Special Events and More
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
James Foley · 100m · Digital
When an office of real estate salesmen learn that all but the highest two earners will be fired, they become increasingly desperate to close their accounts. With a David Mamet screenplay packed with explosive dialogue, this film dramatizes the cutthroat — and often desolate — world of sales. A must-see for any prospective Econ major, this screening kicks off another quarter for students at UofC.
A Night Owls Screening with Professors Agnes Callard and Arnold Brooks. Free for those with UCID.
Sunday, September 29th 6:30 PM
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
Wallace Worsley · 133m · Digital
Screening at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. Rockefeller Memorial Chapel and Doc FIlms present The Hunchback of Notre Dame with celebrated organist Jay Warren performing the silent film score on the massive E.M. Skinner organ.
Free for UCID and Doc quarter pass holders.
Sunday, October 27th 7:00 PM
Evil Dead II (1987)
Sam Raimi · 84m · 35mm
Come spend Halloween night at Doc!
Thursday, October 31st 10:30 PM
Here and Elsewhere (1976)
Jean-Luc Godard, Anne-Marie Miéville, Jean-Pierre Gorin · 55m · DCP
The Dziga Vertov Group originally filmed footage of Palestinian resistance fighters for the incomplete Jusqu’à la victoire before most of its subjects were killed in the 1970 Black September. Ici et Ailleurs weaves this footage into a dense collage of French family life and mass media images. Godard and Miéville’s narration is mournful and self-critical, both disillusioned and asking more of the images that define and bridge the here and elsewhere.
Sunday, November 3rd 4:00 PM
A Grin Without A Cat (1977)
Chris Marker · 180m · DCP
Editing unused archival footage into a three hour essay film, Chris Marker dissects the political upheavals of the 60s and 70s, focusing in particular on the year 1967 (which he calls the “pivotal point”) and its subsequent aftermath. With voice-over narration from multiple people and perspectives and gripping footage (some filmed by Marker himself), the film is not only about the historical events it examines, but the images and memories of them.
Saturday, November 9th 3:00 PM
Mouches Volantes / Corn (1976 / 1970)
Larry Gottheim · 66m / 11m · 16mm
Part II of Larry Gottheim’s Elective Affinities cycle, named for the relationship between and across images within the films. In Mouches Volantes the affinities are those between film and filmmaker, filmaker and subject — Blind Willie Johnson and his wife Angelina (who narrates about their relationship in the film), sound and image, light and dark, black and white. Preceded by Corn, a still-life-esque counterpart to Gottheim’s well-known Fog Line.
Followed by a Q&A with Larry Gottheim!
Wednesday, November 13th 7:00 PM
Champs-Elysées Film Festival
The UChicago Champs-Elysées Film Festival will offer free public screenings in Max Palevsky Cinema of six short French films in competition on 11/18 at 5pm, and Diaries from Lebanon (2024, El Hajj, 110 minutes) on 11/20 at 4pm. Both will be followed by Q&A led by Etienne Labbouz (UChicago) and Justine Lévèque (Artistic Director of the Paris Festival.)
Monday, November 18th 5:00 PM · Wednesday, November 20th 4:00 PM
El Equipo (2023)
Bernando Ruiz · 80m · Digital
“An unlikely meeting of Latin American students and a forensic scientist changes the course of international human rights. Their goal: investigate 30,000 disappearances during Argentina’s “dirty war.”” Despite death threats, the group creates an accounting of massacres in 30+ countries (including the missing 43 students in Mexico), the process of which unfolds like a true crime thriller.
Introduced by subjects in the Emmy-nominated film, who will speak on a Nov 20 6pm panel at Bond Chapel. Sponsored by the Pozen Center for Human Rights.
Tuesday, November 19th 6:00 PM
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)
John Cassavetes · 115m · DCP
Sometimes warm, other times deeply uncomfortable, Minnie and Moskowitz is Cassavetes’s spin on the romantic comedy. Lonely and jaded, Minnie Moore’s (Gena Rowlands) blind date is going terribly wrong when Seymour Moskowitz (Seymour Cassel) comes to her rescue. What follows is a love that neither would have chosen, that compels them all the same. The performances from the two leads are what ground this all-too-human story of an unlikely romance.
Saturday, November 23rd 7:00 PM
Divine Intervention (2002)
Elia Suleiman · 92m · DCP
Two Palestinian lovers, unable to easily be together, must meet in the parking lot of a border checkpoint… Constructed of a series of vignettes demonstrating the surreal irony of life under occupation, in Divine Intervention even the banal and tragic become absurd. In a bitter twist, Suleiman’s 2002 film was awarded the Jury Prize at Cannes, but was unable to secure an Oscar nomination due to the requirement that it be put forth by its country of origin.
