'Bonnie and Clyde,' comedies and film noir highlight local movie events
Beatty, Dunaway back for more bloodshed
After shooting up the finale of the 89th Academy Awards show, Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway join forces again on the silver screen as the Chicago Film Critics Association presents Arthur Penn's game-changer 1967 gangster thriller “Bonnie and Clyde” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8, at the Elk Grove Theaters, 1050 Arlington Heights Road, Elk Grove Village. The show will be hosted by critic and CFCA member Patrick McDonald, who is quite a blast himself. $5 admission. Go to classiccinemas.com.
Drive-In movies for car-board kids
Now, for something completely different, cute and clever. An Indoor Drive-In Movie Night will be held at the Palatine Park District's Birchwood Recreation Center, 435 W. Illinois Ave., Palatine, from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday, March 3.
Participating kids bring their own cardboard boxes to create minicars they can sit in to enjoy the feature presentation of 2016's “Finding Dory,” a rare Pixar movie that did not receive an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Feature.
Registration for the event is already closed, but you can get more information on the Indoor Drive-In Movie Night at palatineparks.org.
Comedies, film noir on tap for presentations
I double up on public appearances next week:
Join me (without my usual partner, film historian/instructor Raymond Benson) for a special presentation of “How He Got into My Pajamas I'll Never Know: The Great Comedies Part 1 - From the Silents through the 1950s,” 7 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 8, at the Dundee Library, 555 Barrington Ave., East Dundee. Clips from such classics as “City Lights,” “The Philadelphia Story” and “Some Like It Hot” will be shown.
“Comedies Part 2: She Turned Me Into a Newt! From the 1960s to the Present” will be presented on Wednesday, March 22. Free admission for both! Go to frvpld.info.
Join me (with my usual partner Raymond Benson) when Dann & Raymond's Movie Club presents “Danger, Darkness and Dames: The World of Film Noir” at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, March 9, at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 500 N. Dunton Ave., Arlington Heights. (ahml.info.) Clips from such classics as “Touch of Evil,” “DOA,” “The Killing” and “Gaslight” headline the show. Free admission. Wear your best fedora or slinky gown.
Daily Herald film critic Dann Gire's column runs Friday in Time out!