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Tonight and tomorrow writer-director Andrew Bujalski will attend the 7:15 PM screening of his latest film Computer Chess at the Music Box Theatre; he’ll be joined by U. of C. computer science professor Gordon Kindlmann and his wife—documentarian and urban planner Anne Dodge—who act in the film. I recommend going to one of these screenings—as I note in this week’s midsize review, Computer Chess is a strange and heady film; it may benefit from discussion. If you can’t make one of those two shows, do try to see it at some point during its run. There’s nothing else like it in theaters, and it has a good deal to say about the social media environment we’re all trapped in.
As I noted yesterday, the Doc Films fall calendar begins on Monday, and it’s virtually overflowing with great repertory titles. Next week alone brings The Terence Davies Trilogy on Monday, The Great Gabbo on Tuesday, John Cassavetes’s Shadows on Wednesday, and on Thursday, Olivier Assayas’s Summer Hours and Todd Solondz’s Welcome to the Dollhouse. There are also good revivals elsewhere, with the Siskel screening Jean-Luc Godard’s Band of Outsiders tonight and Tuesday and David Mamet’s House of Games on Saturday and Monday. The Music Box has Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar on Saturday and Sunday at 11:30 AM. The Patio Theater has two showings of The Creature From the Black Lagoon in 3-D and 35-millimeter tomorrow, not to mention Alfred Hitchcock’s Sabotage on Wednesday night. And also on Wednesday the Northbrook Public Library has two screenings of The Big Clock, which features some of the best production design of American film noir.
