Ray Pride

* = recommended

The Second Chicago International Documentary Festival (http://www.chicagodocfestival.org) has been extended. The twentieth anniversary installment of the Chicago Latino Film Festival begins Friday and continues through April 28 (http://www.latinoculturalcenter.org/Filmfest/index.htm ). Media activism festival Version<04: Invisible Networks (http://www.lumpen.com/version04/program.html) begins Friday as well.

Fri 16

Die, Mommie, Die

(2003, USA) Directed by Mark Rucker. 90m. $8.50. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*Mystic River

(2003, USA) Directed by Clint Eastwood. 137m. 35mm. DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 6:15, 9, 11:45.

*Point Blank

(1967, USA) Directed by John Boorman. 92m. 35mm. Panavision. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Northwestern University, Evanston, 8.

*The Quick and the Dead

(1995, USA) Directed by Sam Raimi. 107m. $8.50. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*Annie Hall

(1977, USA) Directed by Woody Allen. "It won't be expanding for billions of years, Alvy, and we've got to enjoy ourselves while we're here, eh?" 94m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

Sat 17

A Beautiful Virus Inside the Machine: Animation Works by Lillian Schwartz 1970-1978

A traveling program of the work of the developer of "a catalogue of visionary techniques for the use of the computer system by artists." 49m. Video. $7. Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark, 8.

*Code Unknown

(Code inconnu: Recit incomplet de divers Voyages) (2000, France-Germany) Directed by Michael Haneke. Chilly shocker you can't shake. 118m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:30.

Die, Mommie, Die

$8.50. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

The Ghost Goes West

(1935, USA) Directed by Rene Clair. 95m. 16mm. Shown with 1940's "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe Chapter 6: Flaming Death!" $5. LaSalle Theater (312)904-9442, 4901 W. Irving Park, 8.

*Girl With a Pearl Earring

(2003, England-France) Directed by Peter Webber. 99m. 35mm. Widescreen. DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 6:30, 9, 11:30.

*Hail the Conquering Hero

(1942, USA) Directed by Preston Sturges. 87m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:15.

*The Palm Beach Story

(1944, USA) Directed by Preston Sturges. 100m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3.

*The Quick and the Dead

$8.50. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

A Savage Hunger

(1984, USA) Directed by Sparky Greene. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

*Son of the Sheik

(1926, USA) Directed by George Fitzmaurice. 68m. 35mm. Shown with Charles Chaplin's "The Immigrant." Live organ accompaniment by Mark Noller. $8.50. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am.

*The Way Home

(2002, South Korea) Directed by Jyong-Hyang Lee. A spoiled child's relationship with his grandmother. 88m. $5 donation. Zen Buddhist Temple (773)528-8685, 1710 W. Cornelia, 2:30.

Winged Migration

(2001, France) Directed by Jacques Cluzaud. 92m. 35mm. Free. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Northwestern University, Evanston, 7.

Sun 18

The Ghoul

(1933, USA) Directed by T. Haynes Hunter. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

*Hallelujah, I'm A Bum

(1933, USA) Directed by Lewis Milestone. 82m. 35mm. DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 7.

*The Horse Thief

(1986, China) Directed by Tian Zhuangzhuang. 88m. 35mm. Panavision. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Northwestern University, Evanston, 7.

*The Lady Eve

(1941, USA) Directed by Preston Sturges. 94m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 2:15.

*Mystic River

DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 2.

*Son of the Sheik

$8.50. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am.

Mon 19

*Code Unknown

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

*The Gospel According to St. Matthew

(1964, Italy) Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. 134m. 35mm. DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 7.

Studio 22

Various student shorts. Free. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Northwestern University, Evanston, 7.

Tue 20

*Taxi Driver

(1977, USA) Directed by Woody Allen. 94m. 35mm. Northwestern University's Lester D. Friedman will explain. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

*Do the Right Thing

(1989, USA) Directed by Spike Lee. 120m. 35mm. DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 7.

Rock & Roll High School

(1979, USA) Directed by Allan Arkush. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

Wed 21

*Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

(1965, USA) Directed by Russ Meyer. 83m. 35mm. DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 7.

*Hail the Conquering Hero

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

Missing Allen

(2001, USA-Germany) Directed by Christian Bauer. 92m. DVD. Shown with Ross's "Papa" (16mm). $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Northwestern University, Evanston, 7:30.

*The Palm Beach Story

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

Thu 22

Clockers

(1995, USA) Directed by Spike Lee. 128m. 35mm. Film professor Paul Masood introduces. Panavision. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Northwestern University, Evanston, 8.

Gender at the Edge: Three Films by Michele Mahoney

"Sexuality in its omnivorous complex glory," as celebrated by the adjunct assistant professor of SAIC who also performs as Joe Chicago of the Chicago Kings drag king troupe. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6:15.

*Metropolis

(2001, Japan) Directed by Rintaro. Intensely detailed urban anime. 107m. 35mm. DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 9.

*Wild Style

(1982, USA) Directed by Charlie Ahearn. 82m. 35mm.. DOC Films (773-702-8575), Palevsky Cinema, Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 E. 59th St., 7.

(2004-04-14)

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