MARCH 15 GAZETTE ■20 Vol. 42, No. 3

HOW STRANGE TO BE NAMED FEDERICO: SCOLA NARRATES FELLINI (), March 28, April 2 H H H H H See H Europe H H by Film H H H H

18th Annual European Union Film

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From March 6 through April 2, the Gene Siskel Film Center welcomes DANGEROUS GAME. th you to the 18 Annual European Union Film Festival, a colorful and For the third year in a row, we incorporate films from the Festival of diverse European escape from the Chicago winter. This largest New Spanish Cinema, curated and organized by Pragda and Spain showcase in North America for the cinema of the European Union Arts & Culture. Film historian Steven Marsh introduces a screening of nations presents Chicago premieres of 61 new feature films from 27 MAGICAL GIRL on April 1. Additional guests are pending as we go to nations. press. Visit our web site at www.siskelfilmcenter.org for updates and According to the tradition of our festival, the opening night is presided added events.

over by the nation currently holding the presidency of the European The festival closes on Thursday, April 2, with HOW STRANGE TO BE Union. On Friday, March 6, our host is Latvia’s Honorary Consul in NAMED FEDERICO: SCOLA NARRATES FELLINI, a warm and nostalgic Chicago, Robert Blumberg. Our opening film is the delightful feature- recollection of the Italian master tinged with fantasy, by his close length animation THE GOLDEN HORSE, based on a Latvian folk tale, friend and colleague. Closing night is dedicated to the memory of and suitable for all ages. WFMT arts critic Andrew Patner. Receptions hosted by Whole Foods Festival guests include Austrian director Gustav Deutsch with SHIRLEY: Market follow both the opening and closing night films.

VISIONS OF REALITY, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, on The Gene Siskel Film Center thanks the consulates, the consuls general, March 27 and 28. Art Institute of Chicago Curator of American Art and the cultural institutions of the European Union in Chicago, and their Judith Barter joins Deutsch for discussion on March 28 in a Movie Club embassies in Washington, D.C., for their enthusiastic participation. We event. Italian director Francesco Munzi will appear on March 14 to especially salute the efforts of all those who served as festival advisors. discuss his acclaimed crime saga , and Scottish director Anthony Baxter is tentatively scheduled to appear on March 29 with A —Barbara Scharres and Martin Rubin

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Saturday, March 28, 3:00 pm Gene Siskel Film Center SHIRLEY: VISIONS OF REALITY MOVIE CLUB (see description on p. 6). Everyone likes to talk about movies, so let’s keep the Facilitated by Judith Barter, Curator conversation going! of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago and co-author of Edward Hopper. Join us for the Gene Siskel Film Center Movie Club, which will include a post-screening conversation and a complimentary cocktail at Virgin Hotels Chicago, 203 N. Wabash. Movie ticket required for entry. SHIRLEY: VISIONS OF REALITY SUNDAY 1 MONDAY 2 TUESDAY 3 WEDNESDAY 4 THURSDAY 5 FRIDAY 6 SATURDAY 7 3:00 TALES (Iran) 6:00 EVERY MAN FOR 6:00 GRIZZLY MAN 6:00 HAIL MARY + short 6:00 John Gerrard 6:00 THE GOLDEN HORSE (EU/La), p. 5 3:00 LI’L QUINQUIN (EU/Fr), p. 11 3:00 INHERENT VICE (Run) HIMSELF (Godard) (Histories), p. 22H (Godard) (CATE), p. 21H 3:00 WASTE LAND (EU/Be), p. 7 4:45 WHAT’S THE TIME IN 6:30 INHERENT VICE (Run) 6:00 THE BABADOOK (Run) 6:30 INHERENT VICE (Run) 6:00 ACTRESS (Special) 5:00 HALLÅ HALLÅ (EU/Sw), p. 18 YOUR WORLD? (Iran) 7:45 THE BABADOOK (Run) 7:45 INHERENT VICE (Run) 8:15 THE BABADOOK (Run) 7:45 INHERENT VICE (Run) 6:45 IN THE BASEMENT (EU/Au), p. 6 5:45 THE BABADOOK (Run) 8:15 THE BABADOOK (Run) 7:00 DÉJÀ VU (EU/Ro), p. 17 8:30 BLOCK 12 (EU/Cy), p. 8 8:30 SOUL BOYS OF THE WESTERN WORLD FOR DESCRIPTIONS OF FILMS PLAYING MARCH 1-5, SEE OUR WEBSITE WWW.SISKELFILMCENTER.ORG (EU/UK), p. 20 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 3:00 GEMMA BOVERY 6:00 AMOUR FOU 6:00 THE MISSING PICTURE 6:00 IN THE BASEMENT 6:00 GEMMA BOVERY 6:00 LIFE OF RILEY (EU/Fr), p. 11 3:30 THE GREAT MUSEUM (EU/Au), p. 6 (EU/Fr), p. 10 (EU/Ge), p. 12 (Histories), p. 22H (EU/Au), p. 6 (EU/Fr), p. 10 6:00 LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED 3:30 LA SAPIENZA (EU/Fr), p. 11 3:00 THE GOLDEN HORSE 6:30 LI’L QUINQUIN 6:00 HALLÅ HALLÅ 6:00 DÉJÀ VU 6:00 Encounters: Croatia (EU/Sp), p. 19 5:30 BLACK SOULS (EU/It), p. 14H (EU/La), p. 5 (EU/Fr), p. 11 (EU/Sw), p. 18 (EU/Ro), p. 17 (CATE), p. 21H 8:15 STANDING ASIDE, WATCHING (EU/Gr), p. 13 5:30 A STEP INTO THE DARK (EU/Sk), p. 18 4:30 THE KID (EU/Sp), p. 19 8:00 BLOCK 12 (EU/Cy), p. 8 8:00 INFERNO 7:30 THE KID (EU/Sp), p. 19 8:15 THE JUDGEMENT 8:15 FREE RANGE (EU/Es), p. 9 8:00 MAMA’S BOY (EU/Lu), p. 15 5:00 AMOUR FOU (EU/Sn), p. 18 7:45 WHITE GOD (EU/Bu), p. 7 8:15 THE LESSON (EU/Bu), p. 7 (EU/Ge), p. 12 (EU/Hu), p. 14 8:15 WASTE LAND 7:00 THE JUDGEMENT (EU/Be), p. 7 (EU/Bu), p. 7 7:15 INFERNO (EU/Sn), p. 18 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 3:00 LIVING IS EASY 6:00 LA SAPIENZA 6:00 THE ACT OF KILLING 6:00 THE GREAT MUSEUM 6:00 LIFE OF RILEY 6:00 HORSE MONEY (EU/Pr), p. 17 3:00 SET FIRE TO THE STARS (EU/UK), p. 20 WITH EYES CLOSED (EU/Fr), p. 11 (Histories), p. 22H (EU/Au), p. 6 (EU/Fr), p. 11 6:00 TIP TOP (EU/Fr), p. 11 3:00 THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (EU/Sp), p. 19 6:15 AFTER THE TONE 6:00 N: THE MADNESS OF 6:00 HANY (EU/Cz), p. 8 6:00 FAREWELL, HERR 8:00 THE SENTIMENTALISTS (EU/Gr), p. 13 (EU/Fr), p.10 3:00 FAREWELL, HERR (EU/Ne), p. 16 REASON (EU/Be), p. 7 7:45 A STEP INTO THE DARK SCHWARZ (EU/Ge), 8:15 FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON 5:00 THE DINNER (EU/It), p. 14 SCHWARZ (EU/Ge), 8:00 STANDING ASIDE, 8:00 A PIGEON SAT ON A (EU/Sk), p. 18 p. 12 (EU/Hu), p. 13 5:00 WEST (EU/Ge), p. 13 p. 12 WATCHING (EU/Gr), BRANCH... (EU/Sw), 8:00 FIELD OF DOGS 8:00 MAMA’S BOY 7:00 HOW WE PLAYED THE REVOLUTION 5:00 HANY (EU/Cz), p. 8 p. 13 p. 18 (EU/Pl), p. 16 (EU/Lu), p. 15 (EU/Li), p. 15 5:15 AFTER THE TONE 8:00 FREE RANGE 8:15 THE LESSON 7:00 IN A FOREIGN LAND (EU/Sp), p. 19 (EU/Ne), p. 16 (EU/Es), p. 9 (EU/Bu), p. 7 8:30 GOLD (EU/Ir), p. 14 7:00 FIELD OF DOGS 8:30 FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON (EU/Pl), p. 16 (EU/Hu), p. 13 7:00 N: THE MADNESS OF REASON (EU/Be), p. 7 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 3:00 GOLD (EU/Ir), p. 14 6:00 THE KIDNAPPING OF 6:00 FIVE BROKEN 6:00 SET FIRE TO THE 6:00 THE HOUR OF THE 6:00 HIPPOCRATES (EU/Fr), p. 10 3:00 THE INTRUDER MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ CAMERAS (Histories), STARS (EU/UK), p. 20 LYNX (EU/De), p. 9 6:00 THE CANDIDATE (EU/Sk), p. 17 3:00 SHIRLEY: VISIONS OF REALITY (EU/Ne), p. 16 (EU/Fr), p. 10 p. 22H 6:00 WEST (EU/Ge), p. 13 6:00 SONGS FROM THE 8:00 SHIRLEY: VISIONS OF REALITY (EU/Au), (EU/Au), p. 6H MOVIE CLUB 4:45 TIP TOP (EU/Fr), p. 11 6:00 HORSE MONEY 6:00 IN A FOREIGN LAND 8:00 HOW WE PLAYED THE NORTH (CATE), p. 21H p. 6H 4:45 THE DARK VALLEY (EU/Pr), p. 17 (EU/Sp), p. 19 REVOLUTION (EU/Li), 8:15 THE DINNER 8:00 OPEN UP TO ME (EU/Fi), p. 9 3:00 MAGICAL GIRL (EU/Sp), p. 19 (EU/Au), p. 6 8:00 THE SENTIMENTALISTS 7:30 THE DARK VALLEY p. 15 (EU/It), p. 14 5:45 HOW STRANGE TO BE NAMED FEDERICO 7:00 COWBOYS (EU/Cr), p. 8 (EU/Gr), p. 13 (EU/Au), p. 6 8:15 THE INTRUDER 8:15 NOWHERE IN (EU/It), p. 5 7:00 NOWHERE IN 8:00 COWBOYS (EU/Ne), p. 16 MORAVIA (EU/Cz), p. 8 5:45 NEVER DIE YOUNG (EU/Lu), 15 MORAVIA (EU/Cz), p. 8 (EU/Cr), p. 8 7:45 PHOENIX (EU/Ge), p. 12 8:00 ROXANNE (EU/Ro), p. 17

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For their generous assistance in obtaining films for the European Union Film Festival, the Gene Siskel Film Center thanks: Austria: Christopher Zimmerman, Austrian Cultural Forum New York; Carolin Stern, EastWest Filmdistribution; Belgium: Pamela Leu, Be For Films; Matthias Angoulvant, Wide Management; Bulgaria: Kasia Karwan, Premium Films; Mila Petkova, Bulgarian National Film Center; Cyprus: Kyriacos Tofarides, Avra Productions; Czech Republic: Matej Chlupacek, Barletta Production; Arkaitz Basterra, Evolution Films; Denmark: Lizette Gram Mygind, Danish Film Institute; Jette Renneberg Elkjær, Embassy of Denmark; Estonia: Birgit Pajust, Estonian Film Institute; Lili Pilt, Homeless Bob Production; Patricie Pouzarova, Pluto Film; France: Fabrice Rozie, Denis Quenelle, Laurence Geannopoulos, Cultural Services at the Consulate General of France in Chicago; Germany: Werner Ott, Irmi Maunu- Kocian, Goethe-Institut Chicago; Greece: Liza Linardou, Greek Film Center; Patra Spanou; Nicholas Triandafyllidis; Hungary: Anna Koriagina, Alpha Violet World Sales; Italy: Andrea Raos, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Chicago; Barbara Klein, Italian Film Festival of St. Louis; Latvia: Normunds Pucis; Robert Blumberg, Honorary Consulate of Latvia, Chicago; Paul Thiltges Distribution; Daris Delins, Perry Street Advisors; Lithuania: Marijus Gudynas, Agnė Vertelkaitė, Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in Chicago; Luxembourg: Joy Hoffmann, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CAN); Katarzyna Ozga, Lucil Distribution; Vincent Quénault, Red Lion; Netherlands: Sarieke Hoeksma, Lemming Film; Digna Sinke, SNG Film; Poland: Paulina Jaroszewicz, New Europe Film Sales; Romania: Anca Florescu, DaKino Production; Josephine Settmacher, Films Boutique; Slovakia: Alexandra Strelková, Slovak Film Institute; Erika Paulinská, Azyl Production; Iveta Popislova, Trigon Production; Slovenia: Nerina Kocjancic, Slovenian National Film Center; Eva Rohrman; Forum Ljubljana; Spain: Marta Sanchez, Pragda; Antonio Martínez Luciano, Teresa Hernando Rojo, Instituto Cervantes de Chicago; Sweden: Gunnar Almér, Swedish Film Institute; UK: Anthony Baxter, Montrose Pictures; and also: Calantha Mansfield, Carlotta Films US; Ryan Krivoshey, Graham Swindoll, The Cinema Guild; Ryan Werner, Cinetic Media; John Poole, John Poole Jr., Corinth Films; Clemence Taillandier, Distrib Films; Maxwell Wolkin, Film Movement/RAM Releasing; Justin DiPietro, Kim Kalyka, IFC Films; Gary Palmucci, Jonathan Hertzberg, Kino Lorber Films; Maureen Masters, Martin Wendel, Nina Cates, Magnolia Pictures; Chris Conrad, Main Street Films; Ed Arentz, Brian Andreotti, Rebecca Gordon, Music Box Films; Paul Hudson, Outsider Pictures; Nathan Faustyn, Mike Williams, Strand Releasing; Anatol Chavez, Synergetic Distribution; David Shultz, Vitagraph Films.

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OPENING NIGHT FILM! CLOSING NIGHT FILM! U.S. PREMIERE! How Strange To Be THE Named Federico: GOLDEN Scola Narrates Fellini (CHE STRANO CHIAMARSI FEDERICO) 2013, , Italy, 90 min.

HORSE(ZELTA ZIRGS) Saturday, March 28, 5:45 pm 2014, Reinis Kalnaellis, Latvia, 75 min. Thursday, April 2, 6:30 pm

Friday, March 6, 6:00 pm This portrait of is neither a conventional Sunday, March 8, 3:00 pm documentary nor a fictional biopic but an imaginative, highly personal tribute from a major director who not only admired and An ancient Latvian folk tale is the basis for this colorful animated knew Fellini but also used him as a role model, at times literally feature in the tradition of Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. A following in his footsteps. DCP digital. (MR) vengeful sorceress casts a kingdom’s princess into a deep sleep at the top of an icy mountain, where she awaits release from the spell Closing night is dedicated to the memory of WFMT arts critic Andrew that will destroy the land. Of all the men vying for the honor, the Patner. Immediately following the Thursday screening, the audience shy outcast son of a family of thugs seems the most unlikely. In is invited to a dessert reception in our Gallery/Café, hosted by Whole Latvian with English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) Foods Market.

Immediately following the Friday screening, the audience is invited to Note: No free passes, festival passes or blue tickets will be valid for the a reception in our Gallery/Café, hosted by Whole Foods Market. closing night screening. Note: No free passes, festival passes, or blue tickets will be valid for the opening night screening.

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THE DARK VALLEY, March 22, 24 IN THE BASEMENT, March 7, 11

THE GREAT MUSEUM, March 14, 18 SHIRLEY: VISIONS OF REALITY, March 27, 28

AUSTRIA THE GREAT MUSEUM IN THE BASEMENT Gustav Deutsch in person! (DAS GROSSE MUSEUM) (IM KELLER) SHIRLEY: VISIONS OF THE DARK VALLEY 2014, Johannes Holzhausen, Austria, 94 min. 2014, Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 81 min. REALITY (DAS FINSTERE TAL) 2013, Gustav Deutsch, Austria, 92 min. 2014, Andreas Prochaska, Austria/Germany, Saturday, March 14, 3:30 pm Saturday, March 7, 6:45 pm With Stephanie Cumming 114 min. Wednesday, March 18, 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 11, 6:00 pm With Sam Riley, Tobias Moretti Friday, March 27, 8:00 pm Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum Maverick director Seidl (DOG DAYS) Saturday, March 28, 3:00 pm Sunday, March 22, 4:45 pm reveals the eccentric and eclectic again explores the dark underside Tuesday, March 24, 7:30 pm tastes of the Habsburg emperors of the human psyche with a look Thirteen paintings by Edward whose collections it holds. Director at basements fitted out as private Hopper are brought to life in a A remote valley in the Austrian Alps Holzhausen, an art historian, domains for secrets and fetishes. loose narrative featuring a solitary provides a stunning background provides an in-depth look, reveling The subjects include an opera- female protagonist. In English. for this revenge Western with a in the splendor of the priceless art singing gunslinger, a Hitler-loving DCP digital. (BS) European twist, Austria’s official while surveying the behind-the- brass band, a hunter of exotic Oscar submission. A taciturn scenes efforts required to maintain species, and some passionate Director Deutsch will be present photographer (Riley) from America it. In German and English with devotees of S&M. In German with for audience discussion at both rides into a forsaken hamlet with English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) English subtitles. DCP digital. Note: screenings. The Saturday show is a dirty secret. In German with For adults only. (BS) a Movie Club event moderated by English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) Judith Barter, Curator of American Art at The Art Institute of Chicago. MAR 2015 6 164 North State Street. Tickets: Go to our website for on-line ticket purchasing information. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. N: THE MADNESS OF REASON, March 15, 17 THE JUDGEMENT, March 8, 12

WASTE LAND, March 7, 12 THE LESSON, March 14, 19

BELGIUM WASTE LAND BULGARIA THE LESSON 2014, Pieter Van Hees, Belgium, 97 min. (UROK) N: THE MADNESS OF With Jérémie Renier, Natali Broods THE JUDGEMENT 2014, Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, Bulgaria, 105 min. (SADILISHTETO) REASON Saturday, March 7, 3:00pm With Margita Gosheva, Ivan Burnev 2014, Peter Krüger, Belgium/Netherlands, 2014, Stephan Komandarev, Bulgaria, 107 Thursday, March 12, 8:15 pm min. 102 min. Saturday, March 14, 8:15 pm With Hamadoun Kassogué With Assen Blatechki, Ovanes Torosyan A high-strung Brussels cop (Renier) Thursday, March 19, 8:15 pm has his world shaken when the Sunday, March 15, 7:00 pm Sunday, March 8, 7:00 pm death of a teenaged Congolese Likened to the work of the Tuesday, March 17, 6:00 pm Thursday, March 12, 8:15 pm immigrant draws him into the Dardenne brothers, THE underground trade in African LESSON unfolds a small-town This mesmerizing hybrid of fact, This tense drama by the director of idols. Director Van Hees evokes schoolteacher’s tumble into fiction, and fantasy takes a ghost’s THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION raw reminders of Europe’s colonial economic crisis when her husband journey as the spirit of French LURKS AROUND THE CORNER is past and infuses this neo-noir with secretly mortgages their home. expatriate anthropologist Raymond set in a border village where the suggestions of the supernatural. In Gosheva delivers a standout Borremans revisits his beloved Ivory dangerous business of refugee- Flemish and French with English performance as a painfully by-the- Coast, where the encyclopedia smuggling awakens a former subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) guard’s long-buried guilt. In book woman who must face sleaze that was his life’s work remains and corruption with only three days unfinished at N. In French with Bulgarian with English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) to ward off disaster. In Bulgarian English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) with English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS)

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COWBOYS, March 22, 23 HANY, March 15, 18

BLOCK 12, March 7, 9 NOWHERE IN MORAVIA, March 22, 26

CROATIA CYPRUS CZECH REPUBLIC NOWHERE IN MORAVIA COWBOYS BLOCK 12 (DIRÁ U HANUSOVIC) U.S. premiere! 2014, Miroslav Krobot, Czech Republic, 102 (KAUBOJI) (OIKOPEDO 12) min. 2013, Tomislav Mrsic, Croatia, 107 min. 2013, Kyriacos Tofarides, Cyprus, 94 min. HANY With Tatiana Vilhelmová With Sasa Anocic, Zivko Anocic With Costas Demetriou, Carmen Ruggeri 2014, Michael Samir, Czech Republic, 85 min. With Jirí Kochman, Ondrej Maly Sunday, March 22, 7:00 pm Sunday, March 22, 7:00 pm Saturday, March 7, 8:30 pm Thursday, March 26, 8:15 pm Monday, March 23, 8:00 pm Monday, March 9, 8:00 pm Sunday, March 15, 5:00 pm Wednesday, March 18, 6:00 pm A deep vein of ironic humor Croatia’s official Oscar submission This satirical comedy boasts underlies this character study of a is in-your-face funny, with a impromptu musical numbers and A would-be poet takes to the Czech village. Bartender Maruna shameless helping of lowbrow touches of magic realism. Two soapbox in a crowded hangout (Vilhelmová) is young enough to humor and a tip of the ten-gallon adult sons, one recently fired, the for the ill-timed performance that be the resident hot babe but old hat to the American Western. other bankrupted, are dragged bookends this comedy-drama set enough to hear the ticking of her Conned into putting on a show in back to their rural roots, where their one night in atmospheric Pilsen. biological clock, as life takes its toll his hometown, a theater director off-kilter dad, digging for water, hits Director Samir takes a bravura on the hamlet’s citizens in the form is forced to cast five no-talents. In oil. In Greek, English, and Russian approach to storytelling with a film of murder and other mishaps. In Croatian with English subtitles. DCP with English subtitles. DCP digital. shot almost entirely in a single take. Czech and German with English digital. (BS) (BS) In Czech with English subtitles. subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) DCP digital. (BS) MAR 2015 8 164 North State Street. Tickets: Go to our website for on-line ticket purchasing information. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. THE HOUR OF THE LYNX, March 26 IN THE CROSSWIND, March 29, 30

FREE RANGE, March 13, 16 OPEN UP TO ME, March 27, 31

DENMARK ESTONIA IN THE CROSSWIND FINLAND (RISTTUULES) 2014, Martti Helde, Estonia, 87 min. THE HOUR OF THE LYNX FREE RANGE With Laura Peterson, Mirt Preegel OPEN UP TO ME (I LOSSENS TIME) 2013, Veiko Öunpuu, Estonia, 104 min. (KERRON SINULLE KAIKEN) 2013, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Denmark, With Lauri Lagle, Jaanika Arum Sunday, March 29, 5:30 pm 2013, Simo Halinen, Finland, 95 min. 100 min. With Leea Klemola, Peter Franzén Monday, March 30, 8:00 pm With Sofie Gråbøl, Søren Malling Friday, March 13, 8:15 pm Friday, March 27, 8:00 pm Monday, March 16, 8:00 pm History stands still in spellbinding Thursday, March 26, 6:00 pm Tuesday, March 31, 6:00 pm tableaux vivants, unfolding a dark With a secondary title (BALLAD WWII tragedy that still resonates This offbeat Nordic Noir reunites the Klemola won Finland’s top award ON APPROVING OF THE WORLD) in the Baltic nations. Based on a stars of the miniseries The Killing. for Best Actress in this mature love taken from Brecht, director Öunpuu survivor’s diary, the film follows a A female priest is summoned to story about a recently gender- (AUTUMN BALL) serves up the family’s dissolution as Stalin’s forces a mental institution to counsel a reassigned transsexual struggling to sardonic saga of a self-centered purge the populations of Estonia, violent young man who claims cope with her new life while looking hipster who regresses into a dream- Lithuania, and Latvia, executing to be directed by God. In Danish for a job, a man, and reconciliation world rebellion against the shackles the men and sending women and with English subtitles. Digital with her estranged teenaged of society. In Estonian with English children to labor camps. In Estonian widescreen. Note: Contains daughter. In Finnish with English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) with English subtitles. DCP digital. simulated violence against people subtitles. DCP digital. (MR) and animals. (MR) (BS)

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EDEN, March 29, April 1 HIPPOCRATES, March 27, 30

GEMMA BOVERY, March 8, 12 THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ, March 21, 23

HIPPOCRATES THE KIDNAPPING OF FRANCE GEMMA BOVERY (HIPPOCRATE) MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ 2014, Anne Fontaine, France, 99 min. 2014, Thomas Lilti, France, 102 min. 2014, Guillaume Nicloux, France, 96 min. EDEN With Fabrice Luchini, Gemma Arterton With Vincent Lacoste, Reda Kateb With Michel Houellebecq 2014, Mia Hansen-Løve, France, 131 min. Sunday, March 8, 3:00 pm Friday, March 27, 6:00 pm With Félix de Givry, Pauline Etienne Saturday, March 21, 3:00 pm Thursday, March 12, 6:00 pm Monday, March 30, 6:00 pm Monday, March 23, 6:00 pm Sunday, March 29, 3:00 pm Gemma Bovery is not Emma Bovary, Writer-director Lilti, a trained doctor, Wednesday, April 1, 7:30 pm Controversial author Houellebecq but, for a sixtyish Flaubert devotee delivers a scathing inside critique plays himself in this droll vérité-style (Luchini), she’s close enough. When of the French health system in this A decades-spanning, music- speculation. Abducted to a shack the lovely Londoner (Arterton) semi-autobiographical story. An drenched saga set in the Rave next to a junkyard, he endures relocates to his Norman village, he eager intern (Lacoste) soon finds his scene, EDEN centers on a Parisian discomforts with deadpan stoicism sees her as the reincarnation of his youthful idealism out of place in a student who is captivated by and even seems to enjoy being out favorite literary heroine and pursues Paris hospital plagued by overwork, the sound known as Garage and of the limelight with his working- the parallel in ways that are initially faulty equipment, and budget cuts. achieves moderate renown as a DJ class captors. In French with English amusing but potentially destructive. Nominated for seven César Awards. before being left behind by youth subtitles. DCP digital. (MR) In French and English with English In French with English subtitles. and fashion. In French and English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR) DCP digital widescreen. (MR) with English subtitles.. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

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LI’L QUINQUIN, March 7, 9 TIP TOP, March 20, 22

LIFE OF RILEY LI’L QUINQUIN LA SAPIENZA TIP TOP (AIMER, BOIRE ET CHANTER) (P’TIT QUINQUIN) (aka LA SAPIENCE) 2013, Serge Bozon, France, 106 min. 2014, Alain Resnais, France, 108 min. 2014, Bruno Dumont, France, 197 min. 2014, Eugène Green, France/Italy, 100 min. With Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Kiberlain With Sabine Azéma, André Dussollier With Alane Delhaye, Bernard Pruvost With Fabrizio Rongione, Christelle Prot Friday, March 20, 6:00 pm Friday, March 13, 6:00 pm Saturday, March 7, 3:00 pm Saturday, March 14, 3:30 pm Sunday, March 22, 4:45 pm Thursday, March 19, 6:00 pm Monday, March 9, 6:30 pm Monday, March 16, 6:00 pm This bold mixture of cop thriller Resnais’s final film, based on Nosy village kid Quinquin’s summer With a style as distinctively and absurdist farce begins with a play by Alan Ayckbourn, is a is spiced up by the discovery of a mannered as those of Wes the murder of an undercover sprightly farce set in a French- bizarrely mutilated corpse, first in Anderson or Hal Hartley, Eugène informant. Internal affairs sends speaking version of Yorkshire. a series of inexplicable murders. Green has attracted both in two investigators with highly The theatricalized story revolves Voted Best Film of 2014 by Cahiers controversy and cult acclaim. A unorthodox methods: boss lady around the seductive George Riley, du cinéma, LI’L QUINQUIN augments burnt-out Swiss architect journeys Esther (Huppert), who likes to slap who, though fatally ill and always Dumont’s usual concerns of baffling with his wife to Italy, where he people around, both in and out offscreen, still manages to disrupt violence and provincial life with researches the baroque work of bed, and gangly sidekick Sally the lives of all his friends. In French ample doses of comedy. In French of Francesco Borromini and (Kiberlain), a compulsive voyeur. In with English subtitles. DCP digital with English subtitles. DCP digital encounters an intense young French with English subtitles. DCP widescreen. (MR) widescreen. (MR) brother and sister. In French and digital. (MR) Italian with English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR)

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AMOUR FOU, March 8, 9 FAREWELL, HERR SCHWARZ, March 15, 19

THE CHAMBERMAID, March 29, 30 PHOENIX , March 28

GERMANY THE CHAMBERMAID FAREWELL, HERR PHOENIX (DAS ZIMMERMÄDCHEN LYNN) SCHWARZ 2014, Christian Petzold, Germany, 98 min. AMOUR FOU 2014, Ingo Haeb, Germany, 89 min. (SCHNEE VON GESTERN) With Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld With Vicky Krieps, Lena Lauzemis 2014, Yael Reuveny, Germany/Israel, 96 min. 2014, Jessica Hausner, Germany/Austria, Saturday, March 28, 7:45 pm 96 min. Sunday, March 29, 5:30 pm With Christian Friedel, Birte Schnoeink Sunday, March 15, 3:00 pm Monday, March 30, 6:00 pm Thursday, March 19, 6:00 pm This haunting, twisty, boldly Sunday, March 8, 5:00 pm allegorical tale represents a new A young woman finds an Monday, March 9, 6:00 pm Compared by critics to IDA and peak for director Petzold (BARBARA) unexpected path to emotional SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN, this and his go-to leading lady Nina and sexual fulfillment in this sly In a true 1811 incident, writer fascinating, moving documentary Hoss. Her face reconstructed erotic comedy. Quiet but intrepidly Heinrich von Kleist seeks a soul is a personal quest that turns into a after being shattered by a bullet, curious hotel chambermaid Lynn mate to join him in a suicide pact. detective story. Reuveny, a young Auschwitz survivor Nelly (Hoss) (Krieps) becomes secretly involved Director Hausner (LOURDES) locks Israeli-born filmmaker living in searches for her husband Johnny in the guests’ lives. A turning her characters into exquisitely Germany, discovers a disturbing in the rubble of postwar Berlin. In point comes when she witnesses a detailed tableaux and views their anomaly in the history of her German with English subtitles. DCP session between a male guest and a absurdities with sympathy and Holocaust-decimated family. In digital widescreen. (MR) professional dominatrix. In German sardonic humor. In German with German, Hebrew, and English with with English subtitles. DCP digital English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR) English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR) widescreen. (MR)

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THE SENTIMENTALISTS, March 20, 23 FOR SOME INEXPLICABLE REASON, March 20, 21

WEST GREECE STANDING ASIDE, HUNGARY 2013, Christian Schwochow, Germany, 102 WATCHING min. U.S. premiere! (NA KATHESE KE NA) FOR SOME With Jördis Triebel, Jacky Ido THE SENTIMENTALISTS 2013, Yorgos Servetas, Greece, 90 min. INEXPLICABLE REASON With Marina Symeou, Nikos Yorgakis (OI AISTHIMATIES) (VAN FALAMI FURCSA ÉS Saturday, March 21, 5:00 pm 2014, Nicholas Triandafyllidis, Greece, 94 Wednesday, March 25, 6:00 pm MEGMAGYARÁZHATATLAN) min. Friday, March 13, 8:15 pm 2014, Gábor Reisz, Hungary, 96 min. With Ioanna Bakalakou, George Fourtounis Monday, March 16, 8:00 pm With Áron Ferenczik, Miklós Horváth Former East German Schwochow (THE TOWER) excels at Cold Friday, March 20, 8:00 pm Antigone (Symeou), a failed actress, Friday, March 20, 8:15 pm War stories that avoid simplistic Monday, March 23, 8:00 pm returns to her corrupt and brutally Saturday, March 21, 8:30 pm depictions of divided Germany. In backward hometown. The heroic 1975, a single mother escapes to Chicago-born Triandafyllidis brings name Antigone is prophetic in this This quirky new take on slacker West Berlin with her son, only to a wicked sense of humor to this plot reminiscent of a vengeance- comedy begins with Aron, a find that freedom is still elusive and tale of two inept hit men. Greek minded Western, as the town’s Budapest Millennial who lives on that, in many respects, her new tragedy wears tough-guy shades ruling gangsters maintain business- his parents’ largesse, being ditched world resembles the one she just when one thug falls for a hooker as-usual by force when faced with by a cheating girlfriend. Drunk left. In German and English with with a dangerous client, and the the threat of a woman’s conscience. dialing lands him in Portugal, where English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR) other dreams of the boss’s Lolita- In Greek with English subtitles. DCP everything may or may not be the like daughter. In Greek with English digital. (BS) same. In Hungarian with English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) subtitles. DCP digital. (BS)

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WHITE GOD, March 11 BLACK SOULS, March 14

GOLD, March 21, 22 THE DINNER, March 21, 26

WHITE GOD IRELAND ITALY THE DINNER (FEHÉR ISTEN) (I NOSTRI RAGAZZI) 2014, Kornél Mundruczó, Hungary, 119 min. GOLD Francesco Munzi in person! 2014, Ivano De Matteo, Italy, 92 min. With Zsófia Psotta, Grad Tzahi With Alessandro Gassman, Luigi Lo Cascio 2014, Niall Heery, Ireland, 88 min. BLACK SOULS With David Wilmot, Maisie Williams Wednesday, March 11, 7:45 pm (ANIME NERE) Saturday, March 21, 5:00 pm 2014, Francesco Munzi, Italy, 103 min. Thursday, March 26, 8:15 pm Saturday, March 21, 8:30 pm With Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mezzotta This unsettling allegory has obvious Sunday, March 22, 3:00 pm reference to Europe’s immigration Saturday, March 14, 5:30 pm Based on Herman Koch’s best- tensions. When new laws crack seller, this compelling drama of A deadbeat dad (Wilmot) returns down on mixed-breed mutts, a conscience centers on two brothers, home in this sparkling comedy- An unprecedentedly authentic young girl’s abandoned dog joins a conscientious pediatrician and drama, only to discover that time depiction of the Calabrian crime the ever-growing pack of mongrels a high-powered lawyer, whose didn’t stand still for his ex-wife organization known as the fomenting retribution on mankind. children may have committed a and daughter. Complications arise ‘ndrangheta, this powerful, Greek- Despite realistic depictions of brutal crime. In Italian with English as reluctant teen daughter Abbie tragedy-inflected family drama brutality, no dogs were harmed subtitles. DCP digital widescreen. (Williams of Game of Thrones) is pits brother against brother when in the making of this film. In (MR) groomed for track stardom by her a young man turns against his Hungarian with English subtitles. pushy stepdad. ProRes digital. (BS) law-abiding father. In Italian with DCP digital. (BS) English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR) HOW STRANGE TO BE NAMED FEDERICO Director Francesco Munzi will be See page 5 (Closing night film). present for audience discussion.

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HOW WE PLAYED THE REVOLUTION, March 21, 25 NEVER DIE YOUNG , March 28, April 1

LATVIA LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG NEVER DIE YOUNG 2013, Pol Cruchten, Luxembourg, 66 min. U.S. premiere! HOW WE PLAYED THE U.S. premiere! With Robinson Stévenin ALIAS LONER REVOLUTION MAMA’S BOY (SEGVARDS VIENTULIS) (MAMMEJONG) Saturday, March 28, 5:45 pm (KAIP MES ŽAIDĖME REVOLIUCIJĄ) Wednesday, April 1, 6:00 pm 2014, Normunds Pucis, Latvia, 90 min. 2012, Giedrė Žickytė, Lithuania, 69 min. 2015, Jacques Molitor, Luxembourg/Belgium, With Varis Pinkis, Vilis Daudzins 85 min. With Max Thommes, Myriam Muller Luxembourg’s Oscar submission, Saturday, March 21, 7:00 pm Sunday, March 29, 7:15 pm this haunting docudrama hybrid Wednesday, March 25, 8:00 pm Saturday, March 14, 8:00 pm conveys a transcendent tragedy Thursday, March 19, 8:00 pm through its striking use of masks The conflict between heroism and What better film to commemorate self-preservation propels this tense th and eerie puppet figures. An the 25 anniversary of Lithuanian This dark tale with a mythical unnamed man (Stévenin) narrates docudrama set in 1945, when a independence than this rousing rural Catholic priest helps men edge is set in a small town where the downward trajectory of his life, documentary about the Antis, a a bitter mother visits the sins of a from delinquency to the string of escape conscription in the Soviet legendary rock band that played a army by hiding them on the church long-departed father on her bullied fateful decisions that tied him to key role in the country’s struggle son. Temptation comes in the form the opiate that was the elusive love grounds. In Latvian with English for freedom? In Lithuanian with subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) of a young drifter named Leena. of his life. In French with English English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR) In Luxembourgish and English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) with English subtitles. DCP digital THE GOLDEN HORSE widescreen. (BS) See page 5 (Opening night film).

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AFTER THE TONE, March 15, 16 FIELD OF DOGS, March 15, 18

THE INTRUDER, March 22, 25 KEBAB & HOROSCOPE, March 29, April 1

NETHERLANDS U.S. premiere! POLAND KEBAB & HOROSCOPE THE INTRUDER (KEBAB I HOROSKOP) U.S. premiere! (INFILTRANT) FIELD OF DOGS 2014, Grzegorz Jaroszuk, Poland, 75 min. 2014, Shariff Korver, Netherlands, 86 min. With Bartlomiej Topa, Piotr Zurawski AFTER THE TONE With Nasrdin Dchar, Walid Bembarek (ONORICA—PSIE POLE) 2014, Digna Sinke, Netherlands, 85 min. 2014, Lech Majewski, Poland, 101 min. With Szymon Budzyk, Dorota Lis Sunday, March 29, 7:15 pm With Dragan Bakema, Olga ZuiderhoekIn Sunday, March 22, 3:00 pm Wednesday, April 1, 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 25, 8:15 pm Sunday, March 15, 5:15 pm Sunday, March 15, 7:00 pm Wednesday, March 18, 8:00 pm In this droll deadpan comedy, a man Monday, March 16, 6:15 pm In this cross-cultural policier, who quits his job at a kebab shop suspended cop Sam (Dchar), son Director Majewski (THE MILL on the advice of his newspaper Successful designer Onno is not of a Dutch mother and Moroccan AND THE CROSS) brings literary, horoscope runs into said horoscope answering his cell. Hours, days, father, can redeem himself by metaphysical, and emotional weight writer who has just been fired. The months pass, as his co-workers, infiltrating a Moroccan drug ring. to this extravagantly surreal vision. unemployed pair team up as ersatz friends, family, and lover leave ever Seen as a perennial alien by the Inspired by Dante’s Divine Comedy, marketing experts, and pitch their more desperate messages. This Dutch and an outsider on the it takes a young poet through dubious services to a failing carpet deceptively simple story, with the force, he finds the family he never successive stages of grief after the store staffed by a clutch of glum visuals representing the point of had in the warm camaraderie of sudden death of his lover. In Polish losers. In Polish and English with view of each unseen caller, packs his designated targets. In Dutch, with English subtitles. DCP digital. English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) an emotional wallop. In Dutch and Arabic, and French with English (BS) English with English subtitles. DCP subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) digital. (BS) MAR 2015 16 164 North State Street. Tickets: Go to our website for on-line ticket purchasing information. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. HORSE MONEY, March 20, 23 ROXANNE, March 28, 30

DÉJÀ VU, March 7, 11 THE CANDIDATE, March 27, 31

PORTUGAL ROMANIA U.S. premiere! SLOVAKIA ROXANNE HORSE MONEY U.S. premiere! 2013 Valentin Hotea, Romania, 97 min. U.S. premiere! With Serban Pavlu, Ingrid Bisu (CAVALO DINHEIRO) DÉJÀ VU THE CANDIDATE 2014, Pedro Costa, Portugal, 104 min. (KANDIDÁT) 2013, Dan Chisu, Romania, 75 min. Saturday, March 28, 8:00 pm With Ventura, Vitalina Varela With Iona Flora, Mirela Oprisor 2013, Jonás Karásek, Slovakia/Czech Monday, March 30, 8:00 pm Republic, 106 min. Friday, March 20, 6:00 pm With Marek Majesky, Monica Hilmerová Saturday, March 7, 7:00 pm Echoes of Romania’s repressive past Monday, March 23, 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 11, 6:00 pm haunt an uncommitted bachelor Friday, March 27, 6:00 pm Ventura, the grizzled Cape Verdean whose state security file reveals that Tuesday, March 31, 8:00 pm A wealthy man and his much he had fathered a child and been immigrant who has served as younger mistress find their betrayed by an unnamed informant. In this sassy, sardonic spoof muse for director Costa, returns relationship unraveling on the very A cat-and-mouse game ensues as on an advertising campaign in an even more commanding day that promises his freedom he stalks a pair of longtime friends for a presidential candidate, a role. Mysteriously at death’s from a failing marriage. The story is and their teenage son. In Romanian swaggering self-made PR executive door, he takes an eerie journey seen exclusively from the point of with English subtitles. DCP digital. is hired to transform a bland through episodes in his own life view of the man, played by director (BS) low-level politico into “the Czech that merge with Portugal’s colonial Chisu by means of a head-mounted Kennedy.” In Slovak and Czech with past. In Cape Verdean, Creole, and camera. In Romanian with English English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) Portuguese with English subtitles. subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) DCP digital. (BS)

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A STEP INTO THE DARK, March 14, 18 HALLÅ HALLÅ, March 7, 10

INFERNO, March 8, 10 A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH..., March 17

A STEP INTO THE DARK SLOVENIA SWEDEN A PIGEON SAT ON A (KROK DO TMY) BRANCH REFLECTING 2014, Miroslav Luther, Slovakia, 120 min. U.S. premiere! HALLÅ HALLÅ With Kristyna Boková, Marko Igonda ON EXISTENCE INFERNO 2014, Maria Blom, Sweden, 98 min. (EN DUVA SATT PÅ EN GREN OCH 2014, Vinko Möderndorfer, Slovenia, 113 With Maria Sid, Johan Holmberg Saturday, March 14, 5:30 pm FUNDERADE PÅ TILLVARON) min. 2014, Roy Andersson, Sweden, 101 min. Wednesday, March 18, 7:45 pm With Marko Mandic, Medea Novak Saturday, March 7, 5:00 pm With Holger Andersson, Nils Westblom Tuesday, March 10, 6:00 pm Slovakia’s Oscar submission, Sunday, March 8, 7:15 pm Tuesday, March 17, 8:00 pm this lush adaptation of Alfonz Tuesday, March 10, 8:00 pm This easygoing, character-driven Bednár’s novel moves between comedy centers on nurse and Comic master Andersson’s latest guerrilla action in 1944, where Tragedy doesn’t come any more mother Disa (Sid), recently dumped pageant of deadpan drollery young commander Martin makes Dickensian in tone or Shakespearian by her husband. A self-defense presents 37 sketches whose a decision that will haunt his life, in scope than this dark social drama. class, an oft-divorced father of material includes two forlorn and the post-war era, where the A series of debts triggers the seven, and a loss of temper with a novelty salesmen, a modern-day married apolitical doctor becomes domino effect that unleashes chaos troublesome patient become the visit by an 18th-century Swedish enmeshed in a steamy affair with a on a working-class dad who has catalysts for building a new life. In king, and a savage satire of seductive party operative. In Slovak the bad judgment to speak truth to Swedish with English subtitles. DCP colonialism. In Swedish and English with English subtitles. DCP digital. power. In Slovenian with English digital widescreen. (MR) with English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) subtitles. DCP digital. (BS) (MR)

MAR 2015 18 164 North State Street. Tickets: Go to our website for on-line ticket purchasing information. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. IN A FOREIGN LAND, March 21, 24 LIVING IS EASY WITH EYES CLOSED, March 13, 15

THE KID, March 8, 11 MAGICAL GIRL, March 28, April 1

SPAIN: FESTIVAL OF NEW SPANISH CINEMA

Steven Marsh in person! For the third year in a row, we present films selected from the Festival of New Spanish Cinema, a larger touring program, curated and organized by Pragda and Spain Arts & Culture. Presented in collaboration with Instituto MAGICAL GIRL Cervantes of Chicago. Supported by Acción Cultural Española (AC/E); Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports; 2014, Carlos Vermut, Spain, 127 min. and Hoy. In collaboration with Cinelandia and Centro Cultural Latinamericano. With Luis Bermejo, Bárbara Lennie IN A FOREIGN LAND THE KID LIVING IS EASY WITH Saturday, March 28, 3:00 pm Wednesday, April 1, 7:30 pm (EN TIERRA EXTRAÑA) (EL NIÑO) EYES CLOSED 2014, Icíar Bollaín, Spain, 72 min. 2014, Daniel Monzón, Spain, 136 min. (VIVIR ES FÁCIL CON LOS OJOS CERRADOS) In this twisted film-noir fairy tale, With Luis Tosar, Jesús Castro 2013, David Trueba, Spain, 108 min. Saturday, March 21, 7:00 pm With Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina a father’s quest to fulfill his dying Tuesday, March 24, 6:00 pm Sunday, March 8, 4:30 pm daughter’s wish puts him on a Wednesday, March 11, 7:30 pm Friday, March 13, 6:00 pm collision course with a masochistic In her first documentary, politically Sunday, March 15, 3:00 pm housewife and a former teacher engaged director Bollaín (EVEN Nominated for 16 Goya Awards, this with a dark secret. In Spanish THE RAIN) focuses on Edinburgh, superior actioner from the team The film that swept Spain’s 2014 with English subtitles. Courtesy of Scotland, to illustrate how the behind the 2009 smash CELL 211 is Goya Awards, this high-spirited, Pragda. DCP digital widescreen. financial crisis has forced hundreds set in the Strait of Gibraltar, where fact-based road movie centers on (MR) of thousands of young Spaniards a veteran cop (Tosar) is obsessed a schoolteacher/Beatles enthusiast to seek jobs in foreign lands. In with making a big drug bust, and (Cámara) who journeys to the The Wednesday screening will Spanish and English with English a young speedboat driver (Castro) Almería location of Richard Lester’s be introduced by Steven Marsh, subtitles. Courtesy of Pragda. DCP is hired as a runner for a Moroccan HOW I WON THE WAR in the hope of Associate Professor of Spanish Film digital. (MR) kingpin. In Spanish and English meeting John Lennon. In Spanish and Cultural Studies at UIC. with English subtitles. Courtesy of and English with English subtitles. Pragda. DCP digital. (MR) Courtesy of Outsider Films. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)

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A DANGEROUS GAME, March 29 SET FIRE TO THE STARS, March 21, 25 SOUL BOYS OF THE WESTERN WORLD, March 7 UNITED KINGDOM SET FIRE TO THE STARS 2014, Andy Goddard, UK, 97 min. SOUL BOYS OF THE WESTERN Anthony Baxter in person! With Elijah Wood, Celyn Jones A DANGEROUS GAME WORLD 2014, George Hencken, UK, 110 min. 2014, Anthony Baxter, UK, 98 min. Saturday, March 21, 3:00 pm Tuesday, March 25, 6:00 pm Saturday, March 7, 8:30 pm Sunday, March 29, 3:00 pm Based on fact, this stylish slice of speculative biography centers on the relationship between Spandau Ballet rivaled Duran Duran in the In this rousing follow-up to his 2011 agit-doc forefront of the 1980s New Romantic movement. YOU’VE BEEN TRUMPED, Baxter tackles the aging but still raging Dylan Thomas (Jones) and priggish but discontented American poetry Drawing upon superb archive footage and resource-hogging impact of high-end golf voiceovers by all five Spands, this highly courses and bags a face-to-face showdown with professor John Brinnin (Wood), who sticks his neck out by organizing a U.S. reading tour for entertaining rock-doc tells the whole story, from the villain of his previous film, luxury-links mogul North London roots through big hits, breakup, Donald Trump. In English. DCP digital. (MR) the notorious bard. In English. DCP digital widescreen. (MR) lawsuits, and reunion. In English. DCP digital. (MR) Director Anthony Baxter is tentatively scheduled to be present for audience discussion.

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MAR 2015 20 164 North State Street. Tickets: Go to our website for on-line ticket purchasing information. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. Conversations at the Edge is a weekly series of screenings, artist talks, and performances by some of the most compelling media artists of yesterday and today.

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John Gerrard in person! John Gerrard: Networks and Power 2009-15, John Gerrard, China/Norway/US, ca. 60 min.

Thursday, March 5, 6:00 pm

The works of John Gerrard (MFA 2000) often SONGS FROM THE NORTH, March 26 take shape as large-scale projections of meticulously crafted virtual worlds. Powered by military modeling and video game software, Winner of the prestigious Golden Leopard for they recreate outposts of human industry—a Best First Feature at the 2014 Locarno Film 19th-century paper mill in Norway, mysterious Festival, the film interweaves biography (Yoo’s roadways along China’s Silk Road, a solar father fought in the war, and many of his left- power plant in Nevada. Gerrard presents five leaning friends abandoned South Korea for recent projects and discusses the themes and the North), images, interviews, popular TV technology involved. Various formats. (Amy spectacles, cinema, and song. In English and Beste) Korean with English subtitles. DCP digital. (Amy Beste) Alexander Stewart in person! Encounters: Dennis Lim in person! ANNA Experimental Film and Video from Croatia 1975, Alberto Grifi and Massimo Sarchielli, Italy, 225 min. 1961-2011, Various directors, Croatia/Yugoslavia, Thursday, April 2, 6:00 pm ca. 70 min. Recently restored by the Cineteca di Bologna, Thursday, March 12, 6:00 pm this astonishing 1975 documentary centers on the titular pregnant, homeless 16-year-old girl Zagreb, Croatia, has long been an important whom the filmmakers encountered in ’s hub for animation, experimental film, and avant- Piazza Navona. Shot mainly on then-newfangled garde culture. Filmmakers there have produced ENCOUNTERS, March12 video, it documents the interactions between the decades of strong, challenging, and fascinating enigmatic Anna and the directors, whose interest experimental work. Filmmaker, curator, and Soon-Mi Yoo in person! in her is at once compassionate and self-serving. DePaul professor Stewart (MFA 2005) presents SONGS FROM THE NORTH In Italian with English subtitles. DCP digital. a selection of films and videos from the 1960s 2014, Soon-Mi Yoo, US/South Korea/Portugal, 72 min. Introduced by Dennis Lim, Director of Programming through today, featuring gems by such notables at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. (Dennis Lim) as Vlado Kristl, Ivan Ladislav Galeta, and Dalibor Thursday, March 26, 6:00 pm Martinis. 35mm, 16mm, and digital video. (Alexander Stewart) South Korea–born, Cambridge-based artist Yoo’s debut feature is a nuanced look at political ideology and everyday life in North Korea.

MAR 2015 164 North State Street. Tickets: Go to our website for on-line ticket purchasing information. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 21 INSTANTNEW DOCUMENTARY FORMSHISTORIES: IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Lecturer: Daniel Eisenberg As digital technology has transformed every aspect of daily life, our conception of time, space, event, and document has transformed as From January 23 through May 5, we offer a series of fourteen programs well. We no longer look to authorized sources for the verification of entitled Instant Histories: Documentary in the Digital Age, with weekly events, and the speed at which we expect to see evidence has become Tuesday lectures by Daniel Eisenberg, internationally renowned filmmaker virtually instantaneous. The portability and ubiquity of cameras has and Professor of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of made every moment and place subject to our gaze, and every event the Art Institute of Chicago. The series is presented in cooperation with subject to new conventions of scrutiny and truth. This series examines the SAIC’s Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism. Additional the ways film and video-makers have changed the conventions of non- screenings of the films on Friday or Saturday do not include Prof. fiction filmmaking through signal works produced during the digital turn Eisenberg’s lecture. Admission to all Instant Histories programs is $5 for of the last decade. Film Center members; usual admission prices apply for non-members. —Daniel Eisenberg —Martin Rubin

GRIZZLY MAN, Feb. 27, March 3 THE ACT OF KILLING, March 17

THE MISSING PICTURE, March 10 FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS, March 24

GRIZZLY MAN THE MISSING PICTURE THE ACT OF KILLING FIVE BROKEN CAMERAS 2005, Werner Herzog, USA, 103 min. 2013, Rithy Panh, Cambodia/France, 92 min. 2012, Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark, 115 2011, Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi, min. Palestine, 94 min. Friday, February 27, 6:00 pm Tuesday, March 10, 6:00 pm Tuesday, March 3, 6:00 pm Tuesday, March 17, 6:00 pm Tuesday, March 24, 6:00 pm A childhood survivor of the Herzog offers a radical Cambodian killing fields, Panh Two aging thugs, members of a This Oscar-nominated piece recontextualizing of footage revisits the painful past primarily mid-1960s death squad responsible of guerrilla filmmaking tells originally shot by Timothy Treadwell, through childlike dioramas peopled the massacre of more than a million of Palestinian villager Burnat’s a self-appointed protector of with clay figures—a haunting accused Indonesian communists, evolution into a cameraman-activist Alaskan bears, who got himself and device that both distances and enthusiastically reenact their deeds recording his people’s struggle a female companion killed by one intensifies the events. In English for the camera in this eerily bizarre through a series of cameras that in 2003, and whose sentimental and French with English subtitles. documentary. In Indonesian with succumb to the cause. In Arabic view of nature is not shared by the DCP digital. (MR) English subtitles. DCP video. (BS) and Hebrew with English subtitles. director. 35mm. (MR) DigiBeta video. (BS)

MAR 2015 22 164 North State Street. Tickets: Go to our website for on-line ticket purchasing information. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. Upcoming in MAJOR SPONSORS Instant Histories: The Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Foundation April 3 and 7 LEVIATHAN SAGE FOUNDATION 2012, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel, France/ USA, 87 min.

April 10 and 14 THE FORGOTTEN SPACE 2010, Noël Burch and Allan Sekula, Netherlands, 112 min.

THIS IS NOT A FILM April 17 and 21 THE FOG OF WAR (IN FILM NIST) 2011, Jafar Panahi and Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Iran, 75 min. 2003, Errol Morris, USA, 95 min.

Tuesday, March 31, 6:00 pm May 1 and 5 THE NINE MUSES In sly defiance of the authorities who have banned him from making films, 2010, John Akomfrah, UK, Iranian director Panahi (OFFSIDE) concocts a “non-film” that converts the long 90 min. hours of his house arrest into an arresting cinema of the mind. In Persian with English subtitles. DCP digital. (BS)

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NEW FILMS BY H Roy Andersson H H Anthony Baxter Icíar Bollaín H H Pedro Costa See Gustav Deutsch H Europe H Bruno Dumont by Film Anne Fontaine Eugène Green H H Mia Hansen-Løve Jessica Hausner H H Stephan Komandarev H Søren Kragh-Jacobsen Lech Majewski Vinko Möderndorfer 18th Annual Francesco Munzi Veiko Öunpuu Christian Petzold European Alain Resnais Ettore Scola Ulrich Seidl Digna Sinke Union Film Nicholas Triandafyllidis David Trueba And many more! Festival

HANY Eighteenth year! (Czech Republic), All month! March 15, 18 61 films! 27 countries!