Movie notes
Hail to the screen!
Join me and Buffalo Grove's resident film scholar Raymond Benson as Dann and Raymond's Movie Club presents "Hail to the Screen: Presidents and Politics in the Movies." Free admission and no taxes! Clips from "The Candidate," "All the King's Men," "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," plus others.
730 p.m. Thursday Nov. 20 at the Arlington Heights Memorial Library, 500 N. Dunton Ave., Arlington Heights.
Bogart this theater!
Join author Stephen Humphrey Bogart - yes, the famous actor's son - for the grand opening of the new Moroccan Plaza movie theater created from nine tons of imported wood and stone, silk awnings and lanterns underneath a night "sky" illuminated by 2,000 fiber optic twinkle lights. Bogart will introduce a remastered print of the 1942 classic "Casablanca" starring his dad and Ingrid Bergman. Appetizers will be served. Call (630) 427-1880 or go to atriptothemovies.com.
9 p. m. Friday at Hollywood Blvd. Cinema, 1001 75th St., Woodridge.
'Cheap Seats'
Filmmaker Jim Syrek grew up in Palatine, but now lives in Chicago where he has created a 30-minute film about a former boy band star who applies to become a substitute high school teacher. Will he fall in love with a fellow teacher on the verge of leaving the profession? Syrek hopes to make a full-length feature from this film short. Admission $10.
7 p.m. Friday at the Portage Theater, 4050 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago.