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This week we also have new reviews of: Blackfish, a muckraking documentary about SeaWorld and similar operations; Girl Most Likely, an eccentric family comedy from the directors of American Splendor; The Happy Poet, a charming low-budget production from Austin screening at the Siskel Center this Monday with writer-director-star Paul Gordon in attendance; The Late George Apley, an early directorial effort from Joseph L. Mankiewicz, screening Wednesday at the Patio; Hayao Miyazaki's Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, which screens as part of the Siskel Center's Studio Ghibli series; Red 2, a lackluster sequel to another Robert Schwentke production; The Sleeping Tiger (playing at Doc Films on Wednesday), a 1954 British melodrama directed by Joseph Losey after he fled the United States; Still Mine, a Canadian drama opening at the Landmark Century; and The To Do List, a rare teen-sex comedy that centers on female, rather than male, sexual initiation.
Best bets for repertory screenings: Ernst Lubitsch's silent feature Lady Windermere's Fan screens at Doc Films tonight at 7 and 9:30 PM; also tonight the annual Silent Summer Film Festival begins at the Des Plaines Theater with a 1926 feature called Kid Boots; Francis Ford Coppola's fascinating failure One From the Heart screens at the Northbrook Public Library on Wednesday at 1 and 7:30 PM; and Gone With the Wind and Steven Spielberg's A.I. Artificial Intelligence screen in state-of-the-art 4K DCP at the Siskel Center.
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