Special Events
Special advance screening
Director in person!
THE JUDGE AND THE GENERAL
2008, Elizabeth Farnsworth and Patricio Lanfranco, USA, 84 min.
In 1998, relatives of “disappeared” victims brought suit against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (who had granted himself immunity). The case fell by lot to Judge Juan Guzmán, a conservative and Pinochet supporter. In Chile, judges also investigate the cases they try, and what Guzmán uncovered (in his words) “opened the eyes of my soul,” culminating in a dogged effort to bring the elusive general to justice. A potent combination of detective story and political history, THE JUDGE AND THE GENERAL raises issues of torture, rendition, and unbridled executive power that are all too relevant in America today. DigiBeta video. (MR)
Co-director Elizabeth Farnsworth will be present for audience discussion following the film.
Monday, August 4, 8:15 pm
Back by popular demand!
Keith Dukavicius in person!
EGON
2008, Keith Dukavicius, USA, 90 min.
With Keith Dukavicius, Andy Hannon, Catherine Larson
Talented Chicago-based filmmaker Keith Dukavicius (I AM JAMES MASON, DANIEL WONG) returns with this ostensible biopic of the controversial Austrian artist Egon Schiele. Art-history mavens should be on guard for flagrant doses of dramatic license, including Schiele’s incestuous fixation on his sister/model and, most outrageously, his fondness for fighting duels in the snowy woods. Dukavicius, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Schiele, himself plays the artist in a wonderfully stylized assortment of angular postures and volatile outbursts. DigiBeta video. (MR)
Director Keith Dukavicius will be present for audience discussion.