(Compiled by Amanda Giovetti)

Fri 2
Blade
(1998, USA) Directed by Stephen Norrington. Vampire-human hybrid Blade has a vengeance on the bloodsucking demons that killed his mother and becomes a warrior for the salvation of the human race against evil "pure-blood"’ of the underworld. 120m. $9.25. Music Box Theatre, (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, midnight.
Farewell Darkness
(2008, USA) Directed by Daniel J. Pico. A young Marine returns from duty in Iraq to a depressed girlfriend, an abusive father, unpaid debts with friends and a harrowing confrontation with suicide. Digibeta Video. 96m. $9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.
*I’m Not There
(2007, USA) Directed by Todd Haynes. The life and times of Bob Dylan presented through six different characters, each representing aspects of his multi-faceted personality. 135m. $5. Doc Films. (773)702-8574, 1212 E. 59th, 7:30, 10.
Planet Earth: "From Pole to Pole" and "Mountains"
(2007, UK) Directed by Alastair Fothergill. The first two episodes of BBC’s acclaimed series about Earth’s many life forms. 58m/58m. Free. Block Cinema, (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr. in Evanston, 8.
Velvet Hustler (Kurenai No Nagarboshi)
(1967, Japan) Directed by Toshio Masuda. A young yakuza hitman hangs with recluses outside of Tokyo while hiding out after a dangerous job in the city. 97m. $9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

Sat 3
Blade
$9.25. Music Box Theatre, (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, midnight.
*Call Northside 777
(1948, USA) Directed by Henry Hathaway. Based on true events during the Great Depression, Chicago’s most corrupt time for crime, a persistent journalist, played by Jimmy Stewart, fights to prove that a man convicted of murder eleven years prior is really innocent. 111m. $7.25. Music Box Theatre, (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am.
Little Caesar
(1931, USA) Directed by Mervyn LeRoy. The iconic mob film centered on small-time crook Caesar "Rico" Bandello’s rise through the ranks of Chicago’s organized crime scene. 80m. $9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:30.
*Playtime
(1967, France) Directed by Jacques Tati. Staged in an elaborately constructed virtual-city set, coined Tativille, M. Hulot and a group of American tourists make their way through a futuristic Paris made of glass, steel, concrete and plastic. 124m. $9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3.
*The Savages
(2007, USA) Directed by Tamara Jenkins. Estranged siblings, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney, have to mend their relationship with each other and with their father as he slips into dementia. 113m. $5. Doc Films. (773)702-8574, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30, 9, 11:30.
Slingshot Hip Hop/Drying Up Palestine
(2008/2007, USA) Directed by Jackie Salloum/Rima Essa and Peter Snowdon. A widespread boom in Public Enemy-inspired rebel hip hop in Palestine is documented during the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. "Drying Up Palestine" is an investigative-type documentary exposing Israeli initiatives to drain off groundwater supplies to Palestinian civilian villages. 88m/28m. $9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

Sun 4
*Call Northside 777
$7.25. Music Box Theatre, (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, 11:30am.
*I’m Not There
$5. Doc Films. (773)702-8574, 1212 E. 59th, 3.
Palestine 1948 Nakba
(2008, Japan) Directed by Ryuichi Hirokawa. The forty-year quest of Japanese filmmaker Hirokawa’s discovery and investigation of a destroyed Palestinian village. DVCAM Video. 131m. $9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:15.
Remember Last Night?
(1935, USA) Directed by James Whale. A hard-drinking couple wake the morning after a wild party and find their friend dead, and when an investigator is called in, hampered by hangovers, no one can remember what happened. 81m. $5. Doc Films. (773)702-8574, 1212 E. 59th, 7.
Soy Palestino/Inside Outside/No Choice Basis
(2005-2007, Palestine/UK/Cuba) Directed by Osama Qashoo. A docu-diary of Palestinian director Qashoo’s discovery that the Spanish word "Palestino," which means Palestinian, is also a Havana slang term for second-class citizen. Followed by two shorts, "Inside Outside" and "No Choice Basis," also directed by Qashoo. Mini-DV Video/DigiBeta Video. 65m/24m/15m. $9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3.

Mon 5
The Edge of Hope/Jerusalem: The East Side Story
(2006/2007, Germany/Palestine) Directed by Gerd Schneider/Mohammed Alatar. "The Edge of Hope" features the unsettling history of a Ramadan cameraman working for Al-Jazeera during Israel’s withdraw from Gaza in 2005. "Jerusalem" is an incisive account of the Israeli-Palestine conflict since 1947. Digibeta Video/DVCAM Video. 52m/57m. $9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.
Little Caesar
$9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.
Mourning Becomes Electra
(1947, USA) Directed by Dudley Nichols. The Greek myth of Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, is updated to an American civil war family. 112m. $5. Doc Films. (773)702-8574, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Tue 6
Goupi mains rouges
(1943, France) Directed by Jacques Becker. An entire family is suspected in the murder and robbing of an old woman in a small French village. 104m. $5. Doc Films. (773)702-8574, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Wed 7
*Bunny Lake is Missing
(1965, USA) Directed by Otto Preminger. A cult-classic psychological thriller about a little girl missing after her mother drops her off for her first day at a new school. 123m. $5. Doc Films. (773)702-8574, 1212 E. 59th, 7, 9:15.
*Playtime
$9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.
Ten More Good Years
(2008, USA) Directed by Michael Jacoby. A documentary about members of the gay and elderly community. 71m. Free. Block Cinema, (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr. in Evanston, 7:30.

Thu 8
The Edge of Hope/Jerusalem: The East Side Story
$9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.
Elephant/Hukkle
(1989/2003, UK/Hungary) Directed by Alan Clarke/György Pálfi. "Elephant" depicts random acts of violence in Northern Island based on actual police reports. "Hukkle" gives the sights and sounds of a quiet, small village and its seemingly uneventful events as a perfect setting for a murder plot. Beta SP/35mm. 39m/78m. $6. Block Cinema, (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle Dr. in Evanston, 8.
Soy Palestino/Inside Outside/No Choice Basis
$9. Siskel Film Center, (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.
20 Million Miles to Earth
(1957, USA) Directed by Nathan Juran. An action-packed early sci-fi flick with a rampaging sea-like creature from outer space. 82m. $5. Doc Films. (773)702-8574, 1212 E. 59th, 9:15.

(2008-04-29)

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