Film Buffs Rejoice! Thumbs Up for Talk Cinema

Looking for a cinema experience more avant-garde than the usual mindless shoot-‘em-up, blow-it-up fare? More a fan of Truffaut than Michael Bay? Find it at Talk Cinema, an intriguing sneak preview film series, whose latest offering will be screened Sat. April 30 at 10:00 a.m. at the AMC Showplace Niles 12 Theater at Golf Mill Shopping Center. 

Talk Cinema offers a lineup of innovative independent and foreign films, followed by discussions led by guest speakers including critics, filmmakers and other industry experts. The films are curated by veteran film critic Harlan Jacobson. Here is a chance to see movies before they are commercially released here, and discuss them with fellow cinephiles.  Subscribers pay $129 to sign up for the entire film series (the spring 2011 series will end on May 14), and the movie titles are not announced ahead of time. General admission tickets are also available at the theater for $20 ($10 for full-time students) the day of the showing.

**SPOILER ALERT**  Saturday’s film is a documentary about 80-year-old New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, who has made his career riding his bike on New York’s streets to uncover fashion’s cutting edge before the world’s top designers and editors.

AMC Showplace Niles 12, 301 Golf Mill Center, Niles.  Sat. 10:00 a.m./ doors open at 9:30 a.m. www.talkcinema.com