No, not Ebert, Roeper, Take Roeper
Part of our ongoing " " coverage, in his Sun Times column today that NPR host will be filling in for Roger Ebert this week on "Ebert and Roeper At The Movies". A disappointment -- Ebert and Sagal would be a much more entertaining combo than the current setup. What is it?
Find out next weekend
We were at this weekend and noticed that the theater has added a third night to next weekend's screening of Crispin Glover's bizarre film Mr. Glover himself will be at the theater to present the film (along with an accompanying slide show dubbed "The Big Slide Show"); if that sounds like your idea of a good time, check out Slowdown for or RESFEST's Anniversary - Film Fest. the Chicago Way
It's the big number 10 for the and this year the pioneering film festival is kicking things off at Chicago's .
This global event offers such visuals as the documentary Rock the Bells from Paris, to graphics and animation in State of the Art showing in Lima, and let's not forget the after- parties rolling in Jakarta. What you can't make it to all these cities? It's ok, Chicago will be screening A Decade of RESFEST: 10 Seminal Short Films so you can catch up on all the past-production and playback.
Bicycle Film Festival is Go!
If you've got Merge tunnel vision, and thus haven't noticed the fancy ad to the right, or the mentions in Slowdown, allow me: the international hits Columbia College's next weekend, and GB's in cahoots. We're sponsoring a kickoff party next Thursday night; details will be announced early next week.
In the meantime, check out the and , and grab tickets before they sell out. Hi-Lite about to be extinguished?
At a committee meeting today in Aurora, the City Countil will begin to decide the fate of the oldest operating drive-in in Illinois, which has been scheduled for demolition to make way for housing development.
Naturally there are quite a few fans of the drive-in, and they are planning to try and sway the council vote. The site OurAurora.com has put together so you can make up your own mind on the issue.
Save the Adelphi!
I've been waiting for the Adelphi Theater up in Rogers Park to have its "grand re-opening coming soon," as promised by the marquee, for a couple years now. Now I know why the wait's been so long: a developer plans to tear it down for more condos.
There is, of course, the 1917 theater. Double the donations, double the fun.
Tonight, will be showing A Streetcar Named Desire as a Hurricane Katrina relief benefit.
Not only are all proceeds going to the , but the is matching all donations made tonight. Sweet, no? Details in .
Open the film fest doors, Hal
The Siskel Film Center begins tonight with a screening of his 1955 film Killer's Kiss. Over the course of July, moviegoers will have a chance to see such classics as The Killing, Spartacus, Paths of Glory, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Barry Lyndon, The Shining, and even Steven Spielberg's AI: Artificial Intelligence, which was a project Kubrick was working on at the time of his death. Looks like it'll be another banner month at the Film Center.
They broke my watch!
The Sun-Times salutes one of the greatest Chicago films, on the occasion of the film's 25th anniversary. All this week they'll be writing about the Chicago locales used in the making of the film, and how things have changed since 1980.
Psychos, windows and rope
Tonight at the Music Box Theatre, they begin a two-week long salute to director Alfred Hitchcock, starting with screenings of Psycho tonight and tomorrow, and continuing with Rear Window, Shadow of A Doubt, Rope, and ending with a week-long screening of a 70mm print of Vertigo. The first four titles will be screening for only a day or two, so film fans will definitely want to check out for full details. Look!
Titles announced for Overlooked Film Fest
Last week, Sun-Times movie critic Roger Ebert for this year's held in Urbana-Champaign and featuring screenings of films that Ebert has chosen because they or the film genres they represent have been overlooked. Twelve films will be screened during the festival's five days, from the restored version of Jacques Tati's Playtime (a film not overlooked by as a clip from Playtime is part of the museum's current exhibition Universal Experience) to the 1999 Bollywood epic Taal. Tickets for the festival go on sale April 1.
Bad, bad, bad
Do you like bad movies? Not bad in a good way, I don't even bad in a so bad it's funny way. I just mean bad in "I can't believe people got paid to make this film" kind of way.
If so then you'll definitely want to head over to . I'm pretty sure that most of the films should have a C or D rating, but somebody's gotta enjoy this stuff since it sold out last year. Yeah, you can get your tickets online.
Is it just me, or is this kind of messed up?
Today's "Rattle Reel" Movie Matinee for parents/caretakers and babies at the is . Great movie, jaw-dropping performance by Imelda Staunton, but the idea of sitting next to a baby during a movie about abortion seems weirder than watching a porn with your parents.
Anyway, the show starts at 11:00 AM. Tickets are $7.50 for grown-ups, but the little ones are free.
Films, not movies
is a resource with a great list of film and video screenings in Chicago, regularly updated. They also have a partial list of , theaters and festivals that show films, not movies. We report, you decide on a showtime
, the anti-FoxNews film that became a DVD hit thanks to a push from , gets a theatrical release in Chicago today.
It's playing at the Loews Esquire on Oak Street, which also still has F9/11. You can make it a Republican-hating double feature! , if you like.
There's still time to sign up for the no. 12 "Out of Context"! Participants in the fest will be given 21 hours to make a three minute film using scenes and/or clips taken from well known or unknown films and TV programs.
Register your group at Atomix Cafe (1957 W. Chicago). Groups can be any size and there's room for 30 groups.
The registration fee is $20. Participants will be meeting at Atomix January 30 at 7:30 for their topic assignment. The deadline to complete the movie is 5pm the next day (January 31).
A public screening of the submissions and awards ceremony will be taking place at Open End Gallery (2000 W Fulton) at 8pm January 31. If you have any questions please call 773.263.
7057. Get your red carpet on!
If the (and ) have you jazzed for the red carpet, mark your calendar for Oscar night.
The is hosting Chicago's only official, -sanctioned . The soiree, featuring complimentary cocktails and buffet, silent auctions, and a red carpet with mdash;no kidding mdash;a Joan Rivers impersonator, benefits the Siskel Center and the ; tickets are, ahem, accordingly priced. Oscar nominations will be announced Tuesday morning.
And the Oscar comes from...
Chicago! The local firm manufactures the statuettes every year, and this year you can check them out before they're given to the recipients. An exhibition of the statuettes that will be used in this year's awards ceremony is currently going on at Check it out before February 18th, when the statuettes are packed up and shipped off to Los Angeles.
The Trib reports that after the awards were suspended to protest a recent decision by the MPAA to end the practice of sending out tapes and DVDs of Oscar-eligible films to critics. [Trib. login: gapers/gapers] reports that the debut novel of Chicago-based visual artist Audrey Niffenegger, , is , by none other than Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt, in connection with New Line Cinema.
Niffenegger, 40, makes her career as a printmaker. She shows her work regularly, and balances her art with her work teaching for the master of fine art program at the . Certainly not a bad result for a debut novel!
The , which opens tomorrow night with a gala featuring Jane Seymour and Maggie Daley, is the only children's film Oscar qualifying festival. Take a look at . What's Elvish for "sore butt"?
AMC River East 21 is the only Chicago theater screening the . Dec. 5-11 will be "The Fellowship of the Ring.
" Dec. 12-15 will be "The Two Towers." On Dec.
16, the entire trilogy will be shown in a movie marathon, one day ahead of the national release of "The Return of the King." Tickets go on sale this Thursday. A description of Cremaster 3, the film with the largest budget: The concluding installment of artist Matthew Barney's five-part Cremaster film cycle is an epic journey that infuses Celtic mysticism with 20th century modernism, blockbuster bombast with hermetic aesthetics.
Shot at two architectural landmarks - New York's Chrysler Building and the Guggenheim Museum - along with locales in Ireland, Scotland and upstate New York, Cremaster 3 follows The Entered Apprentice (Barney) as he endures torture and travails in order to ascend each building. Peopled by ogres and gangsters, chorus girls and freemasons, Barney's bizarre universe is never less than stunning. Features appearances by sculptor Richard Serra, hardcore bands Agnostic Front and Murphy's Law, and athlete Aimee Mullins.
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