Reel life: Dann & Raymond take on Bond, best fights
Film critics notebook:
• A digitally remastered version of the Marx Brothers classic 1935 comedy “A Night at the Opera” will be presented at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 1, at the Woodstock Theatre, 209 Main Street, Woodstock. Tickets cost $15 with proceeds going to support the Woodstock Opera House, 121 E. Van Buren St., located across the Square from the Woodstock Theatre. classiccinemas.com.
• We don't have a license to thrill, but we'll still present “Fifty-Two Years of Bond. James Bond.” It's a special salute to Agent 007 from the Dann & Raymond Movie Club, starting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, at the Palatine Park District's Cutting Hall Performing Arts Center, 150 E. Wood St., Palatine.
Free admission! Film clips! Concessions available. You can obtain tickets through the Cutting Hall box office at cuttinghall.org.
• Wait! That's not all.
Dann & Raymond's Movie Club continues at the Schaumburg Township District Library with “Fists and Knives and Swords, Oh, My! The Greatest Fights on Film,” 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 5.
What's the No. 1 movie fight scene? The secret countdown will be revealed starting with No. 14. (Sorry, Rocky Balboa, no boxing matches or martial arts contests. Those are sports, not fighting.) Free admission. schaumburglibrary.org.
• The Midwest Independent Film Festival presents Oak Park native Ted Levine starring in the new mystery fantasy “Dig Two Graves,” starting after the preshow at 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, at the Century Centre Cinema, 2828 N. Clark St., Chicago. Levine, who joined Chicago's Remains Theatre founded by Gary Cole and William Petersen, plays the sheriff in a story about a girl's search for her missing brother. Go to midwestfilm.com.
• The Blue Whiskey Independent Film Festival presents Alfred Hitchcock's classic 1954 thriller “Rear Window” at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 4, at the Star Cinema Grill, 53 S. Evergreen Ave., Arlington Heights. Admission costs $6. Mark your calendars for April 4 to see the hilarious “Star Trek” spoof “Galaxy Quest.” Go to bwiff.com.
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