Friday 4/9 – Thursday 4/15
The Chicago Latino Film Festival opens tonight at several locations, including Water Tower, which hosts a screening of last year’s Divine. Directed by Arturo Ripstein, the movie follows fanatics awaiting the end of the world who journey to a small Mexican village, where they’re given shelter by a priest obsessed with Charlton Heston and a dying nun who chooses a teenager from the sect as her successor. The movie will be shown tonight at 9 (and at 9 Sunday and Monday) at 835 N. Michigan. Tickets are $8; call 312-431-1330.
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10 SATURDAY Today Illinois Sierra Club field representative Jack Darin will discuss Slumping Landfills, Dirty Water and Sprawl: Environmental Issues in the Illinois Legislature. The breakfast lecture, sponsored by the Democratic Party of Evanston, starts at 10 at DPOE headquarters, 826 Custer in Evanston (847-491-0865). Suggested donation is $5.
At What Did She Say? An Evening of Poetry by Mary Oliver, performers will pay tribute to the award-winning writer through music, acting, and eurythmy, a mimelike stage art developed by Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner that uses specific gestures to express minute details of words and music. The production starts at 3:30 today (and at 7:30 on Saturday) at the Chicago Waldorf School, 1300 W. Loyola. Tickets are $12, $10 for students; call 773-463-3286.
15 THURSDAY Some of the best films are set over the course of one night, says local filmmaker Beatrice Bellino. Her six-week course, A Night of Madness, will focus on movies like Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, Martin Scorsese’s After Hours, and Mike Nichols’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The three-hour class starts tonight at 7 (and meets every other Thursday) at the Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago in Oak Park. Tuition is $60; call 708-386-9853 to sign up.
