PREVIOUSLY
Chicago premiere! Thomas Piper and Laura Ekasetya in person!
Five Seasons: The Gardens Of Piet Oudolf
2017, Thomas Piper, USA, 75 min.
Plays in:
Runs & Limited Engagements
Showtimes:
- Fri, Jun 15th 2:15pm
- Fri, Jun 15th 6:00pm
- Fri, Jun 15th 7:45pm
- Sat, Jun 16th 6:15pm
- Sun, Jun 17th 2:00pm
- Mon, Jun 18th 6:00pm
- Tue, Jun 19th 8:15pm
- Wed, Jun 20th 6:00pm
- Thu, Jun 21st 8:30pm
"You might liken his plant compositions to the frenetic glory of his countryman Willem de Kooning, except the fury is replaced with a dense, living canvas that never seems to lose its serenity." - Adrian Higgins, Washington Post
"A pleasure on multiple fronts: sensorially, conceptually, narratively." - Jennifer Reut, Landscape Architecture Magazine
Five seasons in the gardens and career of Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf, creator of Chicago's acclaimed Lurie Garden in Millennium Park, are traced in this lush documentary that blooms with details of Oudolf's other high-profile projects including Manhattan's High Line and the waterfront Battery Gardens. Beginning with an autumn walk through the designer's own sprawling but intricately planted garden in the Dutch village of Hummelo, the film conveys his deep and thoughtful appreciation for botanical life in all its seasons. Oudolf cites Lurie Garden as the turning point in his development as a designer, a project that propelled him to new thinking about ecology and the use of native plants. As the designer undertakes a major new project for a gallery and arts center in southwest England, seen from start to finish, he seeks inspiration from nature in locations including the gloriously bluebonnet-covered hills of West Texas. DCP digital. (BS)
Friday 6/15 at 7:45 PM: This screening is a Movie Club event, facilitated by director Thomas Piper and moderated by Laura Ekasetya, Director and Head Horticulturist of Lurie Garden. Attendees will receive a Daelmans stroopwafel.
Plays in:
Runs & Limited Engagements
Showtimes:
- Fri, May 18th 2:00pm
- Fri, May 18th 6:00pm
- Sat, May 19th 6:15pm
- Sun, May 20th 3:00pm
- Mon, May 21st 6:00pm
- Tue, May 22nd 8:15pm
- Wed, May 23rd 6:00pm
- Thu, May 24th 8:15pm
The Carlyle, New York's ultimate no-tell hotel to the celebrity and moneyed class, gives up a few of its secrets in a delightful documentary that plays peek-a-boo with the establishment's fabled policy of tight-lipped silence regarding guests who have ranged from presidents and royals to the Rolling Stones and Hollywood stars including Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty, and is rumored to have been the site of trysts between JFK and Marilyn Monroe. What happened in the Carlyle stayed in the Carlyle long before there was a Vegas, and longtime guests and fans (including George Clooney, Anjelica Huston, Wes Anderson, and Alan Cumming) drop hints and tell amusing tales. Director Miele (CRAZY ABOUT TIFFANY'S, SCATTER MY ASHES AT BERGDORF'S) puts together an insider tour from the Café Carlyle, where cabaret artist Bobby Short once ruled Manhattan's nightlife, to the stations staffed by loyal concierges, elevator operators, and maids whose evident love for the place makes it feel like home to guests. DCP digital. (BS)
May 24 at 8:15 PM: This screening is a Movie Club event facilitated by Philippe Gills, Chef Concierge at The Langham Chicago.