Actress Lily Tomlin will join us IN PERSON to introduce the film and take a few questions from the audience before the screenings.
“Someone should start a petition to put Lily Tomlin’s face on the $20 bill. It wouldn’t solve all our problems, but it would be a pretty good start.” - A.O. Scott, The New York Times
"A work of genius and compassion.” - Gloria Steinem
Thursday, July 24, 1:00 p.m. & 1:15 p.m. | Actress Lily Tomlin will join us IN PERSON to introduce the new restoration of THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE and take a few questions from the audience before the film!
Jane Wagner created this one-woman show for Lily Tomlin in 1985 so that audiences could appreciate not just Tomlin’s comic timing but also her extraordinary acting talent. Tomlin inhabits 12 characters in this tour-de-force anchored by bag lady Trudy, an everywoman for all time. As Tomlin explained onstage at the restoration’s world premiere, “Trudy is a philosopher: the wise fool.” Asked by Jane Fonda, her comrade-in-arms and the evening’s moderator, if she sees any signs of intelligent life in the universe at the moment, Tomlin replied, “I see a lot of intelligence, but we apply that intelligence so stupidly.” IndieCollect created this new 4K digital restoration by combining scans of the 108-minute original 35mm negative and filling in with 9 minutes of the best surviving 117-min 35mm print. All scanning was done in 6.5K to produce a true 4K version.
On Thursday, July 24, over 100 art houses and independent movie theaters across the country will participate in Art House Theater Day (AHTD) a celebration of the cinemas that present programming that provokes, challenges, entertains, and inspires. Support your local art houses—FACETS Film Forum, the Siskel Film Center, and Music Box Theatre—by seeing a movie with us any time on AHTD. Each location will be offering special AHTD swag, and don’t forget to pick up an AHTD punch card at any location: if you visit all three cinemas on AHTD and fill your punch card, you’ll get a special AHTD prize at your final stop!
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Thursday, July 24, 3:45 p.m. & 8:15 p.m.
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