Friday 4/2 – Thursday 4/8
The Reader’s Jonathan Rosenbaum has said that viewing the 13 movies made by French director Robert Bresson as they were made to be seen–on the big screen–“will transform [our] understanding of what the art of the film can be and do.” Tonight the Film Center will screen new prints of Bresson’s films Les anges du peche and Les dames du Bois de Boulogne at 6 and 8 respectively. The center is at the Art Institute, Columbus Drive at Jackson (312-443-3737). Tickets to each film are $7.
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3 SATURDAY People in the higher tax brackets know very well that anything they make over $72,400 is not subject to social security taxes. Union representative Terry Davis says that if the government scraps the cap, the administration will weather the graying of the baby boomers without a hitch. She’ll elaborate on her position tonight at The Truth About the Social Security System. The College of Complexes’ “class” starts at 8 at the Lincoln Restaurant, 4008 N. Lincoln. “Tuition” is $3 plus a food or drink purchase. Call 312-326-2120 for more.
5 MONDAY In Kyrgyzstan parents with large families sometimes offer a baby to a childless couple, a tradition that sets the stage for The Adopted Son, Aktan Abdikalikov’s lyrical 1998 film about a teenage boy learning of his background for the first time. It will be shown at 7 and 9 tonight at Facets, 1517 W. Fullerton (773-281-4114). Admission is $7.
7 WEDNESDAY “I believe that my inner-city residential neighborhood is not so different from the newest subdivision at the edge of Aurora,” says University of Illinois at Chicago architecture professor Robert Bruegmann, pointing to car-driving city dwellers who shop at strip malls. Tonight he’ll take the unpopular stand that low-density development that’s mostly unregulated by large-scale public planning is “one of the crowning glories of American culture” at Urban Sprawl and Its Critics: Tilting at Windmills?, a free discussion today at 4 in room 155 of Northwestern University’s Kresge Centennial Hall, 1967 South Campus Drive in Evanston. Call 847-491-4852 for reservations.
