Ray Pride

* = recommended

Jacques Rivette wrote that apart from Eisenstein, Boris Barnet "must be considered the best Soviet filmmaker"; a retrospective runs this week at Facets.

Fri 6

*Chelsea Girls

(1966, USA) Directed by Andy Warhol. Warhol's legendary, double 16mm projection happening. 205m. Free. University of Chicago Film Studies Center, Cobb Hall, Room 307, 5811 S. Ellis Avenue, 7.

*Five Easy Pieces

(1970, USA) Directed by Bob Rafelson. 98m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

Four Women

(Fyra Kvinnor) (2002, Sweden) Directed by Baker Karim. Mockumentary about the preparations for a wedding. 80m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:15.

*Hedwig and The Angry Inch

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

Master of the Flying Guillotine

(1975, Hong Kong) Directed by Wang Yu. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*PTU

(2003, Hong Kong) Directed by Johnnie To. 85m. Widescreen. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:30.

*Sylvia

(2003, USA) Directed by Christine Jeffs. 110m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30, 9, 11:30.

The Wild Party

(1929, USA) Directed by Dorothy Arzner. 77m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:30.

*Yojimbo

(1961, Japan) Directed by Akira Kurosawa. 110m. Tohoscope. 35mm. $6. Block Museum of Art(847)491-4900, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, 8.

Sat 7

Anybody's Woman

(1930, USA) Directed by Dorothy Arzner. 80m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:15.

*Elf

(2003, USA) Directed by Jon Favreau. 95m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30, 9, 11:30.

Film Studies: The Films of Guy Sherwin and Barbara Meter

The filmmakers will appear with their only U.S. show of their separate works that "share a concern for those delicate, ineffable moments in life." $7. Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark St., 7.

*The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

(1967, Italy-Spain-USA) Directed by Sergio Leone. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am.

*Hedwig and The Angry Inch

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

Invisible

(Den Osynlige) (2002, Sweden) Directed by Joel Bergvall, Simon Sandquist. Creepy mix of "science fiction and the psychological dram" about a troubled teen who wakes one morning to find that he is invisible. 95m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 7:30.

Masquerade

(Maskrada) (1941, USSR) Directed by Sergei Gersaimov. 113m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 7.

Master of the Flying Guillotine

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

Momentos

(1981, Argentina) Directed by Maria Luisa Bemberg. 89m. 35mm. $9. Facets (773)281-9075, 1517 W. Fullerton, 1.

*Peking Opera Blues

(Dao Ma Dan) (1987, Hong Kong) Directed by Tsui Hark. 104m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5.

*Phantom Lady

(1944, USA) Directed by Robert Siodmak. Philandering husband comes home to a murdered wife; devoted secretary searches the city for clues. Swell noir, with Franchot Tone, Ella Raines; from a story by Cornell Woolrich. 83m. 16mm. Shown with 1952's Robert McKimson Daffy Duck cartoon, "The Super Snooper." $5. LaSalle Theater (312)904-9442, 4901 W. Irving Park, 8.

Scream, Blacula, Scream!

(1973, USA) Directed by Bob Kelljan. Pam Grier fights the power. 95m. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

The Spy Dad

(Chuet Chung Tit Gam Gong) (2003, Hong Kong) Directed by Wong Jing. A Hong Kong James Bond "is actually a wimpy divorced dad with teen daughters." 97m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3.

The Wild Party

(1929, USA) Directed by Dorothy Arzner. 77m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:30.

Sun 8

*Elf

$4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 2.

*The Fireman's Ball

(1967, Czechoslovakia) Directed by Milos Forman. 71m. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Flamenco

(1995, Spain) Directed by Carlos Saura. 100m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5.

Four Women

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

*The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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

Mama Got Married

(Mama Vyshla Zamuzh) (1969, USSR) Directed by Vitaly Melnikov. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:15.

Men Suddenly In Black

(Dai Chengfu) (2003, Hong Kong) Directed by Edmond Pang. "comically inept cheats are thwarted at every turn, even in the cyber-brothel," writes the Film Center's Barbara Scharres. 98m. Widescreen. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3.

Momentos

$9. Facets (773)281-9075, 1517 W. Fullerton, 1.

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

(1992, USA) Directed by David Lynch. 114m. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

When the War Is Over

(2002) Directed by Francois Verster. Columbia Instructor Prexy Nesbitt will discuss this doc about ex-activists against South African apartheid. 52m. BetaSP Video. University of Chicago Human Rights Program, Breasted Hall, Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th, 7.

Mon 9

Invisible

See Feb 7. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

Passion in the Desert

(1997, France) Directed by Lavinia Currier. 91m.. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*Peking Opera Blues

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

Sarah and Son

(1930, USA) Directed by Dorothy Arzner. 86m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

The Wild Party

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

Tue 10

*Casablanca

(1941, USA) Directed by Michael Curtiz. Paramount Theatre (630)896-7676, 8 E. Galena Blvd., Aurora, 7:30.

*Five Easy Pieces

Northwestern University senior lecturer Lester D. Friedman will explain. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

Mama Got Married

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:15.

Men Suddenly In Black

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

Olivia

(1951, England) Directed by Jacqueline Audry. 88m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii

(1973, USA) Directed by Adrian Maben. 60m. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 7.

Wed 11

*Afro-Punk

(2003, USA) Directed by James Spooner. Race within the punk scene. 75m. DVD video. Spooner will appear. Free. Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington, 6:30.

Anybody's Woman

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:15.

*Breakfast at Tiffany's

(1961, USA) Directed by Blake Edwards. 112m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Days Like This

(Liva Livet) (2001, Sweden) Directed by Mikael Häffström. Deadpan comedy about a troubled vacuum cleaner salesman and his rounds. 96m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

A Dry White Season

(1989, USA) Directed by Euzhan Palcy. Palcy will screen her fictional film about South African apartheid. DePaul Student Center, 2250 N. Sheffield, Room 120B, 6.

Flamenco

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

Masquerade

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

*Pushing Hands

(1991, Taiwan) Directed by Ang Lee. 105m. 16mm. $6. Block Museum of Art(847)491-4900, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, 8.

Thu 12

Heaven and Earth Magic

(1957-62, USA) Directed by Harry Smith. 66m. 16mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

*The Lady From Shanghai

(1948, USA) Directed by Orson Welles. Thrillingly weird, baroquely funny. Virtually unfathomable plot finds Welles a sailor caught between the variously suicidal and homicidal fantasies of a crippled lawyer and his frustrated young wife. Despite front-office-mandated reshoots, Welles' first studio picture after "The Magnificent Ambersons" is cheerily, deliriously incoherent; Welles' dense Irish brogue is as thick as his character's head; love interest Rita Hayworth, Columbia's biggest star and Welles' then-wife, made famous by her flowing red hair, waltzes through in a perverse blonde bob that, with her icy performance, makes her even more forbidding; supremely strange Glenn Anders and Everett Sloane cackle through insane machinations. There's a wealth of bravura filmmaking, including the justly celebrated shootout finale in an amusement park's hall of mirrors. 86m. 35mm. $6. Block Museum of Art(847)491-4900, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, 8.

*Sullivan's Travels

(1941, USA) Directed by Preston Sturges. 90m. 35mm. $6. Block Museum of Art (847)491-4900, 40 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston, 8.

*Saturday Night Fever

(1977, USA) Directed by John Badham. 118m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Sarah and Son

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:15.

*The Time to Live and The Time To Die

(1985, Taiwan) Directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien. 137m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 9:30.

(2004-02-03)

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