So we know that the Art Institute of Chicago has an amazing collection, and the photography collection I can't get enough of. I could switch off living between to photo gallery, the miniatures room, the quilt gallery, and the museum gift shop.
The site, (although not as enhanced as MOMA's or the Whitney) is a great example of digital image cataloguing. Very well organized, easily assessable, well, you feel me...
But what I REALLY love is the little link on the AIC webpage that wisps me away to the Gene Siskel Film Center! I cannot wait to attend the Chicago premiere of House (Hausu) 1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Japan. I'll be there wearing my 3D glasses, (this film is not in 3D however). Check out the GSFC website for showtimes. SAIC kids get $4 admission!
Check the synopsis and preview:
Since first being unleashed on unsuspecting American cinephiles last summer, this 1977 Japanese haunted-house movie has erupted into a cult phenomenon whose utterly uncategorizable mixture of Grand Guignol, kiddie TV, psychedelia, and softcore nymphetphilia has had critics grasping for comparisons (a few examples: "An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento" "RINGU on a Pixy Stix-fueled hug-a-thon" "Sid and Marty Krofft meet Salvador Dalí"). Pouting over her widowed dad's new fiancée, teen princess Gorgeous takes her pals Melody, Prof, Kung Fu, Mac, Sweet, and Fantasy for a getaway at her aunt's gothic mansion, but both aunt and mansion have a voracious appetite for nubile girls. In his first feature, former experimental-film and TV-commercial director Obayashi uses blatant artifice, startling transitions, postmodern japes, and a pre-digital arsenal of goofy-gory f/x to concoct a film that is unsettling, enchanting, inventive, and relentlessly astonishing. In Japanese with English subtitles. 35mm. (MR)
Yay to alternative film venues for sure!
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