963 classic “The Leopard.” Gorgeously restored on Blu-Ray, this near-masterpiece was sliced and diced by Hollywood for American audiences, but is now presented in its original three-hour running time.
‘The King and I’ Actress Deborah Kerr Dies at 86
Submitted by HollywoodChicago.com on October 18, 2007 - 10:54pm.CHICAGO – Deborah Kerr, who is remembered for one of Hollywood’s most famous kisses opposite Burt Lancaster in “From Here to Eternity” and made her mark with roles such as the proper widow in “The King and I,” has died. She was 86.
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