MISCELLANEOUS SUMMER SCREENINGS
Jaws (1975)
Steven Spielberg · 124m · DCP
Let's start the summer off at Doc with a splash! Join us for the original summer blockbuster, a tense yet fantastically fun affair replete with all the blood, teeth, and sun you could ever wish for. With Max P. Cinema around you like the stomach lining of a shark, Jaws is the perfect place movie to take refuge from the stiffling Chicago heat!: would make more sense for it to be: Surrounded by the stomach lining of the shark from Jaws, Max P. Cinema is the perfect place to take refuge from the stifling Chicago heat! or could say "surrounded by the Max P. Cinema like the stomach lining of the shark from Jaws, Doc is the perfect place to take refuge from the stifling Chicago heat!"
Thursday, June 20th 5:00PM · Friday, June 21st 8:00PM
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Spike Lee · 120m · DCP
Set over the course of a single swelteringly hot day in Brooklyn, Do The Right Thing captures director Spike Lee's scathing eye for how racism functions and destroys individuals and communities in America. Lee is as masterful at capturing people's quotidian interactions as he is at portraying the wider sweeping realities they face. Lee is as much a master at capturing the ordinary daily interactions that people have as the wider sweeping realities they face. Newly restored in 4k for the big screen, Do the Right Thing is fun, heartbreaking, razor-sharp, and as relevent as ever.
Thursday, June 27th 5:00PM · Friday, June 28th 8:00PM
Harvey (1950)
Henry Koster · 104m · DCP
Long before Donnie Darko hallucinated a large malevolent rabbit, there was Harvey, the playful "invisible" friend of Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart). If you love watching middle-aged men get into all sorts of situations both serious and silly, then this is the film for you. Harvey's premise may seem a bit dark, but it is truly one of the most uplifting and joyful movies to behold— a perfectly comforting watch on a lazy summer day.
Wednesday, July 3rd 5:00PM · Friday, July 5th 8:00PM
L'eau de la Seine (1983) · Water from the Tremulous Stream (2021) · Sea of Glass (2023)
Teo Hernández · 11m · Super 8mm to Digital
Javiera Cisterna · 10m · Digital
Francisco Rojas · 26m · DCP
Related in their subject matter, water and light, these films also share an ultra-sensitive attunement to life and movement within and without. Water from the tremulous stream is as energetic as the stream itself: glimmering cascades of light, glimpses of trees and sky. Sea of Glass is quietly monumental, journeying through an entire world in its twenty-six minutes. Moments in both films seem to hail back to Teo Hernández's reflection of light on the Seine.
Programmed by Jackson Zaro and Hannah Yang.
Thursday, July 25th 7:00PM
The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)
Pier Paulo Pasolini · 85m · 16mm
A crow walks up to you on the road and begins to speak — what do you do? This is the premise positioned at the start of The Hawks and the Sparrows, yet there is so much more to this surreal Italian dark comedy. Drawing together questions on how to practice leftist ideology in a post-fascist Italy that was increasingly barreling back towards its dark past, Italian comedy titan Toto and Pasolini's favorite Ninetto Davoli bring the viewer along on this unforgettable ride.
