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SUMMARY:Sharon Hayes: RICERCHE: FOUR
DESCRIPTION:Acclaimed artist Sharon Hayes presents Ricerche: four\, an expansive and deeply moving two-channel video composed from interviews with LGBTQ+ elders across the United States. The final installment in her decade-long series exploring sexuality and gender in the US\, the work draws inspiration from Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1963 film Comizi d’Amore (Love Meetings)\, in which the filmmaker interviewed Italians about their shifting views on sex and sexuality. Adopting a similar structure\, Hayes invites participants to reflect on their experiences of desire\, identity\, community\, activism\, and survival—modeling listening and dialogue as radical tools for intergenerational connection and collective understanding. As LGBTQ+ lives come under increasing political fire\, Ricerche: four is an insistent reminder of the galvanizing force of shared testimony and the mobilizing potential of community.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/sharon-hayes-ricerche-four/
LOCATION:Siskel Film Center\, 164 N. State St.\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:activism,film
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SUMMARY:Lily Tomlin: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life on the Universe
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, July 24\, 1:00 p.m. | Actress Lily Tomlin will join us IN PERSON to introduce the new restoration of THE SEARCH FOR SIGNS OF INTELLIGENT LIFE ON THE UNIVERSE and take a few questions from the audience before the film! \nJane Wagner created this one-woman show for Lily Tomlin in 1985 so that audiences could appreciate not just Tomlin’s comic timing but also her extraordinary acting talent. Tomlin inhabits 12 characters in this tour-de-force anchored by bag lady Trudy\, an everywoman for all time. As Tomlin explained onstage at the restoration’s world premiere\, “Trudy is a philosopher: the wise fool.” Asked by Jane Fonda\, her comrade-in-arms and the evening’s moderator\, if she sees any signs of intelligent life in the universe at the moment\, Tomlin replied\, “I see a lot of intelligence\, but we apply that intelligence so stupidly.”  IndieCollect created this new 4K digital restoration by combining scans of the 108-minute original 35mm negative and filling in with 9 minutes of the best surviving 117-min 35mm print. All scanning was done in 6.5K to produce a true 4K version.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/lily-tomlin-the-search-for-signs-of-intelligent-life-on-the-universe/
LOCATION:Siskel Film Center\, 164 N. State St.\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film,panel-conversation
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SUMMARY:Siskel Film Center: Female Trouble
DESCRIPTION:Friday\, June 6\, 8:00 p.m. & Friday\, June 27\, 6:00 p.m. | This series would be incomplete without a film from John Waters\, the “King of Camp\,” who lives and breathes artifice and lives exaggeration. In FEMALE TROUBLE\, Divine stars as Dawn Davenport\, a runaway who goes on a nightmarish journey defined by abuse\, petty crime\, cosmetology\, and fame. Waters\, aka the “Pope of Trash\,” finds extravagance in the filth\, which he embraces with all the seriousness camp requires. As Sontag writes\, “Camp taste is a kind of love for human nature. It relishes\, rather than judges.”
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/siskel-film-center-female-trouble/
LOCATION:Siskel Film Center\, 164 N. State St.\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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SUMMARY:Siskel Film Center: SABBATH QUEEN
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 21\, 5:00 p.m. & Sunday\, June 22\, 5:00 p.m. | Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie\, a dynastic heir of 38 generations of rabbis\, arrives in New York City in the 1990s\, a creative young gay man who uses performance art—including appearing in drag as Rebbetzin Hadassah Gross\, widow to six rabbis—to challenge patriarchal orthodoxy. Founder of Lab/ Shul\, the “god-optional\, pop-up\, experimental Jewish community\,” Lau-Lavie shocks everyone when he decides to become a rabbi himself\, studying in the conservative tradition of Judaism so he has the knowledge to challenge the canon from within. Provocative and engaging\, SABBATH QUEEN is an exhilarating document of freedom\, faith\, independence\, and individuality. Dialogue: Director Sandi Simcha Dubowski in attendance.  \nSaturday\, June 21\, 5:00 p.m. \nFollowed by Q&A with director Sandi Simcha Dubowski\, Rabbi Amicahi Lau-Lavie\, Rabbi Lizzi Heydemann\, and Rabbi Steven Philip of Mishkan \nSunday\, June 22\, 5:00 p.m.\nFollowed by Q&A with director Sandi Simcha Dubowski\, Rabbi Amichai Lau-Lavie\, and Rabbi Scott Aaron
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/siskel-film-center-sabbath-queen/
LOCATION:Siskel Film Center\, 164 N. State St.\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:culture,film
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SUMMARY:Siskel Film Center: What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, June 22\, 2:00 p.m. | In the chilling BABY JANE\, two aging actresses\, “Baby” Jane Hudson (Bette Davis\, in an Oscar-nominated performance) and her wheelchair-bound sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) live in obscurity in a Hollywood mansion\, where Baby spends her days terrorizing Blanche. Much ink was spilled about on-set drama\, with gossip rags declaring that Davis and Crawford despised each other—is BABY JANE camp because of the alleged feud? If it was real\, and these women were out for blood\, then what a campy show indeed\, but if you ignore the lore\, Davis and Crawford’s performances\, while not subtle\, are sensational.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/siskel-film-center-what-ever-happened-to-baby-jane/
LOCATION:Siskel Film Center\, 164 N. State St.\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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SUMMARY:Siskel Film Center: Showgirls
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, June 7\, 8:30 p.m. & Friday\, June 20\, 8:30 p.m. | At first\, this NC-17 tale about stripper Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley)\, who dreams of becoming a top showgirl\, was roundly rejected\, with USA Today calling the film “as hoary as it is whore-y.” But\, as Sontag notes\, “What was banal can\, with the passage of time\, become fantastic\,” and SHOWGIRLS has now been embraced for being “perfectly bad\,” and entirely camp. The film’s solemnity set against gaudy Las Vegas\, Berkley’s extreme performance\, the backstage melodrama of the Stardust Resort and Casino has enshrined SHOWGIRLS as camp canon. Content consideration: contains a scene of sexual assault.
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/siskel-film-center-showgirls/
LOCATION:Siskel Film Center\, 164 N. State St.\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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SUMMARY:Siskel Film Center: Grey Gardens
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 5\, 6:00 p.m. & Sunday\, June 15\, 2:00 p.m. | In Slate\, J. Bryan Lowder wrote what makes the documentary GREY GARDENS in part a camp classic\, and “one of the most prominent and oft-cited entries in the canon of gay culture\,” is that Big Edie and Little Edie Beale\, the reclusive cousins of Jackie Onassis\, are intimately captured\, in their deteriorating house in East Hampton\, without an ounce of judgement. “The filmmakers simply allow them to be\,” Lowder writes. That uninhibited freedom is\, as Sontag writes\, a hallmark of camp: “a proper mixture of the exaggerated\, the fantastic\, the passionate and the naive.”
URL:https://chicagosocialbutterflies.com/wp-events/siskel-film-center-grey-gardens/
LOCATION:Siskel Film Center\, 164 N. State St.\, Chicago\, IL\, United States
CATEGORIES:film
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