Colonel Chabert
Chicago Reader
I’ve only sampled this glossy 1993 rendition of a Balzac story, but I saw enough to convince me that this is the sort of French cinema only American distributors think is the best around—a Gallic equivalent of a Merchant-Ivory film that ultimately has as much to do with window curtains as with the human condition. […]
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Riverbeast alert

The Music Box Theatre will screen Don’t Let the Riverbeast Get You!, a campy cult classic by eccentric filmmaker and musician Matt Farley.

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