Ray Pride

* = Recommended

Fri 3

*Choose Me

(1984, USA) Directed by Alan Rudolph. See Tip of the Week. 106m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema, Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston, 8.

*Come Drink With Me

(Dai zui xia) (1966, Hong Kong) Directed by King Hu. Stunning, innovate and influential martial-arts masterpiece. Everyone from Hark to Kar-Wai to Tarantino knows this one. 94m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

*The Homecoming

(1973, USA) Directed by Peter Hall. Legendary American Film Theatre production of Pinter's play, with Ian Holm, Vivien Merchant. 111m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*The Hulk

(2003, USA) Directed by Ang Lee. 138m. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6, 9, Midnight.

*Intruder in the Dust

(1949, USA) Directed by Clarence Brown. 87m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:15.

Luther

(1974, USA) Directed by Guy Green. American Film Theatre production of Brecht's play, with Stacy Keach, Judi Dench. 112m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8:15.

Sat 4

*Apocalypse Now Redux

(2001, USA) Directed by Francis Coppola. 202m. DVD video. Free. Washington Library Center (312)747-4300, 400 S. State, 1.

*Bend It Like Beckham

(2003, England) Directed by Gurinder Chada. 112m. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30, 9, 11:30.

*A Delicate Balance

(1973, USA) Directed by Tony Richardson. Legendary American Film Theatre production, with Katharine Hepburn, Paul Scofield. 132m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:15.

Glen Fogel: Pressure System

New York filmmaker Fogel presents a selection of Super-8, 16mm, video-film hybrids and double projection performance pieces. Nathan Lee of the New York Sun says they're "distinguished by their hermetic intensity, formal control and anxious, immersive soundtracks [pushing] emotional extremes to the point of abstraction." Program 52m. $7. Chicago Media Action and Chicago Filmmakers (773)293-1447, 5243 N. Clark St., 2nd Floor, 8.

Gypsy

(Koli) (2002, Iran) Directed by Ali Shah-Hatami. A contrary young boy finds conflict in a superstitious, remote Talkhak village. 80m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*The Homecoming

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:45.

*The Light That Failed

(1936, USA) Directed by William Wellman. 97m. Shown with D. W. Griffith's 1909 "The Light That Came' with Mary Pickford. $5. LaSalle Theater (312)904-9442, 4901 W. Irving Park, 8.

*One-Armed Swordsman

(Dubi dao) (1967, Hong Kong) Directed by Zhange Che. 111m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:45.

Report Card Day

(Rouz-Karnameh) (2002, Iran) Directed by Masoud Karamati. Drama of a boy with a death wish has "an air of whimsy." 92m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

Style Wars/Style Wars Revisited

(1982/2003, USA) Directed by Tony Silver, Henry Chalfant. The early days of hip-hop in NYC, seen in the 1982 "Style Wars" and in the 2003 collation of outtakes. Program 105m. DigiBeta video. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

Tomb of the Blind Dead

(1972, Italy) Directed by Amando Ossori. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

Sun 5

*Bend It Like Beckham

$3. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*The End of St. Petersburg

(1927, USSR) Directed by V. I. Pudovkin. 112m. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30, 9, 11:30.

*Galileo

(1974, USA) Directed by Joseph Losey. Legendary American Film Theatre production, with Topol, Edward Fox. 145m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3.

Gypsy

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:15.

Report Card Day

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:15.

Mon 6

*A Delicate Balance

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8:15.

*Films by Gregory Markopoulos

Three films: 1947's "Psyche"; 1969's "Sorrows" and 1963's "Twice a Man." Program 80m. 16mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Luther

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

Tue 7

*Aparijito

(1957, India) Directed by Satyajit Ray. The second of Ray's "Apu Trilogy" finds his protagonist leaving home for Calcutta; deeply moving. 127m. New 35mm print. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*Galileo

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

*Intruder in the Dust

(1949, USA) Directed by Clarence Brown. 87m. 35mm. Sergio Mims lectures. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:15.

*Some Like It Hot

(1959, USA) Directed by Billy Wilder. After witnessing the St. Valentine Day Massacre, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis seek shelter--in drag--as members of an all-girl band, including all-girl Marilyn Monroe. The gender-bending is funny, the pacing seldom flags, and the story has one of the best curtain lines you'll ever hear. With George Raft, Pat O'Brien. 119m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema, Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston, 8.

Wed 8

*Come Drink With Me

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

*The Crime of Monsieur Lange

(1936, France) Directed by Jean Renoir. Essential comic allegory about a writer whose pulp Westerns challenge his manipulative publisher. Less well known than "Rules of the Game" and "Grand Illusion," but still major Renoir. 85m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema, Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston, 8.

*The Homecoming

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

*Johnny Guitar

(1953, USA) Directed by Nicholas Ray. Astonishing, topsy-turvy take on Western conventions as two tough women (Joan Crawford, Mercedes McCambridge) duke it out for control of a gambling saloon and the love of Johnny Guitar (Sterling Hayden). Hayden's quiet psychopath is a small amazement in the cyclone of warring psychologies. Weird, beautifully paced, bizarrely photographed (the strange colors courtesy of Republic's patented color process, Tru-Color, one of the most lurid ever). 110m. New 35mm print. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Luther

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8:15.

Report Card Day

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

Thu 9

*The Celebration

(1998, Denmark) Directed by Thomas Vinterberg. Something rotten in the Danish countryside: All happy family movies are alike; all unhappy-family movies are hilarious in their own particular way. Not available on DVD. 105m. 16mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 9:30.

*A Delicate Balance

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

*The Lodger

(1927, England) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 83m. 16mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Mysterial Power: Recent Video Work by Lana Lin

Video artist Lin's work traverse "translations of all types," writes the SAIC's Jim Trainor. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8:15.

*One-Armed Swordsman

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

*Ride Lonesome

(1959, USA) Directed by Budd Boetticher. Randolph Scott uses an outlaw as bait to find his long-lost brother; other bad men follow. With James Coburn. CinemaScope. 73m. Introduction by NU's Scott Curtis. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema, Block Museum of Art, 40 Arts Circle Dr., Evanston, 8.

(2003-10-02)

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