Pencil This In: The Portage Theater Wins The Week

By Staff in Arts & Entertainment on Jan 18, 2012 6:20PM

Film

The Northwest Chicago Film Society calls the 1953 British drama Turn the Key Softly their favorite women-getting-out-of-prison movie. A simple, melancholy picture about three women who get out of Holloway Prison on the same day in rainy, somber London, what would have been a grim movie instead is instead a film as delicate and honest as any Powell and Pressburger production, made right before England’s cycle of Angry Young Man films turned the industry into something much more dark and hopeless. It screens tonight at the Portage Theater in a newly acquired 35mm print. (4050 N. Milwaukee Ave., 7:30 p.m.)

The best film event in town this week is the free Friday night double feature screening of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight at the Portage Theater. That's right: free. If you want to see the trailer for The Dark Knight Rises on a big screen, this is a great opportunity to do so, as well. Visit Fanfound.com to print out your free ticket. (7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.)

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