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Field Trips
Ebertfest runs from Weds 4/18 – Sun 4/22 and features 35mm screenings of American Splendor, The Big Lebowski, and Rambling Rose, plus a 70mm screening of Interstellar.
Weeklong Runs
Music Box Theatre
Ready Player One — Steven Spielberg — 2018 — 140 min
70mm from Warner Brothers (with DTS sound)
Screening daily at 2:00pm, 5:00pm, & 8:00pm
Fri 4/13
1:45 PM, 6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
The Other Side of Hope [pictured] — Aki Kaurismäki — 2017 — 98 min
35mm from Janus Films
7:00 PM
Block Cinema : Hank Willis Thomas: Different Image
Safe — Todd Haynes — 1995 — 119 min
35mm from Sony Pictures Classics
7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Doc Films : Programmer’s Picks
Before Midnight — Richard Linklater — 2013 — 109 min
35mm
Sat 4/14
3:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki — 2017 — 98 min
35mm from Janus Films
Sun 4/15
1:30 PM
Doc Films : Programmer’s Picks
Before Midnight — Richard Linklater — 2013 — 109 min
35mm
4:30 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki — 2017 — 98 min
35mm from Janus Films
7:00 PM
Doc Films : The Korean New Wave
Peppermint Candy — Lee Chang-dong — 1999 — 129 min
35mm
Mon 4/16
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki — 2017 — 98 min
35mm from Janus Films
7:00 PM
Doc Films : Contemporary Canadian Voices and Visions
My Winnipeg — Guy Maddin — 2007 — 80 min
35mm
Tues 4/17
7:00 PM
Doc Films : A Michael Haneke Retrospective
Funny Games — Michael Haneke — 1997 — 108 min
35mm
Wed 4/18
7:00 PM, 9:30 PM
Doc Films : Elia Kazan: A Retrospective
On the Waterfront — Elia Kazan — 1954 — 108 min
35mm
7:30 PM
Chicago Film Society at NEIU
Yolanda and the Thief — Vincente Minnelli — 1945 — 108 min
35mm from Warner Brothers
Preceded by a selected cartoon
Thur 4/19
6:00 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center: Conversations at the Edge
An evening with Joan Jonas
Wind — Joan Jonas — 1968
Songdelay — Joan Jonas — 1973
both 16mm from Anthology Film Archives
8:15 PM
Gene Siskel Film Center
The Other Side of Hope — Aki Kaurismäki — 2017 — 98 min
35mm from Janus Films
10:00 PM
Doc Films : Loss of Identity in Cinema
Sisters — Brian De Palma — 1973 — 93 min
35mm from the Academy Film Archive