Chicago Cinema Forum

Chicago Cinema is screening some shorts on Tuesday before Halloween. Check out some of the stuff they're showing, including Betty Boop and Buster Keaton!


A NIGHT OF THE MACABREA collection of horrific shorts and clips on Halloween Eve

Films presented will include:

THE GHOST TRAIN (anonymous, 1901)
THE MERRY FROLICS OF SATAN (Georges Méliès, 1905)
THE RED SPECTRE (Segundo de Chomon, 1907)
THE HAUNTED HOUSE (Buster Keaton, 1921)
BETTY BOOP IN SNOW WHITE (Dave Fleischer, 1933)
LE VAMPIRE (Jean Painlevé, 1945)
THE ALPHABET (David Lynch, 1968)
THE SCARY MOVIE (Peggy Ahwesh, 1993)+ 16mm
HORROR TRAILERS assembled by Brian Block+ many other surprises!

Various formats. Most films screening on 16mm.$5 includes films, candies and wine (while it lasts) Venue:CHOPIN THEATRE LOUNGE
1543 W. Division St. in Wicker Park
http://www.chopintheatre.com/
Date:Tuesday, October 30th
doors open 8pmMore info:http://www.chicagocinemaforum.org/

Questions

OK! So I emailed Tamara and she said I can email her our questions. Now, if I had read my email earlier I could have met up with her Sunday. Apparently North Western University has got something going on, cause they've got her presenting Thursday morning! She's not scheduled to do anything at Columbia. Anyway, send me your questions and I'll work em' all into a nice list and email it.

Goofy Short

We just wanted to remind everyone about the Goofy short being played before the Three Robbers tomorrow morning at the Davis Theatre at 10:30. We'll be doing a Q/A with the producer afterwards and would like an approximate number. If you're planning on coming, please let Kristine know or leave a comment here.

Here's the original post about it-
http://wiachicago.blogspot.com/2007/09/lets-see-first-disney-short-to-be.html

The Pixar Story

At Comic Con, we caught most of this documentary, The Pixar Story. It is now playing at the Landmark Theatre. It's directed by Leslie Iwerks, grandaughter of Ub Iwerks.

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=63971

Flip Books

Hi all! Okay so I know that during the summer we agreed to do flip books, so I was wondering if any more people have done flip books? I would like to collect them in the next WIA meeting on November 14th. If you have done one and would like to do another please feel free to. Just in case, the flip books should be 8.5 X 5.5, enter left and exit right, also please number your pages and write how many frames the pose is going to hold for, so when I shoot them, there won't be a mix up. Thank you.

An interesting site

Pixar has created a "mock" company site from their next film, Wall-E.

http://www.buynlarge.com/NewsCenter.html?storyId=25

Sketchcrawl!

The next "official" sketch crawl is Nov. 4th.

http://www.sketchcrawl.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=32&sid=5acd8d51df1b9d49ad49bc1cc20ff78d