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MAGIC BOYS, March 16, 21 From March 1 through 28, the Gene Siskel nation currently holding the presidency of the at www.siskelfilmcenter.org for updates on Film Center welcomes you to the 16th Annual European Union. On Friday, March 1, our host appearances and added special events. European Union Film Festival, the largest is the Honorable Aidan Cronin, Consul General We celebrate Spain in a special way this year, showcase in North America for the cinema of Ireland, Chicago. Our opening film, STELLA by incorporating the Festival of New Spanish of the European Union nations. This year’s DAYS by Thaddeus O’Sullivan, stars Martin Cinema, curated by Pragda, as a sidebar section festival presents the Chicago premieres of 61 Sheen in a critically acclaimed performance of the EU Festival (see pp. 4-5). new feature films, providing a broad picture as an embattled Catholic priest who tries to of the creativity of Europe’s most adventurous introduce the movies to his conservative rural The festival closes on Thursday, March 28 with filmmakers. flock. Ken Loach’s greatly anticipated THE ANGELS’
The festival screens the latest films by a host Renowned German actress Barbara Sukowa SHARE, the Scottish-themed whisky-loving of major directors including Alain Resnais appears in person on Friday, March 8, to comedy that brought down the house at the (YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHIN’ YET), Margarethe discuss her tour-de-force starring role in 2012 Cannes Film Festival. A reception hosted by Whole Foods Market follows. von Trotta (HANNAH ARENDT), István Szabó HANNAH ARENDT. Chicago director, writer, (THE DOOR), Ken Loach (THE ANGELS’ SHARE), and radio personality Mike Houlihan appears The Gene Siskel Film Center thanks the Sally Potter (GINGER & ROSA), Ulrich Seidl in person on Wednesday, March 13, with his consulates, the consuls general, and the (PARADISE: FAITH and PARADISE: HOPE), personal documentary OUR IRISH COUSINS. cultural institutions of the European Union in "Marco Bellocchio (DORMANT BEAUTY)," Director Robert Mullan appears at screenings Chicago, and their embassies in Washington, Sergei Loznitsa (IN THE FOG), and Jan Hrebejk of his Lithuanian historical drama LETTERS TO D.C., for their enthusiastic participation. We (4SOME). SOFIJA, and Romanian director Dan Chisu is especially salute the efforts of all those who tentatively scheduled to appear at a screening served as festival advisors. According to the tradition of our festival, of CHASING RAINBOWS. Check our web site the opening night is presided over by the —Barbara Scharres and Martin Rubin mar 2013 2 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. Sponsors and Partners
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For their generous assistance in obtaining films for the European Union Film Festival, the Gene Siskel Film Center thanks: Austria: Dr. Thomas Schnoell, Joanne Ryan, Consulate General of Austria; Belgium: Nicolas Polet, Flanders House, New York; Valeska Neu, Loredana Cimino, Films Boutique; Bulgaria: Bouriana Zakharieva, Peripeteia Film Production; Kristina Nikolova; Mila Petkova, Bulgarian National Film Center; Denmark: Lizette Gram Mygind, Danish Film Institute; Jette Renneberg Elkjær, Embassy of Denmark; Estonia: Tristan Priimägi, Estonian Film Foundation; Piret Tibbo-Hudgins, Allfilm; Finland: Marjo Pipinen, Finnish Film Foundation; France: Institut Français; Fabrice Rozie, Jean-François Rochard, 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; Costas Kapakas; Hungary: Bela Bunyik, Bunyik Entertainment; Katalin Vajda, Magyar Filmunió, Hungarian National Film Fund; Alice Ramsey, Bankside Films; Ireland: Aidan Cronin, Katie Hamilton, Pat Neary, Consulate General of Ireland, Chicago; Jackie Larkin, Newgrange Films; Italy: Silvio Marchetti, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Chicago; Barbara Klein, Italian Film Festival of St. Louis; Pascale Ramonda; Celluloid Dreams; Latvia: Matthias Angoulvant, Wide; Lithuania: Marijus Gudynas, Agnė Vertelkaitė, Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in Chicago; Luxembourg: Joy Hoffmann, Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CAN); Lélia Di Luca, Samsa Film; Poland: Cosima Finkbeiner, Beta Cinema GmbH; Romania: Gheorghe Andrei, Alexandra Cojocaru, Da KINO Production; Slovakia: Alexandra Strelková, Slovak Film Institute; Clémence Perrier-Latour, MK2; Uta Gildhuis, Endorfilm; Slovenia: Nerina Kocjancic, Slovenian National Film Center; Danijel Hocevar, Emotion Film; Spain: Marta Sanchez, Pragda; Ignacio Olmos, Teresa Hernando, Instituto Cervantes de Chicago; Sweden: Gunnar Almér, Swedish Film Institute; and also: Kathleen Sewall, Christina Dudash, Allied-THA; Lauren Elmer, A24 Films; Jeff Lipsky, Adopt Films; Ryan Krivoshey, The Cinema Guild; Rebeca Conget, Maxwell Wolkin, Mallory Jacobs, Film Movement; Jeremy Quist, Global Film Initiative; Mike Houlihan; Sean McDonnell, IDP/Samuel Goldwyn Films/ATO Pictures; Ryan Werner, Elizabeth Brambilla, Cary Jones, Kim Kalyka, IFC Films; Gary Palmucci, Kino Lorber Films; Cindy Nelson, MonteCristo International; Michael Tuckman, MTuckman Media; Ed Arentz, Brian Andreotti, Rebecca Gordon, Music Box Films; Donald Crafton, Anthony Monta, Ted Barron, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame; Samantha Hubball, Oscilloscope Pictures; Paul Hudson; Outsider Pictures; LC Lim, 7th Art Releasing; Tom Davia, Shoreline Entertainment; Brandon Peters, Strand Releasing; Matthew Landers, Tribeca Film; Erin Lowery, The Weinstein Company; Clemence Taillandier, Ben Crossley-Marra, Zeitgeist Films. MAR 2013 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 3 H H H H H H H H H H H 16th Annual European Union Film Festival Welcomes H The 2012 Festival of New Spanish Cinema
In a special collaboration with Pragda, the Gene Siskel Film Center is integrating Pragda’s 2012 Festival of New Spanish Cinema with this year’s European Union Film Festival in order to give our EU Festival access to some of the most exciting recent Spanish films. The two films in the 2012 Festival of New Spanish Cinema that have already premiered in Chicago, SLEEP TIGHT and THE DOUBLE STEPS, will be shown in the week following the EU Film Festival. —Martin Rubin In its fifth consecutive year, the Festival of New Spanish Cinema consolidates itself as the most important itinerant festival of contemporary Spanish Cinema in North America. Once again, the festival will screen some of the riskiest and most innovative Spanish films of the year. The festival opens on March 6 with Paco León’s CARMINA OR BLOW UP, the popular phenomenon that has been winning over audiences since its release. Other films selected include David Trueba’s MADRID, 1987, a sensual and intelligent encounter between two very different generations; Gabriel Velázquez’s ICEBERG, an insightful study of adolescence; WILAYA, a window into the lives of a Sahrawi family living in a Saharan refugee camp, directed by Pedro Pérez Rosado; THE DOUBLE STEPS, Isaki Lacuesta’s gorgeously shot award-winning film; and SLEEP CARMINA OR BLOW UP, March 6, 9 TIGHT, the latest chiller by mastermind of suspense Jaume Balagueró. In the European Union Film of debts, she holds court in The 2012 Festival of New Spanish Festival and the Festival of New Comedy star León’s unique her kitchen, reminiscing and Cinema was organized by Pragda in Spanish Cinema: directing debut has become a philosophizing as she tries to collaboration with Instituto Cervantes popular phenomenon in Spain. deal with a disastrous robbery of Chicago. Supported by the Ministry CARMINA The subject is Carmina Barrios, of 80 hams. Compared by critics of Culture of Spain-ICAA, the Embassy OR BLOW UP played by the director’s mother to a character out of Almodóvar, of Spain in Washington, and American and greatly resembling her, Carmina is funny, raunchy, (CARMINA O REVIENTA) although the film plays slyly with Airlines. 2012, Paco León, Spain, 71 min. outrageous, and never less than the distinction between fact —Marta Sanchez, Pragda With Carmina Barrios, María León fascinating. In Spanish with and fiction. Owner of a bar in English subtitles. DCP video. Wednesday, March 6, 6:30 pm Sevilla, saddled with a shiftless (MR) Saturday, March 9, 5:15 pm husband and a mountain
MAR 2013 4 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. WILAYA, March 8, 14 ICEBERG, March 23, 26
MADRID, 1987, March 17, 19 SLEEP TIGHT, March 31, April 3 WILAYA MADRID, 1987 ICEBERG In the Festival of New Spanish SLEEP TIGHT (aka TEARS OF SAND) 2011, David Trueba, Spain, 104 2011, Gabriel Velázquez, Spain, Cinema only: (MIENTRAS DUERMES) 2012, Pedro Pérez Rosado, Spain, min. 84 min. 2011, Jaime Balagueró, Spain, 97 min. With José Sacristán, María With Jesús Nieto, Carolina THE DOUBLE 102 min. With Nadhira Mohamed, Memona Valverde Morocho STEPS With Luis Tosar, Marta Etura Mohamed Sunday, March 17, Saturday, March 23, (LOS PASOS DOBLES) Sunday, March 31, Friday, March 8, 6:00 pm 2011, Isaki Lacuesta, Spain, 86 min. 5:15 pm 5:15 pm With Bokar Dembele, Hamadoun 3:00 pm Thursday, March 14, Tuesday, March 19, Tuesday, March 26, Kassogue Wednesday, April 3, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm 6:00 pm 7:45 pm Saturday, March 30, This visually stunning Trueba’s tour de force Adults never appear in 5:00 pm This superbly crafted drama offers a fascinating ingeniously uses a sex-farce this spare, subtle, and Monday, April 1, psychological thriller by look at the Sahrawi people premise to explore the intensely focused study 7:45 pm the co-creator of the [REC] of northwest Africa. After transitional post-Franco of adolescence, which franchise features Tosar, one living sixteen years with period. An aging writer’s interweaves three plotlines: Lacuesta’s tantalizing of Spain’s best actors, as an a foster family in Spain, a clumsy attempts to seduce Mauri, orphaned by a car mind-bender revolves ever-so-helpful apartment young Sahrawi woman a pretty student get the crash, seeks to recover a around the elusive traces concierge who secretly returns to her family at a two of them locked naked ring that belonged to his left by François Augiéras, strives to make the tenants’ refugee camp. Suspended in a small bathroom. late parents. Rebecca, an American-born artist lives miserable. He focuses between two cultures, she There the two generations dumped in a Catholic (1925-71) who wandered his malice on the radiantly challenges her new home’s confront each other in an boarding school by her through the Sahara. The beautiful Clara, invisibly traditionalist ways by exhilarating talkfest that absent parents, thinks she’s film retraces his steps invading and disrupting her becoming the first female has been compared to pregnant. Simon and Jo through two alter-egos: a life in ever more perverse truck driver in the region. MY DINNER WITH ANDRE live wild and free in an young West African man and shocking ways. In In Spanish and Arabic with and BEFORE SUNRISE. abandoned boathouse. who seems to re-live the Spanish with English English subtitles. HDCAM In Spanish with English In Spanish with English artist’s life, and Spanish subtitles. HDCAM video. video. (MR) subtitles. HDCAM video. subtitles. HDCAM video. painter Miguel Barceló, who (MR) (MR) (MR) searches for Augiéras’s lost masterpiece. In French European Union Film Festival and Bambara with English continues on next page subtitles. DigiBeta video.
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Closing night film! Opening night film! Stella The Angels'
2012, Ken Loach, UK, 101 min. ShareWith Paul Brannigan, Siobhan Reilly 2011, Thaddeus O’Sullivan, Ireland, 100 min. Saturday, March 23, 7:00 pm DaysWith Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea Thursday, March 28, 6:15 pm Friday, March 1, 6:00 pm One of the world’s greatest working filmmakers, Ken Loach executes Sunday, March 3, 5:00 pm a charming change-of-pace that combines his usual gift for social A stellar performance by Martin Sheen as Fr. Daniel Barry, observation with a less commonly seen flair for upbeat comedy. Winner a Catholic priest who has burned a few bridges in his time, of the Cannes Jury Prize, the film centers on Robbie (Brannigan), a young brightens the darker recesses of this story of one man’s attempt Glasgow delinquent who discovers that he has a rare nasal gift for to bring cinema to a small Irish town. Set in 1956 Tipperary, identifying whiskies. He enlists two lads and a lass from his community- where the church holds sway and the movies are regarded as service group; posing as a whisky-tasting club, they don kilts and head the devil’s work to many of his provincial flock, film buff Daniel for the highlands to heist a batch of ultra-valuable single malt. In English. sets out to open a movie house, royally riling his bishop and Special advance screening courtesy of IFC Films. HDCAM video. (MR) encountering the nemesis from hell in local politician Brendan McSweeny (Rea). In English. Special advance screening Immediately following the screening, the audience is invited to a closing- courtesy of Tribeca Films and Newgrange Productions. DCP night reception in our lobby, hosted by Whole Foods Market. Included!: video. (BS) Please join Johnnie Walker and The Classic Single Malts for your own Scotch whisky-tasting adventure, hosted by Master of Immediately following the screening, the audience is invited to Whisky Kyle McHugh. anIrish Food and Drink Showcase and Reception, hosted by the Consul General of Ireland, Aidan Cronin. Note: No free passes or blue tickets will be valid for Note: No free passes or blue tickets will be valid for the opening the closing night screening. night screening.
MAR 2013 6 164 North State Street. Tickets: 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. PARADISE: FAITH, March 17, 21 BEYOND THE WALLS , March 23, 25
THE WALL, March 3, 6 THE FIFTH SEASON, March 3, 6 AUSTRIA PARADISE: HOPE THE WALL BELGIUM THE FIFTH SEASON (PARADIES: HOFFNUNG) (DIE WAND) (LA CINQUIÈME SAISON) PARADISE: FAITH 2013, Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 100 min. 2012, Julian Pölsler, Austria, 108 BEYOND THE 2012, Peter Brosens and Jessica With Melanie Lenz, Verena min. Woodworth, Belgium, 94 min. (PARADIES: GLAUBE) Lehbauer With Martina Gedeck WALLS With Aurélia Poirier, Django 2012, Ulrich Seidl, Austria, 113 min. (HORS LES MURS) Schrevens With Maria Hoffstätter, Nabil Saleh Sunday, March 24, Sunday, March 3, 5:00 pm 2012, David Lambert, Belgium, 3:00 pm Wednesday, March 6, Sunday, March 3, 7:15 pm Sunday, March 17, 98 min. Monday, March 25, 6:00 pm With Matila Malliarakis Wednesday, March 6, 5:15 pm 6:00 pm 8:15 pm Thursday, March 21, Gedeck (THE LIVES OF Saturday, March 23, 8:15 pm Provocateur director OTHERS) delivers a tour- 9:00 pm Communal unease grips Seidl again turns the de-force performance as a village when the effigy- The line between devotion Monday, March 25, conventional meaning of the seeming sole survivor topped bonfire that and masturbation 7:45 pm a virtue on its head in this of a cosmic catastrophe traditionally marks the end becomes blurred for a final film of his PARADISE that has sealed off her In this bittersweet gay love of winter refuses to ignite missionary-minded nurse trilogy, offering up hope ruggedly beautiful slice of story, Paulo wakes up in and no harbingers of spring whose punishing prayers as a skewed form of erotic the world. Stranded in an the bed of hunky bartender follow. This apocalyptic are interrupted by the attraction. Sent to a fat alpine cabin with her dog, Ilir, an illegal immigrant. tale by the directors of appearance of a contrary farm for kids, zaftig 13-year- this resourceful castaway Ilir reluctantly succumbs KHADAK and ALTIPLANO husband and the rebellion old Melanie targets a doctor struggles with nothing less to charms of his bed- is haunting in its imagery, of the junkie prostitute who forty years her senior for than the purpose and fate crasher until a drug charge surreal in the dread is the object of her dubious seduction. In German with of the universe. In German raises the stakes in their engendered when neighbor good works. The second English subtitles. Special with English subtitles. relationship. In French with turns against neighbor. In entry in Seidl’s PARADISE advance screening courtesy Special advance screening English subtitles. Special Flemish and French with trilogy. In German and of Strand Releasing. courtesy of Music Box Films. advance screening courtesy English subtitles. DCP video Arabic with English HDCAM video. (BS) DCP video. (BS) February 15–21of Strand Releasing. courtesy of Films Boutique. subtitles. Special advance Fri., Mon. and Wed.Presented at 7:45 in pm;collaboration (BS) screening courtesy of Sat. at 3:00 pmwith and Reeling,7:45 pm; the Chicago Strand Releasing. HDCAM Sun. at 5:00 pm;Lesbian & Gay International European Union Film Festival video. (BS) Tue. and Thu. atFilm 6:00 Festival. pm HDCAM video. continues on next page (BS) MAR 2013 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 7 H H H H H H H H H H H 16th Annual European Union Film Festival H
THE COLOR OF THE CHAMELEON, March 10, 11 ALOIS NEBEL, March 2, 5
FAITH, LOVE & WHISKEY, March 2, 4 4SOME, March 17, 20
BULGARIA FAITH, LOVE & WHISKEY CZECH REPUBLIC 4SOME 2012, Kristina Nikolova, Bulgaria, 75 min. (aka THE HOLY QUATERNITY) THE COLOR OF THE With Yavor Baharov, Lidia Indjova ALOIS NEBEL (SVATA CTVERICE) 2012, Jan Hrebejk, Czech Republic, 78 min. CHAMELEON Saturday, March 2, 8:45 pm 2011, Tomas Lunak, Czech Republic, 84 min. With Jiri Langmajer, Hynek Cermak (TSVETAT NA HAMELEONA) Monday, March 4, 8:00 pm Saturday, March 2, 5:15 pm Sunday, March 17, 7:30 pm 2012, Emil Christov, Bulgaria, 114 min. Tuesday, March 5, 8:00 pm With Ruscen Vidinliev, Irena Milyankova The pull of homesickness and the Wednesday, March 20, 6:00 pm pleasures of wild, boozy nights This intriguing, technically brilliant Sunday, March 10, 7:15 pm draw upwardly mobile Neli to ditch Director Hrebejk (BEAUTY IN adult animation is based on graphic Monday, March 11, 8:00 pm her American fiancé in New York TROUBLE) cuts loose on the bawdy novels by Jaroslav Rudis and Jaromir and fly home for a visit. The envy of side in this sprightly comedy Based on Vladislav Todorov’s novel 99, with influences ranging from the losers she left behind sets the with lust in its heart. Longtime Zincograph, this black-humorous film noir to CLOSELY WATCHED stage for one more fling with the neighbors Ondra and Vitek share allegory chronicles an opportunist’s TRAINS. Alois, dispatcher at a rural bad boy she can’t forget. Director thoughts of straying, and their journey to the top of the train station, is visited by ghosts. Nikolova, a University of Chicago wives seem primed for a game- surveillance underworld. Springing Their stories emerge from the mist, alum, injects an atmospheric road changing proposal. But wait, their from murky origins, Batko flubs along with pieces of the past that movie with the hot urgency of hormone-fired teenagers, two boys his first secret-police assignment drive Alois mad, yet propel him forbidden passion. In Bulgarian and two girls, are home alone, and thanks to his lusty landlady, but into the chaos of his nation’s next and English with English subtitles. the apple doesn’t fall very far from goes on to create a convoluted era. In Czech with English subtitles. Special advance screening courtesy this particular tree. In Czech with network of counterfeit spies. One Special advance screening courtesy of the filmmaker. DCP video. (BS) English subtitles. Special advance dirty trick too many and one femme of Zeitgeist Films. HDCAM video. screening courtesy of Strand fatale too alluring may prove fatal. (BS) Releasing. HDCAM video. (BS) In Bulgarian with English subtitles. DCP video courtesy of Peripeteia Film Production. (BS)
MAR 2013 8 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. PERFECT DAYS, March 8, 9 MUSHROOMING, March 9, 13
SUPERCLÁSICO, March 2, 5 ALIYAH, March 24, 25 PERFECT DAYS DENMARK ESTONIA FINLAND FRANCE (I ZENY MAJI SVE DNY) 2011, Alice Nellis, Czech Republic, SUPERCLÁSICO MUSHROOMING ALMOST 18 ALIYAH 108 min. With Ivana Chylkova, Ondrej Sokol 2011, Ole Christian Madsen, (SEENELKÄIK) 2012, Maarit Lalli, Finland, 110 (ALYAH) Denmark, 99 min. 2012, Toomas Hussar, Estonia, min. 2012, Elie Wajeman, France, 90 Friday, March 8, 8:00 pm With Paprika Steen, Anders W. 93 min. With Henrik Mäki-Tanila min. Saturday, March 9, Berthelsen With Raivo E. Tamm, Elina Reinold With Pio Marmaï, Cédric Kahn Sunday, March 10, 3:00 pm Saturday, March 2, Saturday, March 9, 7:00 pm Sunday, March 24, Director Nellis has her 7:00 pm 9:00 pm Wednesday, March 13, 3:00 pm finger on the pulse of the Tuesday, March 5, 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 13, 6:00 pm Monday, March 25, contempo woman with this 8:15 pm 6:00 pm In this neo-screwball This sensitive seriocomic timely comedy. Celebrity comedy, a jilted husband Estonia’s official Oscar look at adolescence follows A low-level Paris drug- hairdresser Erika is almost (Berthelsen) connives to submission careens from four boys who are 17, dealer who is Jewish sees over-the-hill according to win back his wife (Steen, comedy to suspense when a and one who has reached aliyah (immigration to her loudly ticking biological as a high-powered sports smug politico’s response to the magic plateau of Israel) as a chance to escape clock. A birthday strip-o- agent). He follows her to scandal is to disappear into 18. Dealing with pushy his present life. He needs gram socks the problem Buenos Aires, where he the woods on a mushroom- parents, bratty siblings, cash fast, which means home, and this cougar is on discovers that his rival is hunting jaunt. Add one and pregnant girlfriends, more dealing, which means the prowl for a baby daddy. Argentina’s biggest soccer Goth hitchhiker, some the younger boys think greater risks. Director In Czech with English star. Denmark’s Academy spooky forest atmosphere, that turning 18 will solve Wajeman avoids moralizing subtitles. Special advance Award submission for and a missing hermit, and everything, but the 18-year- in this offbeat mixture of screening courtesy of 2011. In Danish, Spanish, MUSHROOMING delivers old—amusement-park character study, crime story, MonteCristo International. and English with English nothing less than a satire on mascot by day, stripper and family drama. In French DCP video. (BS) subtitles. Digital video civilization dissolving into by night—knows better. and Hebrew with English courtesy of the Danish Film mayhem. In Estonian with In Finnish with English subtitles. Special advance Institute and the Embassy English subtitles. DCP video subtitles. DCP video screening courtesy of Film of Denmark. (MR) courtesy of Allfilm. (BS) courtesy of the Finnish Film Movement. DCP video. Foundation. (MR) (MR)
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BECOMING TRAVIATA, March 23, 27 MY WORST NIGHTMARE, March 16, 18, 28
THE DAY I SAW YOUR HEART, March 3, 7 PARIS-MANHATTAN, March 10, 14
BECOMING TRAVIATA THE DAY I SAW YOUR MY WORST NIGHTMARE PARIS-MANHATTAN (LA TRAVIATA ET NOUS) HEART (MON PIRE CAUCHEMAR) 2012, Sophie Lellouche, France, 77 min. 2012, Philippe Béziat, France, 108 min. (ET SOUDAIN TOUT LE MONDE ME MANQUE) 2011, Anne Fontaine, France, 103 min. With Alice Taglioni, Patrick Bruel, Woody With Natalie Dessay, Jean-François Sivadier 2011, Jennifer Devoldère, France, 98 min. With Isabelle Huppert, André Dussolier Allen Saturday, March 23, 3:00 pm With Mélanie Laurent, Michel Blanc Saturday, March 16, 8:15 pm Sunday, March 10, 3:00 pm Wednesday, March 27, 6:00 pm Sunday, March 3, 3:00 pm Monday, March 18, 6:00 pm Thursday, March 14, 6:00 pm Thursday, March 28, 8:15 pm This exhilarating account of the Thursday, March 7, 6:00 pm In this breezy romantic comedy, creative process focuses on the This touching and funny film In this often uproarious culture- Alice is a nice Jewish girl with a preparations for a 2011 production centers on father-daughter conflicts clash comedy, an upscale, uptight lackluster love life and a fixation of Verdi’s La Traviata helmed by in a Parisian Jewish family. An X-ray Parisian family gets a badly needed on Woody Allen. Much as Allen celebrated stage director Jean- technician who yearns to be an dose of defrosting when their lives communed with Bogey in PLAY IT François Sivadier. We get a behind- artist, Justine (Laurent) attributes are invaded by a rude-and-crude AGAIN, SAM, Alice communes with the-scenes look at such areas as set her romantic failures to her plumber/construction-worker a poster of her idol. But, when a design and musical direction, but mercurial, infuriating father (Blanc (Benoît Poelvoorde) The plot is promising romance with a burglar- the heart of the film is the intense in a juicy role). When he announces not the most original, but the alarm salesman goes awry, can collaboration between Sivadier and that his much younger second wife superb cast (including Huppert Alice still put her faith in Woody? charismatic soprano Natalie Dessay. is pregnant, it sets off a series of as a mercilessly chic art critic) and In French and English with English In French, Italian, and English with crises in a family already teetering Fontaine’s smooth direction make subtitles. Special advance screening English subtitles. Special advance on the edge of dysfunction. In it hum. In French with English courtesy of Outsider Pictures. DCP screening courtesy of MTuckman French with English subtitles. subtitles. Special advance screening video. (MR) Media. DCP video. (MR) Special advance screening courtesy courtesy of Strand Releasing. of Film Movement. DCP video. (MR) HDCAM video. (MR)
MAR 2013 10 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. RENOIR, March 9, 13 HANNAH ARENDT, March 8
YOU AIN'T SEEN NOTHIN' YET, March 17, 21 OMA & BELLA, March 10, 12
RENOIR YOU AIN’T SEEN GERMANY HOME FOR THE OMA & BELLA 2012, Gilles Bourdos, France, 111 NOTHIN’ YET WEEKEND 2012, Alexa Karolinski, Germany, min. (VOUS N’AVEZ ENCORE RIEN VU) Barbara Sukowa in person! (WAS BLEIBT) 76 min. With Michel Bouquet, Christa 2012, Alain Resnais, France, 115 HANNAH ARENDT 2012, Hans-Christian Schmid, Théret Sunday, March 10, min. 2012, Margarethe von Trotta, Germany, 85 min. 3:00 pm Saturday, March 9, With Michel Piccoli, Sabine Azéma Germany, 113 min. With Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch Tuesday, March 12, 3:00 pm Sunday, March 17, With Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 13, 3:00 pm Friday, March 8, 7:45 pm Friday, March 15, 6:15 pm 6:00 pm Thursday, March 21, Saturday, March 16, In the kitchen of their 6:00 pm Actress Sukowa and 6:30 pm Berlin flat, the filmmaker’s This atmospheric biopic director von Trotta reunite Jewish grandmother and begins in 1915. Painter Announced as Resnais’s in a compelling true story In this tense, subtle her longtime friend Bella Auguste Renoir (Bouquet) last film, this sprightly of intellectual honesty. chamber drama evoking reveal mouth-watering is arthritic and recently swansong reprises Covering the 1961 trial of Chekhov and Bergman, recipes along with priceless widowed; his son Jean his central themes of Adolf Eichmann, Arendt rising author Marko memories—some sweet, (Vincent Rottiers) returns memory, self-reflexivity, evolves her controversial (Eidlinger) is summoned some sour—of prewar from the war badly and theatricality. A late concept of “the banality of to a family gathering, youth, wartime tragedies, wounded. Both are restored playwright’s actor friends evil.” In German, English, where his bipolar mother’s and postwar pleasures. by the coarse, stunning gather at his mansion to and Hebrew with English announcement that she In German with English redhead Andrée Heuschling view a video of his play subtitles. Special advance has stopped taking her subtitles. Special advance (Théret), who becomes Eurydice. Soon they are screening courtesy of medications acts as a screening courtesy of the muse of Auguste’s performing their own Zeitgeist Films. DCP video. catalyst that brings to the Oscilloscope Pictures. last paintings and Jean’s versions, the sets conjured (MR) surface the family members’ HDCAM video. (MR) first films. In French with up by memory and buried secrets and evasions. English subtitles. Special imagination. In French with Barbara Sukowa will In German with English European Union Film Festival advance screening courtesy English subtitles. Special be present for audience subtitles. 35mm print continues on next page of Samuel Goldwyn Films. advance screening courtesy discussion. Presented in courtesy of the Goethe- DCP video. (MR) of Kino Lorber. DCP video. collaboration with the Institut Chicago. (MR) (MR) Nanovic Institute of European Studies, University of Notre Dame. MAR 2013 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 11 H H H H H H H H H H H 16th Annual European Union Film Festival H
THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA, March 22, 23 MAGIC HOUR, March 9, 11
HANNIBAL ANTE PORTAS, March 15, 18 THE DOOR, March 22, 25
THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA GREECE MAGIC HOUR HUNGARY 2012, Martin Persiel, Germany, 96 min. 2011, Costas Kapakas, Greece, 95 min. With Kai Hillebrand, Tina Bartel HANNIBAL ANTE With Renos Haralambidis, Tasos Andoniou THE DOOR Friday, March 22, 6:00 pm PORTAS Saturday, March 9, 9:00 pm 2012, István Szabó, Hungary/Germany, 97 Saturday, March 23, 5:00 pm (aka HANNIBAL BEFORE THE GATES) Monday, March 11, 8:00 pm min. (ANIVAS PRO TON PILON) With Helen Mirren, Martina Gedeck This fascinating film recounts how 2011, Elissavet Chronopoulou, Greece, 100 In one of the funniest, most bitingly the early 1980s emergence of satirical Greek films in years, director Friday, March 22, 6:00 pm min. Monday, March 25, 8:00 pm skateboarding in über-repressive With Alexia Terezaki, Yannis Kokiasmenos Kapakas (PEPPERMINT) tackles East Germany spearheaded a subjects ranging from a sad-sack Hungary’s best-known Friday, March 15, 8:00 pm precarious youth rebellion that husband’s broken heart to the contemporary director (BEING Monday, March 18, 8:00 pm encompassed dance, music, sex, Greek financial crisis. One night in JULIA, MEPHISTO) teams up with drugs, and politics. Beginning in The scrappy 18-year-old daughter a hot-sheets motel propels naïve international star Helen Mirren for a BIG CHILL fashion with former skate of a small-town prostitute storms cuckold Aristidis to the eye-opening chronicle of a turbulent friendship buddies attending the funeral of the bastion of the rich and powerful odyssey of his life, tearing through that is perversely nurtured through their charismatic leader, the film in this drama set in the elite world the countryside in a dilapidated bouts of explosive emotion. Well- deftly blends archival footage, of horse trials and show jumping. hearse in the company of Diomidis, to-do married novelist Magda animation, reenactments, and Sheer talent and an unbreakable on-the-run desk clerk and (Gedeck of THE LIVES OF OTHERS) straight enactments. In German bond with a temperamental moonlighting undertaker. In Greek hires an eccentric washerwoman with English subtitles. Digital video with English subtitles. DCP video thoroughbred may not be enough (Mirren) as her housekeeper and courtesy of the Goethe-Institut courtesy of the director. (BS) for Chara, who aspires to rise from is drawn into a relationship of Chicago. (MR) stable hand to champion.. In Greek suspicion and closely held secrets. with English subtitles. DigiBeta In English. DCP video courtesy of video courtesy of the Greek Film Bankside Films. (BS) Center. (BS)
MAR 2013 12 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. MAGIC BOYS, March 16, 21 DORMANT BEAUTY, March 22, 24
DEATH OF A SUPERHERO, March 23, 27 PIAZZA FONTANA, March 10, 14
Viktoria Vizin in person! IRELAND Mike Houlihan in person! ITALY PIAZZA FONTANA MAGIC BOYS OUR IRISH (ROMANZA DI UNA STRAGE) 2012, Róbert Koltai and Éva DEATH OF A COUSINS DORMANT BEAUTY 2012, Marco Tullio Giordano, Italy, Gárdos, Hungary/UK, 100 min. 129 min. SUPERHERO 2012, Mike Houlihan, Ireland/USA, (BELLA ADDORMENTATA) With Csaba Pindroch, Gyözö Szabó 99 min. With Valerio Mastandrea 2011, Ian Fitzgibbon, Ireland, 97 2012, Marco Bellocchio, Italy, 115 Saturday, March 16, min. Wednesday, March 13, min. Sunday, March 10, With Toni Servillo, Isabelle Huppert 8:15 pm With Andy Serkis, Thomas Brodie- 8:15 pm 4:45 pm Thursday, March 21, Sangster Friday, March 22, 8:00 pm Thursday, March 14, In this comic, good- 8:15 pm Sunday, March 24, 7:45 pm Saturday, March 23, hearted chronicle of an 5:00 pm In this over-the-top comedy, 3:00 pm Irish American’s return to Director Giordano (THE two doltish fugitives Wednesday, March 27, the Ould Sod, Chicago Master director Bellocchio BEST OF YOUTH) bases impersonate male strippers 8:00 pm journalist/radio personality/ takes a bracingly this complex, absorbing bound for London, where actor Houlihan charts unorthodox approach to procedural on a shocking they stumble upon a This tragicomic story of 1969 Milan bank bombing. a terminally ill teenager a course to Dublin and a controversial euthanasia diamond-smuggling caper County Clare for a look at case that gripped Italy in Doggedly pursuing the masterminded by their is anything but macabre case, a police captain finds in the hands of director the roots of those hardy 2009. The film weaves boss (Michael Madsen). In Midwestern shamrocks. three different stories: a questions upon questions: English and Hungarian with Fitzgibbon (PERRIER’S Were anarchists framed by BOUNTY). A talented In English. Digital video right-wing senator (Servillo) English subtitles. Special courtesy of the filmmaker. deciding whether to neo-fascists? Were there advance screening courtesy comic-book artist, 15-year- two different bombs? Were old Donald stares down (BS) vote against his party; a of Shoreline Entertainment. famous actress (Huppert) the CIA and the Italian his likely fate by living on Director/writer Mike DCP video. (BS) abandoning her career military involved? In Italian the edge, to the concern Houlihan will be present for with English subtitles. Hungarian opera star to care for her comatose of parents who set him up audience discussion. Special advance screening Viktoria Vizin, who plays a daughter; and a young with a psychiatrist (Serkis) courtesy of Adopt Films. key role in the film’s finale, doctor fighting to save a dueling with demons of his DCP video. (MR) will be present for audience own. In English. Special STELLA DAYS suicidal addict. In Italian discussion on Saturday. advance screening courtesy See description on page 6 with English subtitles. DCP of Tribeca Films. Digital (Opening night film). video. (MR) video. (BS) European Union Film Festival continues on next page MAR 2013 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 13 H H H H H H H H H H H 16th Annual European Union Film Festival H
GULF STREAM UNDER THE ICEBERG, March 10, 12 LETTERS TO SOFIJA, March 16, 20
IN THE FOG, March 16, 20 BLIND SPOT, March 2, 4 LATVIA IN THE FOG LITHUANIA LUXEMBOURG (V TUMANE) GULF STREAM UNDER 2012, Sergei Loznitsa, Latvia/Germany, 127 Robert Mullan in person! BLIND SPOT min. LETTERS TO SOFIJA THE ICEBERG With Vladimir Svirskiy, Vladislav Abashin (DOUDEGE WÉNKEL) (GOLFSTRAM POD AYSBERGOM) 2102, Robert Mullan, UK/Lithuania, 130 min. 2012, Christophe Wagner, Luxembourg/ 2012, Yevgeny Pashkevich, Latvia/Malta, Saturday, March 16, 3:45 pm With Arturas Aleksejevas, Rugile Alytaite Belgium, 96 min. Wednesday, March 20, 7:45 pm With Jules Werner, André Jung 125 min. Saturday, March 16, 3:30 pm With Olga Shepitskaya, Rezija Kalnina The indelible taint of suspicion Wednesday, March 20, 7:45 pm Saturday, March 2, 9:00 pm fuels this darkly atmospheric forest- Monday, March 4, 8:15 pm Sunday, March 10, 4:30 pm Composer-painter Mikalojus bound thriller from the director of Tuesday, March 12, 7:30 pm Čiurlionis (1875-1911) was a key In this atmospheric policier, misfit MY JOY. In Nazi-occupied Belarus, figure in the evolution of Lithuanian cop Olivier is assigned to investigate Based on the fiction of Anatole three rail-workers are hanged for culture. This handsomely produced the murder of his brother, a star France, this official Latvian Oscar sabotage, but one of the accused is biopic captures his achievements policeman. Suppressed sibling submission is a three-part tale that inexplicably set free to return home. and struggles, concentrating on rivalry is only one of the secrets spins off from the Talmudic myth Although innocent of betraying his relationship with the journalist/ that Olivier can no longer contain, of the immortal temptress Lilith. his fellow resistance fighters, he activist who became his wife. In as marriage, sex life, and family Sexual temptation, betrayal, and a discovers that doubt and danger Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian relations are unmasked. In precipitous fall are central to stories will follow him to the brink of the with English subtitles. DCP video Luxembourgish, French, and English that traverse three centuries with grave and beyond. In Russian with courtesy of Robert Mullan and the with English subtitles. DCP video sumptuous hallucinogenic imagery, English subtitles. Special advance Consulate General of the Republic courtesy of the Centre National de as the ancient story is renewed screening courtesy of Strand of Lithuania, Chicago. (MR) l’Audiovisuel (CNA). (BS) through the ages, bringing the Releasing. HDCAM video. (BS) eternal femme fatale susceptible Director Robert Mullan will be present new suitors. In Russian with English for audience discussion at both subtitles. DigiBeta video format screenings. MALTA courtesy of Wide. (BS) GULF STREAM UNDER THE ICEBERG MAR 2013 See LATVIA above. 14 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END, March 23, 27 IMAGINE, March 24, 27
SÜSKIND, March 14, 17 TABU, March 2, 6
NETHERLANDS SÜSKIND POLAND PORTUGAL TABU 2012, Rudolf van den Berg, 2012, Miguel Gomes, Portugal/ THE DEFLOWERING Netherlands, 118 min. IMAGINE THE LAST TIME I Germany, 118 min. With Jeroen Spitzenberger, Karl With Teresa Madruga, Laura OF EVA VAN END Markovics 2012, Andrzej Jakimowski, Poland/ SAW MACAO Soveral (DIE ONTMAAGDING VAN EVA France, 105 min. (A ÚLTIMA VEZ QUE VI MACAU) VAN END) Thursday, March 14, With Edward Hogg, Alexandra 2012, Pedro Rodrigues and João Saturday, March 2, 2012, Michiel ten Horn, 8:00 pm Maria Lara Rui Guerra da Mata, Portugal, 3:00 pm Netherlands, 98 min. Sunday, March 17, Sunday, March 24, 85 min. Wednesday, March 6, With Vivian Dierickx, Rafael 3:00 pm 7:15 pm With João Pedro Rodrigues, Cindy 8:00 pm Gareisen Scrash This fact-based tale traces Wednesday, March 27, Two fantastical tales in Saturday, March 23, 7:00 the progress of Walter 8:15 pm Friday, March 8, 6:00 pm lustrous black-and-white pm Saturday, March 9, Süskind, a German Jew This unique story conjures span the life of a woman Wednesday, March 27, transplanted to Amsterdam, 5:15 pm named Aurora. The first 6:00 pm up a city of astonishing from self-serving actions images in which beauty, With influences ranging observes the power Family dysfunction is to a risky plan that saves mobility, and even from Sternberg to Marker, struggle between dotty dissected with merciless hundreds of children friendship hinge upon the this cult film mounts an Aurora and her long- comic glee when misfit from deportation. He power of creative thinking engrossing mystery as an suffering maid. In the teenager Eva commits to accomplishes his ends by to make it so. A mysterious unseen male narrator tracks second, Aurora’s life and host a German exchange groveling and bestowing young sightless man turns the assumed kidnappers of forbidden loves in colonial student. The arrival of Veit, expensive favors on a wary up as a teacher at a Lisbon his friend, drag performer Africa are evoked in the angelic and hilariously German commandant. In school for the blind, where Cindy. In Portuguese, manner of silent cinema perfect, sets an impossible Dutch and German with his unorthodox methods Cantonese, and English with with a nod to Murnau and standard for Eva’s family, English subtitles. Special open the mind’s eyes of English subtitles. Special Flaherty. In Portuguese with their insecurity, advance screening courtesy his students and transform advance screening courtesy with English subtitles. depression, and plethora of Seventh Art Releasing. a withdrawn waif into a of The Cinema Guild. Special advance screening of hidden vices. In Dutch, HDCAM video. (BS) confident beauty. In English. Presented in collaboration courtesy of Adopt Films. German, and English with DCP video courtesy of Beta with Reeling, the Chicago DCP video. (BS) English subtitles. Special Cinema. (BS) Lesbian & Gay International advance screening courtesy Film Festival. DCP video. of Film Movement. DCP (BS) video. (BS) European Union Film Festival continues on next page MAR 2013 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 15 H H H H H H H H H H H 16th Annual European Union Film Festival H
CHASING RAINBOWS, March 15, 18 GYPSY, March 2, 7
EVERYBODY IN OUR FAMILY , March 3, 4 MADE IN ASH, March 23, 28 ROMANIA EVERYBODY IN OUR SLOVAKIA MADE IN ASH FAMILY (AZ DO MESTA AS) Dan Chisu in person! (TOATA LUMEA DIN FAMILIA NOASTRA) GYPSY 2012, Iveta Grofova, Slovakia/Czech CHASING RAINBOWS 2012, Radu Jude, Romania/Netherlands, Republic, 84 min. CIGÁN) With Dorotka Billa, Silvia Halusicova (SI CAII SUNT VERZI PE PERETI) 107 min. 2011, Martin Sulik, Slovakia, 107 min. 2012, Dan Chisu, Romania, 107 min. With Gabriel Spahiu, Mihaela Sirbu With Jan Mizigar, Miroslav Gulyas Saturday, March 23, 9:00 pm With Adrian Titieni, Ionut Visan Thursday, March 28, 8:15 pm Sunday, March 3, 7:00 pm Saturday, March 2, 3:00 pm Friday, March 15, 8:00 pm Monday, March 4, 6:00 pm Thursday, March 7, 8:00 pm The official Slovak contender for Monday, March 18, 8:00 pm Oscar consideration, MADE IN ASH Director Jude (THE HAPPIEST GIRL Growing up in a Romany village tells of a hopeful young Romany In this enjoyable satire, young IN THE WORLD) takes ruthless comic where cell phones and satellite woman who abandons family and slacker Marius is winner of a million- aim at the fractured family situation dishes stand in stark contrast to boyfriend for a factory-girl’s life on Euro jackpot. There’s just one glitch: of Marius, a clueless divorced seamy squalor, 14-year-old Adam is the more prosperous side of the he didn’t put his real name on the dentist who shows up at the home haunted by the mysterious death border. Director Grofova has an entry form. On another side of of his ex-wife and ex-mother-in- of his father and his mother’s eye for emotional nuance as Dorota town, a plodding ex-warehouse law to claim his court-sanctioned hasty remarriage to Uncle Zigo, and streetwise roommate Silvia manager falls for a phishing scam. weekend with pampered five-year- a ruthless local mobster. Loosely lose their jobs and hit the bars in an The paths of these two strangers old Sofia. The testy custody battle based on Hamlet, GYPSY deftly attempt earn a living, first as inept are fated to cross. In Romanian somehow devolves into a hostage blends expressionism and gritty pole dancers, then as fledgling with English subtitles. DCP video crisis. Voted Best Undistributed Film neorealism, bringing the color, sex workers. In Czech, Slovak, and courtesy of DaKINO Production. of 2012 in Indiewire’s critics poll. In chaos, and music of Roma life to German with English subtitles. DCP (BS) Romanian with English subtitles. bear in a moving coming-of-age video courtesy of Endorfilm. (BS) DCP video courtesy of Films story. In Roma and Slovak with Director Dan Chisu will tentatively be Boutique. (BS) present for audience discussion on English subtitles. DigiBeta video Monday. courtesy of MK2. (BS)
MAR 2013 16 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. THE PARADE, March 17, 19 FLICKER, March 9, 11
CALL GIRL, March 24, 26 BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO , March 9, 11
SLOVENIA TANGO ABRAZOS SWEDEN FLICKER UNITED KINGDOM (aka PRACTICING EMBRACE) (FLIMMER) THE PARADE (VAJE V OBJEMU) CALL GIRL 2012, Patrik Eklund, Sweden, 100 THE ANGELS’ 2012, Metod Pevec, Slovenia, 89 min. (PARADA) min. 2012, Mikael Marcimain, Sweden, With Jacob Nordensen, Anki SHARE 2011, Srdjan Dragojevic, Slovenia/ With Uros Furst, Jana Zupancic 140 min. Larsson See description on page 6 Serbia, 115 min. With Sofia Karemyr, Pernilla With Nikola Kojo, Milos Samolov Friday, March 22, 8:00 pm August Saturday, March 9, (Closing night film). Sunday, March 24, 7:00 pm Sunday, March 17, Sunday, March 24, 7:30 pm Monday, March 11, BERBERIAN SOUND 7:15 pm 4:45 pm 6:00 pm Tuesday, March 19, In this playful romantic Tuesday, March 26, STUDIO 8:00 pm comedy, two wives looking 7:45 pm This quirky, frequently 2012, Peter Strickland, UK, 92 min. With Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco to spark up life in the hilarious comedy uses This goofball comedy CALL GIRL applies the bedroom sign up for tango a small town with a big begins with a homophobic Swedish thriller smarts Saturday, March 9, lessons to the dismay of telecom company as the thug forcing a gay vet to of the Millennium Trilogy 7:00 pm their significant others. site of interlocking plotlines operate on his pit bull. films and LET THE RIGHT Monday, March 11, The seductive moves of that include an office Then the thug’s fiancée ONE IN to a historically 6:00 pm the dance works its own bumbler who cultivates forces him to provide based drama. Recreating magic, but not exactly as a resemblance to Ted In this tour-de-force meta- protection for a pride a notorious 1976 scandal, anticipated when face-to- Danson, a female janitor horror film, a prim British parade. In Serbian with the story uses a 14-year- face hand-to-hip intimacy with acute arachnophobia, sound engineer (Jones) gets English subtitles. THE old runaway to lead us makes new friends out of an electrical worker who in over his head when he PARADE is co-presented by into a world of underage strangers. In Slovenian gets zapped in the gonads, goes to Rome to supervise Global Film Initiative (www. prostitutes whose clients with English subtitles. DCP and a group of Luddite the soundtrack for a 1970s globalfilm.org) and is part reach to highest levels of video courtesy of Emotion saboteurs. In Swedish with exploitation film. In English of the Global Lens 2013 government. In Swedish Film. (BS) English subtitles. DCP video and Italian with English film series. Presented in with English subtitles. courtesy of the Swedish subtitles. Special advance collaboration with Reeling, DCP video courtesy of the Film Institute. (MR) screening courtesy of IFC the Chicago Lesbian & Gay SPAIN Swedish Film Institute. (MR) Films. DCP video. (MR) International Film Festival. See pp. 4-5. 35mm. (BS) European Union Film Festival continues on next page MAR 2013 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 17 H H H H H H H H H H H 16th Annual European Union Film Festival H
BROKEN, March 16, 20 SIGHTSEERS, March 2, 7
GINGER & ROSA, March 2 UNFINISHED SONG, March 3, 4
BROKEN GINGER & ROSA SIGHTSEERS UNFINISHED SONG WASTELAND 2012, Rufus Norris, UK, 90 min. 2012, Sally Potter, UK, 90 min. 2012, Ben Wheatley, UK, 89 min. (aka SONG FOR MARION) 2012, Rowan Athale, UK, 106 min. With Tim Roth, Eloise Laurence With Elle Fanning, Alice Englert With Alice Lowe, Steve Oram 2012, Paul Andrew Williams, UK, With Luke Treadaway, Timothy 93 min. Spall Saturday, March 16, Saturday, March 2, Saturday, March 2, With Terence Stamp, Vanessa 6:30 pm 7:00 pm 5:15 pm Redgrave Friday, March 15, 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 20, Thursday, March 7, Monday, March 18, 6:00 pm In director Potter’s very 6:00 pm Sunday, March 3, 3:00 pm 6:00 pm personal look-back at the Monday, March 4, 6:00 pm Freely mixing humor, 1960s, Ginger (Fanning) Rising auteur Wheatley This stylish, twisty fantasy, grit, and child’s-eye bonds intensely with follows up his cult hit KILL Two great actors make heist thriller in the lyricism, BROKEN centers Rosa (Englert), but the LIST with a love story—of beautiful music together tradition of THE USUAL on an 11-year-old girl living two take divergent paths sorts. To the strains of in this funny and moving SUSPECTS opens with with her lawyer dad (Roth) into the upheavals of the “Tainted Love,” gormless story set in a small town the bloody-faced and in a cul-de-sac whose other era. Ginger plunges into lovebirds Tina and Chris where loving but churlish apparently cornered households include a lout the anti-nuke protest set out in their RV to tour Arthur (Stamp) cares for Harvey (Treadaway) being with three slutty redheaded movement, while Rosa Yorkshire. A parking-lot his gravely ill wife Marion interrogated by a police daughters. A lie by one of gravitates to the sexual side dispute quickly leaves (Redgrave). He grudgingly inspector (Spall). Harvey the latter sets in motion a of the revolution—with a bloody corpse in their tolerates her membership in relates how his elaborate chain of events that bring devastating consequences wake—the first of many a senior citizens’ choir, but plan to rob a druglord’s the young heroine to the for their friendship. In that will pile up over circumstances will imperil impregnable stronghold very brink of survival. In English. Special advance increasingly petty slights both Marion’s participation went horribly awry...or did English. Special advance screening courtesy of A24 and annoyances. In English. and Arthur’s disdain. In it? In English. Special screening courtesy of Film Films. 35mm widescreen. Special advance screening English. Special advance advance screening courtesy Movement. DCP video. (MR) courtesy of IFC Films. DCP screening courtesy of The of Oscilloscope Pictures. (MR) video. (MR) Weinstein Company. DCP HDCAM video. (MR) video. (MR)
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FRIDAY 1 SATURDAY 2 6:00 STELLA DAYS (EU/Ir), p. 6 3:00 TABU (EU/Pr), p. 15 3:00 GYPSY (EU/Sk), p. 16 5:15 SIGHTSEERS (EU/UK), p. 18 5:15 ALOIS NEBEL (EU/Cz), p. 8 7:00 GINGER & ROSA (EU/UK), p. 18 7:00 SUPERCLÁSICO (EU/De), p. 9 8:45 FAITH, LOVE & WHISKEY (EU/Bu), p. 8 9:00 BLIND SPOT (EU/Lu), p. 14 SUNDAY 3 MONDAY 4 TUESDAY 5 WEDNESDAY 6 THURSDAY 7 FRIDAY 8 9 3:00 UNFINISHED SONG 6:00 UNFINISHED SONG 6:00 A GRIN WITHOUT 6:00 THE WALL (EU/ 6:00 SIGHTSEERS (EU/ 6:00 THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO (EU/Pr), p. 15 3:00 RENOIR (EU/Fr), p. 11 (EU/UK), p. 18 (EU/UK), p. 18 A CAT (Part Two) Au), p. 7 UK), p. 18 6:00 WILAYA (EU/Sp), p. 5 3:00 PERFECT DAYS (EU/Cz), p. 9 3:00 THE DAY I SAW YOUR 6:00 EVERYBODY IN OUR (Revolution), p. 20H 6:30 CARMINA OR BLOW UP 6:00 THE DAY I SAW YOUR 7:45 HANNAH ARENDT (EU/Ge), p. 11H 5:15 THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO (EU/Pr), p. 15 HEART (EU/Fr), p. 10 FAMILY (EU/Ro), p. 16 6:00 SUPERCLÁSICO (EU/Sp), p. 4 HEART (EU/Fr), p. 10 8:00 PERFECT DAYS (EU/Cz), p. 9 5:15 CARMINA OR BLOW UP (EU/Sp), p. 4 5:00 THE WALL 8:00 FAITH, LOVE & (EU/De), p. 9 8:00 TABU (EU/Pr), p. 15 8:00 Remix-It-Right: 7:00 BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO (EU/UK), p. 17 (EU/Au), p. 7 WHISKEY 8:00 ALOIS NEBEL 8:15 THE FIFTH SEASON Phil Morton (CATE), 7:00 FLICKER (EU/Sw), p. 17 5:00 STELLA DAYS (EU/Bu), p. 8 (EU/Cz), p. 8 (EU/Be), p. 7 p. 22H 9:00 MAGIC HOUR (EU/Gr), p. 12 (EU/Ir), p. 6 8:15 BLIND SPOT 8:00 GYPSY (EU/Sk), p. 16 9:00 MUSHROOMING (EU/Es), p. 9 7:00 EVERYBODY IN OUR (EU/Lu), p. 14 FAMILY (EU/Ro), p. 16 7:15 THE FIFTH SEASON (EU/Be), p. 7 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 3:00 PARIS-MANHATTAN 6:00 BERBERIAN SOUND 6:00 FINALLY GOT THE 6:00 RENOIR (EU/Fr), p. 11 6:00 PARIS-MANHATTAN 6:00 WASTELAND (EU/UK), p. 18 3:30 LETTERS TO SOFIJA (EU/Li), p. 14H (EU/Fr), p. 10 STUDIO (EU/UK), p. 17 NEWS + short 6:00 ALMOST 18 (EU/Fr), p. 10 6:15 HOME FOR THE WEEKEND (EU/Ge), p. 11 3:45 IN THE FOG (EU/La), p. 14 3:00 OMA & BELLA 6:00 FLICKER (EU/Sw), p. 17 (Revolution), p. 20H (EU/Fi), p. 9 6:00 WILAYA (EU/Sp), p. 5 8:00 HANNIBAL ANTE PORTAS (EU/Gr), p. 12 6:30 BROKEN (EU/UK), p. 18 (EU/Ge), p. 11 8:00 MAGIC HOUR 6:00 OMA & BELLA 8:15 OUR IRISH COUSINS 7:45 PIAZZA FONTANA 8:00 CHASING RAINBOWS (EU/Ro), p. 16 6:30 HOME FOR THE WEEKEND (EU/Ge), p. 11 4:30 GULF STREAM UNDER (EU/Gr), p. 12 (EU/Ge), p. 11 (EU/Ir), p. 13H (EU/It), p. 13 8:15 MAGIC BOYS (EU/Hu), p. 13H THE ICEBERG 8:00 THE COLOR OF THE 7:30 GULF STREAM UNDER 8:15 MUSHROOMING 8:00 SÜSKIND (EU/Ne), 8:15 MY WORST NIGHTMARE (EU/Fr), p. 10 (EU/La/Ma), p. 14 CHAMELEON THE ICEBERG (EU/Es), p. 9 p. 15 4:45 PIAZZA FONTANA (EU/Bu), p. 8 (EU/La/Ma), p. 14 (EU/It), p. 13 7:00 ALMOST 18 (EU/Fi), p. 9 7:15 THE COLOR OF THE CHAMELEON (EU/Bu), p. 8 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 3:00 YOU AIN’T SEEN 6:00 WASTELAND 6:00 MONTEREY POP 6:00 4SOME (EU/Cz), p. 8 6:00 YOU AIN’T SEEN 6:00 THE DOOR (EU/Hu), p. 12 3:00 BECOMING TRAVIATA (EU/Fr), p. 10 NOTHIN’ YET (EU/Fr), (EU/UK), p. 18 (Revolution), p. 20H 6:00 BROKEN (EU/UK), NOTHIN’ YET 6:00 THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA (EU/Ge), p. 12 3:00 DEATH OF A SUPERHERO (EU/Ir), p. 13 p. 11 6:00 MY WORST 6:00 MADRID, 1987 p. 18 (EU/Fr), p. 11 8:00 DORMANT BEAUTY (EU/It), p. 13 5:00 THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA (EU/Ge), p. 12 3:00 SÜSKIND (EU/Ne), NIGHTMARE (EU/Sp), p. 5 7:45 LETTERS TO SOFIJA 6:00 Wavelengths (CATE), 8:00 TANGO ABRAZOS (EU/Sn), p. 17 5:15 ICEBERG (EU/Sp), p. 5 p. 15 (EU/Fr), p. 10 8:00 THE PARADE (EU/Li), p. 14H p. 22H 7:00 THE ANGELS’ SHARE (EU/UK), p. 6 5:15 PARADISE: FAITH 8:00 CHASING RAINBOWS (EU/Sn), p. 17 7:45 IN THE FOG 8:15 PARADISE: FAITH 7:00 THE DEFLOWERING OF EVA VAN END (EU/Ne), (EU/Au), p. 7 (EU/Ro), p. 16H (EU/La), p. 14 (EU/Au), p. 7 p. 15 5:15 MADRID, 1987 8:00 HANNIBAL ANTE 8:15 MAGIC BOYS 9:00 BEYOND THE WALLS (EU/Be), p. 7 (EU/Sp), p. 5 PORTAS (EU/Gr), p. 12 (EU/Hu), p. 13 9:00 MADE IN ASH (EU/Sk), p. 16 7:15 THE PARADE (EU/Sn), p. 17 7:30 4SOME (EU/Cz), p. 8 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 3:00 PARADISE: HOPE 6:00 PARADISE: HOPE 6:00 ICE (Revolution), 6:00 BECOMING TRAVIATA 6:00 L.A. Rebellion (CATE), 6:00 WARRENDALE (Revolution), p. 21 3:00 HITCHCOCK (Run), p. 21 (EU/Au), p. 7 (EU/Au), p. 7 p. 20H (EU/Fr), p. 10 p. 22H 6:00 HITCHCOCK (Run), p. 21 3:15 THE IRAN JOB (Run), p. 23 3:00 ALIYAH (EU/Fr), p. 9 6:00 ALIYAH (EU/Fr), p. 9 6:00 ICEBERG (EU/Sp), p. 5 6:00 THE DEFLOWERING OF 6:15 THE ANGELS’ SHARE 8:00 THE IRAN JOB (Run), p. 23 5:00 THE DOUBLE STEPS (Spanish), p. 5 4:45 CALL GIRL (EU/Sw), 7:45 BEYOND THE WALLS 7:45 CALL GIRL EVA VAN END (EU/UK), p. 6 8:00 PSYCHO (Run), p. 21 5:00 PSYCHO (Run), p. 21 p. 17 (EU/Be), p. 7 (EU/Sw), p. 17 (EU/Ne), p. 15 8:15 MY WORST NIGHTMARE 7:45 THE IRAN JOB (Run), p. 23 5:00 DORMANT BEAUTY 8:00 THE DOOR 8:00 DEATH OF A (EU/Fr), p. 10 7:45 HITCHCOCK (Run), p. 21 (EU/It), p. 13 (EU/Hu), p. 12 SUPERHERO 8:15 MADE IN ASH 7:15 IMAGINE (EU/Po), (EU/Ir), p. 13 (EU/Sk), p. 16 p. 15 8:15 IMAGINE (EU/Po), p. 15 7:30 TANGO ABRAZOS (EU/Sn), p. 17 31 APRIL 1 2 3 4 3:00 SLEEP TIGHT 6:00 THE IRAN JOB (Run), 6:00 WARRENDALE 6:00 THE IRAN JOB (Run), 6:00 Spin/Verso/Contour: Key to EU countries: Au = Austria, Be = Belgium, Bu = Bulgaria, Cz = Czech Republic, De = (Spanish), p. 5 p. 23 (Revolution), p. 21H p. 23 Hannes Schüpbach Denmark, Es = Estonia, Fi = Finland, Fr = France, Ge = Germany, Gr = Greece, Hu = Hungary, 3:00 PSYCHO (Run), 6:00 HITCHCOCK (Run), 6:00 PSYCHO (Run), p. 21 6:00 HITCHCOCK (Run), (CATE), p. 22H Ir = Ireland, It = Italy, La = Latvia, Li = Lithuania, Lu = Luxembourg, Ma = Malta, Ne = p. 21 p. 21 8:15 HITCHCOCK (Run), p. 21 p. 21 6:00 PSYCHO (Run), p. 21 Netherlands, Pl = Poland, Pr = Portugal, Ro = Romania, Sk = Slovakia, Sn = Slovenia, Sp = 5:00 THE IRAN JOB (Run), 7:45 THE DOUBLE STEPS 7:45 SLEEP TIGHT 8:15 THE IRAN JOB (Run), Spain, Sw = Sweden, UK = United Kingdom p. 23 (Spanish), p. 5 (Spanish), p. 5 p. 23 5:15 HITCHCOCK (Run), 8:00 PSYCHO (Run), p. 21 8:00 PSYCHO (Run), p. 21 8:15 HITCHCOCK (Run), p. 21 p. 21 MAR 2013 European Union Film Festival continues on next page 164 North State Street. 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Admission to all Revolution in the Air programs is $5 for Film Center members; usual admission prices apply for non-members. MONTEREY POP, March 19 —Martin Rubin
The Arab Spring, the “movements of the squares,” and Occupy have rekindled interest in other revolutions A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT, Feb. 22, 26, March 5 from the near and distant past, as well as their manifestations in film form. This series will bring together key films and experimental videos that emerged from the revolutionary moment of the “long 1960s” (1955-1975). We will look at explicitly political films such as Gillo Pontecorvo’s BATTLE OF ALGIERS ICE, March 26 and Chris Marker’s A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT, where cameras were on the This pioneer music documentary is ground, recording or re-enacting the a record of the three-day Monterey great upheavals of that era. We will International Pop Festival at the also watch films that directed their beginning of 1967’s Summer of Love. gaze toward the ephemeral moments Cinéma-vérité giant Pennebaker of how people lived—spheres of captures a wealth of legendary intimacy that reflected and anticipated performers and performances, bigger cultural shifts. Finally, we will including Janis Joplin’s ferocious “Ball screen a few “speculative fictions” of ‘n’ Chain,” Jimi Hendrix’s fiery “Wild the period, like Robert Kramer’s ICE Thing,” and the late Ravi Shankar’s and Lizzie Borden’s BORN IN FLAMES. mesmerizing sitar finale. HDCAM —Mary Patten FINALLY GOT THE NEWS, March 12 video. (MR)
A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT (in Czechoslovakia and Chile) and American political activism: The internal dissension. In French, Spanish, lucid and rousing FINALLY GOT THE ICE (LE FOND DE L’AIR EST ROUGE) 1970, Robert Kramer, USA, 130 min. 1977/1993, Chris Marker, France, 180 min. English, and German with English NEWS focuses on the League of subtitles and English voiceover Revolutionary Black Workers, a grass- Tuesday, March 26, 6:00 pm Friday, February 22, 6:15 pm narration. 35mm. (MR) roots labor movement that arose in (entire film, 180 min. plus 10-min. the auto factories of Detroit in the late Kramer’s independent/underground, intermission) FINALLY GOT THE NEWS 1960s. NEGROES WITH GUNS tells the cinéma-vérité/science-fiction Tuesday, February 26, 6:00 pm fascinating story of Robert F. Williams, boundary-crosser is set in a vaguely 1970/2003, Stewart Bird, Rene Lichtman, and defined future in which an unpopular (Part One only, 90 min.) Peter Gessner, USA, 55 min. whose impassioned advocacy of U.S. war in Mexico provokes a left- Tuesday, March 5, 6:00 pm (Part Two NEGROES WITH GUNS: armed self-defense in the 1950s made only, 90 min.) him a forerunner of the Black Power wing insurrection. Concerned with ROB WILLIAMS AND movement. Both in Beta SP video. the nuts-and-bolts of revolutionary A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT is master BLACK POWER (MR) action and the debilitating effects of documentarian Chris Marker’s epic infighting among radical groups, ICE is account of the rise and fall of the 2005, Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts, USA, 53 min. MONTEREY POP in many ways the fictional equivalent New Left. Part Two, “Severed Hands,” of Marker’s A GRIN WITHOUT A CAT. analyzes the movement’s tortuous Tuesday, March 12, 6:00 pm 1968, D.A. Pennebaker, USA, 78 min. 16mm. (MR) decline, both from outside aggression Two films dealing with African Tuesday, March 19, 6:00 pm
MAR 2013 2012 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 2012, Sacha Gervasi, USA, 98 min. With Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren “If you love movies, HITCHCOCK is hard to resist.” —Leonard Maltin, Indiewire WARRENDALE, March 29, April 2 A prominent example of the recent Hitchcock boom, HITCHCOCK is a juicy behind-the-scenes look at the great director (Hopkins) and his savvy but long-suffering wife Alma (Mirren) as the production WARRENDALE Upcoming in Revolution of PSYCHO veers from near- 1967, Allan King, Canada, 100 min. in the Air: disaster to triumph with her March 29–April 4 help. Hitchcock fans will revel Fri., Mon. and Wed. at 6:00 pm; Friday, March 29, 6:00 pm April 5 and 9 in the detail, including Scarlett Sat. at 3:00 pm and 7:45 pm; Tuesday, April 2, 6:00 pm SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF Johansson’s characterization of Sun. at 5:15 pm; This landmark documentary SODOM Janet Leigh. 35mm. (BS) Tue. and Thu. at 8:15 pm focuses on a treatment center for 1975, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 116 min. emotionally disturbed children that April 12 and 16 uses experimental and unorthodox UN CHANT D’AMOUR techniques, chiefly involving close 1950, Jean Genet, France, 26 min. physical contact and unrestrained THE CONTINUING STORY OF CAREL venting of emotions. Filmed with AND FERD extraordinary access, WARRENDALE 1975, Arthur Ginsberg, USA, 59 min. is neither a clinical study nor an evaluation of the methods used; April 19 and 23 it is an immersive and sometimes ZABRISKIE POINT 1970, Michelangelo Antonioni, USA, 110 shattering emotional journey. min. DigiBeta video. (MR) May 3 and 7 BORN IN FLAMES 1983, Lizzie Borden, USA, 90 min.
1960, Alfred Hitchcock, USA, 109 min. With Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh Over fifty years old and still revolutionary, PSYCHO has become an American icon, instantly evoked by mention of the shower sequence or the Bates Motel. Made at the height of Hitchcock’s Visit us for most productive Hollywood period, this story of guilt, obsession, and mother-love gone awry is March 29–April 4 a variety of one of the most masterful and Fri., Mon. and Wed. at 8:00 pm; suspenseful manipulations of Sat. at 5:00 pm; audience point of view ever “award-winning” Sun. at 3:00 pm; put on film. 35mm. (BS) desserts! Tue. and Thu. at 6:00 pm 108 N. STATE ST @ BLOCK 37 312.346.7777 HITCHCOCK DOUBLE-BILL DISCOUNT! MAGNOLIABAKERY.COM Buy a ticket at our regular prices to either HITCHCOCK or PSYCHO, and get z a ticket to any performance of the other film at this discount rate (tickets must be purchased at the same time): General Admission $7; Students $6; Members $4. (This discount rate applies to the second film only. Discount rate available only at the Film Center box office.) MAR 2013 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. 21 siskel oscar ad copy.indd 1 1/30/13 3:55 PM CONVERSATIONS AT THE EDGE
Conversations at the Edge is a dynamic weekly series of screenings, artist talks, and performances by some of the most compelling media artists of yesterday and today. CATE is organized by the Department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in collaboration with the Video Data Bank and the Gene Siskel Film Center. Visit CATE’s blog! http://blogs.saic.edu/cate/
Artists in person! Remix-It-Right: Rediscoveries in the Phil Morton Archive 1972-2013, Various directors, Various nations, ca. 60 min. Thursday, March 7, 8:00 pm L.A. Rebellion,March 28 An international roster of video and new media artists remix and UCLA Film & Television Archive and reimagine works by Chicago video supported in part by grants from pioneer Phil Morton. Morton’s the Getty Foundation and the Andy genre-defying work anticipated Warhol Foundation for the Visual remix; he also developed COPY-IT- Arts. For more info, visit saic.edu/ RIGHT, an alternative to copyright cate. Multiple formats. that encourages re-editing and sharing media art. Introduced and Jacqueline Stewart will be present for organized by Jon Cates, founder of audience discussion. the Phil Morton Memorial Archive and Chair of SAIC’s Department Hannes Schüpbach in person! of Film, Video, New Media, Spin/Verso/Contour: and Animation, this program An Evening with Hannes interweaves Morton’s originals Schüpbach with their remixes. Presented in collaboration with the Society 2001-11, Various directors, France/ Switzerland, ca. 60 min. for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference. This program Thursday, April 4, 6:00 pm is generously supported by the Renowned Swiss artist Hannes Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Wavelengths: in the blink of an eye, March 21 Schüpbach’s films are lyrical, Foundation. Multiple formats. (Jon often transcendent portraits of Cates) Nathaniel Dorsky’s AUGUST AND Thursday, March 28, 6:00 pm people, spaces, and everyday life. AFTER (2012), Ernie Gehr’s AUTO- Jon Cates and various artists will be In the 1970s and 1980s, a group Schüpbach weaves together light, COLLIDER XV (2011), and Lonnie van present for audience discussion. of African and African American gesture, and a keen attentiveness to Brummelen and Siebren de Haan’s filmmakers emerged from the material world into meticulously VIEW FROM THE ACROPOLIS (2012), Curator Andréa Picard in person! UCLA’s film school with a body structured compositions. For this as well as a 35mm restored print of Wavelengths: in the of provocative and visionary program, he presents SPIN/VERSO/ Henri Storck’s Surrealist gem, POUR works. Referred to now as the L.A. CONTOUR (2001-11), an affecting blink of an eye VOS BEAUX YEUX (1929). Multiple Rebellion, this group would have a trilogy about his parents, and 1929-2012, Various directors, Various formats. (Andréa Picard) nations, ca. 71 min. radical impact on black cinematic L’ATELIER (2008), a portrait of an practice and alternative filmmaking artist’s studio in Paris. Organized Andréa Picard will be present for audi- Thursday, March 21, 6:00 pm in the U.S. This program kicks off a with the support of SWISS FILMS– ence discussion. The Arts Council of Switzerland. A compendium of works featured multi-institutional series in Chicago 16mm. (Amy Beste) in the Toronto International Film Co-curator Jacqueline Stewart in person! exploring the L.A. Rebellion. Festival’s celebrated Wavelengths L.A. Rebellion Introduced by series co-curator Hannes Schüpbach will be present for program. Curated by Andréa Picard, Jacqueline Stewart, it features audience discussion. 1973-2006, Various directors, USA, ca. 77 shorts by Ben Caldwell, Julie Dash, who has headed the avant-garde min. section since 2006, this screening Barbara McCullough, and others. features the Chicago premieres of Presented in association with MAR 2013 22 164 North State Street. Tickets: Call 800-982-2787 or visit ticketmaster.com. For more information, visit us online at: www.siskelfilmcenter.org or call 312-846-2800. MAJOR SPONSORS Back by popular demand! $10,000 + contributors The Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Foundation The Iran Job SAGE FOUNDATION 2012, Till Schauder, USA/Iran, 90 min. “Inspiring…a complicated, accessible and heartfelt human drama.”—Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com After striking out in his bid to play for the NBA, charismatic Kevin Sheppard ends up playing in the Iranian Basketball Super League for a brand-new underdog team in the ancient city of Shiraz. 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NEW FILMS BY Marco Bellocchio 16th Annual Sixteenth year! All month! 61 films! 26 countries! Anne Fontaine Marco Tullio Giordano Miguel Gomes Jan Hrebejk Radu Jude European Union Film Festival Robert Koltai Ken Loach H Sergei Loznitsa H H Ole Christian Madsen Thaddeus O’Sullivan H H Sally Potter Alain Resnais See Europe Ulrich Seidl H by Film H Peter Strickland István Szabó Margarethe von Trotta H H Ben Wheatley H H and many more! H
GULF STREAM UNDER THE ICEBERG, March 10, 12