Film Calendar
Repertory and Revival
* = Recommended
(Compiled by Tom Lynch)
Through the month of March the Siskel Film Center presents the 13th Annual European Union Festival, which features fifty-nine films from all twenty-seven EU nations, each Chicago premieres, including “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.” For more details, visit siskelfilmcenter.org.
Wed 10
Inland Empire
(2006, USA) Directed by David Lynch. Lynch’s latest, a digitally filmed incomprehensible nightmare starring Laura Dern. Sounds about right. DOC Films, Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, (773)702-8575, 7.
Fri 12
Coco Before Chanel
(2009, USA) Directed by Anne Fontaine. Oscar-nominated biopic of the legendary designer. DOC Films, Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, (773)702-8575, 6:45, 9, 11:15.
The Warriors
(1979, USA) Directed by Walter Hill. Lots of gangs in 1970s Coney Island. Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, midnight.
Sat 13
*The Big Heat
(1953, USA) Directed by Fritz Lang. Lang’s quintessential noir. 89m. Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am.
*Fantastic Mr. Fox
(2009, USA) Directed by Wes Anderson. Anderson’s Oscar-nominated stop-motion adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl children’s book; George Clooney, Meryl Streep and Bill Murray lend their voices. DOC Films, Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, (773)702-8575, 7, 9.
The Warriors
Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, midnight.
Sun 14
*The Big Heat
Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am.
Coco Before Chanel
DOC Films, Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, (773)702-8575, 3:15.
*Fantastic Mr. Fox
DOC Films, Ida Noyes Hall, University of Chicago, (773)702-8575, 1.