Ray Pride

* = recommended

Fri 28

The Bookstore

(Al-Kotbia) (2003, Tunisia) Directed by Nawfel Saheb-Ettaba. "A dusty Tunisian bookstore forgotten by time becomes the crucible for rediscovered passions." 100m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:30.

Mo' Better Blues

(1990, USA) Directed by Spike Lee. 127m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 7:15.

*A Night at the Opera

(1935, USA) Directed by Sam Wood. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

(1935, USA) Directed by Sam Wood. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

*Swimming Pool

(2003, USA) Directed by Francois Ozon. 103m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30, 9, 11:30.

Sat 29

*An American Tragedy

(1931, USA) Directed by Josef Von Sternberg. 95m. Archival 35mm print. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5.

The Bookstore

$8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5:15.

*The Devil is a Woman

(1935, USA) Directed by Josef Von Sternberg. 83m. Archival 35mm print. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3:15.

Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park

(1978, USA) Directed by Gordon Hessler. Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 6.

*A Night at the Opera

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

*Matchstick Men

(2003, USA) Directed by Ridley Scott. 116m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30, 9, 11:30.

*Pee-Wee's Big Adventure

(1935, USA) Directed by Tim Burton. Music Box (773)871-6604, 3733 N. Southport, Midnight.

Yousif

(2003, USA) Directed by Jameil Al-Aboudi. World premiere of the "first Iraqi-American Feature" that is "multidimensional and multicultural, featuring spoken language in English, Arabic, Kurdish, Armenian, Assyrian and Spanish." 121m. BetaSP Video. Al-Aboudi and cast and crew members will appear. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 7:30.

Sun 30

*Matchstick Men

$3. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 2.

*A Night at the Opera

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

*The Phantom Baron

(1943, USA) Directed by Serge de Poligny. Jean Cocteau wrote and narrated this "Gothic escapist" wartime film. 99m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 3.

*Purple Rain

(1984, USA) Directed by Albert Magnoli. 111m. 35mm. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 5.

*Russian Ark

(2002, Russia) Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. 96m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Mon 1

*An American Tragedy

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

The Bookstore

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

*Decasia

(2002, USA) Directed by Bill Morrison. I like the drone-film "Decasia," a seventy-minute montage of slowed, damaged nitrate footage. Recurring patterns in the assemblage of decaying celluloid, accompanied by a driving, Glenn Branca-like score from Bang on a Can's Michael Gordon, are often narcotic in the extreme. Slightly overlong, its rhythms are still fully idiosyncratic and mesmeric. 70m. 16mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*The Scarlet Empress

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

Tue 2

*The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha

(1968, India) Directed by Satyajit Ray. 132m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

Black Sabbath: Live in Paris

(1970, USA) Video. Free. Delilah's (773)472-2771, 2771 N. Lincoln, 7.

Mo' Better Blues

Sergio Mims lectures on the film. See Nov 28. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 6.

Wed 3

*Contempt

(Le mepris) (1963, France) Directed by Jean-Luc Godard. One of the most bitter and true of dissections of romantic love. 103m. Widescreen. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, 8.

*McCabe and Mrs. Miller

(1971, USA) Directed by Robert Altman. "McCabe" is arguably Robert Altman's masterpiece, and it's also host to one of Warren Beatty's best performances as John Q. McCabe, a complicatedly simple gambler and entrepreneur who rides into the rude, unfinished 1902 Western mining town of Presbyterian Church. Panavision. 120m. 16mm. DOC Films (773)702-8575, University of Chicago, 1212 E. 59th, 6:30.

*The Phantom Baron

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

*Purple Rain

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

Thu 4

The AIDS Crisis is Still Beginning

Four video works from various directors, introduced by SAIC faculty member and AIDS activist Gregg Bordowitz, including Stashu Kybartas' "Danny"; Tom Kalin's "They Are Lost to Vision Altogether"; Marlon Riggs' "Non, je ne regrette rien" and Jack Lewis' "A Luta Continua." 98m. $8. Siskel Film Center (312)846-2600, 164 N. State at Randolph, 8.

*Number 17

(1932, England) Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. 16mm. Shown with Hitchcock's 1944 "Bon Voyage" and "Adventure Malgache." 35mm. Program 119m. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 7.

*The Devil is a Woman

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

*The Seventh Seal

(1957, Sweden) Directed by Ingmar Bergman. 96m. 35mm. $6. Block Cinema (847)491-4000, 40 Arts Circle, Evanston, 8.

*Soul Food

(1997, Chicago) Directed by George Tillman, Jr. 114m. 35mm. $4. DOC Films (773)702-8575, 1212 E. 59th, 9:30.

(2003-11-26)

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(2003-11-19)

The lie of the mind
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(2003-11-19)

Childish things
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(2003-11-19)

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(2003-11-19)

Tip of the Week
(2003-11-13)

Fearless
(2003-11-13)

Potter's field
(2003-11-13)

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(2003-11-13)

Blackbird flies next door
(2003-11-13)

Tip of the Week
(2003-11-05)

The revolution will not be realized
(2003-11-05)

I miss the innocence
(2003-11-05)

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