“Watching Rachel Getting Married feels a lot like getting invited to a big, messy, gorgeous wedding yourself…We're drawn into the story and made to feel like part of the action.” - Carmen Gray, Vox
“After I saw Jonathan Demme’s RACHEL GETTING MARRIED for the second time, a friend asked: ‘Wouldn’t you love to attend a wedding like that?’ In a way, I felt I had. Yes, I began to feel absorbed in the experience. A few movies can do that, can slip you out of your mind and into theirs.” - Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com
Wednesday, November 18, 6:00 p.m. | A loving and joyful portrait of dysfunction and the family condition, RACHEL GETTING MARRIED stars Anne Hathaway as a recovering addict who's been temporarily released from rehab to attend her sister Rachel's (Rosemarie DeWitt) wedding in beautiful and gossipy Connecticut. Shot on HDCAM video (a format just a hair higher-end than most dads and wedding videographers were using at that time—and here a beautiful example of video transferred to 35mm film), RACHEL GETTING MARRIED gives the emotional and aesthetic sensation of really being there, leaving no uncomfortable moment unrecorded. (Julian Antos, Chicago Film Society) 35mm print from the Chicago Film Society, permission Sony Pictures Classics.
Preceded by: Jonathan Demme trailer reel (10 min, 35mm)
Awards & Nominations
2008 Venice Film Festival
2008 Toronto International Film Festival - Official Selection
2009 Academy Awards - Nominee, Best Actress
2009 Golden Globes - Nominee, Best Actress: Drama
Chicago Film Society Presents | Ongoing Series
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The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu