Film
Friday, November 6, 2009
Film Occasional Pieces at the Nightingale
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 9:59 AM
- "Great American Desert"
A staged celebration of the Hiroshima bombing and a seasonal camp of RV drivers share the Arizona landscape in British filmmaker Stephen Connolly's 2007 short film Great American Desert, invoking, Connolly says, "an examination of ‘social liberty’ in the West in relation to war, spectacle, the environment and consumerism."
Great American Desert screens in "Occasional Pieces," a selection of Connolly's short films and videos Saturday 11/7 at the Nightingale
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Food Chain, Film, Free Shit, Food & Drink 11/5—Film Screening at Loyola
Posted by Sam Adams on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:59 AM
Film, Music I Bring What I Love
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM
- "Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love"
Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love plays a discounted screening courtesy of Black World Cinema, a day ahead of a weeklong run.
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi's tribute to the iconic Senegalese singer and activist screens Thursday 11/4 at Chatham 14.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Film, Free Shit Stare at goats a day early
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:01 AM
- George Clooney in "The Men Who Stare at Goats"
The Men Who Stare at Goats officially opens in a midnight screening Thursday 11/5, but if you can't wait that long, Gen Art hosts a preview screening and after-party with hosted drinks, Wednesday 11/4.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Film, Music, Post No Bills The Visual Music of Swiss Director Peter Liechti
Posted by Peter Margasak on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 2:51 PM
- Hans Koch
Film The Pool
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:41 AM
- "The Pool"
Before the ubiquity of reality TV, Chris Smith and Sarah Price set the standard for tragicomic portraits of quixotic dreamers with American Movie, their 1999 documentary about would-be horror auteur and fellow Wisconsinite Mark Borchardt.
The film's cult status launched Borchardt's acting career. But even after winning a 2007 Sundance Special Jury Prize, Smith struggled to find distribution for The Pool, his wry and touching fiction debut about a poor Indian teen who takes a pool cleaning job to spy on the rich girl he pines for, and maintains a veneer of optimism for his younger friend despite their abject circumstances.
The Pool screens Tuesday 11/3 in the Midwest Independent FIlm Festival.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Film, Free Shit 11/2 — Free Screening of "Funeral Parade of Roses"
Posted by Robyn Chang on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 1:27 PM
Tonight at 6:30 PM, Sonotheque presents a free screening of Toshio Matsumoto's experimental 1968 film Funeral Parade of Roses (Bara no Soretsu), a very loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex set in 1960's Tokyo that tells the story of a young transvestite actor.
Film, Free Shit The Principal Story
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 11:44 AM
- "The Principal Story"
"We're sinking all this money into the war and into pork barrel projects, it's unbelievable to me that we don't invest in our education system," local filmmaker Tod Lending told me in a 2008 interview, during production on his documentary The Principal Story. "That's where the culture grows out of."
The principals Lending and co-director David Mrazek follow in the film face problems originating far beyond their school walls, in the poverty, malnutrition, crime and family dysfunction of their surrounding communities. But their passion and commitment have allowed them to make progress in turning around struggling schools on the west side and in Springfield.
The Principal Story screens for free Tuesday 11/3 at No Exit Café.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Film, Free Shit Italian Film Festival in Stone Park
Posted by Sam Adams on Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 8:25 PM
The Italian Film Festival at Casa Italia in Stone Park culminates Friday at 7 PM with a free screening of Salvatore Maira's Valzer (The Waltz), a film released earlier this year that tells the story of an older man who believes he will meet his daughter after twenty years of absence and instead finds an unknown woman who has taken her identity.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Film, Environment Yes
Posted by Ed M. Koziarski on Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 4:40 PM
- "The Yes Men Fix the World"
Clean-cut pranksters The Yes Men, who last week falsely announced on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that the chamber had reversed its opposition to pollution controls, have made a career of impersonating corporate suits to shine a light on the excesses of globalization.
Lumpen magazine hosts a workshop with the Yes Men Thursday 10/29 to plan an action that will follow the Chicago premiere of their film The Yes Men Fix the World Friday 10/30 at the Music Box Theater.
