Ray Pride

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Fall festival roundup: Reeling: The 22nd Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival (www.chicagofilmmakers.org), with over forty programs, plays this week at Landmark Century and Chicago Filmmakers; CINEME, a festival of Digital Animation (www.cineme.org) plays the Biograph Theater; The Polish Film Festival in America (http://pffamerica.com/) continues at the Gateway; RESFEST 2003 (www.resfest.com) presents a weekend of digital shorts at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Selected listings are included below.

Fri 7

Cinema Electronica

$12. RESFEST at MCA, 220 E. Chicago, 10.

*Creature from the Black Lagoon

(1954, USA) Directed by Jack Arnold. Atmospheric, archetypal fifties horror movie finds gilled, dick-headed monster emerging from the Amazonian deep to swipe gals in sleek bathing suits. With Richard Carlson, Julia Adams, Whit Bissell. Shown in 3-D. New 35mm 3D print. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*The Eagle Has Two Heads

(L'aigle a deux tetes) (1948, France) Directed by Jean Cocteau. 35mm archival print. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*The Matrix: Reloaded

(2002, USA-Australia) Directed by the Wachowski Brothers. Nothin' like a deep-dish movie to drive `em out in the open. 138m. Widescreen. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6:15, 9, 11:45.

*Poison

(1991, USA) Directed by Todd Haynes. Haynes' first feature, after his notorious short, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story." 85m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, 8.

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

(1973, USA) Directed by Gordon Douglas. With Jim Brown, Ed McMahon. 93m. Widescreen. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

(1975, USA) Directed by Tobe Hooper. The first installment of the 'Saw saga remains the best, and curiously, Hooper's never matched its cruel power. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*Underworld Beauty

(1958, Japan) Directed by Seijun Suzuki. 87m. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 7, 9.

Sat 8

Citizen, Detective, Thief

(Muwaten wa Mukhber wa Harami) (2001, Egypt) Directed by Dawoud Abdel-Sayed. The hit of the 2001 Egyptian Film Awards, it's described as a musical drama with film noir overtones and "an epic fairy tale of contemporary Egyptian society." 135m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 7:30.

Cremaster: Parts 1 & 2

(1995/1999, USA) Directed by Matthew Barney. I smell "art"! BE VERY AFRAID. 119m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30, 9, 11:30.

*Creature from the Black Lagoon

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

*Dishonored

(1931, USA) Directed by Josef von Sternberg. 35mm archival print. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5.

*The Eagle Has Two Heads

(L'aigle a deux tetes) (1948, France) Directed by Jean Cocteau. 35mm archival print. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph,

Freejack

(1992, USA) Directed by Geoff Murphy. Mick Jagger stars. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

*Jean Cocteau: Self-Portrait of an Unknown

(Jean Cocteau: autoportrait d'un inconnu) (1984, France) Directed by Edgardo Cozarinsky. Documentary drawn from Cocteau's own interviews and images. Shown with Cocteau's 1952 "La Villa Santo Sospir." 16mm archival prints. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:30.

Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem

A video by Daft Punk, Leiji Matsumoto. $12. RESFEST at MCA, 220 E. Chicago, 8.

Sahara

(1943, USA) Directed by Zolta Korda. 35mm. Shown with D.W. Griffith's 1911 short, "Last Drop of Water." 75m. $5. LaSalle Theater (312)904-9442, 4901 W. Irving Park, 8.

Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation

(1988, USA) Directed by Godfrey Reggio. 99m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*Shanghai Express

(1932, USA) Directed by Josef von Sternberg. 80m. 35mm archival print. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:15.

Spike Jonze Rarities

$12. RESFEST at MCA, 220 E. Chicago, 8.

*The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

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

Videos That Rock!

$12. RESFEST at MCA, 220 E. Chicago, 4.

Sun 9

Cinema Electronica

$12. RESFEST at MCA, 220 E. Chicago, 1.

*A Great Day In Harlem

(1994, USA) Directed by Jean Bach. Shown with "The Spitball Story," recycling unused footage from the previous film. Bach will appear. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5.

*My Name is Ivan

(Ivanovo Detstvo) (1962, USSR) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. English critic Tony Rayns: "This is Tarkovsky before his peasant sentimentality and sense of self-importance got the better of him, and it still looks hugely impressive. His first feature is in many ways an orthodox Russian film of its period. Ivan is a teenage Soviet spy on the German front in World War II who undertakes dangerous missions behind enemy lines, until the inevitable mission from which there is no return. Many of Tarkovsky's later images and themes are already present and correct." 84m. 16mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Michel Gondry Retrospective

$12. RESFEST at MCA, 220 E. Chicago, 7.

*The Matrix: Reloaded

$3. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 2.

*Les parents terrible

(1948, France) Directed by Jean Cocteau. 105m. 35mm archival print. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3.

Mon 10

Citizen, Detective, Thief

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

*Dishonored

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

*The Films of Maya Deren

Deren's six complete films. 76m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:30.

Pale Flower

(1962, Japan) Directed by Masahiro Shinoda. 96m. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 7,9.

Powaqqatsi: Life in Transformation

(1988, USA) Directed by Godfrey Reggio. 99m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Tue 11

*Nayak the Hero

(1966, India) Directed by Satyajit Ray. 120m. 16mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*Ride Lonesome

(USA, 1959) 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. 75m. 35mm. Introduced by Northwestern assistant professor Scott Curtis. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, 8.

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

Sergio Mims lectures on the film. See Nov 7. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*Tattooed Life

(1965, Japan) Directed by Seijun Suzuki. See Tip of the Week. 87m. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 7, 9.

Try It Quiet: New Silent Films for the 21st Century

Several shorts "presented in the style and spirit of the early days of cinema" with live organ accompaniment by Dennis Scott. $10. Silent Film Society of Chicago at Biograph (773)205-7372, 2433 N. Lincoln, 7:45.

Wed 12

*Les enfants terrible

(1950, France) Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. Imported 35mm print. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*A Great Day In Harlem

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

*3:10 To Yuma

(1957, USA) Directed by Delmer Daves. Rancher Van Heflin volunteers to take outlaw Glenn Ford to the Marshal in Yuma to pay for water for his drought-stricken land. 92m.. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*Hiroshima Mon Amour

(1959, France) Directed by Alain Resnais. A French actress working on an antiwar film falls in love with a Japanese architect. A gorgeous, cryptic puzzle worth the solving. 91m. 35mm. Shown with Chris Marker's gorgeous 1962 "La Jetée." (29m; 35mm) $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, 8.

Thu 13

Celebrating Immigration in the U.S.A.

Films and live music celebrating said subject. $25. Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (312)666-2660, 1852 W. 19th St., 7.

*The Films of Maya Deren

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

HyperFictions: Video and Film Work by Abigail Child

"Deeply committed to the art of cine-montage." 92m. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

*Mostly Martha

(2001, USA) Directed by Sandra Nettelbeck. 107m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 9.

*Sabotage

(1936, England) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 79m. 16mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*Shanghai Express

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

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

(1970, Japan) Directed by Seijun Suzuki. 85m. $7. Facets (773)281-4114, 7, 9.

(2003-11-05)

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