Ray Pride

* = recommended

Fri 26

*Blood Simple

(1984, USA) Directed by Alex Cox. 97m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 11.

Elder Parents

(Roh shin) (2000, Japan) Directed by Tazuko Makitsubo. 112m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*The Girl From Chicago

(1932, USA) Directed by Oscar Micheaux. Archival 16mm print of one of African American film's pioneers; shown with Bernard B. Ray's "Broken Strings," a black variation on "The Jazz Singer." Program 119m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8:15.

Films of James Harrar

Harrar is "in that long line of poetic filmmakers who are principally concerned with light, color, rhythm and texture," Chicago Filmmakers writes. Jazz accompaniment by Harrar, Marshall Allen, Robert Mahoney. $12. Chicago Filmmakers (773)293-1447, Columbia College, 600 S. Michigan, 8.

*Hedwig and the Angry Inch

(2001, USA) Directed by John Cameron Mitchell. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport Av., Midnight.

*Repo Man

(1984, USA) Directed by Alex Cox. 92m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 8.

*Sixteen Candles

(1984, USA) Directed by John Hughes. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport Av., Midnight.

Sat 27

*Alphaville

(1965, France-Italy) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. 98m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 9.

*Amarcord

(1973, Italy-France) Directed by Federico Fellini. 123m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 6.

Black Sabbath

(1963, Italy) Directed by Mario Bava. 99m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 11.

Elder Parents

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:30.

*Hedwig and the Angry Inch

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

Kid Vengeance

(1977, USA) Directed by Joseph Manduke. Jim Brown, Leif Garrett star. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

Lily Festival

(Yurisai) (2001, Japan) Directed by Sachi Hamano. Seven women from 69 to 91, find life in their upscale senior citizens' home upturned when an eligible bachelor of 75 moves in. 100m. 35mm. Hamano and screenwriter Kuninori Yamazaki will appear. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 7:45.

*Lola

(1969, France) Directed by Jacques Demy. 91m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 4.

*Midnight

(1939, USA) Directed by Mitchell Leisen. 95m. Shown with Chuck Jones' 1941 "Porky's Midnight Matinee." $5. LaSalle Theater (312)904-9442, 4901 W. Irving Park, 8.

*Sixteen Candles

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

*A Tale of a Naughty Girl

(Manda Meyer Upakhyan) (2002, India) Directed by Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Strange, funny and oddly moving chronicle of life on the West Bengal plains. 89m. Widescreen. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:30.

*Two-Lane Blacktop

(1971, USA) Directed by Monte Hellman. 101m. Widescreen. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport Av., 11:30am.

Sun 28

Come Feel Me Tremble

(2003, USA) Directed by Otto Zithromxax, Rick Fuller. Portrait of musician Paul Westerberg, "comprised largely of video footage shot by fans." 88m. DigiBeta video. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:15.

Lily Festival

See Sep 27. The director and screenwriter will appear. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 7:45.

*The Mysterious X

(Det Hemmelighedsfulde X) (1914, Denmark) Directed by Benjamin Christensen. Recent rediscovery of the silent era, said to have influenced such filmmakers as Carl-Theodor Dreyer. It's an "early but far from primitive spy thriller." 85m. Archival 35mm print. Live piano accompaniment by David Drazin. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:30.

*A Tale of a Naughty Girl

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

*Two-Lane Blacktop

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

Mon 29

The Last Trace

(2001, Chile) Directed by Paola Castillo. "A trip to the Southernmost landscape of the world, as seen through an ancestral language and the history of two sisters... the last surviving Yamanas." Beta SP Video 60m. Castillo will appear. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

Tue 30

*Forbidden Planet

(1956, USA) Directed by Fred Wilcox. 98m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 8.

The Girl From Chicago

Sergio Mims lectures on the film. See Sep 26. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

Wed 1

*Rules of the Game

(La regle de jeu) (1939, France) Directed by Jean Renoir. Sublime masterpiece, a comic social satire that's one of the best films ever made. 110m. 35mm. Shown with Renoir's 1936 "A Day in the Country" (45m, 16mm). $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 8.

Thu 2

Come Feel Me Tremble

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:30.

*His Girl Friday

(1940, USA) Directed by Howard Hawks. 90m. 35mm. Shown with two shorts on BetaSP video, Joel Elkins and Blake Silver's "Reservations" and Christal Karge's "The Handbook to Casual Stalking." $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr, Evanston, 8.

Ralco

(1999, Chile) Directed by Esteban Larrain. Doc on Mapuche people who refuse to sell their land to multinationals. 65m. DVD video. Shown with "I love Pinochet," Marcela Said's portrait of the complexity of Pinochetism in Chile. 52m. DV-CAM video/ $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 7:45.

(2003-09-25)

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