Friday 5/30 – Thursday 6/5
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Japanese game shows. The Turkish version of Star Wars. Andy Kaufman and David Letterman. Ted Nugent blowing away keyboards with an automatic rifle. Once a month in Atlanta, the zine Chunklet teams up with video and magazine distributor 5 Minutes to Live to host screenings of video clips like these and more. Now they’ve packaged the best for the rest of us as the three-volume Lost and Found Video Series. Tonight Quimby’s will screen volume one, which includes a naughty piece featuring a GI Joe and a Six Million Dollar Man doll and footage of an out-of-control Metallica fan playing air drums. It starts at 8 at 1854 W. North and it’s free; call 773-342-0910. For more on the videos go to www.5minutestolive.com.
31 SATURDAY Today’s Peace and Justice Teach-In is organized around the theme “Building Democracy: Knowledge and Action in an Age of War and Repression.” Sponsored by 43 groups, from the American Friends Service Committee to Voices in the Wilderness, the daylong event features workshops on grassroots fund-raising, civil liberties and the Patriot Act, depleted-uranium poisoning, the philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience, and much more. It starts at 8:30 AM at Jones College Prep High School, 606 S. State, and runs till 6:30 PM; admission is $10, $5 for students and others of limited means. Preregistration is encouraged; call 312-427-0353 or see www.chicagoteachin.org.
2 MONDAY For his 1983 documentary, The Store, filmmaker Frederick Wiseman set up his cameras inside the Neiman Marcus flagship in Dallas in the middle of the Christmas season. Wiseman’s best known for his in-depth explorations of life in environments like a hospital for the criminally insane (Titicut Follies, 1967) and Chicago’s Ida B. Wells housing projects (Public Housing, 1997). “I’m interested in class in American life, and movies like [The Store] give an opportunity to look at people from a different walk of life,” explained Wiseman in an interview with film reviewer Gerald Peary. “I don’t just take the more obvious subject of people who haven’t made it, but I show the people who have made it. What their values are seem just as important.” The Store will be shown tonight at 7:45 as part of the Gene Siskel Film Center’s Wiseman retrospective, which runs through Thursday, June 5 (when The Store plays again, at 6). This week’s schedule also features multiple screenings of his latest film, The Last Letter, which is making its Chicago premiere. All screenings are at 164 N. State, and tickets are $8; call 312-846-2800.
