Chicago

Movie tonight - Int Festival

2006-01-23T15:29:00.000-08:00

Ok, the movie tonight will be Tango Feroz (Argentina), El Lobo (Spain) or Valentin (Argentina). It's a surprise.
The truth is that I had problems getting Tango Feroz' subtitles, so the movie selection is still open. But we'll have something to watch.

Bandymas numeris 2

2006-01-21T17:47:00.000-08:00

Labas vakaras. Dar vienas bandymas . si karta Christophas bando emailu prieinamuma.

Chicago International Film Festival Session 2

2006-01-19T06:42:00.000-08:00

Monday 01/23/2006 8 pm

Tango Feroz, la leyenda de Tanguito (1993)

Directed by: Marcelo Piñeyro
Produced by: Claudio Pustelnik, Katrina Baylonas
Starring: Fernan Mirás, Cecilia Dopazo, Imanol Arias, Hector Alterio
Country: Argentina

Rock singer Jose Alberto Cruz, nicknamed Tango, is the young man whose music and rebelliousness inspire a generation during the late 1960s in Buenos Aires. Charismatic and sexy, Tango draws hoards of young people to steamy underground nightclubs by singing of love and freedom, loyalty and peace. Tango shares the activist views of the students, but he is the product of the barrio, where persecution and torture are a way of life. While being detained by the police for his participation in a student demonstration, Tango meets Mariana, a student committed to freedom but tied to her bourgeois past. Overcoming their class differences, Tango and Mariana fall in love, only to be dealt a devastating blow when the chief of police tries to use Tango as a pawn in his battle to uncover the leaders of the growing youth movement. Despite the brutality and despair of his prison experiences, Tango bravely fights on, living in the hope of being free and reunited with Mariana.

Chicago International Film Festival @ 3000 N Sheridan

2006-01-16T14:04:00.000-08:00

Tonite 8 pm showing "Here we are"

Executive Producer Dávid Čorba (Michal's brother)
Country: Slovakia

SYNOPSIS

After the World War II, the Krnáč family moved from Central Slovakia to Sub-Carpathian Ukraine. After a rather controversial accession of this region to the Soviet Union, they fell in a trap with no way out. In line with Khrushchev´s decree, they were forced to settle down in Balgarka, a village in Kazakhstan steppe, where they spent over forty years. After the split of the USSR, they decided to move back to Europe. Sisters Tanya and Anna, Anna’s husband Dimitrij and their children, set out for their journey to Slovakia, a country they knew only from their parents´ stories.In autumn 2000, Dimitrij Kiossyia’s family leaves their house in Kazakhstan steppe and heads for the country of their predecessors, Slovakia. After their arrival to the Slovak capital, they try to find jobs and accommodation, yet they are not very successful. They travel the country from the east to the west, and see only neglected villages, closed factories and high unemployment. For a short while, it feels as if they were not in Europe. After a long quest, they settle down in a small village in countryside. Parents start working in a local farm and children go to school. However, this new beginning brings more disappointment than joy. Family’s firm bounds are broken. Especially older family members feel uprooted and keep thinking of their lives back in Kazakhstan. And then one day, Dimitrij, the head of the family, decides to go back home…If you want to check more info about the movie, here is the link: http://www.myzdes.com/eng_prfilmu.html

BYOB, 3000 N Sheridan