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123456 TRIBUNE 7 MOVIES Geffen Records soundtrack features score by Hans Zimmer plus classic hit songs from the Bee Gees, Earth, Wind Fire, Louis Armstrong, Vangelis and more! For information on Group Ticket Sales, call 1-877-370-1122 or log on to www.dreamworks.com/groupsales CHATHAM 14 Chicago CITY NORTH 14 Chicago FORD CITY 14 Chicago SW LAWNDALE 10 Chicago 62ND WESTERN Chicago SW VILLAGE ARTS Chicago ARLINGTON THEATERS Arlington Heights CANTERA 30 Warrenville CENTURY 16 DEER PARK Deer Park CHARLESTOWNE MALL 18 St. Charles CHICAGO RIDGE Chicago Ridge CINEMARK Melrose Park CINEMARK Woodridge COUNTRY CLUB HILLS Country Club Hills CRESTWOOD Crestwood CROWN VILLAGE 18 Skokie ELK GROVE Elk Grove Vill EVANSTON CENTURY 12 Evanston GARDENS AT OLD ORCHARD 1-6 Skokie GLEN 10 Glenview LAKE Oak Park LAKE ZURICH Lake Zurich LAKEHURST Waukegan LINCOLNSHIRE 20 Lincolnshire MARCUS ADDISON Addison MARCUS CHICAGO HEIGHTS Chicago Heights MARCUS ELGIN FOX Elgin MARCUS GURNEE Gurnee MARCUS ORLAND PARK Orland Park MERRILLVILLE Merrillville NORRIDGE Norridge NORTHBROOK COURT Northbrook QUARRY 14 Hodgkins RANDHURST Mt Prospect RIVER OAKS 1-6 Calumet City ROUND LAKE BEACH 18 Round Lake SHOWPLACE 16 Crystal Lake SOUTH BARRINGTON 30 Barrington STREETS OF WOODFIELD Schaumburg WOODRIDGE Woodridge YORK Elmhurst YORKTOWN Lombard SORRY, NO PASSES ACCEPTED. DIGITAL PROJECTION CHECK THEATRE DIRECTORIES FOR SHOWTIMES. DIGITAL PROJECTION AT THISTHEATRE 600 N. MICHIGAN Near North ESQUIRE Chicago CITY NORTH 14 DIGITAL Chicago CANTERA 30 DIGITAL Warrenville CHARLESTOWNE MALL 18 DIGITAL St.

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MARCUS ORLAND PARK Orland Park MERRILLVILLE 10 Merrillville NORTH RIVERSIDE MALL North Riverside NORTHBROOK COURT 14 Northbrook PICKWICK Park Ridge QUARRY CINEMAS 14 Hodgkins RANDHURST 16 Mt. Prospect REGAL 12 Lake Zurich REGAL 20 Lincolnshire REGAL 18 Round Lake Beach REGAL SHOWPLACE 16 Crystal Lake SOUTH BARRINGTON South Barrington WOODRIDGE Woodridge YORKTOWN 18 Lombard RIVER EAST 21 Chicago 1:00, 3:15, 4:15, 6:15, 7:15, 9:15 Also on 1 Non-Digital Screen CROWN VILLAGE 18 Skokie 2:50, 6:20, STREETS OF WOODFIELD Schaumburg 3:20, 6:20 CHECK LOCAL LISTINGS FOR SHOWTIMES NOW SHOWING COUNTRY CLUB HILLS Country Club Hills CRESTWOOD Crestwood CROWN VILLAGE 18 Skokie MARCUS ADDISON Addison MARCUS CHICAGO HTS. Chicago Hts. MARCUS ELGIN Elgin MARCUS GURNEE Gurnee MARCUS ORLAND PARK Orland Park MERRILLVILLE 10 Merrillville NORTH RIVERSIDE MALL North Riverside REGAL 20 Lincolnshire REGAL 18 Round Lake Beach REGAL SHOWPLACE 16 Crystal Lake SOUTH BARRINGTON South Barrington STREETS OF WOODFIELD Schaumburg WOODRIDGE Woodridge YORKTOWN 18 Lombard ESQUIRE Chicago CITY NORTH 14 Chicago FORD CITY 14 Chicago CANTERA 30 Warrenville Call theatre or see directory ad for showtimes. ROGEREBERT ROGEREBERT Offhand, you might not think a movie about two women sewing and embroidering clothes together in the French countryside would make much of a movie subject.

But may surprise you. The feature filmmaking debut of writer-director Eleonore Faucher, a movie of both visual beauty and understated dramatic intensity, a double prize winner at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival (where it took the Week Grand Prize). Of course has more than embroidery. The protagonist is Claire Moutiers (Lola Naymark), a teenage supermarket cashier desperate to conceal her five-month pregnancy from parents and no longer accept impromptu explanations of overeating or cancer. When Claire discovers that the son and assistant of local embroiderer Mme.

Melikian (Ariane Ascaride) has died in a motorcycle accident that involved brother, Guillaume (Thomas Laroppe), she applies for an job and gets it. Soon the women are communing over their stitches; Mme. Melikian discovers Claire learns the depth of her sorrow. is a movie without false moments and with a finely sustained mood of reflection, anxiety and quiet anguish. The acting is often lovely.

Naymark holds the screen with a easy grace and Ascaride, whom you may recognize as the Jeanette of husband-director Robert marvelous Marseilles romance and is perfect as the stoic, grieving Melikian. This is a film for the happy few that audience will find it eminently satisfying. In French, with English titles. Running time: 1:28. No MPAA rating (parents are cautioned for frank discussions of sexuality and pregnancy).

opens Friday at the Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport Ave. Call 773-871-6604 or visit www.musicboxtheatre- Wilmington Bertha Bay-Sa opening for a weeklong run at Facets special appearances by the writer- director on Friday and an American independent film of unusual subject matter and quality. Bay-Sa Pan, in her feature writer-directorial debut, gives us here the finely observed story of three generations of Chinese-American women, all fiercely stubborn but inwardly loving. Simultaneously, she takes a look into the Chinese community of New York City in the and both realistic and highly entertaining.

a perceptively written and imaginatively directed film. But, most of all, brilliantly acted. As the three grandmother Mrs. Liu (Kieu Chinh), mother Kim (Bai Ling) and granddaughter Genie (Kristy Bay-Sa three actresses give astonishingly varied, spontaneous, powerfully human, award-worthy portrayals. The actresses take their characters believably through several decades, in Chinatown from the to the beginning with first disastrous misstep.

After a fight with her boyfriend, she allows a spoiled, sexy rich boy (Will Yun Lee) to seduce and impregnate her. Fleeing the bad marriage that results, Kim moves to Hong Kong and wins success as a banker, leaving daughter Genie with the kind but insular and old-fashioned Mrs. Liu. Decades later, when Kim returns, Genie is understandably and involved in a affair of her own with breezy, good- hearted deejay Michael (played by Treach of Naughty by Nature). What happens to the three after that return is not at all predictable but in the end is moving and convincing.

takes a subject that might have drowned in sentiment and treats it with humor, keen vision and a hard (but not callous) edge. Some may fault these women for selfishness and obstinacy, but Bay-Sa Pan understands that people have many levels, some unpleasant, and that flaws create telling drama. As a filmmaker, she succeeds on almost every level: generating atmosphere, weaving an engrossing tale and eliciting marvelous performances. a talent to so are her three superb actresses. In English and Chinese, with English subtitles.

Running time: 1:39. No MPAA rating (parents cautioned for sexuality, partial nudity, language, drug use and mature themes.) plays at 7, 9 p.m. 3, 5, 7, 9 p.m. 7, 9 p.m. Bertha Bay-Sa Pan will appear for a at the 7 and 9 p.m.

Friday and 5, 7 and 9 p.m. Saturday shows. Facets is at 1517 W. Fullerton Ave. Call 773281-4114 or visit www.facets.org Lovely acting lends sparkle to Lola Naymark is Claire and Thomas Laroppe her brother Guillaume in MOVIE ROUNDUP By Michael Wilmington Tribune movie critic The great, strange, reclusive American film master Stanley Kubrick, whose career is being celebrated with a complete retrospective of new 35 mm prints at the Gene Siskel Film Center, was always somewhat out of the mainstream of big Hollywood studio many Hollywood directors revered him.

But which Kubrick made for producer-star Kirk Douglas, was a huge audience and critical hit. It brought the young director the cachet and power he needed to establish himself firmly and continue his string of dark film classics. Producer-star ambitious effort is a vast adaptation of Howard historical novel of the Roman slave rebellion, with Douglas as rebel leader Spartacus and a royal supporting cast that included Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Jean Simmons, Tony Curtis and, in an Oscar-winning performance as the sleazy gladiator school owner, Peter Ustinov. The film was a best picture nominee itself and remains one of the most popular and accessible of all films, even though screenwriter Dalton Trumbo (emerging from the blacklist) wrote a gutsy script rife with po- litical and Freudian overtones and a tragic climax. a liberal, cerebral epic, but some of its best scenes are the action sequences in the gladiator school with Douglas, Usti- nov and memorable fellow slave-warrior Woody Strode.

(Some of these scenes were shot by expert Anthony Mann, whom Kubrick replaced as director midway through shooting.) Despite its continuing popularity, Kubrick never regarded as a personal project, but doubtful he could have made or without it; the next period epic he tackled was the incredibly beautiful, bizarrely shot (U.S.; Stanley Kubrick, 1960). 4 p.m. 6:30 p.m. The Gene Siskel Film Center. Other special film screenings; indicates capsules from past Wilmington reviews.

Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N. State St. 312-846-2600 www.siskel filmcenter.org. (Stanley Kubrick, 1955) This low-budget noir, second feature, is about a boxer who falls for a girl and the nest of violence that ensues. The dialogue and acting are second-rate (except for Frank pungent crime boss) but Kubrick captures the look of Manhattan and its seedier environs with flair and shadow-drenched style.

6 p.m. 5 p.m. Sun. (Mexico; Alejandro Gonzalez Inarri- tu, 2000). An international phenomenon, the ferociously exciting won more festival awards than any other 2001film, including the Grand Prize (Gold Hugo) of our own Chicago Film Festival.

It deserved them all. The most scorchingly brilliant look at Mexico City street life since Luis a stunning, three-part fresco of life high and low, a bravura display that holds you spellbound. (Spanish, with English subtitles.) Part of a month-long Contemporary Mexican Cinema series. 7:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m.

Tue. on a (U.S.; Bert Stern, 1960). One of the best jazz concert films ever, this is ace photographer record of the sights and sounds of the 1958 Newport Jazz festival, with riffs and songs by Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Gerry Mulligan, Dinah Washington, Anita Eric Dolphy and many others, but not, unfortunately Miles Davis and Duke Ellington and his orchestra, who were both famously in attendance that year, but whom producer George Avakian steered away from Stern. 7:30 p.m. 3 p.m.

8:15 p.m. Thu. Music Box Theatre 3733 N. Southport Ave 773-871-6604 www.musicboxtheatre.com the (Japan; Takashi Miike; 2003). Most Takashi Miike fans place this wild, weird, playfully demented gangster an idiot in a super-hero outfit who triggers a bloody war between mindlessly brutal Yakuza the top, the du crime of his canon.

Truly outrageous, defiantly tasteless and mind-throttlingly imaginative Midnight of the Thin (U.S.; W.S. Van Dyke, 1941). After a racetrack murder mystery for Dashiell delightfully tipsy and urbane and witty sleuths Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy), a lot of the fizz went out of the series. But this fourth entry is still full of sophisticated charm and slick thrills. 11 a.m.

Vast to start Kubrick retrospective opens the Gene Siskel Film Stanley Kubrick retrospective Saturday. SCREEN GEMS Submit listings at metromix.com/listings. CITY LARRY Chicago premiere of Josh 2005 debut documentary on the notorious outsider musician and Frank Zappa protege. 8 p.m. Gene Siskel Film of the Art Institute of Chicago 164 N.

State St. 312-846-2600 DOC FILM SERIES: This series highlights domestic and international works that focus on social issues. Hill 7 p.m. and the Angry 7 and 9 p.m. 7 and 9:15 p.m.

Saved from 8 p.m. Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago 1212 E. 59th St. 773-702-8575 MOVIES IN THE PARKS: Pack a picnic and spend the night watching movies under the stars. Movies begin at dusk; free.

SpongeBob SquarePants Vittum Park 5010 W. 50th St. 312-7427529 Midway Plaisance 59th Street and Woodlawn Avenue 312742-7529 A Series of Unfortunate Wicker Park 1425 N. Damen Ave. 312-742-7529 SUBURBS BLOCK CINEMA: Bring blankets and lawn chairs for classic and recent films projected on the building wall.

of the 9 p.m. Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, 50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston; 847-491-4000. DES PLAINES THEATER PRESERVATION SOCIETY SCREENINGS: See classic and contemporary films in the newly restored Art Deco theater. 7 p.m. Des Plaines Theater 1476 Miner St.

Des Plaines; 847803-1875 MOONLIGHT MOVIES: Screenings of family films on the poolside patio; through Sept. 3. Fridays and Saturdays at dusk; free. Pheasant Run Resort Spa, 4051 E. Main St.

Charles; 800-474-3272. metromix cinema scene.