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CHARYBDIS Multi-Arts Complex
presents:

FOCUS
the weekly film screening & discussion
Every Thursday 8pm-1:00am
Movie showing @ 9:00pm

Charybdis is pleased to offer artists a stimulating "night at the movies."

Kick back on groovy sofas in an eclectic viewing room.
Surround sound?  Try surround aesthetics.
Art on all of the walls and parts of the floor.
A kick-ass sound system.
And a GIANT movie screen.

No commercials forced on you before the show.  Not even ads for other
movies.
Instead, you'll get to see cartoons or other cool shorts before-hand.
Take part in directed group discussion, look at art, and enjoy all of the
many attractions in the space afterward.

Why buy a $4 soft drink when you can bring your own brew?
Why spend the climax of a flick jonesin' for a smoke, when you can fire
it up anytime you like?

This Thursday, February 22nd
By popular vote...The ground-breaking, visual feast known as:


BRAZIL


@ 9:00pm


A WILDLY IMAGINATIVE ORWELLIAN COMEDY ABOUT A SURREALISTIC NIGHTMARE VISION
OF A "PERFECT" FUTURE WHERE TECHNOLOGY REIGNS SUPREME.

If Franz Kafka had been an animator and film director--oh, and a member of
Monty Python's Flying Circus-- this is the sort of outrageously dystopian
satire one could easily imagine him making. However, Brazil was made by
Terry Gilliam, who is all of the above except, of course, Franz Kafka. Be
that as it may, Gilliam sure captures the paranoid-subversive spirit of
Kafka's The Trial (along with his own Python animation) in this bureaucratic
nightmare-comedy about a meek governmental clerk named Sam Lowry (Jonathan
Pryce) whose life is destroyed by a simple bug. Not a software bug, a real
bug (no doubt related to Kafka's famous Metamorphosis insect) that gets
smooshed in a printer and causes a typographical error unjustly identifying
an innocent citizen, one Mr. Buttle, as suspected terrorist Harry Tuttle
(Robert De Niro). When Sam becomes enmeshed in unraveling this bureaucratic
glitch, he himself winds up labeled as a miscreant.

The movie presents such an unrelentingly imaginative and savage vision of
20th-century bureaucracy that it almost became a victim of small-minded
studio management itself--until Gilliam surreptitiously screened his cut for
the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, who named it the best movie of
1985 and virtually embarrassed Universal into releasing it.

Cast
Jonathan Pryce
Michael Palin
Robert DeNiro
Kim Greist
Katherine Helmond
Ian Holm
Bob Hoskins
Peter Vaughan

Universal presents:
a film directed by Terry Gilliam.
written by Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown
produced by Arnon Milchan
photographed by Roger Pratt
Science Fiction/Fantasy
Running Time: 2 hrs. 22 min.
Not Rated.

Next Thursday, March 1st
By popular vote...The acclaimed French documentary:

MICROCOSMOS

@ 9:00pm

A DEEP LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF INSECTS AND TINY ANIMALS.

Does the idea of a movie about insects fill you with foreboding? Nausea? Or
ennui? "Microcosmos" will shatter your expectations--both about what insects
really are and how they can be shown on film. One of the most sheerly
enjoyable documentaries in recent years, this film is also one of the most
inspiring and humane.

If you haven't seen either of these films yet...make sure you don't miss
this chance to see them on the big screen!
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After the film, no need to rush out.
Stay and talk about it afterward and help us make future selections.
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Have a suggestion? Let us Know!

Are you a filmmaker? If so, please contact us via the phone or e-dress
below. We would love to add your work to the bill!

Check www.Charybdisarts.com or call 773-427-9970 for details, schedule, &
movies.

Email us at charybdis@charybdisarts.com

Contact Information:
contact: Gregor Mortis
CHARYBDIS
Multi-Arts Complex
4423 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL. 60630
773-427-9970

www.Charybdisarts.com <http://www.Charybdisarts.com>