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Theaters will be restricted to 25 percent capacity, masks will be required.
Films dealing with personal tragedy are tricky. They walk a fine line between pathos and schmaltz, and it doesn’t take much for them to lose their audience. If one insincere moment or overly dramatic music cue happens, viewers are likely to roll their eyes instead of gently weep.
The village board will discuss the matter at its meeting Wednesday.
"We've got a lot of work to do within the next 72 hours," Phoenix Theaters CEO Phil Zacheretti said. "We should be ready by Friday."
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Sometimes, the sheer force of a single performance can elevate a film, turning a run-of-the-mill project into something truly special.
Its doors closed due to pandemic restrictions, Danville’s historic Fischer Theatre still is providing community entertainment while raising money to pay bills.
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In November 1975, the freighter Edmund Fitzgerald perished under the waves of Lake Superior, and Gordon Lightfoot’s ballad to its crew captured the nation’s lost hope with the words, “… all that remains are the faces and names … Superior, they say, never gives up her dead, when the gales of …
In Betty Culley’s novel in verse, “Three Things I Know Are True” (HarperTeen 2020), teenage Liv will not give up on her older brother, Jonah, who accidentally shot himself in the head with a gun belonging to his best friend’s father.
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It would be easy to mistake Phyllida Lloyd’s “Herself” as the latest work from Ken Loach.
“Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey,” by Kathleen Rooney.
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If you’re expecting high adventure from George Clooney’s “The Midnight Sky,” you’re likely to be disappointed.
“Arrowood and the Thames Corpses,” by Mick Finlay.
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