Chicago premiere! New 4K restoration!
Cane River
1982, Horace Jenkins, USA, 105 min.
With Richard Romain, Tommye Myrick
Film series:
Runs & Limited Engagements
"A major rediscovery…[Jenkins] lends the intimate tale a vast and vital resonance."—Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Unseen for over 35 years, this mature and soulful romance was considered lost until the chance discovery of a 35mm negative led to its recent recognition as a classic of African American cinema. Returning to his hometown in rural Louisiana, former college football star and aspiring poet Peter Metoyer (Romain) quickly strikes sparks with local girl Maria Mathis (Myrick). Their budding relationship is threatened by complicating factors, starting with Peter's background as a light-skinned Creole whose ancestors owned slaves. Intended as a corrective to the blaxploitation cycle, the film is remarkable for the way it maps its central romance against the complexity of the African American experience, inflected by such factors as history, class, religion, colorism, and feminism. But, for all its cultural breadth, CANE RIVER is first and foremost a full-throttle love story, boosted by lyrical photography; a beautifully integrated, partially sung music score; and the lead performances of two attractive actors with chemistry to spare. New 4K DCP digital restoration. (MR)
The Wednesday screening is a Movie Club event.
PREVIOUSLY
Plays in:
Runs & Limited Engagements
Showtimes:
- Fri, Jan 3rd 2:00pm
- Fri, Jan 3rd 6:15pm
- Sat, Jan 4th 3:00pm
- Sun, Jan 5th 5:30pm
- Mon, Jan 6th 6:00pm
- Tue, Jan 7th 7:45pm
- Wed, Jan 8th 6:00pm
- Thu, Jan 9th 8:30pm
"An enjoyable experience that presents an appealing overview of the artist's life and works."—Paul Parcellin, Film Threat
He has been called the most popular living artist, and he has called himself "the most Colombian of Colombian artists." This authorized portrait of Fernando Botero, including unprecedented access to the 86-year-old artist himself, compactly covers the amazing story of his career and the vast range of his work. After growing up in poverty in Medellin, Botero developed his signature style of startlingly rotund figures ensconced in paintings (and, later, sculptures) bursting with humor, energy, color, and sharp social commentary. Arriving nearly penniless in New York in the 1960s, Botero found his art out of step and ignored, until the young MoMA curator Dorothy Miller championed him. Since then, his indefatigable output has included series on the Colombian drug wars, Abu Ghraib, and circuses; and such meme-generating favorites as Pope Leo X (after Raphael) and Mona Lisa, Age Twelve. In English and Spanish with English subtitles. DCP digital. (MR)
The Wed., Jan. 8, screening is a Movie Club event. Maggie Borowitz, Art Institute of Chicago Mellon Curatorial Research Fellow in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and PhD candidate in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago, will facilitate.
Downton Abbey
2019, Michael Engler, UK, 122 min.
With Michelle Dockery, Maggie Smith, Hugh Bonneville
Plays in:
Runs & Limited Engagements
Showtimes:
- Fri, Nov 29th 2:00pm
- Fri, Nov 29th 7:45pm
- Sat, Nov 30th 5:15pm
- Sun, Dec 1st 3:00pm
- Mon, Dec 2nd 7:30pm
- Tue, Dec 3rd 6:00pm
- Wed, Dec 4th 7:30pm
- Thu, Dec 5th 6:00pm
“It works. It really works…good-hearted and clever.”—Matt Zoller Seitz, RogerEbert.com
"What a lovely and welcome encore...a real treat."—Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Come ’n' get it, Downton fans! We’ve got the upstairs, the downstairs, and everything in between. Writer Julian Fellowes and his team have whipped up the ultimate big-screen extravaganza for those who can’t get enough after six seasons of the popular BBC series. Britain’s historic Highclere Castle, otherwise known as the fictional Downton Abbey, hosts a homecoming of sorts, in this luscious self-contained saga of the aristocratic Crawley family and their household staff on the eve of a royal visit. It’s 1926, barely a shade beyond the Victorian era etiquette-wise, as these things go at Downton. With King George V and Queen Mary on the way, the clan’s smart and ever-spunky ingenue Lady Mary (Dockery) summons beloved old-school butler Mr. Carson (Jim Carter) out of retirement to rally the faithful crew of servants, including Mrs. Patmore, Bates, Thomas, Daisy, Anna, and all the regulars. Intrigues and crises take on personal dimensions, and the snooty demeanor of the royal entourage will prove a challenge to upstairs and downstairs alike. DCP digital widescreen. (BS)
The Thursday screening is a Movie Club event, moderated by Virginia Heaven, Associate Professor of Fashion Design at Columbia College Chicago.
The Friday (11/29) 2 pm and Tuesday (12/3) 6 pm screenings are Open-Captioned.