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Hard to Find Films March, 2020 With dozens of streaming services as well as online rental sites, it's easy to think that any film can be accessed on demand. However, this is not the case. This month, The Screening Room highlights films that are currently unavailable for streaming or online rental. The good news is that these Academy Award® winners and critical triumphs are ready to be checked out from the Naperville Public Library.
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Upcoming Events One Earth Film Festival March 6-15 Various Locations Chicago European Film Festival Throughout the Month Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St., Chicago Onion City Experimental + Video Festival March 12 – 15 5720 N. Ridge Ave, Chicago Chicago Comedy Film Festival March 19 – 22 Columbia College Chicago, 1104 S. Wabash St., Chicago Sound of Silent Film Festival March 28 Davis Theater, 4614 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago
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All that Jazz /Musical based on the life of director Bob Fosse, this film celebrates show business, yet strips it of all the glitter. The film was an Academy Award® nominee for Best Picture. Starring Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, and Ben Vereen. Rated R.
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CocoonWhen visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens the chance to recapture their youth. Directed by Ron Howard and starring Don Ameche (who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar®), Hume Cronyn, and Jessica Tandy. Rated PG-13.
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The Flamingo Kid /When the son of a plumber from Brooklyn is invited to a fancy beach club one summer day, he is lured from his working class world. Starring Matt Dillon and directed by Garry Marshall. Rated PG-13.
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The Garden of the Finzi-ContinisThe film is set in Italy in 1938 when Mussolini's anti-Semitic edicts began to isolate the Jews from their communities. Among them were the Finzi-Continis, an aristocratic Jewish family forced for the first time to acknowledge the world beyond its fenced garden. Winner of the 1971 Academy Award® for Best Foreign Film. Unrated. In Italian with English subtitles.
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I Wanna Hold Your Hand /Six New Jersey teenagers embark on a madcap mission to Manhattan to meet the Beatles and get tickets to the band's appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Directorial debut of Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump). Rated PG.
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Jungle Fever /A black architect (Wesley Snipes) begins an affair with his working class Italian secretary (Annabella Sciorra). Their relationship causes them to be scrutinized by their friends, cast out from their families and shunned by their neighbors. Directed by Spike Lee. Rated R.
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Le MansAvid racer Steve McQueen performs most of his own driving in this film. He stars as American Michael Delaney, a tough and ambitious racer determined to find victory on the 8.5 mile course, one year after an accident that left another man dead. Unrated.
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Prizzi's Honor /When Charley Partanna (Jack Ncholson), the Prizzi family's enforcer, and beautiful ex-mob courier Irene Walker (Kathleen Turner) fall in love, they are caught in a web of conflicting loyalties. Angelica Huston won the Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress. Rated R.
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Return of the Secaucus 7
Former college protesters get together for a weekend reunion and discover that some things don't change, even when you're over 30. Directed by John Sayles. Rated.R.
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Silkwood /Based on the true story of Karen Silkwood, an Oklahoma nuclear plant worker who died under mysterious circumstances when she tried to blow the whistle on the company for which she worked. Starring Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, and Cher. Rated. R.
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