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7 TRIBUNE To receive free cocktail, you must be 21 or older. Advance bookings must take place prior to November 14th. Booking can be for any show during the run of the engagement. SHAKEN. ANDSTIRRED.

Experience new lm surrounded by LUXURY RECLINERS, GOURMET FOOD, AND A FREE MARTINI. Book your seat by the Nov. 14th release and receive a complimentary martini. Shaken, of course. THE NEW WAY TO GO TO THE MOVIES.

The Arboretum 100 West Higgins Rd. South Barrington Tickets now on sale at goldclasscinemas.com or call 224 293 1001. TALKING PICTURES Michael Phillips One of the great discoveries of the 2008 Chicago International Film Festival, now in full cinematic swing, is a vampire picture from Sweden. so sick of those, you? Based on a popular novel, the Right One (or den Ratte Komma for you Swedes) revitalizes the genre and reframes it atmospherically, giving you the cold cold; winter in Sweden is with a weirdly touching examination of adolescent friendship. Set in a drab burg near Stockholm, director Tomas Al- focuses on young timid 12-year-old whose life is haunted by the affectlessly cruel bullies at school.

One night at a forlorn jungle gym near his family apartment, he meets Eli, a pale girl about his age. She is a vampire, stuck at age 12 for eternity. Oskar does not learn this for a long time. As the Right One unfolds, teetering back and forth between daily routine and nightly one, Alfredson very cannily keeps the horror at a calm middle-distance from the camera. See it at the festival (10 p.m.

Friday, AMC River East; 10:45 p.m. Oct. 25, 600 N. Michigan Ave.) or in its imminent art-house release, before the planned English- language remake mucks it all up. The opening weekend is crammed with good stories, told in sharp- eyed ways.

Lance p.m. Sunday, AMC River East; repeated at 8:20 p.m. Monday) draws you into its wintry Mississippi Delta milieu with a tale of a boy, his mother and an unlikely new family forged in the aftermath of a suicide. Arnaud Christmas (6:45 p.m. Saturday, AMC River East) might have settled for comforting comedy-drama in the ensemble mode, with a glorious cast led by Catherine Deneuve going through family-crisis the tone keeps slipping around, in all the right ways, and surprises keep coming.

On a smaller canvas, Barry for p.m. Sunday, 600 N. Michigan, repeated at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday) takes a conventional idea and finds fresh details within it, in a tale of two African-American Bay Area residents whose one-night stand phases, warily, into a friendship. And the Terence Daviesmemory documentary, Time and the (7:45 p.m.

Saturday, 6:15 Thursday, AMC River East), proves how much poetry and universality can be wrought from a highly personal perspective, in this case on early years in Liverpool. so much more. Keep an eye on the paper and chicagotribune.com/ talkingpictures, and steer you in the right direction. That said, be take chances on films you know nothing about. Aside from strong festival buzz coming out of Tribeca and elsewhere, I know anything about the Right One before seeing it, and the infernal, stylishly chilling thing is still following me around.

For full fest information, go to chicagofilmfestival- call 312-332-FILM. a big a bite! Lina Leandersson plays a lonely one friend in the Swedish vampire film the Right One playing Friday night at the Chicago International Film Festival. Lance stars Jim Myron Ross (left) and Michael J. Smith and plays Sunday and Monday. Secret Life of Rating: PG-13 for thematic material and some violence.

What about: A white teenager and her black friend flee to a safe corner of South Carolina during the civil rights summer of 1964. The Kid Attractor Factor: Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, Alicia Keys and Queen Latifah are in the cast. Good lessons: There was a time when black people vote. Violence: Racist beatings. Language: Racist hate speech, a little profanity.

Sex: A bit suggestive for a movie about a 14-year-old girl. Drugs: None. advisory: This sweet-spirited history lesson bites off a bit more than it can chewbut still passes along important lessons about racial history in America. Rating: for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, language, some drug and alcohol use, all involving teens. What about: High school doormat drives south to have sex with a girl he has met on the Internet.

The Kid Attractor Factor: The title, the young cast, the subject matter. Sure, too young. But you know they want to see it. Good lessons: Predators prowl the Internet; sex should take a back seat to love Violence: The threat of a good old-fashioned beat-down. Language: Profanity aplenty.

Sex: The title tips you off. Drugs: Beer and pot. advisory: be confused by the similarities to the sweet teen romance this borrows its plot from. is no Moore, Orlando Sentinel FOR FAMILIES OCT. 24 and School Musical 3: Senior and OCT.

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26 NOV. 28 DEC. 3 Opening dates are subject to change. COMING SOON Contact us Maureen M. Hart, Movies editor: 312-222-4248; For updates on the best of the Chicago International FilmFestival, visit chicagotribune.com/talkingpictures More film fest advice online Product: CTMOVIES PubDate: 10-17-2008 Zone: ALL Edition: HD Page: 3-7 User: jdziura Time: Color:.