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Chicago Cinema Forum and the Nightingale
are pleased to present:
PARADISE (work in progress)
by Michael Almereyda 
Chicago Premiere!
Thursday, December 11th / 8pm
The Nightingale
1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
The filmmaker considers the episodes in this movie to be
like pages torn from a sketchbook, a visual diary kept over many
years. Each episode runs about the length of a pop song. Friends and
strangers, kids and adults, are featured in roughly equal proportions,
in settings split between familiar American cities – New York, Los
Angeles, New Orleans – and unlikely, far-flung places: Tehran, Krakow,
Seoul. The film's fragmentary nature is held in check by thematic
contrasts and links – between innocence and experience; art and
commerce; searching and finding. There's also the overarching idea
that life is made up of brief paradisiacal moments – moments that are
often taken for granted, and always slipping away, but which can, on
occasion, be captured and shared.
Michael Almereyda will be present for a discussion.
Michael Almereyda is best-known for his version of HAMLET (2000) set
in contemporary New York City and starring Ethan Hawke. He is also the
director of ANOTHER GIRL ANOTHER PLANET (1992), shot entirely in
Pixelvision, NADJA (1994), a lyrical vampire film produced by David
Lynch, THIS SO-CALLED DISASTER (2003), filmed around the rehearsals of
Sam Shepard's The Late Henry Moss, and WILLIAM EGGLESTON IN THE REAL
WORLD (2005), a cine-essay and conversation with the photographer of
the title.
Where: The Nightingale, 1084 N. Milwaukee Ave.
When: Thursday, December 11th / 8pm
$7 - 10 (sliding scale)
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