Ray Pride

* = recommended

The Tenth Chicago Underground Film Festival begins Wednesday for a week at the Landmark Century. Selected listings are below.

Fri 22

*Les bonnes femmes

(1960, France) Directed by Claude Chabrol. Early Chabrol shocker may be one of his best. 95m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8:30.

.*Crime and Punishment

(1983, Finland) Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. "In a terse, elliptical, and gripping style, Kaurismaki updates the Dostoevsky novel to contemporary Helsinki," writes Cinematheque Ontario. "His Raskolnikov works in a slaughterhouse, and the person he sets out to murder is not, as in the novel, an old woman, but a businessman who killed his fiancée in a drunken hit-and-run accident. Aki has stated that the film is "first and foremost, a film about the final desperate rebellion of a young man against society. The society that as we know is a merciless machine." 93m. 35mm.. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 7.

*Dazed and Confused

(1993, USA) Directed by Richard Linklater. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*Diary of a Lost Girl

(1929, Germany) Directed by G. W. Pabst. Louise Brooks, oh-la-la. Accompanied by Dennis Scott at the pipe organ. "Special closing nite festivities with the West End Jazz Band!" $8. The Silent Summer at Gateway Theatre, 5216 W. Lawrence (773)205-SFSC, 8.

*Hamlet Goes Business

(1987, Finland) Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. 86m. 35mm. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 8:45.

*Pistol Opera

(2001, Japan) Directed by Seijun Suzuki. The latest weirdness from a 78-year-old master of same. 112m. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*Rancho Notorious

(1952, USA) Directed by Fritz Lang. 89m. Doc Films, Max Palevsky Cinema, University of Chicago, 1212 E. 59th, 7, 9.

Sat 23

*Ariel

(1985, Finland) Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. "Ariel opens as Taisto, a mineworker, loses his job in Lapland and makes his way to Helsinki in a huge white Cadillac," writes Cinematheque Ontario. "Caught in a downward spiral of crime, the impassive laborer finds himself involved in a mugging, a jailbreak, a car theft, a bank robbery, and marriage to a dour meter maid. Ariel is perhaps the supreme expression of Kaurismaki's singular combination of social realism and stylistic abstraction." 73m. 35mm. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 3..

*Blow-Up

(1966, England-Italy) Directed by Micheangelo Antonioni. 111m. Doc Films, Max Palevsky Cinema, University of Chicago, 1212 E. 59th St., 7, 9:15.

*Dazed and Confused

Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

Flesh

(1932, USA) Directed by John Ford. 95m. Shown with Tex Avery's 1937 "Porky the Wrestler." $5. LaSalle Theater (312)904-9442, 4901 W. Irving Park, 8

*Juha

(1999, Finland) Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. Silent, black-and-white send-up of the history of Scandinavian cinema has a weird comic grace. 76m. 35mm. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 5:45, 9.

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

(1994, Finland) Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. Kaurismaki's least-inspired picture still has a few good hoots. 94m. 35mm. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 5:45, 9.

*Pistol Opera

Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am, Midnight.

*Ride in the Whirlwind

(1965. USA) Directed by Monte Hellman. Jack Nicholson stars and co-wrote this delightfully arid Western, shot at the same time as "The Shooting." 65m. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

*Summertime

(1955, USA) Directed by David Lean. 100m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:15.

*Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatjana

(1994, Finland) Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. 65m. 35mm. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 4:30.

Sun 24

*I Hired a Contract Killer

(1990, Finland) Directed by Aki Kaurismaki. With Jean-Pierre Leaud. 79m. 35mm. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 4:45.

*Juha

$7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 1, 8:15.

Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses

$7. Facets (773)281-4114, 1517 W. Fullerton, 2:30.

City of the Winds

(2002, France) Directed by Gilles Corre. A musical stroll across Chicago in the company of locally born jazz singer Ellen Christi. 80m. . $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:30.

*Pistol Opera

Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am.

Mon 25

The Sandmen

(Les marchands de sable) (200, France) Directed by Pierre Salvadori. 102m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

Tue 26

*Rear Window

(1954, USA) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. "Dedicated to the memory of Gene Siskel, writes the Mayor's Office of Special Events, "who is considered one of the most revered and influential movie critics of all time." Free. Chicago Outdoor Film Festival (312)744-3315, Grant Park, 8:05.

*Summertime

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

Wed 27

*Day of Wrath

(1943, Denmark) Directed by Carl-Theodor Dreyer. 110m. $4. Doc Films, Max Palevsky Cinema, University of Chicago, 1212 E. 59th St., 8.

*Les bonnes femmes

. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*Wings

(Kryla) (1966, USSR) Directed by Larissa Shepitko. The life of a woman pilot as she languishes in middle age. 90m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

Thu 28

City of the Winds

(2002, France) Directed by Gilles Corre. A musical stroll across Chicago in the company of locally born jazz singer Ellen Christi. 80m. Christi will appear. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

The Sandmen

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*World for Ransom

(1954, USA) Directed by Robert Aldrich. 82m. $4 . Doc Films, Max Palevsky Cinema, University of Chicago, 1212 E. 59th St., 8.

Chicago Underground Film Festival

All showings are at the Landmark Century. Many filmmakers will appear.

Wed 27.

*Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator

(2003, USA) Directed by Helen Stickler. A look at what happens when the underground becomes successful. 82m. 7:30.

Thu 28

*Apoplectic Trauma

Perverse perspectives from filmmakers including the talented Martha Colburn, Devon Demonte, Robert Todd, Robert Banks, Xav Leplae and Andy Spletzer. 5.

*Hitler's Hat

(2003, USA) Directed by Jeff Krulik. The kind of underground docs like "Heavy Metal Parking Lot" and "I Created Lancelot Link" follows the life of a soldier who brought Hitler's hat home as a souvenir. Busy, strange and altogether cool. Shown with Krulik's "Jeff Krulik Picks the Weasel" and a new documentary by Jim Trainor. 7.

*Hot and Bothered

Sarah Jacobson takes a look at her "High School Reunion"; also work by T. Arthur Cottam, and Becky Goldberg's "Hot and Bothered: Feminist Pornography." 10:15.

*Making the Team

Wry pokes at teamwork and the artist's life, including work by Brent Green, Paul Tarrago, Jennet Thomas, Steve Bognar, and Dean Rank's oft-inspired "Team," which makes the absurdity of team sports--football--seem even more absurd than it already is. 5

*The Music Hall of Mirrors

Work by Scott Calonico, Edie Faig, Kitao Sakurai, plus Peter Sillen's new doc on Branson, Missouri and Virgil Widrich's inspired compression of film history, "Fast Film." 8:30.

*Quality of Life

Eric Dyer's "Kinetic Sandwich"; Matthew Silver's "Overmodulated Marriage"; Leon Grodski's September 11 reflection, 'Great Balls of Fire"; Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland's "Broken Condom," a documentary on Gurland suddenly finding himself a father; Nick Zedd's "I was a Quality of Life Violation," and Gym Jones' "Why Would Anyone Do Anything," which includes an appearance by Newcity film editor Ray Pride as an uncommonly curious OB-GYN. 10:30.

Rise Above: The Tribe 8 Documentary

(2003, USA) Directed by Tracy Flannagan. The life and times of the dyke punk rock band on the road. 80m. 8:45.

*(Un)natural Order

Experimental work from Ben Russell, Sandra Gibson, Louise Bourque, Robbie Land, Eric Patrick, and a new short by Winnipegger deco dawson, the lovely "Defile in Veil," which received a CUFF grant. 6:45.

(2003-08-20)

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