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TIP OF THE WEEK
Reeling 2002

Ray Pride

The twenty-first edition of Chicago Filmmakers' lesbian and gay international Film Festival, Reeling 2002, begins Thursday and continues through August 8 at the Music Box, Landmark Century Centre Cinemas and at Chicago Filmmakers. It's their largest enterprise yet, with more than eighty screenings that include nearly 150 movies and videos from North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America. Highlights include David Weissman and Bill Weber's look at the hippie and glitter scene of 1960s San Francisco, opening the festival on July 25 at the Museum of Contemporary Art. August 8's closing night attraction will be Margaret Cho's second standup comedy, "Notorious C.H.O." Hong Kong director Staney Kwan's likable "Lan Yu," set during the turmoil of late 1980s China, is the festival centerpiece. Selected titles are reviewed in Short Runs.

The festival hotline is (312)458-9117. Tickets range from $6-8 and can be bought in advance at (773)293-1447. For more information, www. chicagofilmmakers.org/reeling.

(2002-07-25)

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Jacques Audiard's "Read My Lips" (Sur mes levres) bears some resemblance to Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and I wouldn't be surprised if there were a dozen reviews in the month of its release demonstrating the intense knack the writer has for getting the skinny on the oeuvre of the master.
(2002-07-18)

MICE DREAMS
I liked the first "Stuart Little," and with the return of most of the creative crew, I'd hoped for a tolerable family movie. In fact, in seventy-eight sweetly calculated minutes, "Stuart Little 2" offers up one of the most beguiling portraits of the streets of New York since September 11.
(2002-07-18)

TIP OF THE WEEK
James Toback ("Fingers," writer of "Bugsy") ought to be one of our greatest filmmakers, but he isn't, and "Harvard Man" shows why. Yet, its formal and narrative restlessness, coming from a 58-year-old filmmaker suggests a kind of moral ADD that is never less than provocative.
(2002-07-11)

TIP OF THE WEEK
Gianni Amelio's used his career to reinvent the neorealist genre, with movies such as "Open Doors" and "Stolen Children," and "Lamerica" may be his best.
(2002-07-04)

SIGHT GAGS
(2002-07-04)

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SNOW MOTION
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DOUBLE DEUTSCH
(2002-06-27)

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FUTURE TENSE
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HAPPINESS REDUX
(2002-06-13)



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